Research Themes +
Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2022

Deason, Jeff, Greg Leventis, and Sean Murphy."Long-Term Performance of Energy Efficiency Loan Portfolios." (2022).

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Charles A. Goldman."Tracking the PACE of household energy usage: Energy usage impacts of projects financed through Property Assessed Clean Energy programs in California." (2022).

Schiller, Steven R., Jeff Deason, Kelly Parmenter, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Future of Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Drivers and Market Expectations." (2022).

2021

Leventis, Greg, and Jeff Deason."Deferred Payment Loans for Energy Efficiency: Case Study of a Low- and Moderate-Income Home Improvement Financing Model and Potential Application to Energy Efficiency Projects." (2021).

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Charles A. Goldman."Empirical Estimation of the Energy Impacts of Projects Installed through Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing Programs in California."Energies 14.23 (2021). DOI

Murphy, Sean, Jeff Deason, and Andrew Satchwell."Timed to save: the added value of accounting for hourly incidence of electricity savings from residential space-conditioning measures."Energy Efficiency (2021). DOI

Leventis, Greg, and Jeff Deason."Practices for Demonstrating Energy Savings from Commercial PACE Projects." (2021).

Murphy, Sean, and Jeff Deason."Energy efficiency lifetimes: How reported savings of electric and gas energy efficiency programs change over time." (2021).

Deason, Jeff, Greg Leventis, and Sean Murphy."Performance of solar leasing for low- and middle-income customers in Connecticut." (2021).

Pigman, Margaret, Jeff Deason, and Sean Murphy."Who is participating in residential energy efficiency programs? Exploring demographic and other household characteristics of participants in utility customer-funded energy efficiency programs." (2021).

2020

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Jeff Deason, Sydney Forrester, Natalie Mims Frick, Brian F. Gerke, and Mary Ann Piette."A Conceptual Framework to Describe Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Interactions." (2020).

2018

Zhu, Cindy, Andrew White, Paul A. Mathew, Jeff Deason, and Philip Coleman."Raising the Rent Premium: Moving Green Building Research Beyond Certifications and Rent."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Deason, Jeff, and Sean Murphy."Assessing the PACE of California residential solar deployment: Impacts of Property Assessed Clean Energy programs on residential solar photovoltaic deployment in California, 2010-2015." (2018).

Deason, Jeff, Max Wei, Greg Leventis, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Electrification of buildings and industry in the United States: Drivers, barriers, prospects, and policy approaches." (2018).

Leventis, Greg, Lisa C. Schwartz, Chris Kramer, and Jeff Deason."Lessons in Commercial PACE Leadership: The Path from Legislation to Launch." (2018).

2017

Deason, Jeff."Comparative Evaluation of Financing Programs: Insights From California’s Experience." (2017).

Lowry, Mark Newton, Matthew Makos, Jeff Deason, and Lisa C. Schwartz."State Performance-Based Regulation Using Multiyear Rate Plans for U.S. Electric Utilities." (2017).

Potter, Jennifer, Jeff Deason, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Adopting Energy-Efficient Technologies for Street Lighting: Overcoming Challenges for Utilities." (2017).

Deason, Jeff, Lisa C. Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, and Jennifer Potter."Regulatory Issues and Approaches to Municipal LED Street Lighting Conversions." (2017).

Schwartz, Lisa C., Max Wei, William R. Morrow III, Jeff Deason, Steven R. Schiller, Greg Leventis, Sarah Josephine Smith, Woei Ling Leow, Todd Levin, Steven Plotkin, Yan Zhou, and Joseph Teng."Electricity end uses, energy efficiency, and distributed energy resources baseline." (2017).

2016

Deason, Jeff, Greg Leventis, Charles A. Goldman, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Energy Efficiency Program Financing: Where it comes from, where it goes, and how it gets there." (2016).

Wood, Lisa, Ross Hemphill, John Howat, Ralph Cavanagh, Severin Borenstein, Jeff Deason, Lisa C. Schwartz, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Recovery of Utility Fixed Costs: Utility, Consumer, Environmental and Economist Perspectives."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 5 (2016).

Fadrhonc, Emily Martin, Jeff Deason, Liesel Hans, Ben Hoen, Steven R. Schiller, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy in California: Feasibility of Studying Impacts on Mortgage Performance and Energy Savings." (2016).

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