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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 scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

Publications by Division

Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2021

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