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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)

2020

Rand, Joseph, Louisa Kramer, Christopher Garrity, Ben Hoen, James Diffendorfer, Hannah Hunt, and Michael Spears."A continuously updated, geospatially rectified database of utility-scale wind turbines in the United States."Scientific Data 7.15 (2020). DOI

Bolinger, Mark, Eric Lantz, Ryan H Wiser, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and Robert Hammond."Opportunities for and Challenges to Further Reductions in the “Specific Power” Rating of Wind Turbines Installed in the United States."Wind Engineering (2020). DOI

2019

Hoen, Ben, Jeremy Firestone, Joseph Rand, Debi Elliott, Gundula Hübner, Johannes Pohl, Ryan H Wiser, Eric Lantz, Ryan Haac, and Ken Kaliski."Attitudes of U.S. Wind Turbine Neighbors: Analysis of a Nationwide Survey."Energy Policy 134 (2019). DOI

Hübner, Gundula, Johannes Pohl, Ben Hoen, Jeremy Firestone, Debi Elliott, Joseph Rand, and Ryan Haac."Monitoring annoyance and stress effects of wind turbines on nearby residents: A comparison of U.S. and European samples."Environment International 132 (2019). DOI

Hoen, Ben, Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah."Commercial PV Property Characterization: An Analysis of Solar Deployment Trends in Commercial Real Estate." (2019).

Haac, Ryan, Ken Kaliski, Matt Landis, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Jeremy Firestone, Debi Elliott, Gundula Hübner, and Johannes Pohl."Wind turbine audibility and noise annoyance in a national U.S. survey: Individual perception and influencing factors."The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146.1124 (2019). DOI

2018

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, and Joseph Rand."Tracking the Sun: Installed Price Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2018 Edition." (2018).

2017

Firestone, Jeremy, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Debi Elliott, Gundula Hübner, and Johannes Pohl."Reconsidering Barriers to Wind Power Projects: Community Engagement, Developer Transparency and Place."Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (2017) 1-17. DOI

Rand, Joseph, and Ben Hoen."Thirty years of North American wind energy acceptance research: What have we learned?."Energy Research & Social Science 29.July 2017 (2017) 135-148. DOI

Moné, Christopher, M Maureen Hand, Mark Bolinger, Joseph Rand, Donna Heimiller, and Jonathan Ho."2015 Cost of Wind Energy Review." (2017).

Hoen, Ben, Joseph Rand, and Sandra Adomatis."Leasing Into the Sun A Mixed Method Analysis of Transactions of Homes with Third Party Owned Solar." (2017).

2016

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D Mills, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Kevin Porter, Rebecca Widiss, Frank Oteri, Suzanne Tegen, and Tian Tian."2015 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2016).