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

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2018

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H. Larsen, Alan H. Sanstad, and Charles A. Goldman."Long term load forecasting accuracy in electric utility integrated resource planning."Energy Policy 119 (2018) 410-422. DOI

Stuart, Elizabeth, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Peter H. Larsen, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Understanding recent market trends of the US ESCO industry."Energy Efficiency 11 (2018) 1303–1324. DOI

2017

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Alan H. Sanstad, and Peter H. Larsen."Exploring the relationship between planning and procurement in Western U.S. electric utilities." (2017).

Larsen, Peter H., Juan Pablo Carvallo, Charles A. Goldman, Sean Murphy, and Elizabeth Stuart."Updated Estimates of the Remaining Market Potential of the U.S. ESCO Industry." (2017).

2016

Schiller, Steven R., Lisa Skumatz, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Jessica Burdette, and Matt Klucher."Evaluating and Quantifying the Non-Energy Impacts of Energy Efficiency."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H. Larsen, Alan H. Sanstad, and Charles A. Goldman."Load Forecasting in Electric Utility Integrated Resource Planning." (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).

Stuart, Elizabeth, Peter H. Larsen, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."U.S. Energy Service Company (ESCO) Industry: Recent Market Trends." (2016).

2015

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H. Larsen, and Charles A. Goldman."Estimating customer electricity and fuel savings from projects installed by the US ESCO industry."Energy Efficiency 8.6 (2015) 1251-1261. DOI

2014

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H. Larsen, and Charles A. Goldman."Estimating customer electricity savings from projects installed by the U.S. ESCO industry." (2014).

2013

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Ashwin Gambhir."Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy Mini-grids for Energy Access: A Framework for Policy Design." (2013).

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