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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 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.
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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 resilience are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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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)

2025

Murphy, Sean, Lisa C Schwartz, Guillermo Pereira, and Cody Davis."Bridging the Gap on Data and Analysis for Distribution System Planning: Information That Utilities Can Provide Regulators, State Energy Offices and Other Stakeholders." (2025).

Collins, Myles T, Matia Whiting, Josh A Schellenberg, and Lisa C Schwartz."Bridging the Gap on Data, Metrics, and Analyses for Grid Resilience to Weather Events: Information that utilities can provide regulators, state energy offices, and other stakeholders." (2025).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Natalie Mims Frick, Grace Relf, Ted Light, Josh A Schellenberg, and Alan H Sanstad."Clean Air as a Bonus for Achieving Energy-Related State Goals: A Review of Policies and Programs in 15 States." (2025).

De Martini, Paul, Lisa C Schwartz, and Jason Ball."Economic Evaluation of Modernization Expenditures for Electric Utility Distribution Systems: A Guide for Utility Regulators." (2025).

2024

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sunhee Baik, Mark Bolinger, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Dev Millstein, Sean Murphy, Margaret Pigman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Consumer Benefits of Clean Energy: Policy Brief." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Natalie Mims Frick, Margot Everett, Chris Lawrie, Cody Davis, Nancy Ryan, Andrew Satchwell, and Grace Relf."Integrated Distribution System Planning 2.0: Planning for Electrification and Distributed Energy Resources." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Natalie Mims Frick, Sean Murphy, Guillermo Pereira, Jessica Shipley, and Josh A Schellenberg."State Requirements for Electric Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Biewald, Bruce, Devi Glick, Shelley Kwok, Kenji Takahashi, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Lisa C Schwartz."Best Practices in Integrated Resource Planning: A guide for planners developing the electricity resource mix of the future." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Natalie Mims Frick, Samir Succar, and Sean Murphy."DOE Clean Energy Innovator Fellows: Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C."A Framework for Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Myles T Collins, Tim Woolf, and Courtney Lane."Best Practices Guide for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Managed EV Charging." (2024).

Pereira, Guillermo, and Lisa C Schwartz."Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Schellenberg, Josh A, and Lisa C Schwartz."Grid Resilience Plans: State Requirements, Utility Practices, and Utility Plan Template." (2024).

Davis, Cody, and Lisa C Schwartz."Sizing Electric Service Panels and Utility Infrastructure for Residential Electrification and Distributed Energy Resources Adoption." (2024).

Woolf, Tim, Alice Napoleon, Natalie Mims Frick, Lisa C Schwartz, and Julie Michals."Distributional Equity Analysis for Energy Efficiency and Other Distributed Energy Resources: A Practical Guide." (2024).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C Schwartz, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Gayathri Krishnamoothy, Tom Wall, Josh A Schellenberg, Peter H Larsen, and Neil Weisenfeld."Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2024).

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Lisa C Schwartz."A National Perspective on State Practices for Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C Schwartz, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Sara Peterson, Tom Wall, Stephen Torres, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Nichole L Hanus, and Josh A Schellenberg."Western Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2024).

2023

De Martini, Paul, and Lisa C Schwartz."Distribution System Evolution." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Natalie Mims Frick, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Eliza Hotchkiss, Josh A Schellenberg, Tom Wall, Peter H Larsen, Nichole L Hanus, and Jane Frantz."Eastern Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2023).

Murphy, Sean, Lisa C Schwartz, Catherine Reed, Marion Gold, and Kirsten Verclas."State Energy Offices’ Engagement in Electric Distribution Planning to Meet State Policy Goals." (2023).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, and Lisa C Schwartz."The use of price-based demand response as a resource in electricity system planning." (2023).

Pereira, Guillermo, Lisa C Schwartz, and Natalie Mims Frick."Using Energy Efficiency to Help Meet Distribution System Capacity Needs." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Hanna Terwilliger, Joy Wang, and Sean Morash."Integrated Distribution System Planning Workshop, New Mexico PRC." (2023).

Larsen, Peter H, Lisa C Schwartz, and Joe Paladino."Resilience Training for the Public Utility Commission of Texas." (2023).