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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.

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)

2020

Sutter, Mary, Jenn Mitchell-Jackson, Steven R Schiller, Lisa C Schwartz, and Ian M Hoffman."Applying Non-Energy Impacts from Other Jurisdictions in Cost-Benefit Analyses of Energy Efficiency Programs: Resources for States for Utility Customer-Funded Programs." (2020).

Schiller, Steven R, Ian M Hoffman, Sean Murphy, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."Cost of saving natural gas through efficiency programs funded by utility customers: 2012–2017." (2020).

Schwartz, Lisa C."Distribution Planning Regulatory Practices in Other States." (2020).

Goldman, Charles A, Ian M Hoffman, Sean Murphy, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Cost of Saving Electricity: A Multi-Program Cost Curve for Programs Funded by U.S. Utility Customers."Energies 13 (2020). DOI

Goldman, Charles A, Sean Murphy, Ian M Hoffman, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."What does the future hold for utility electricity efficiency programs?."The Electricity Journal 33.4 (2020). DOI

Eckman, Tom, Lisa C Schwartz, and Greg Leventis."Determining Utility System Value of Demand Flexibility From Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings." (2020).

Schwartz, Lisa C, and Greg Leventis."Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: An Introduction for State and Local Governments." (2020).

De Martini, Paul, Kevin Schneider, Emma M Stewart, Barry Mather, Michael Coddington, Joseph H Eto, Benjamin Sigrin, Natalie Mims Frick, Joe Paladino, Lavelle Freeman, Debra Lew, Fritz Kahrl, and Lisa C Schwartz."Southeast Regional Training on Distribution Systems & Planning." (2020).

2019

Schwartz, Lisa C, Ian M Hoffman, Steven R Schiller, Sean Murphy, and Greg Leventis."Cost of Saving Electricity Through Efficiency Programs Funded by Customers of Publicly Owned Utilities: 2012–2017." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Greg Leventis, Sean Murphy, and Lisa C Schwartz."Peak Demand Impacts From Electricity Efficiency Programs." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Lisa C Schwartz."Time-Sensitive Value of Efficiency: Use Cases in Electricity Sector Planning and Programs." (2019).

Leventis, Greg, and Lisa C Schwartz."Commercial PACE Financing and the Special Assessment Process: Understanding Roles and Managing Risks for Local Governments." (2019).

Bird, Lori, Priya Barua, Heidi Bishop Ratz, Celina Bonugli, Steve Chriss, and Lisa C Schwartz."Renewable Energy Options for Large Utility Customers." (2019).

Elliot, Randolph, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Organization of MISO States, Scott Aaronson, Edison Electric Institute, National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, and Lisa C Schwartz."Utility Investments in Resilience of Electricity Systems."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 11 (2019).

Schwartz, Lisa C, and Natalie Mims Frick."Evolving Approaches to Electricity System Planning." (2019).

Schneider, Kevin, Emma M Stewart, Barry Mather, Kevin McCabe, Mike Coddington, Joseph H Eto, Lisa C Schwartz, Juliet Homer, Tim Woolf, Paul De Martini, Debra Lew, and Lavelle Freeman."Mid-Atlantic Distribution Systems and Planning Training." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Lisa C Schwartz."Buildings-to-Grid: Critical Issues for Decision Makers." (2019).

2018

Goldman, Charles A, Sean Murphy, Ian M Hoffman, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of U.S. Electricity Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: Program Spending and Savings Projections to 2030." (2018).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Lisa C Schwartz, and Alyse Taylor-Anyikire."A Framework for Integrated Analysis of Distributed Energy Resources: Guide for States." (2018).

Jones, Philip B, Jonathan Levy, Jenifer Bosco, John Howat, John W Van Alst, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of Transportation Electrification: Utility, Industry and Consumer Perspectives."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 10 (2018).

Hoffman, Ian M, Charles A Goldman, Sean Murphy, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Cost of Saving Electricity Through Energy Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: 2009–2015." (2018).

Cooke, Alan, Juliet Homer, and Lisa C Schwartz."Distribution System Planning – State Examples by Topic." (2018).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Joe Paladino, Maury Galbraith, Kerry Worthington, Fred Hoover, Kevin Schneider, Emma M Stewart, Barry Mather, Michael Coddington, Jeremy Twitchell, Joseph H Eto, Andrew D Mills, Debra Lew, and Lavelle Freeman."Distribution Systems and Planning Training for Western States." (2018).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Tom Eckman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Time-Varying Value of Energy Efficiency in Michigan." (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).