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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)

2016

Schiller, Steven R, and Lisa C Schwartz."Coordinating Demand-Side Efficiency Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Among Western States: Options for Documenting Energy and Non- Energy Impacts for the Power Sector." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R, Lisa C Schwartz, Deborah Reynolds, Stacey Donohue, Kamran Khan, John Goodin, Tina Jayaweera, and Alaine Ginocchio."Coordinating Energy Efficiency (EE) and Demand Response (DR) Evaluation, Measurement and Verification (EM&V) Among Western State Agencies." (2016).

2015

Kramer, Chris, Emily Martin Fadrhonc, Charles A Goldman, Steven R Schiller, and Lisa C Schwartz."Making it Count: Understanding the Value of Energy Efficiency Financing Programs Funded by Utility Customers." (2015).

Corneli, Steve, Steve Kihm, and Lisa C Schwartz."Electric Industry Structure and Regulatory Responses in a High Distributed Energy Resources Future."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 1 (2015).

Rybka, Gregory M, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Flexible and Consistent Reporting for Energy Efficiency Programs: Introducing a New Tool for Reporting Spending and Savings for Programs Funded by Utility Customers." (2015).

De Martini, Paul, Lorenzo Kristov, and Lisa C Schwartz."Distribution Systems in a High Distributed Energy Resources Future."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 2 (2015).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Lisa C Schwartz, and Emily Martin Fadrhonc."A Framework for Organizing Current and Future Electric Utility Regulatory and Business Models." (2015).

Hoffman, Ian M, Steven R Schiller, Annika Todd-Blick, Megan A Billingsley, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Energy Savings Lifetimes and Persistence: Practices, Issues and Data." (2015).

Hoffman, Ian M, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A Goldman, Lisa C Schwartz, Megan A Billingsley, and Steven R Schiller."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs: Estimates at the National, State, Sector and Program Level." (2015).

2014

Hoffman, Ian M, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2014).

2013

Woolf, Tim, Erin Malone, Lisa C Schwartz, and John Shenot."A Framework for Evaluating the Cost-effectiveness of Demand Response." (2013).