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)

2021

Woolf, Tim, Ben Havumaki, Divita Bhandari, Melissa Whited, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Benefit-Cost Analysis for Utility-Facing Grid Modernization Investments: Trends, Challenges, and Considerations." (2021).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Snuller Price, Lisa C. Schwartz, Nichole L Hanus, and Ben Shapiro."Locational Value of Distributed Energy Resources." (2021).

2020

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sean Murphy, Chandler Miller, Greg Leventis, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Charles A. Goldman, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Peak Demand Savings from Efficiency: Opportunities and Practices." (2020).

Schneider, Kevin, Emma Stuart, Patrick Dalton, Rois Langner, Jeffrey Taft, Paul De Martini, Debra Lew, Fritz Kahrl, Lisa C. Schwartz, Juliet Homer, Chandler Miller, Matt Leach, Natalie Mims Frick, Jeremy Twitchell, Andrew D. Mills, Doug Black, Jason S. MacDonald, and Michael Kintner-Meyer."Integrated Distribution System Planning training for the Midwest/MISO region." (2020).

Schwartz, Lisa C.."Energy System Planning for a Modern Electric Grid." (2020).

Schiller, Steven R., Lisa C. Schwartz, and Sean Murphy."Performance Assessments of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Issues and Considerations." (2020).

Eckman, Tom, Lisa C. Schwartz, and Natalie Mims Frick."Economic Valuation of Energy Resources: Technical Assistance Opportunity for States on Enhanced Methods to Assess Utility System Value of Demand Flexibility." (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).

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

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., 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).

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