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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 improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; 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 reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

Publications by Division

Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2017

Schneider, Kevin, Emma Stuart, Murali Baggu, Michael Coddington, Juliet Homer, Lisa C Schwartz, Joseph H Eto, Michael Kintner-Meyer, Mark Newton Lowry, Paul De Martini, Stephen J Rourke, and Andrew D Mills."NECPUC Distribution Systems & Planning Training." (2017).

Leventis, Greg, Chris Kramer, and Lisa C Schwartz."Energy Efficiency Financing for Low- and Moderate-Income Households: Current State of the Market, Issues, and Opportunities." (2017).

Lowry, Mark Newton, Matthew Makos, Jeff Deason, and Lisa C Schwartz."State Performance-Based Regulation Using Multiyear Rate Plans for U.S. Electric Utilities." (2017).

Leventis, Greg, Steven R Schiller, Chris Kramer, and Lisa C Schwartz."Energy Upgrades at City-Owned Facilities: Understanding Accounting for Energy Efficiency Financing Options." (2017).

Hoffman, Ian M, Charles A Goldman, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Lisa C Schwartz, Alan H Sanstad, and Steven R Schiller."Estimating the cost of saving electricity through U.S. utility customer-funded energy efficiency programs."Energy Policy 104 (2017) 1-12. DOI

Kihm, Steve, Janice Beecher, Ronald Lehr, and Lisa C Schwartz."Regulatory Incentives and Disincentives for Utility Investments in Grid Modernization."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 8 (2017).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Steven R Schiller, Elizabeth Stuart, Lisa C Schwartz, Chris Kramer, and Richard Faesy."Evaluation of U.S. Building Energy Benchmarking and Transparency Programs: Attributes, Impacts, and Best Practices." (2017).

Potter, Jennifer, Jeff Deason, and Lisa C Schwartz."Adopting Energy-Efficient Technologies for Street Lighting: Overcoming Challenges for Utilities." (2017).

Glazer, Craig, Jay Morrison, Paul Breakman, Allison Clements, National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of Centrally-Organized Wholesale Electricity Markets."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 7 (2017).

Deason, Jeff, Lisa C Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, and Jennifer Potter."Regulatory Issues and Approaches to Municipal LED Street Lighting Conversions." (2017).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Max Wei, William R Morrow III, Jeff Deason, Steven R Schiller, Greg Leventis, Sarah Josephine Smith, Woei Ling Leow, Todd Levin, Steven Plotkin, Yan Zhou, and Joseph Teng."Electricity end uses, energy efficiency, and distributed energy resources baseline." (2017).

2016

Schwartz, Lisa C."Overview of Distribution Planning Efforts."Grid Modernization: Distribution Planning Workshop, Minnesota PUC (2016).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Andrew D Mills, Luke Lavin, Nancy Ryan, Arne Olsen, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of Electricity Resource Planning."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 6 (2016).

Schwartz, Lisa C."Rate Design: Trends and Perspectives." (2016).

Wood, Lisa, Ross Hemphill, John Howat, Ralph Cavanagh, Severin Borenstein, Jeff Deason, Lisa C Schwartz, and Lisa C Schwartz."Recovery of Utility Fixed Costs: Utility, Consumer, Environmental and Economist Perspectives."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 5 (2016).

Hledik, Ryan, Jim Lazar, and Lisa C Schwartz."Distribution System Pricing with Distributed Energy Resources."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 4 (2016).

Hoffman, Alex, Gregory M Rybka, David Shephard-Gaw, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Energy Efficiency Reporting Tool for Public Power Utilities." (2016).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Greg Leventis, Steven R Schiller, and Emily Martin Fadrhonc."SEE Action Guide for States: Energy Efficiency as a Least-Cost Strategy to Reduce Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollution and Meet Energy Needs in the Power Sector." (2016).

Lowry, Mark Newton, Tim Woolf, and Lisa C Schwartz."Performance-Based Regulation in a High Distributed Energy Resources Future."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 3 (2016).

Fadrhonc, Emily Martin, Jeff Deason, Liesel Hans, Ben Hoen, Steven R Schiller, and Lisa C Schwartz."Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy in California: Feasibility of Studying Impacts on Mortgage Performance and Energy Savings." (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).