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)

2019

Chaianong, Aksornchan, Athikom Bangviwat, Christoph Menke, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Cost–Benefit Analysis of Rooftop PV Systems on Utilities and Ratepayers in Thailand."Energies 12.12 (2019). DOI

Tongsopit, Sopitsuda, Supawan Saelim, Thanawat Keereepart, Naïm R. Darghouth, Alexandra Aznar, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Surachai Chaitusaney."Distributed Photovoltaic Economic and Technical Impact Analysis in the Philippines." (2019).

Hanus, Nichole L, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Parth T Vaishnav, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Inês Lima Azevedo."Solar PV as a mitigation strategy for the US education sector."Environmental Research Letters 14.4 (2019).

2018

Wiser, Ryan H., Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Galen L. Barbose, Joachim Seel, Varun Rai, Ariane Beck, Ashok Sekar, D. Cale Reeves, Erik Funkhouser, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ben Sigrin, and Casey Canfield."Diffusion of Innovations: Interplay of Social, Economic, Technological, and Policy Drivers in the Solar Industry—Summary of UT Austin Student Capstone Research Projects." (2018).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, and Joseph Rand."Tracking the Sun: Installed Price Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2018 Edition." (2018).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, and Ryan H. Wiser."Income Trends of Residential PV Adopters: An analysis of household-level income estimates." (2018).

2017

Thakur, Jagruti, Sebastian Rauner, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Basab Chakraborty."Exploring the impact of increased solar deployment levels on residential electricity bills in India."Renewable Energy 120.May 2018 (2017) 512-523. DOI

Tongsopit, Sopitsuda, Owen R. Zinaman, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Understanding the Impact of Distributed Photovoltaic Adoption on Utility Revenues and Retail Electricity Tariffs in Thailand." (2017).

Zinaman, Owen R., Alexandra Aznar, Carl Linvill, Naïm R. Darghouth, Timon Dubbeling, and Emanuele Bianco."Grid-Connected Distributed Generation: Compensation Mechanism Basics." (2017).

Gagnon, Pieter, Anand Govindarajan, Lori Bird, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Andrew D. Mills."Solar + Storage Synergies for Managing Commercial-Customer Demand Charges." (2017).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Nicholas DiSanti, and Rebecca Widiss."Tracking the Sun X: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2017).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Pieter Gagnon, and Lori Bird."Exploring Demand Charge Savings from Commercial Solar." (2017).

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O’Shaughnessy, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Galen L. Barbose, Ken Gillingham, and Varun Rai."Sources of Price Dispersion in U.S. Residential Solar Installations." (2017).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Pieter Gagnon, and Lori Bird."Exploring Demand Charge Savings from Residential Solar." (2017).

2016

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Gregory Nemet, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Using the Spatial Distribution of Installers to Define Solar Photovoltaic Markets." (2016).

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Galen L. Barbose, Kenneth Gillingham, and Varun Rai."What Factors Affect the Prices of Low-Priced U.S. Solar PV Systems?." (2016).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Kevin Porter, Rebecca Widiss, Frank Oteri, Suzanne Tegen, and Tian Tian."2015 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2016).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Sarah Cates, Nicholas DiSanti, and Rebecca Widiss."Tracking the Sun IX: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2016).

Barbose, Galen L., John Miller, Ben Sigrin, Emerson Reiter, Karlynn Cory, Joyce McLaren, Joachim Seel, Andrew D. Mills, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Andrew Satchwell."Utility Regulatory and Business Model Reforms for Addressing the Financial Impacts of Distributed Solar on Utilities." On the Path to Sunshot (2016).

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Galen L. Barbose, Kenneth Gillingham, and Varun Rai."Characteristics of Low-Priced Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2016).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Ryan H. Wiser, Galen L. Barbose, and Andrew D. Mills."Net metering and market feedback loops: Exploring the impact of retail rate design on distributed PV deployment."Applied Energy 162 (2016). DOI

2015

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, Dana Hansen, Kevin Porter, Rebecca Widiss, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, Aaron Smith, and Suzanne Tegen."2014 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2015).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Michael Spears, Ryan H. Wiser, Michael Buckley, Rebecca Widiss, and Nick Grue."Tracking the Sun VIII: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2015).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Ryan H. Wiser, Galen L. Barbose, and Andrew D. Mills."Net Metering and Market Feedback Loops: Exploring the Impact of Retail Rate Design on Distributed PV Deployment." (2015).

Burkhardt, Jesse, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Changgui Dong, and Joshua Huneycutt."Exploring the impact of permitting and local regulatory processes on residential solar prices in the United States."Energy Policy 78 (2015) 102 - 112. DOI