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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.

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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)

2025

Schwartz, Lisa C, and Peter Cappers."USDOE Energy Innovator Fellows Informational Webinar: Resources and Assistance for State Energy Offices and Regulators." (2025).

Hledik, Ryan, Sanem Sergici, Sai Shetty, and Peter Cappers."Deliberate Design: Creating Electricity Rates with Purpose." (2025).

Kahn-Lang, Jenya, Yuqi Zhu, Karen Palmer, and Peter Cappers."Different Prices for Difference Slices: A Meta-analysis of Time-based Electricity Rates."TBD (2025).

Satchwell, Andrew, Natalie Mims Frick, Peter Cappers, Sanem Sergici, Ryan Hledik, Goksin Kavlak, and Glenda Oskar."Electricity Rate Designs for Large Loads: Evolving Practices and Opportunities." (2025).

2024

Relf, Grace, Peter Cappers, Ronny Sandoval, and Myles T Collins."Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Electricity Regulation Basics." (2024).

Gerke, Brian F, Marius Stübs, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Peter Cappers, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Potential bill impacts of dynamic electricity pricing on California utility customers." (2024). DOI

2023

Forrester, Sydney, Cole Triedman, Sam Kozel, Cameron Brooks, and Peter Cappers."Third-Party Aggregation Rulemaking in MISO and SPP Footprints." (2023).

Simeone, Christina E, Pieter Gagnon, Peter Cappers, and Andrew Satchwell."The Bill Alignment Test: Identifying Trade-Offs With Residential Rate Design Options."Utilities Policy 82 (2023). DOI

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Cameron Brooks, and Sam Kozel."A Snapshot of EV-Specific Rate Designs Among U.S. Investor-Owned Electric Utilities." (2023).

Hanus, Nichole L, Jay Barlow, Andrew Satchwell, and Peter Cappers."Assessing the Current State of U.S. Energy Equity Regulation and Legislation." (2023).

Satchwell, Andrew, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Peter Cappers, James Milford, and Hadi Eshraghi."Quantifying the Financial Impacts of Electric Vehicles on Utility Ratepayers and Shareholders." (2023).

2022

Cappers, Peter, and Andrew Satchwell."EVGrid Assist Webinar: Electric Vehicle Rates and Incentives." (2022).

Cappers, Peter, and Andrew Satchwell."EV Retail Rate Design 101." (2022).

2021

Forrester, Sydney, and Peter Cappers."Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing Distributed Battery Value via Retail Utility Rates and Programs." (2021).

Cappers, Peter, and Annika Todd-Blick."Heterogeneity in Own-Price Residential Customer Demand Elasticities for Electricity under Time-of-Use Rates: Evidence from a Randomized-Control Trial in the United States."Utilities Policy (2021).

Cappers, Peter, Sydney Forrester, and Andrew Satchwell."Disaggregating Future Retail Electricity Rate Growth." (2021).

Fowlie, Meredith, Catherine Wolfram, Patrick Baylis, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, and Peter Cappers."Default Effects and Follow-On Behaviour: Evidence From an Electricity Pricing Program."The Review of Economic Studies 88.6 (2021) 2886–2934. DOI

Brooks, Cameron, Peter Cappers, and Andrew Satchwell."Expanding the Scope of Commercial Opportunities for Investor-Owned Electric Utilities." (2021).

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Max Dupuy, and Carl Linvill."The Distribution of U.S. Electric Utility Revenue Decoupling Rate Impacts from 2005 to 2017." (2021).

2020

Todd-Blick, Annika, C Anna Spurlock, Ling Jin, Peter Cappers, Sam Borgeson, Daniel Fredman, and Jarett Zuboy."Winners are not keepers: Characterizing household engagement, gains, and energy patterns in demand response using machine learning in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 70 (2020). DOI

Cappers, Peter, and C Anna Spurlock."A Handbook for Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Successful Electric Utility Pilots." (2020).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Jeff Deason, Sydney Forrester, Natalie Mims Frick, Brian F Gerke, and Mary Ann Piette."A Conceptual Framework to Describe Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Interactions." (2020).

2019

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Javier Reneses, Will Gorman, and Greg Leventis."Financial Impacts of Net-Metered DPV on a Prototypical Western Utility’s Shareholders and Ratepayers." (2019).

Todd-Blick, Annika, Peter Cappers, C Anna Spurlock, and Ling Jin."Spillover as a cause of bias in baseline evaluation methods for demand response programs."Applied Energy 250 (2019) 344 - 357. DOI