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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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

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." (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

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).

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).

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

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, 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

Cappers, Peter, and Sean Murphy."Unpacking the Disconnect Between Wholesale and Retail Electric Rates." (2019).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Galen L. Barbose."Current Developments in Retail Rate Design: Implications for Solar and Other Distributed Energy Resources." (2019).

2018

Cappers, Peter, Annika Todd, and Greg Leventis."Uses for Smart Meter Data Webinar Series." (2018).

Satchwell, Andrew, and Peter Cappers."Evolving Grid Services, Products, and Market Opportunities for Regulated Electric Utilities." (2018).

Potter, Jennifer, Elizabeth Stuart, and Peter Cappers."Barriers and Opportunities to Broader Adoption of Integrated Demand Side Management at Electric Utilities: A Scoping Study." (2018).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Charles A. Goldman."Customer bill impacts of energy efficiency and net-metered photovoltaic system investments."Utilities Policy 50 (2018) 144-152. DOI

2017

Potter, Jennifer, and Peter Cappers."Demand Response Advanced Controls Framework and Assessment of Enabling Technology Costs." (2017).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Charles A. Goldman."Financial Impacts of a Combined Energy Efficiency and Net-Metered PV Portfolio on a Prototypical Northeast Utility." (2017).

2016

Cappers, Peter, and Rich Scheer."American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Final Report on Customer Acceptance, Retention, and Response to Time-Based Rates from Consumer Behavior Studies." (2016).

Cappers, Peter, C. Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd, and Ling Jin."Experiences of Vulnerable Residential Customer Subpopulations with Critical Peak Pricing." (2016).

Kihm, Steve, Andrew Satchwell, and Peter Cappers."The Financial Impacts of Declining Investment Opportunities on Electric Utility Shareholders." (2016).

Cappers, Peter, C. Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd, Patrick Baylis, Meredith Fowlie, and Catherine Wolfram."Time-of-Use as a Default Rate for Residential Customers: Issues and Insights." (2016).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S. MacDonald, Janie Page, Jennifer Potter, and Emma M. Stewart."Future Opportunities and Challenges with Using Demand Response as a Resource in Distribution System Operation and Planning Activities." (2016).

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