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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)

2015

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Lisa C Schwartz, and Emily Martin Fadrhonc."A Framework for Organizing Current and Future Electric Utility Regulatory and Business Models." (2015).

Cappers, Peter, Liesel Hans, and Richard M Scheer."American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Interim Report on Customer Acceptance, Retention, and Response to Time-Based Rates from the Consumer Behavior Studies." (2015).

Todd-Blick, Annika, Michael Perry, Brian Smith, Michael J Sullivan, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Insights from Smart Meters: Ramp-up, dependability, and short-term persistence of savings from Home Energy Reports." (2015).

Cappers, Peter, and Andrew Satchwell."Considerations for State Regulators and Policymakers in a Post-FERC Order 745 World."ElectricityPolicy.com (2015).

2014

Hoen, Ben, Jason P Brown, Thomas Jackson, Mark A Thayer, Ryan H Wiser, and Peter Cappers."Spatial Hedonic Analysis of the Effects of US Wind Energy Facilities on Surrounding Property Values."The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics (2014). DOI

Todd-Blick, Annika, Michael Perry, Brian Smith, Michael J Sullivan, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Insights from Smart Meters: Identifying Specific Actions, Behaviors and Characteristics that drive savings in Behavior-Based Programs." (2014).

Cappers, Peter, and Richard M Scheer."American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Experiences from the Consumer Behavior Studies on Engaging Customers." (2014).

Satchwell, Andrew, Andrew D Mills, Galen L Barbose, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, and Naïm R Darghouth."Financial Impacts of Net-Metered PV on Utilities and Ratepayers: A Scoping Study of Two Prototypical U.S. Utilities." (2014).

Todd-Blick, Annika, Michael Perry, Brian Smith, Michael J Sullivan, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Insights from Smart Meters: The Potential for Peak-Hour Savings from Behavior-Based Programs." (2014).

2013

Ma, Ookie, Nasr Alkadi, Peter Cappers, Paul Denholm, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Marissa Hummon, Sila Kiliccote, Jason S MacDonald, Nance Matson, Daniel Olsen, Cody Rose, Michael D Sohn, Michael Starke, Brendan J Kirby, and Mark O'Malley."Demand Response for Ancillary Services."IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid 4 (2013).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S MacDonald, Charles A Goldman, and Ookie Ma."An assessment of market and policy barriers for demand response providing ancillary services in U.S. electricity markets."Energy Policy 62 (2013) 1031-1039. DOI

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems in California: The Effect on Home Sales Prices."Contemporary Economic Policy 31.4 (2013) 708 - 718. DOI

Hoen, Ben, Jason P Brown, Thomas Jackson, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."A Spatial Hedonic Analysis of the Effects of Wind Energy Facilities on Surrounding Property Values in the United States." (2013).

Cappers, Peter, Annika Todd-Blick, Michael Perry, Bernard Neenan, and Richard Boisvert."Quantifying the Impacts of Time-based Rates, Enabling Technology, and Other Treatments in Consumer Behavior Studies: Protocols and Guidelines." (2013).

Todd-Blick, Annika, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Residential Customer Enrollment in Time-based Rate and Enabling Technology Programs: Smart Grid Investment Grant Consumer Behavior Study Analysis." (2013).

Cappers, Peter, Annika Todd-Blick, and Charles A Goldman."Summary of Utility Studies: Smart Grid Investment Grant Consumer Behavior Study Analysis." (2013).

Goldman, Charles A, Andrew Satchwell, Peter Cappers, and Ian M Hoffman."Utility Business Models in a Low Load Growth/High DG Future: Gazing into the Crystal Ball?." (2013).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S MacDonald, and Charles A Goldman."Market and Policy Barriers for Demand Response Providing Ancillary Services in U.S. Markets." (2013).

2012

MacDonald, Jason S, Peter Cappers, Duncan S Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Demand Response Providing Ancillary Services A Comparison of Opportunities and Challenges in the US Wholesale Markets."Grid-Interop 2012 (2012).

Cappers, Peter, Andrew D Mills, Charles A Goldman, Ryan H Wiser, and Joseph H Eto."An assessment of the role mass market demand response could play in contributing to the management of variable generation integration issues."Energy Policy 48 (2012) 420 - 429. DOI

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Do PV systems increase residential selling prices? If so, how can practitioners estimate this increase?."2012 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2012) 001774 - 001777. DOI

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Mark A Thayer, and Peter Cappers."Residential Photovoltaic Energy Systems in California: The Effect on Home Sales Prices." (2012).

2011

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Carrots and sticks: A comprehensive business model for the successful achievement of energy efficiency resource standards."Utilities Policy 19.4 (2011) 218-225. DOI

Cappers, Peter, Andrew D Mills, Charles A Goldman, Ryan H Wiser, and Joseph H Eto."Mass Market Demand Response and Variable Generation Integration Issues: A Scoping Study." (2011) 76.

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H Wiser, Peter Cappers, and Mark A Thayer."Do Photovoltaic Energy Systems Affect Residential Selling Prices? Results from a California Statewide Investigation."40th Annual National Solar Conference (Solar 2011) (2011).