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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)

2013

Leibowicz, Benjamin, Maria Roumpani, and Peter H Larsen."Carbon Emissions Caps and the Impact of a Radical Change in Nuclear Electricity Costs."International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 3.1 (2013).

2012

Zhai, Pei, Peter H Larsen, Dev Millstein, Surabi Menon, and Eric R Masanet."Avoided emissions from high penetration of photovoltaic electricity in the United States."Energy 47.1 (2012). DOI

Larsen, Peter H, Charles A Goldman, and Andrew Satchwell."Evolution of the U.S. Energy Service Company Industry: Market Size and Project Performance from 1990-2008."Energy Policy 50 (2012). DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Peter H Larsen, Annika Todd-Blick, and Emily Fisher."Distribution-level electricity reliability: Temporal trends using statistical analysis."Energy Policy 49 (2012) 243 - 252. DOI

Larsen, Peter H, Charles A Goldman, Donald Gilligan, and Terry E Singer."Incorporating Non-energy Benefits into Energy Savings Performance Contracts."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Larsen, Peter H, Charles A Goldman, and Andrew Satchwell."Evolution of the U.S. Energy Service Company Industry: Market Size and Project Performance from 1990-2008." (2012).

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Peter H Larsen, Annika Todd-Blick, and Emily Fisher."An Examination of Temporal Trends in Electricity Reliability Based on Reports from U.S. Electric Utilities." (2012).

Sathre, Roger, Hanna Breunig, Peter H Larsen, Eric R Masanet, Thomas E McKone, Nigel Quinn, and Corinne D Scown."Spatially-explicit impacts of carbon capture and sequestration on water supply and demand."Eleventh Annual Carbon Capture, Utilization & Sequestration Conference (2012).

2011

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter H Larsen, and Charles A Goldman."Combining Energy Efficiency Building Retrofits and Onsite Generation: An Emerging Business Model from the ESCO Industry."2011 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2011).

Larsen, Peter H."Energy Service Company (ESCO) Project Performance Benchmarking Fact Sheets." (2011).

Sathaye, Jayant A, Larry L Dale, Peter H Larsen, Gary A Fitts, Kevin Koy, Sarah M Lewis, and André Frossard Pereira de Lucena."Estimating Risk to California Energy Infrastructure From Projected Climate Change." (2011).

Lazo, Jeffery K, Megan Lawson, Peter H Larsen, and Donald M Waldman."U.S. Economic Sensitivity to Weather Variability."Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2011). DOI

2010

Chinowsky, Paul S, Kenneth Strzepek, Peter H Larsen, and Arie Opdahl."Adaptive Climate Response Cost Models for Infrastructure."Journal of Infrastructure Systems (2010). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Charles A Goldman, Peter H Larsen, Donald Gilligan, and Terry E Singer."A Survey of the U.S. ESCO Industry: Market Growth and Development from 2008 to 2011." (2010) 31.

Larsen, Peter H."The Role of Scaling in Societal Applications: Public and Private Infrastructure Vulnerabilities."Scaling Studies in Arctic System Science and Policy Support (2010).