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)

2017

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Peter H. Larsen, and Joseph H Eto."Evaluating Proposed Investments in Power System Reliability and Resilience: Preliminary Results from Interviews with Public Utility Commission Staff." (2017).

Larsen, Peter H., Brent Boehlert, Joseph H Eto, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Jeremy Martinich, and Lisa Rennels."Projecting Future Costs to U.S. Electric Utility Customers from Power Interruptions." (2017).

2016

Larsen, Peter H., Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Joseph H Eto, and James L. Sweeney."Recent trends in power system reliability and implications for evaluating future investments in resiliency."Energy 117 (2016) 29 - 46. DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H. Larsen, Alan H. Sanstad, and Charles A. Goldman."Load Forecasting in Electric Utility Integrated Resource Planning." (2016).

Larsen, Peter H.."A Method to Estimate the Costs and Benefits of Undergrounding Electricity Transmission and Distribution lines."Energy Economics 60.November 2016 (2016) 47-61. DOI

Allen, , Riley, Donna Brutkoski, David Farnsworth, and Peter H. Larsen."Sustainable Energy Solutions for Rural Alaska." (2016).

Sathre, Roger, Hanna Breunig, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Peter H. Larsen, Eric R. Masanet, Thomas E. McKone, Nigel Quinn, and Corinne D. Scown."Spatially-explicit water balance implications of carbon capture and sequestration."Environmental Modelling & Software 75 (2016) 153 - 162. DOI

Stuart, Elizabeth, Peter H. Larsen, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."U.S. Energy Service Company (ESCO) Industry: Recent Market Trends." (2016).

2015

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H. Larsen, and Charles A. Goldman."Estimating customer electricity and fuel savings from projects installed by the US ESCO industry."Energy Efficiency 8.6 (2015) 1251-1261. DOI

Larsen, Peter H., Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Joseph H Eto, and James L. Sweeney."Assessing Changes in the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System." (2015).

2014

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H. Larsen, and Charles A. Goldman."Estimating customer electricity savings from projects installed by the U.S. ESCO industry." (2014).

Stuart, Elizabeth, Peter H. Larsen, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."A method to estimate the size and remaining market potential of the U.S. ESCO (energy service company) industry."Energy 77 (2014) 362-371. DOI

Larsen, Peter H., Elizabeth Stuart, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Current Policies and Practices Related to the Incorporation of Non-energy Benefits in Energy Saving Performance Contract Projects."ACEEE 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Larsen, Peter H., Elizabeth Stuart, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Current Policies and Practices Related to the Incorporation of Non-energy Benefits in Energy Saving Performance Contract Projects."ACEEE 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Thompson, Peter J., Peter H. Larsen, Chris Kramer, and Charles A. Goldman."Energy Efficiency Finance Programs: Use-case Analysis to Define Data Needs and Guidelines." (2014).

Larsen, Peter H., James L. Sweeney, Joseph H Eto, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Exploring the Reliability of U.S. Electric Utilities."37th IAEE International Conference (2014).

Wilkerson, Jordan, Peter H. Larsen, and Galen L. Barbose."Survey of Western U.S. Electric Utility Resource Plans."Energy Policy 66 (2014) 90-103. DOI

2013

Stuart, Elizabeth, Peter H. Larsen, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Current Size and Remaining Market Potential of the U.S. Energy Service Company Industry." (2013).

Masanet, Eric R., Yuan Chang, Anand R. Gopal, Peter H. Larsen, William R. Morrow III, Roger Sathre, Arman Shehabi, and Pei Zhai."Life-Cycle Assessment of Electric Power Systems."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 38 (2013) 107-136. DOI

Sathaye, Jayant A., Larry L. Dale, Peter H. Larsen, Gary A. Fitts, Kevin Koy, Sarah M. Lewis, and André Frossard Pereira de Lucena."Estimating impacts of warming temperatures on California's electricity system."Global Environmental Change 23.2 (2013) 499-511. DOI

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, 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).