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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

Hoesch, Karl, Sarah Mills, Joseph Rand, Robi Nilson, Douglas L Bessette, Jacob White, and Ben Hoen."What to expect when you're expecting engagement: Delivering procedural justice in large-scale solar energy deployment."Energy Research & Social Science 120 (2025). DOI

2024

Wiser, Ryan H, Robi Nilson, Joseph Rand, and Bentham Paulos."Forecasts for Land-Based Wind Deployment in the United States: Wind Industry Survey Results." (2024).

Nilson, Robi, Joseph Rand, Ben Hoen, and Salma Elmallah."Halfway up the ladder: Developer practices and perspectives on community engagement for utility-scale renewable energy in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 117 (2024). DOI

Rand, Joseph, Karl Hoesch, Sarah Mills, Ben Hoen, Robi Nilson, Doug Bessette, and Jake White."Perceptions of Large-Scale Solar Project Neighbors: Results From a National Survey." (2024).

Bessette, Douglas L, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, Karl Hoesch, Jacob White, Sarah B Mills, and Robi Nilson."Good fences make good neighbors: Stakeholder perspectives on the local benefits and burdens of large-scale solar energy development in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 108 (2024). DOI

Nilson, Robi, Ben Hoen, and Joseph Rand."Survey of Utility-Scale Wind and Solar Developers Report." (2024).

2023

Bessette, Doug, Joseph Rand, Ben Hoen, Karl Hoesch, Jake White, Sarah Mills, and Robi Nilson."Community Centered Solar Development (CCSD) Study Interviews." (2023).