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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)

2021

Deason, Jeff, Greg Leventis, and Sean Murphy."Performance of solar leasing for low- and middle-income customers in Connecticut." (2021).

2020

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sean Murphy, Cesca Miller, Greg Leventis, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Peak Demand Savings from Efficiency: Opportunities and Practices." (2020).

Schiller, Steven R, Lisa C Schwartz, and Sean Murphy."Performance Assessments of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Issues and Considerations." (2020).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Sean Murphy, Benjamin Leibowicz, and Peter H Larsen."The economic value of a centralized approach to distributed resource investment and operation."Applied Energy 269 (2020). DOI

Schiller, Steven R, Ian M Hoffman, Sean Murphy, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."Cost of saving natural gas through efficiency programs funded by utility customers: 2012–2017." (2020).

Goldman, Charles A, Ian M Hoffman, Sean Murphy, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Cost of Saving Electricity: A Multi-Program Cost Curve for Programs Funded by U.S. Utility Customers."Energies 13 (2020). DOI

Goldman, Charles A, Sean Murphy, Ian M Hoffman, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."What does the future hold for utility electricity efficiency programs?."The Electricity Journal 33.4 (2020). DOI

2019

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Sean Murphy, Alan H Sanstad, and Peter H Larsen."The use of wholesale market purchases by Western U.S. electric utilities." (2019).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Ian M Hoffman, Steven R Schiller, Sean Murphy, and Greg Leventis."Cost of Saving Electricity Through Efficiency Programs Funded by Customers of Publicly Owned Utilities: 2012–2017." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Greg Leventis, Sean Murphy, and Lisa C Schwartz."Peak Demand Impacts From Electricity Efficiency Programs." (2019).

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

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Sean Murphy, Elizabeth Stuart, Peter H Larsen, and Charles A Goldman."Evaluating project level investment trends for the U.S. ESCO industry: 1990-2017."Energy Policy 130.July 2019 (2019) 139-161. DOI

2018

Goldman, Charles A, Sean Murphy, Ian M Hoffman, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of U.S. Electricity Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: Program Spending and Savings Projections to 2030." (2018).

Hoffman, Ian M, Charles A Goldman, Sean Murphy, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Cost of Saving Electricity Through Energy Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: 2009–2015." (2018).

Deason, Jeff, and Sean Murphy."Assessing the PACE of California residential solar deployment: Impacts of Property Assessed Clean Energy programs on residential solar photovoltaic deployment in California, 2010-2015." (2018).

2017

Schiller, Steven R, Greg Leventis, Tom Eckman, and Sean Murphy."SEE Action Guide for States: Guidance on Establishing and Maintaining Technical Reference Manuals for Energy Efficiency Measures." (2017).

Larsen, Peter H, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Charles A Goldman, Sean Murphy, and Elizabeth Stuart."Updated Estimates of the Remaining Market Potential of the U.S. ESCO Industry." (2017).