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)

2016

Therkelsen, Peter L., Prakash Rao, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T. McKane."The ISO 50001 Impact Estimator Tool (IET 50001 V1.1.4) - User Guide and Introduction to the ISO 50001 Impacts Methodology." (2016).

Mills, Evan."Job Creation and Energy Savings Through a Transition to Modern Off-grid Lighting."Energy for Sustainable Development 33 (2016) 155-166. DOI

Franconi, Ellen M., Michael Bendewald, Jon Creyts, Carolyn Szum, and Nan Zhou."Opportunities for Realizing Drastic Reductions in Building Sector Carbon Emissions through U.S.-China Collaboration."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Mills, Andrew D., Galen L. Barbose, Joachim Seel, Changgui Dong, Trieu Mai, Ben Sigrin, and Jarett Zuboy."Planning for a Distributed Disruption: Innovative Practices for Incorporating Distributed Solar into Utility Planning." (2016).

Zhou, Nan, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, Ellen M. Franconi, Jon Creyts, Lijing Gu, and Jianguo Zhang."Policy Roadmap to 50% Energy Reduction in Chinese Buildings by 2050."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Brown, Richard E., Erin Beddingfield, Marshall Duer-Balkind, Ali Levine, and Elena Alschuler."Putting Data to Work: Using Building Energy Performance Data to Expand the Market for Energy Efficiency in Buildings." (2016). DOI

Khanna, Nina, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, and Jing Ke."Quantifying the potential impacts of China's power-sector policies on coal input and CO2 emissions through 2050: A bottom-up perspective."Utilities Policy 41 (2016) 128-138. DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C.."Rate Design: Trends and Perspectives." (2016).

Schiller, Steven R., Robert G. Ozar, Carmen Best, and Jeff Harris."Setting Baselines for Planning and Evaluation of Efficiency Programs."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Qu, Xiaohui, and Kristin A. Persson."Toward Accurate Modeling of the Effect of Ion-Pair Formation on Solute Redox Potential."Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 12.9 (2016) 4501 - 4508. DOI

Liu, Ping, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, Spencer M. Dutton, Ming Jin, Lingwei Zheng, and Nan Zhou."Towards the Optimal Development of Low-Carbon Community Energy Systems."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Sarah Cates, Nicholas DiSanti, and Rebecca Widiss."Tracking the Sun IX: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2016).

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Cody Taylor, and Samuel Fernandes."Will the Measurement Robots Take Our Jobs? An Update on the State of Automated M&V for Energy Efficiency Programs."Proceedings of the 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Pacific Grove, CA, August 2016." (2016).

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Claudine Y. Custodio, Michael D. Sohn, David A. Jump, and Samuel Fernandes."Accuracy of Automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) Techniques for Energy Savings in Commercial Buildings."Applied Energy 173 (2016) 296-308. DOI

Hobbs, Benjamin F., Qingyu Xu, Jonathan Ho, Pearl Donohoo, Saamrat Kasina, Jasmine Ouyang, Sang Woo Park, Joseph H Eto, and Vijay Satyal."Adaptive Transmission Planning: Implementing a New Paradigm for Managing Economic Risks in Grid Expansion."IEEE Power and Energy Magazine 14.4 (2016). DOI

Ravikumar, Krishnanjan Gubba, Scott Manson, John Undrill, and Joseph H Eto."Analysis of fault-induced delayed voltage recovery using EMTP simulations."IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference (2016). DOI

Ohshita, Stephanie, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Lixuan Hong, and Nina Khanna."BEST Cities: Software User Guide." (2016).

Berger, Michael A., Paul A. Mathew, and Travis Walter."Big Data Analytics in the Building Industry."ASHRAE Journal (2016) 38-45.

Heleno, Miguel, Manuel A. Matos, and J.A. Peças Lopes."A bottom-up approach to leverage the participation of residential aggregators in reserve services markets."Electric Power Systems Research 136 (2016) 425 - 433. DOI

Hong, Lixuan, Nan Zhou, Wei Feng, Nina Khanna, David Fridley, Yongqiang Zhao, and Kaare Sandholt."Building stock dynamics and its impacts on materials and energy demand in China."Energy Policy 94 (2016) 47 - 55. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Dev Millstein, Trieu Mai, Jordan Macknick, Alberta Carpenter, Stuart Cohen, Wesley Cole, Bethany Frew, and Garvin A. Heath."The environmental and public health benefits of achieving high penetrations of solar energy in the United States."Energy 113.15 October 2016 (2016) 472-486. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Michael D. Sohn, and Heidemarie C. Caswell."Evaluating the Performance of the IEEE Standard 1366 Method for Identifying Major Event Days View Document."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 32.2 (2016). DOI

Kihm, Steve, Andrew Satchwell, and Peter Cappers."The Financial Impacts of Declining Investment Opportunities on Electric Utility Shareholders." (2016).

Schittekatte, Tim, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Salman Mashayekh, and Sankar Narayanan."The Impact of Short-term Stochastic Variability in Solar Irradiance on Optimal Microgrid Design."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid PP.99 (2016). DOI

Schellenberg, Josh A., Barney Speckman, and Joseph H Eto."Integrating customer interruption costs into outage management systems."IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference (2016). DOI