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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 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.
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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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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.

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2015

Chiles, Thomas, Kenneth Shutika, and Philip Coleman."Riding the Electricity Market as an Energy Management Strategy: Savings from Real-Time Pricing." (2015).

Coleman, Philip."Escalation Rates in Energy Savings Performance Contracts."Energy Engineering 112.5 (2015). DOI

Coleman, Philip."Guide to Promoting an Energy Efficient Public Sector (PePS)." (2015).

Mills, Evan."Looking For Value in All The Wrong Places: Toward Expanded Consideration of Green and High Performance Attributes in Non-residential Property Appraisals in the United States." (2015).

Mills, Evan."A New Appraisal- Lessons from the History of Efforts to Value Green and High-Performance Home Attributes in the United States." (2015).

Scheib, Jennifer, Philip Coleman, and Shanti Pless."Realizing High-Performance Buildings." (2015).

2014

Coleman, Philip, Shankar Earni, and Charles H. Williams."Could what that ESCO sales rep said really be true? Savings realization rates in ESPC versus bid-to-spec projects."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Craine, Stewart, Evan Mills, and Justin Guay."Clean Energy Services for All: Financing Universal Electrification." (2014).

2013

Mills, Evan."Insurers as Partners in Inclusive Green Growth." (2013).

2012

Mills, Evan."The Greening of Insurance."Science 338.6113 (2012) 1424-1425. DOI

2011

Earni, Shankar, Philip Coleman, and Mark D. Sanders."Integrated Framework toward a Closed Loop Measurement and Verification Approach."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry 1 (2011) 68-79.

2009

Coffey, Brian E., Sam Borgeson, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Joshua S. Apte, Paul A. Mathew, and Philip Haves."Towards a Very Low Energy Building Stock: Modeling the U.S. Commercial Building Sector to Support Policy and Innovation Planning."Building Research & Information (2009).

Coffey, Brian E., Sam Borgeson, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Joshua S. Apte, Paul A. Mathew, and Philip Haves."Towards a Very Low Energy Building Stock: Modeling the US Commercial Building Stock to Support Policy and Innovation Planning."Building Research and Information 37:5 (2009).

2008

Coleman, Philip, Christopher T. Payne, and Richard G. White."A Plea for Simpler Electricity Tariffs."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 7 (2008) 60-69.

2006

McGrory, Laura Van Wie, Philip Coleman, David Fridley, Jeffrey P. Harris, and Edgar Villasenor Franco."Two Paths to Transforming Markets through Public Sector Energy Efficiency: Bottom Up versus Top Down."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 6 (2006) 265-276.

2004

Coleman, Philip, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Public Sector Leadership: Government Purchasing of Energy-efficient Products to Save Energy and “Pull” the Market."Kuwait ASST Workshop on Energy Conservation in Buildings (2004).

2001

Eto, Joseph H, Jonathan G. Koomey, Bryan Lehman, Nathan C. Martin, Evan Mills, Carrie A. Webber, and Ernst Worrell."Scoping Study on Trends in the Economic Value of Electricity Reliability to the U.S. Economy." (2001) 148.

2000

Shugars, John, Philip Coleman, Christopher T. Payne, and Laura Van Wie McGrory."Bridging the Efficiency Gap: Commercial Packaged Rooftop Air Conditioners."Proceedings from the 2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 10 (2000) 217-226.

Coleman, Philip, and Alexander T. Shaw."Guide Specifications: An Overlooked Avenue for Promoting Building Energy Efficiency."2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 4 (2000) 47-54.

1998

Coleman, Philip."Reducing ‘Search Cost’ and Risk in Energy-efficiency Investments: Two Success Stories."1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 4 (1998) 91-98.

1997

Mills, Evan, and Ivo Knoepfel."Energy efficiency Options for Insurance Loss Prevention." (1997).

1995

Olken, Frank, Evan Mills, Mary Ann Piette, Dale A. Sartor, Stephen E. Selkowitz, and Max H. Sherman."The Role of Building Life-Cycle Information Systems in the Delivery of Energy Services."Proceedings. NIST/EPRI: ATP: Information and Telecommunications for the U.S. Utilities Industry Focused Program Development (1995) 01/1995.

1986

Mills, Evan, Ronald L. Ritschard, and Charles A. Goldman."Financial Impacts of Energy Conservation Investment in Public Housing." (1986).