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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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2011

Mills, Andrew D., Amol A. Phadke, and Ryan H. Wiser."Exploration of resource and transmission expansion decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone initiative."Energy Policy 39.3 (2011) 1732 - 1745. DOI

2010

Mills, Andrew D., Amol A. Phadke, and Ryan H. Wiser."Exploration of Resource and Transmission Expansion Decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative." (2010) 88.

2009

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2009)." (2009).

Budhraja, Vikram S., John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Transmission Benefit Quantification, Cost Allocation and Cost Recovery."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009) 216.

Budhraja, Vikram S., Fred Mobasheri, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Alison Silverstein, and Joseph H Eto."Improving Electricity Resource-Planning Processes by Considering the Strategic Benefits of Transmission."The Electricity Journal 22.2 (2009). DOI

2008

Barmack, Matthew, Edward P Kahn, Susan Tierney, and Charles A. Goldman."Econometric models of power prices: An approach to market monitoring in the Western US."Utilities Policy 16.4 (2008) 307-320. DOI

Hopper, Nicole C., Galen L. Barbose, Charles A. Goldman, and Jeff Schlegel."Energy Efficiency as a Preferred Resource: Evidence from Utility Resource Plans in the Western United States and Canada."Energy Efficiency Journal Volume 2, Number 1 (2008) 24. DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Ryan H. Wiser, Amol A. Phadke, and Charles A. Goldman."Managing Carbon Regulatory Risk in Utility Resource Planning: Current Practices in the Western United States."Energy Policy 36.9 (2008) 3300-3311. DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Ryan H. Wiser, Amol A. Phadke, and Charles A. Goldman."Pursuing Energy Efficiency as a Hedge Against Carbon Regulatory Risks Current Resource Planning Practices in the West." (2008) 12.

Barbose, Galen L., Ryan H. Wiser, Amol A. Phadke, and Charles A. Goldman."Reading the Tea Leaves: How Utilities in the West Are Managing Carbon Regulatory Risk in their Resource Plans." (2008) 80.

2007

Sezgen, Osman, Charles A. Goldman, and P. Krishnarao."Option Value of Electricity Demand Response."Energy 32.2 (2007) 108-119. DOI

2006

Eto, Joseph H, Douglas R. Hale, and Bernard Lesieutre."Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies: A Review of Recent Benefit-Cost Studies of RTOs."The Electricity Journal 19.10 (2006) 50-62. DOI

Barmack, Matthew, Edward P Kahn, Susan Tierney, and Charles A. Goldman."A Regional Approach to Market Monitoring in the West." (2006) 85.

Hopper, Nicole C., Charles A. Goldman, and Jeff Schlegel."Energy Efficiency in Western Utility Resource Plans: Impacts on Regional Resource Assessment and Support for WGA Policies." (2006) 68.

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2006)." (2006).

Eto, Joseph H."Maintain, Enhance, and Improve Reliability of California’s Electric System under Restructuring." (2006).

2005

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Douglas R. Hale."A Review of Recent RTO Benefit-Cost Studies: Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies." (2005) 61.

Lesieutre, Bernard."Improving Dynamic Load and Generator Response Performance Tools." (2005) 74.

Eto, Joseph H."The Value of Economic Dispatch: A Report to Congress Pursuant to Section 1234 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005." (2005).

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Balancing Cost and Risk: The Treatment of Renewable Energy in Western Utility Resource Plans." (2005) 100.

2004

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."An Overview of Alternative Fossil Fuel Price and Carbon Regulation Scenarios." (2004) 37.

Lesieutre, Bernard, Emily S. Bartholomew, Joseph H Eto, Douglas R. Hale, and Thanh Luong."The Potential Impacts of a Competitive Wholesale Market in the Midwest: A Preliminary Examination of Centralized Dispatch." (2004) 75.

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Steven E. Widergren."Transmission-Planning Research and Development Scoping Project."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2004) 82.

Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto."When a Rose Is Not a Rose: A Review of Recent Estimates of Congestion Costs."The Electricity Journal 17.4 (2004). DOI

Wiser, Ryan H.."Managing Natural Gas Price Volatility and Escalation: The Value of Renewable Energy."NEMS/AEO 2004 Conference Washington, D.C. March 23, 2004 (2004).