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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) 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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2008

Eto, Joseph H, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Tracking the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System: An Assessment of Publicly Available Information Reported to State Public Utility Commissions." (2008) 52.

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.

Cappers, Peter, Charles A. Goldman, Michele Chait, George Edgar, Jeff Schlegel, and Wayne Shirley."Quantitative Financial Analysis of Alternative Energy Efficiency Shareholder Incentive Mechanisms."ACEEE 2008 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008) 15.

Bharvirkar, Ranjit, Charles A. Goldman, Grayson C. Heffner, and Richard Sedano."Coordination of Retail Demand Response with Midwest ISO Wholesale Markets." (2008) 39.

Lutz, James D.."Water Heaters and Hot Water Distribution Systems." (2008) 83.

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.

Dale, Larry L., and K. Sydny Fujita."An Analysis of the Price Elasticity of Demand for Household Appliances." (2008) 19.

Coughlin, Katie, Mary Ann Piette, Charles A. Goldman, and Sila Kiliccote."Estimating Demand Response Load Impacts: Evaluation of Baseline Load Models for Non- Residential Buildings in California." (2008) 33.

Morrow, William R. III, and Peter Balash."Biomass Allocation Model – Comparing Alternative Uses of Scarce Biomass Energy Resource Through Estimations of Future Biomass Use for Liquid Fuels and Electricity." (2008).

Morrow, William R. III, W. Michael Griffin, and H. Scott Matthews."National-level infrastructure and economic effects of switchgrass co-firing with coal in existing power-plants for carbon mitigation. Environmental Science and Technology."Environmental Science & Technology 42.10 (2008) 3501-3507. DOI

2007

Goldman, Charles A., Nicole C. Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, and Peter Cappers."A Methodology for Estimating Large-Customer Demand Response Market Potential." (2007) 19.

Hopper, Nicole C., Charles A. Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Daniel Engel."The Summer of 2006: A Milestone in the Ongoing Maturation of Demand Response." (2007) 22.

Puckett, Curt D., and Timothy P. Hennessy."Deemed Savings Estimates for Legacy Air Conditioning and Water Heating Direct Load Control Programs in PJM Region." (2007) 101.

Goldman, Charles A., Nicole C. Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, and Peter Cappers."Estimating Demand Response Market Potential among Large Commercial and Industrial Customers: A Scoping Study." (2007) 89.

2006

Goldman, Charles A., Galen L. Barbose, and Bernard Neenan."RTP as an Optional Service: It’s Alive, But Is It Well?."The Electricity Journal Vol. 19.Issue 1 (2006) 18.

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.

Barbose, Galen L., Ranjit Bharvirkar, Charles A. Goldman, Nicole C. Hopper, and Bernard Neenan."Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Can Real-Time Pricing Support Retail Competition and Demand Response?." (2006) 14.

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

Hopper, Nicole C., Charles A. Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Not All Large Customers Are Made Alike: Disaggregating Response to Default-Service Day-Ahead Market Pricing."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Hopper, Nicole C., Charles A. Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Not All Large Customers Are Made Alike: Disaggregating Response to Default-Service Day-Ahead Market Pricing." (2006) 17.

U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, , U.S. Department of Energy, and Joseph H Eto."Recommendation 12: The Relationship between Competitive Power Markets and Grid Reliability."U.S-Canada Power System Outage Task Force (2006).

Fry, Terry, Robert Hinkle, and Daniel Engel."Demand Response Program Design Preferences of Large Customers: Focus Group Results from Four States." (2006) 69.

Gumerman, Etan, Peter T. Chan, Bernard Lesieutre, Chris Marnay, and Juan Wang."Modeling Interregional Transmission Congestion in the National Energy Modeling System." (2006) 74.