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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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2017

Vossos, Vagelis, Karl Johnson, Margarita Kloss, Mukesh Khattar, Daniel L Gerber, and Richard E Brown."Review of DC Power Distribution in Buildings: A Technology and Market Assessment." (2017). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Financial Impacts of a Combined Energy Efficiency and Net-Metered PV Portfolio on a Prototypical Northeast Utility." (2017).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Grace Wu, and Amol A Phadke."Renewable Energy Zones for Balancing Siting Trade-offs in India: Multi-Criteria Analysis for Planning Renewable Energy." (2017).

Potter, Jennifer, Jeff Deason, and Lisa C Schwartz."Adopting Energy-Efficient Technologies for Street Lighting: Overcoming Challenges for Utilities." (2017).

Rai, Varun, Rahul Tongia, Gireesh Shrimali, and Nikit Abhyankar."Data for development: The case for an Indian energy information administration."Energy Research & Social Science 25.March 2017 (2017). DOI

Glazer, Craig, Jay Morrison, Paul Breakman, Allison Clements, National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of Centrally-Organized Wholesale Electricity Markets."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 7 (2017).

Deason, Jeff, Lisa C Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, and Jennifer Potter."Regulatory Issues and Approaches to Municipal LED Street Lighting Conversions." (2017).

Liu, Xu, Chris Marnay, Wei Feng, Nan Zhou, and Nihan Karali."A Review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Smart Grid Projects and Their Implications for China." (2017).

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Peter H Larsen, and Joseph H Eto."Evaluating Proposed Investments in Power System Reliability and Resilience: Preliminary Results from Interviews with Public Utility Commission Staff." (2017).

Larsen, Peter H, Brent Boehlert, Joseph H Eto, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Jeremy Martinich, and Lisa Rennels."Projecting Future Costs to U.S. Electric Utility Customers from Power Interruptions." (2017).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Nihar Shah, Won Young Park, and Amol A Phadke."Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Room Air Conditioners in India: Potential, Costs-Benefits, and Policies." (2017).

2016

Dennis, Jeffery S, Suedeen G Kelly, Robert R Nordhaus, and Douglas W Smith."Federal/State Jurisdictional Split: Implications for Emerging Electricity Technologies." (2016).

Jin, Ming, Wei Feng, Ping Liu, Chris Marnay, and Costas Spanos."MOD-DR: Microgrid optimal dispatch with demand response."Applied Energy 187 (2016). DOI

Larsen, Peter H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Joseph H Eto, and James L Sweeney."Recent trends in power system reliability and implications for evaluating future investments in resiliency."Energy 117 (2016) 29 - 46. DOI

Cappers, Peter, and Rich Scheer."American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Final Report on Customer Acceptance, Retention, and Response to Time-Based Rates from Consumer Behavior Studies." (2016).

Lin, Jiang, Xu Liu, and Fredrich Kahrl."Excess Capacity in China's Power Systems: A Regional Analysis." (2016).

Mills, Evan, and Richard B Jones."An Insurance Perspective on U.S. Electric Grid Disruption Costs."The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 41.4 (2016) 555 - 586. DOI

Lin, Jiang, Ryan H Wiser, Wei Feng, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation: Trends and Solutions in US." (2016).

Iyer, Maithili, Satish Kumar, Sangeeta Mathew, Hannah Stratton, Paul A Mathew, and Mohini Singh."Establishing a Commercial Buildings Energy Data Framework for India: A Comprehensive Look at Data Collection Approaches, Use Cases and Institutions." (2016).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H Larsen, Alan H Sanstad, and Charles A Goldman."Load Forecasting in Electric Utility Integrated Resource Planning." (2016).

Lin, Jiang, and Andrew Satchwell."Toward future's clean power system: lessons from the past." (2016).

Larsen, Peter H."A Method to Estimate the Costs and Benefits of Undergrounding Electricity Transmission and Distribution lines."Energy Economics 60.November 2016 (2016) 47-61. DOI

Eto, Joseph H."Building Electric Transmission Lines: A Review of Recent Regional Transmission Plans." (2016).

Eto, Joseph H."Building Electric Transmission Lines: A Review of Recent Transmission Projects." (2016).

Cappers, Peter, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd-Blick, and Ling Jin."Experiences of Vulnerable Residential Customer Subpopulations with Critical Peak Pricing." (2016).