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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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2017

Gagnon, Pieter, Anand Govindarajan, Lori Bird, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Andrew D. Mills."Solar + Storage Synergies for Managing Commercial-Customer Demand Charges." (2017).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Nicholas DiSanti, and Rebecca Widiss."Tracking the Sun X: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2017).

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Utility-Scale Solar 2016: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2017).

Mai, Trieu, Eric Lantz, Matthew Mowers, and Ryan H. Wiser."The Value of Wind Technology Innovation: Implications for the U.S. Power System, Wind Industry, Electricity Consumers, and Environment." (2017).

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."2016 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2017).

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Galen L. Barbose."The climate and air-quality benefits of wind and solar power in the United States."Nature Energy 2 (2017). DOI

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Pieter Gagnon, and Lori Bird."Exploring Demand Charge Savings from Commercial Solar." (2017).

Barbose, Galen L.."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards: 2017 Annual Status Report." (2017).

Bolinger, Mark."Bookending the Opportunity to Lower Wind’s LCOE by Reducing the Uncertainty Surrounding Annual Energy Production." (2017).

Hoen, Ben, Sandra Adomatis, Thomas Jackson, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Mark A. Thayer, Geoffrey T. Klise, and Ryan H. Wiser."Multi-State Residential Transaction Estimates of Solar Photovoltaic System Premiums."Renewable Energy Focus 19-20 (2017) 90-103. DOI

Rand, Joseph, and Ben Hoen."Thirty years of North American wind energy acceptance research: What have we learned?."Energy Research & Social Science 29.July 2017 (2017) 135-148. DOI

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O’Shaughnessy, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Galen L. Barbose, Ken Gillingham, and Varun Rai."Sources of Price Dispersion in U.S. Residential Solar Installations." (2017).

Moné, Christopher, M Maureen Hand, Mark Bolinger, Joseph Rand, Donna Heimiller, and Jonathan Ho."2015 Cost of Wind Energy Review." (2017).

Wiser, Ryan H., Galen L. Barbose, and Mark Bolinger."Retail Rate Impacts of Renewable Electricity: Some First Thoughts." (2017).

Bolinger, Mark."Using Probability of Exceedance to Compare the Resource Risk of Renewable and Gas-Fired Generation." (2017).

Breunig, Hanna, Ling Jin, Alastair Robinson, and Corinne D. Scown."Bioenergy Potential from Food Waste in California."Environmental Science & Technology (2017). DOI

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, Andrew D. Mills, Ryan H. Wiser, Pieter Gagnon, and Lori Bird."Exploring Demand Charge Savings from Residential Solar." (2017).

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Galen L. Barbose."The Health and Environmental Benefits of Wind and Solar Energy in the United States, 2007-2015." (2017).

Hoen, Ben, Joseph Rand, and Sandra Adomatis."Leasing Into the Sun A Mixed Method Analysis of Transactions of Homes with Third Party Owned Solar." (2017).

Barbose, Galen L.."Putting the Potential Rate Impacts of Distributed Solar into Context." (2017).

2016

Stukel, Laura, Ben Hoen, Sandra Adomatis, Craig Foley, and Laura Parsons."Capturing the Sun: A Roadmap for Navigating Data-Access Challenges and Auto-Populating Solar Home Sales Listings." (2016).

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

Mai, Trieu, Ryan H. Wiser, Galen L. Barbose, Lori Bird, Jenny Heeter, David Keyser, Venkat Krishnan, Jordan Macknick, and Dev Millstein."A Prospective Analysis of the Costs, Benefits, and Impacts of U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards." (2016). DOI

Phadke, Amol A., Nikit Abhyankar, and Ranjit Deshmukh."Techno-Economic Assessment of Integrating 175GW of Renewable Energy into the Indian Grid by 2022." (2016).

Wiser, Ryan H., Karen Jenni, Joachim Seel, Erin Baker, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, and Aaron Smith."Expert elicitation survey on future wind energy costs."Nature Energy 1.10 (2016) 16135. DOI