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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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2016

Mathew, Paul A., Nancy Wallace, Elena Alschuler, and Leonard Kolstad."Commercial mortgages: An underutilized channel for scaling energy efficiency investments?."ACEEE (2016).

Mathew, Paul A., Philip Coleman, Nancy Wallace, Paulo Issler, Lenny Kolstad, and Robert Sahadi."Energy Factors in Commercial Mortgages: Gaps and Opportunities." (2016).

2015

Kramer, Chris, Emily Martin Fadrhonc, Charles A. Goldman, Steven R. Schiller, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Making it Count: Understanding the Value of Energy Efficiency Financing Programs Funded by Utility Customers." (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).

Kramer, Chris, Emily Martin Fadrhonc, Peter J. Thompson, and Charles A. Goldman."Accessing Secondary Markets as a Capital Source for Energy Efficiency Finance Programs: Program Design Considerations for Policymakers and Administrators." (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).

Zimring, Mark, Greg Leventis, Charles A. Goldman, Merrian Borgeson, Peter J. Thompson, and Ian M. Hoffman."On-Bill Finance: From Policy to Promise to Practice."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Thompson, Peter J., Peter H. Larsen, Chris Kramer, and Charles A. Goldman."Energy Efficiency Finance Programs: Use-case Analysis to Define Data Needs and Guidelines." (2014).

Thompson, Peter J., Merrian Borgeson, Mark Zimring, Charles A. Goldman, and Chris Kramer."Selling an Energy Efficiency Loan Portfolio in Oregon: Resale of the Craft3 loan portfolio to Self-Help Credit Union." (2014).

Zimring, Mark, Greg Leventis, Merrian Borgeson, Peter J. Thompson, Ian M. Hoffman, and Charles A. Goldman."Financing Energy Improvements on Utility Bills: Market Updates and Program Design Considerations for Policymakers and Administrators." (2014).

Zimring, Mark."Energy Efficiency Financing Program Implementation Primer." (2014).

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

2013

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Annika Todd, and Charles A. Goldman."Getting the Biggest Bang for the Buck: Exploring the Rationales and Design Options for Energy Efficiency Financing Programs." (2013).

Zimring, Mark, Matthew Brown, and Dave Carey."Using Financing to Scale Up Energy Efficiency: Work Plan Recommendations for the SEE Action Financing Solutions Working Group." (2013).

Borgeson, Merrian, and Mark Zimring."Financing Energy Upgrades for K-12 School Districts: A Guide to Tapping into Funding for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Improvements." (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

Zimring, Mark, and Merrian Borgeson."Aggregating QECB Allocations and Using QECBs to Support the Private Sector: A Case Study on Massachusetts." (2012).

Borgeson, Merrian, Mark Zimring, and Charles A. Goldman."The Limits of Financing for Energy Efficiency."ACEEE Summer Study on Building and Energy Efficiency (2012).

Zimring, Mark, Brandon Belford, John Cross, Tom Blair, Adam Agalloco, and Molly Lunn."Making it Easier to Complete Clean Energy Projects with QECBs." (2012).