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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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2020

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Patience is a virtue: A data-driven analysis of rooftop solar PV permitting timelines in the United States."Energy Policy 144 (2020). DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Sydney Forrester, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Ben Hoen."Income Trends among U.S. Residential Rooftop Solar Adopters." (2020).

2019

Barbose, Galen L., and Naïm R. Darghouth."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2019 Edition." (2019).

Hoen, Ben, Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah."Commercial PV Property Characterization: An Analysis of Solar Deployment Trends in Commercial Real Estate." (2019).

Tongsopit, Sopitsuda, Supawan Saelim, Thanawat Keereepart, Naïm R. Darghouth, Alexandra Aznar, Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Surachai Chaitusaney."Distributed Photovoltaic Economic and Technical Impact Analysis in the Philippines." (2019).

Hanus, Nichole L, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Parth T Vaishnav, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Inês Lima Azevedo."Solar PV as a mitigation strategy for the US education sector."Environmental Research Letters 14.4 (2019).

2018

Wolske, Kimberly S., Annika Todd, Michael Rossol, James McCall, and Benjamin Sigrin."Accelerating demand for residential solar photovoltaics: Can simple framing strategies increase consumer interest?."Global Environmental Change Volume 53.November 2018 (2018) 68-77. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Galen L. Barbose, Joachim Seel, Varun Rai, Ariane Beck, Ashok Sekar, D. Cale Reeves, Erik Funkhouser, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ben Sigrin, and Casey Canfield."Diffusion of Innovations: Interplay of Social, Economic, Technological, and Policy Drivers in the Solar Industry—Summary of UT Austin Student Capstone Research Projects." (2018).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Dev Millstein, and Joseph Rand."Tracking the Sun: Installed Price Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2018 Edition." (2018).

Hoen, Ben, Geoffrey T. Klise, Andrea Ambrosini, Bill Garber, and Jonathan Thatcher."Commercial PV Property Appraiser Survey: Summary of Results." (2018).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, and Ryan H. Wiser."Income Trends of Residential PV Adopters: An analysis of household-level income estimates." (2018).

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).

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).

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

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).

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

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Gregory Nemet, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Using the Spatial Distribution of Installers to Define Solar Photovoltaic Markets." (2016).

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Galen L. Barbose, Kenneth Gillingham, and Varun Rai."What Factors Affect the Prices of Low-Priced U.S. Solar PV Systems?." (2016).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Sarah Cates, Nicholas DiSanti, and Rebecca Widiss."Tracking the Sun IX: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2016).

Wiser, Ryan H., Dev Millstein, Trieu Mai, Jordan Macknick, Alberta Carpenter, Stuart Cohen, Wesley Cole, Bethany Frew, and Garvin A. Heath."The environmental and public health benefits of achieving high penetrations of solar energy in the United States."Energy 113.15 October 2016 (2016) 472-486. DOI

Feldman, David, and Mark Bolinger."Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in Financing Solar."On the Path to SunShot (2016).

Barbose, Galen L., John Miller, Ben Sigrin, Emerson Reiter, Karlynn Cory, Joyce McLaren, Joachim Seel, Andrew D. Mills, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Andrew Satchwell."Utility Regulatory and Business Model Reforms for Addressing the Financial Impacts of Distributed Solar on Utilities." On the Path to Sunshot (2016).

Adomatis, Sandra, and Ben Hoen."An Analysis of Solar Home Paired Sales across Six States."The Appraisal Journal 84.1 (2016) 27-42.