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Program (KCEP). EAEI’s rigorous analysis
and scientific solutions have helped save
energy, tackle climate change, and protect the
environment globally.
Energy Efficiency Standards Department
The EAEI’s Energy Efficiency Standards
Department has provided core technical support
to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s)
Efficiency Standards Program since its inception
in 1987. Since that time, the DOE program has
generated more than $1.3 trillion in consumer
benefits. Energy savings in 2014 amounted to 4%
of U.S. energy consumption. Energy Efficiency
Standards researchers provide cutting-edge,
comprehensive analyses of the economic
and environmental impacts of proposed DOE
appliances, equipment, and lighting standards
(e.g., consumer costs and benefits, utility sector
and societal impacts, and dynamic modeling
of market evolution under different standards
and policy scenarios). Appliance standards have
proven to be one of the most effective policy
tools for reducing energy consumption.
Sustainable Energy & Environmental
Systems Department
EAEI researchers in the Sustainable Energy &
Environmental Systems Department conduct a
broad program of research and development
to support international, federal, state. and
local programs to understand and mitigate
environmental impacts and maximize the
sustainability of emerging energy technologies.
Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems
research features energy technology analysis
intended to inform the development and
deployment of new and existing technologies
with approaches including life-cycle and techno-
economic analysis, deep decarbonization
pathway development, and energy flexibility
and behavior analytics. The energy systems
analysis research in the Sustainable Energy &
Environmental Systems Department includes
emerging trends in people and freight mobility,
the industrial sector, and the circular economy.
Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems
research in atmospheric science and technology
focuses on indoor environmental quality,
climate and air quality modeling, environmental
chemistry and exposure science, and source
characterization and impact mitigation
technologies.
Electricity Markets & Policy Department
EAEI research has supported technical,
economic, and policy analysis of the U.S.
electricity sector. The Electricity Markets and
Policy Department works on renewable energy
policy and market issues (e.g., cost, benefit,
and market analysis; grid operations and
infrastructure impacts; and public acceptance
and deployment barriers). Electricity Markets
and Policy researchers also conduct policy
research and develop software to aid industry
and government. They also provide technical
assistance on energy efficiency (e.g., enabling
policies, program design, market potential,
implementation strategies, finance, and
evaluation of programs funded by utility
customers and/or state/ local governments),
demand response, smart grid implementation
issues, customer response to dynamic pricing,
utility business models, power system reliability
and resilience, and technical and institutional
issues related to long-term electric utility and
transmission planning.
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