Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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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About Us +
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.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2022

Zhou, Nan, Reshma Singh, Carolyn Szum, and Mary Ann Piette."NZW South East Asia Center For Innovation in the Built Environment (SEIBE) A Preliminary Blueprint." (2022).

2021

Szum, Carolyn."Capturing the legacy of the U.S.‐China EcoPartnerships program."Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy (2021). DOI

Ding, Chao, Carolyn Szum, Han Li, Nan Zhou, and Clay Nesler."Data-Driven Analysis Tool Plays Critical Role in Climate Neutral Buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 2 (2021) 100014. DOI

Mahajan, Devinder, Carolyn Szum, Lei Ting, and Chai Xiaoli."Introduction to special issue on US-China EcoPartnership: Pathways toward decarbonizing economies to mitigate climate change."Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy (2021). DOI

2020

Lister, Mark, Anna Mowat, Peter du Pont, Nan Zhou, and Carolyn Szum."Analysis and Assessment of the Existing Landscape and Opportunities for Building Energy Efficiency in Selected Countries in Asia." (2020).

Zhou, Nan, Hongyou Lu, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, David Fridley, Lynn K. Price, Wei Feng, Jiang Lin, Carolyn Szum, and Chao Ding."China Energy Outlook: Understanding China’s Energy and Emissions Trends." (2020).

Szum, Carolyn, Jing Hou, and Nan Zhou."Building Energy Efficiency Target Manual: General Guidelines for Cities." (2020).

2019

Li, Han, Carolyn Szum, Clay Nesler, Sara Lisauskas, and Steve Snyder."Targeting Building Energy Efficiency Opportunities: An Open-source Analytical and Benchmarking Tool."2019 ASHRAE Winter Conference (2019).

2018

Szum, Carolyn, Liu Shan, and James Connelly."China’s Roadmap to Nearly Zero Energy Buildings."ACEEE 2018 Summer Study, Pacific Grove, CA (2018).

Szum, Carolyn, Brad Liljequis, Zhang Shicong, and Wei Feng."Best Practices from Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economies for Scaling Net Zero Energy Building."ACEEE 2018 Summer Study, Pacific Grove, CA (2018).

2017

Ge, Jing, Wei Feng, Nan Zhou, Mark D. Levine, and Carolyn Szum."Accelerating energy efficiency in China’s existing commercial buildings Part 2: Solutions and policy recommendations ." (2017).

Feng, Wei, Xiwang Li, Carolyn Szum, Nan Zhou, Michael Bendewald, Zihe Meng, and Yani Zeng."From Prescriptive to Outcome-Based — The Evolution of Building Energy Codes and Standards in China."ECEEE Summer Study 2017 (2017).

Schlein, Bruce, Carolyn Szum, Nan Zhou, Jing Ge, and Helen He."Lessons from Europe, North America, and Asia: Financing Models that are Facilitating Building Energy Efficiency at Scale."ECEEE 2017 (2017).

Szum, Carolyn, Nan Zhou, Sara Lisauskas, Madeline Frieze, Xi Chen, and Zhiming Pan."Lessons from the United States and China for Increasing Transparency and Harmonizing Measurement and Verification Practices in the Buildings Sector."ECEEE Summer Study 2017 (2017).

Ge, Jing, Wei Feng, Nan Zhou, Mark D. Levine, and Carolyn Szum."Accelerating Energy Efficiency in China's Existing Commercial Buildings, Part 1: Barrier Analysis." (2017).

2016

Nachtrieb, Robert, David Fridley, Wei Feng, Nihan Karali, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, Jimmy Tran, and Carolyn Szum."CERC-BEE Impact Model." (2016).

Franconi, Ellen M., Michael Bendewald, Jon Creyts, Carolyn Szum, and Nan Zhou."Opportunities for Realizing Drastic Reductions in Building Sector Carbon Emissions through U.S.-China Collaboration."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).