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)

2013

Russo, Richard E., Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J. Gonzalez, and Jong-Hyun Yoo."Femtosecond vs. nanosecond laser pulse duration for laser ablation chemical analysis."Spectroscopy 28.1 (2013) 24-39.

Barbose, Galen L., Charles A. Goldman, Ian M. Hoffman, and Megan A. Billingsley."The Future of Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs in the United States: Projected Spending and Savings to 2025." (2013). DOI

Levy, Roger, and Sila Kiliccote."Hawaiian Electric Company Demand Response Roadmap Project Final Report." (2013).

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Karina Garbesi, Colleen Kantner, Robert D Van Buskirk, and Hung-Chia Yang."Incorporating Experience Curves in Appliance Standards Analysis."Energy Policy 52 (2013) 402-416. DOI

Wang, Liping, and Tianzhen Hong."Modeling and Simulation of HVAC Faulty Operations and Performance Degradation due to Maintenance Issues."ASim 2012 - 1st Asia conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (2013).

Lim, Sunnie H.N., Jan Isidorsson, Lizhong Sun, B. Leo Kwak, and André Anders."Modeling of optical and energy performance of tungsten-oxide-based electrochromic windows including their intermediate states."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 108 (2013) 129 - 135. DOI

Bremson, Joel, Alan K. Meier, C.-Y. Cynthia Lin, and Joan Ogden."New Approach to Modeling Large-Scale Transitions to Alternative Fuels and Vehicles."Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2385.1 (2013) 61 - 69. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, and Hung-Wen Lin."Occupant Behavior: Impact on Energy Use of Private Offices."ASim 2012 - 1st Asia Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (2013).

Marks, , Gary, Edmund Wilcox, Daniel Olsen, and Sasank Goli."Opportunities for Demand Response in California Agricultural Irrigation: A Scoping Study." (2013).

Lee, Eleanor S., Luis L. Fernandes, Brian E. Coffey, Andrew McNeil, Robert D. Clear, Thomas L. Webster, Fred S. Bauman, Darryl J. Dickerhoff, David Heinzerling, and Tyler Hoyt."A Post-Occupancy Monitored Evaluation of the Dimmable Lighting, Automated Shading, and Underfloor Air Distribution System in The New York Times Building." (2013).

Ni, Chun Chun."Potential Energy Savings and Reduction of CO₂ Emissions Through Higher Efficiency Standards for Polyphase Electric Motors in Japan."Energy Policy Volume 52 (2013) 737–747. DOI

Coughlin, Katie."Projections of Full-Fuel-Cycle Energy and Emissions Metrics." (2013).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Hongyou Lu, and Jing Ke."Retrospective and Prospective Decomposition Analysis of Chinese Manufacturing Energy Use, 1995-2020." (2013).

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Solar Valuation in Utility Planning Studies." (2013).

Gadgil, Ashok J., Andree Sosler, and Debra Stein."Stove Solutions: Improving Health, Safety, and the Environment in Darfur with Fuel-Efficient Cookstoves."The Solutions Journal 4.1 (2013) 54-64.

Eto, Joseph H, Ian Dobson, Mani Venkatasubramanian, Yuri V. Makarov, and Nancy J. Lewis."Synchrophasors for the Integration of Renewables: PIER Program Final Project Report."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2013).

O'Donnell, James, Tobias Maile, Cody Rose, Natasa Mrazovic, Elmer Morrissey, Cynthia Regnier, Kristen Parrish, and Vladimir Bazjanac."Transforming BIM to BEM: Generation of Building Geometry for the NASA Ames Sustainability Base BIM." (2013).

Pelken, Michael, Jianshun (Jensen) Zhang, Yixing Chen, Daniel J. Rice, Zhaozhou Meng, Shewangizaw Semahegn, Lixing Gu, Hugh Henderson, Wei Feng, and Francesca Ling.""Virtual Design Studio”—Part 1: Interdisciplinary design processes."Building Simulation 6.3 (2013) 235 - 251. DOI

Zhang, Jianshun (Jensen), Michael Pelken, Yixing Chen, Daniel J. Rice, Zhaozhou Meng, Shewangizaw Semahegn, Lixing Gu, Hugh Henderson, Wei Feng, and Francesca Ling."“Virtual Design Studio”—Part 2: Introduction to overall and software framework."Building Simulation 6.3 (2013) 253 - 268. DOI

Vine, Edward L., William Saxonis, Jane S. Peters, Bobbi Tannenbaum, and Bob Wirtshafter."Training the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency Evaluators."Energy Efficiency 6.2 (2013) 293-303. DOI

Zuo, Wangda, Andrew McNeil, Michael Wetter, and Eleanor S. Lee."Acceleration of the matrix multiplication of Radiance three phase daylighting simulations with parallel computing on heterogeneous hardware of personal computer."Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2013). DOI

Gengnagel, Tim, Phillipp Wollburg, and Evan Mills."Alternatives to Fuel-based Lighting for Night Fishing." (2013).

Park, Jung Hoon, Wan-Shick Hong, Joong Sun Park, Lei Cheng, Jordi Cabana, Guoying Chen, Marca M. Doeff, Yuyi Li, Thomas J. Richardson, and Ji-Won Son."Aluminum Migration during Deposition of Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂ Thin Films on Aluminum Oxide Substrates."ECS Transactions 53.36 (2013) 1-4. DOI

McNeil, Andrew, and Eleanor S. Lee."Annual daylighting performance of a passive optical light shelf in sidelit perimeter zones of commercial buildings." (2013).

Miller, Scot M., Steven C. Wofsy, Anna M. Michalak, Eric A. Kort, Arlyn E. Andrews, Sebastien C. Biraud, Edward J. Dlugokencky, Janusz Eluszkiewicz, Marc L. Fischer, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Benjamin R. Miller, John B. Miller, Stephen A. Montzka, Thomas Nehrkorn, and Colm Sweeney."Anthropogenic emissions of methane in the United States."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States (2013). DOI