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)

2008

Levinson, Ronnen M., Hashem Akbari, Melvin Pomerantz, and Smita Gupta."Estimating the solar access of typical residential rooftops: A case study in San Jose, CA."Solar 2008 (2008).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, and Nina Khanna."Estimating Total Energy Consumption and Emissions of China’s Commercial and Office Buildings." (2008).

Wray, Craig P., Max H. Sherman, Iain S. Walker, Darryl J. Dickerhoff, and Clifford C. Federspiel."Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning: Recent Advances in Diagnostics and Controls to Improve Air-Handling System Performance."American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings 1044 (2008) 149-162.

Hauschild, Michael Z., Till M. Bachman, Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Annette Kohler, Henrik F. Larsen, Manuele D. Margni, Thomas E. McKone, Matthew Macleod, Dik van de Meent, Marta Schuhmacher, and Ralph K. Rosenbaum."International consensus model for comparative assessment of chemical emissions in LCA."International Academy for Production Engineering 15th International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, March 17-19, 2008 (2008) 291-296.

Price, Lynn K., Christina Galitsky, Klaas Jan Kramer, and Aimee T. McKane."International Experience with Key Program Elements of Industrial Energy Efficiency or Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Target-Setting Programs." (2008).

Barbose, Galen L., Ryan H. Wiser, Amol A. Phadke, and Charles A. Goldman."Reading the Tea Leaves: How Utilities in the West Are Managing Carbon Regulatory Risk in their Resource Plans." (2008) 80.

Meyers, Stephen, James E. McMahon, and Barbara A. Atkinson."Realized and Projected Impacts of U.S. Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential and Commercial Appliances." (2008) 29.

Force, NERC Real-Time Tools Best Practices Task, and Joseph H Eto."Real-Time Tools Survey Analysis and Recommendations, Final Report." (2008).

Wenzel, Thomas P., and Marc Ross."Safer Vehicles for People and the Planet." (2008).

Zhou, Nan."Status of China’s Energy Efficiency Standards and Labels for Appliances and International Collaboration." (2008).

Lin, Jiang, and Gregory J. Rosenquist."Stay cool with less work: China's new energy-efficiency standards for air conditioners."Energy Policy 36.3 (2008) 1090 - 1095. DOI

Price, Lynn K.."Technologies and Policies to Improve Energy Efficiency in Industry." (2008).

McNeil, Michael A., Camilla Dunham, Virginie E. Letschert, and Mirka della Cava."WaterSense Program: Methodology for National Water Savings Analysis Model Indoor Residential Water Use." (2008).

Dale, Larry L., and K. Sydny Fujita."An Analysis of the Price Elasticity of Demand for Household Appliances." (2008) 19.

Gonzalez, Jhanis J., Dayana D. Oropeza, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Assessment of the precision and accuracy of thorium (²³²Th) and uranium (²³⁸U) measured by quadrupole based-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry: comparison of liquid nebulization, nanosecond and femtosecond laser ablation."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 23.2 (2008) 229-234. DOI

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Nathaniel T. Aden, Jiang Lin, Jianhong Cheng, Tomoyuki Sakamoto, and Nina Khanna."China Refrigerator Information Label: Specification Development and Potential Impact." (2008).

Coleman, Beverly K., Hugo Destaillats, Alfred T. Hodgson, and William W. Nazaroff."Ozone consumption and byproduct formation from surface reaction with common materials in aircraft passenger cabins."Atmospheric Environment 42.4 (2008) 642-654. DOI

Wikler, Greg, Ingrid Bran, Joe Prijyanonda, Sharon Yoshida, Kelly Smith, Mary Ann Piette, Sila Kiliccote, Girish Ghatikar, Dan Hennage, and Chuck Thomas."Pacific Gas & Electric Company 2007 Auto-DR Program: Task 13 Deliverable: Auto-DR Assessment Study." (2008).

Bolinger, Mark."Property Tax Assessments as a Finance Vehicle for Residential PV Installations: Opportunitites and Potential Limitations." (2008) 10.

Bolinger, Mark."Property Tax Assessments as a Finance Vehicle for Residential PV Installations: Opportunities and Potential Limitations."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2008) 10.

Puckett, Curt D., Timothy P. Hennessy, Grayson C. Heffner, and Charles A. Goldman."Regional Approaches to Measurement and Verification of Load Management Programs."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 23.1 (2008) 204 - 212. DOI

Marnay, Chris, and Nan Zhou."Status of Overseas Microgrid Programs: Microgrid Research Activities in the U.S. (English version)." (2008) 8.

Worrell, Ernst, Lynn K. Price, Maarten Neelis, Christina Galitsky, and Nan Zhou."World Best Practice Energy Intensity Values for Selected Industrial Sectors." (2008).

Bengtson, , Amelia, Kristin A. Persson, and Dane Morgan."Ab initio study of the composition dependence of the pressure-induced spin crossover in perovskite (Mg_1-x,Fe_x)SiO₃."Earth and Planetary Science Letters 265 (2008) 535-545.

Sherman, Max H.."Air Leakage of US Homes." 3 (2008) 333-340.