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)

2011

Zhou, Nan, Michael A. McNeil, and Mark D. Levine."Assessment of Building Energy-Saving Policies and Programs in China During the 11th Five Year Plan." (2011).

Zimring, Mark."Austin’s Home Performance with Energy Star Program: Making a Compelling Offer to a Financial Institution Partner."Clean Energy Program Policy Brief (2011) 4.

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Charles A. Goldman."Carrots and Sticks: A Comprehensive Business Model for the Successful Achievement of Energy Efficiency Resource Standards."ECEEE Summer Study, Giens, France, June 6-11, 2011 (2011) 24.

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Robin Mitchell, Maurya McClintock, Daniel McQuillen, Andrew McNeil, and Mehry Yazdanian."COMFEN 3.0: Evolution of an Early Design Tool for Commercial Façades and Fenestration Systems."Building Enclosure Sustainability Symposium (BESS), April 29-30, 2011 (2011).

Xu, Tengfang T., Jan Willem Slaa, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Developing Information on Energy Savings and Associated Costs and Benefits of Energy Efficient Emerging Technologies Applicable in California." (2011).

Cheung, Hoi Ying (Iris), Alan K. Meier, and Richard E. Brown."Energy savings assessment for digital-to-analog converter boxes."Energy Policy 39.3 (2011) 1312-1317. DOI

Mills, Andrew D., Amol A. Phadke, and Ryan H. Wiser."Exploration of resource and transmission expansion decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone initiative."Energy Policy 39.3 (2011) 1732 - 1745. DOI

Ji, Liwen, Zhongkui Tan, Tevye R. Kuykendall, Shaul Aloni, Shidi Xun, Eric Lin, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Yuegang Zhang."Fe₃O₄ nanoparticle-integrated graphene sheets for high-performance half and full lithium ion cells."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 13.15 (2011) 7170-7177. DOI

McKone, Thomas E., William W. Nazaroff, Peter Berck, Maximilian Auffhammer, Timothy E. Lipman, Margaret S. Torn, Eric R. Masanet, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Nicholas J Santero, Umakant Mishra, Audrey Barrett, Matt Bomberg, Kevin Fingerman, Corinne D. Scown, Bret Strogen, and Arpad Horvath."Grand Challenges for Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 45.5 (2011) 1751 - 1756. DOI

Goldman, Charles A., Elizabeth Stuart, Ian M. Hoffman, Merrian C. Fuller, Megan A. Billingsley, and Merrian Borgeson."Interactions between Energy Efficiency Programs funded under the Recovery Act and Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2011) 73.

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Yining Qin, and Nina Khanna."Inventory of China’s Energy-Related CO₂ Emissions in 2008." (2011).

Meier, Alan K., Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry, Therese Peffer, Marco Pritoni, and Jessica Granderson."Measuring the Usability of Appliance Controls."Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting Conference (2011).

Taylor, Robert A., Patrick E. Phelan, Ronald J. Adrian, Ravi S. Prasher, and Todd P. Otanicar."Nanofluid Extinction Coefficients for Photothermal Energy Conversion."ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference (2011) T30073–T30073–9. DOI

Taylor, Robert A., Patrick E. Phelan, Todd P. Otanicar, Ronald J. Adrian, and Ravi S. Prasher."Nanofluid optical property characterization: towards efficient direct absorption solar collectors."Nanoscale Res. Lett. 6 (2011) 225. DOI

Liu, Jun, Thomas E. Conry, Xiangyun Song, Marca M. Doeff, and Thomas J. Richardson."Nanoporous spherical LiFePO₄ for high performance cathodes."Energy & Environmental Science 4 (2011) 885-888. DOI

Park, Byoung-Chul, An-Seop Choi, Jae-Weon Jeong, and Eleanor S. Lee."Performance of Integrated Systems of Automated Roller Shade Systems and Daylight Responsive Dimming Systems."Building and Environment 46.3 (2011) 747-757. DOI

Funding, Renewable, Clinton Climate Initiative, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing: Update on Commercial Programs." (2011) 16.

Zimring, Mark, Elizabeth Bellis, Anne Klein, Larry Hoyt, Keith Reller, and Jason Tomlinson."Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds (QECBs): Updates from the Field." (2011).

Hopkins, Asa S., Alexander B. Lekov, James D. Lutz, Gregory J. Rosenquist, and Energy Analysis Department."Simulating a Nationally Representative Housing Sample Using EnergyPlus." (2011) 55.

Kim, Jae C., Charles J. Moore, Byoungwoo Kang, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and Gerbrand Ceder."Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties of Monoclinic LiMnBO₃ as a Li Intercalation Material."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 158.3 (2011) A309-A309. DOI

Ohshita, Stephanie, Lynn K. Price, and Tian Zhiyu."Target Allocation Methodology for China’s Provinces: Energy Intensity in the 12th Five-Year Plan." (2011).

Bauman, Fred S., Thomas L. Webster, David Lehrer, Edward A. Arens, Hui Zhang, John Goins, Darryl J. Dickerhoff, Stefano Schiavon, Sabine Hoffmann, Tiefeng Yu, David Fannon, Mark Perepelitza, and Krystyna Zelenay."Advanced Integrated Systems Tools Development and Performance Testing."Final report to California Energy Commission (CEC) Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2011).

Mills, Evan."Building Commissioning: A Golden Opportunity for Reducing Energy Costs and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States.."Energy Efficiency (2011). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, and Girish Ghatikar."Building Energy Information Systems: User Case Studies."Energy Efficiency 4.1 (2011) 17-30. DOI

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Jonathan Donadee, Judy Lai, Olivier Mégel, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Distributed Energy Resource Optimization Using a Software as Service (SaaS) Approach at the University of California, Davis Campus." (2011) 51.