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)

2009

Akbari, Hashem, and Arthur H. Rosenfeld."Cool roofs could save money, save planet."KGO-TV (abc7news) (2009).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Judy Lai, Brian E. Coffey, and Hirohisa Aki."Effect of Heat and Electricity Storage and Reliability on Microgrid Viability: A Study of Commercial Buildings in California and New York States." (2009) 106.

Cappers, Peter, Charles A. Goldman, Michele Chait, George Edgar, Jeff Schlegel, and Wayne Shirley."Financial Analysis of Incentive Mechanisms to Promote Energy Efficiency: Case Study of a Prototypical Southwest Utility." (2009) 83.

Budhraja, Vikram S., Fred Mobasheri, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Alison Silverstein, and Joseph H Eto."Improving Electricity Resource-Planning Processes by Considering the Strategic Benefits of Transmission."The Electricity Journal 22.2 (2009). DOI

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Michael A. McNeil, and Jayant A. Sathaye."India Energy Outlook: End Use Demand in India to 2020." (2009).

Hellweg, Stefanie, Evangelia Demou, Raffaella Bruzzi, Arjen Meijer, Ralph K. Rosenbaum, Mark Huijbregts, and Thomas E. McKone."Integrating Human Indoor Air Pollutant Exposure within Life Cycle Impact Assessment."Environmental Science and Technology 43.6 (2009) 1670-1679. DOI

Ban-Weiss, George A., Melissa M. Lunden, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Robert A. Harley."Measurement of Black Carbon and Particle Number Emission Factors from Individual Heavy-Duty Trucks."Environmental Science and Technology 43.5 (2009) 1419-1424. DOI

Marnay, Chris."Microgrids: Providing Energy Services Locally." (2009).

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H. Wiser, Karlynn Cory, and Ted James."PTC, ITC, or Cash Grant? An Analysis of the Choice Facing Renewable Power Projects in the United States." (2009) 21.

Rubinstein, Francis M., Girish Ghatikar, Jessica Granderson, David S. Watson, Paul Haugen, and Carlos Romero."Barrier Immune Radio Communications for Demand Response." (2009).

Eto, Joseph H, Robert H. Lasseter, Ben Schenkman, John Stevens, Harry T. Volkommer, David Klapp, Ed Linton, Hector Hurtado, Jean Roy, and Nancy J. Lewis."CERTS Microgrid Laboratory Test Bed (California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program Final Report."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009).

Mills, Andrew D., Ryan H. Wiser, and Kevin Porter."The Cost of Transmission for Wind Energy: A Review of Transmission Planning Studies." (2009) 66.

Piscitelli, Vincent, Mauro A. Martinez, Alberto J Fernández, Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Double pulse laser induced breakdown spectroscopy; experimental study of lead emission intensity dependence on the wavelengths and sample matrix."Spectrochimica Acta Part B 64.2 (2009) 147-154. DOI

Price, Phillip N., Michael D. Sohn, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Jennifer A. McWilliams."Framework for Evaluating Anthrax Risk in Buildings."Environmental Science & Technology 43.6 (2009) 1783 - 1787. DOI

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Thomas P. Wenzel, and Lynn K. Price."Improving the Carbon Dioxide Emission Estimates from the Combustion of Fossil Fuels in California." (2009).

Worrell, Ernst, Lenny Bernstein, Joyashree Roy, Lynn K. Price, Jochen Harnisch, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."Industrial Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation." (2009).

Baudelet, Matthieu, Myriam Boueri, Jin Yu, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Laser Ablation of Organic Materials for discrimination of bacteria in an organic background."Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials XIII 7214 (2009) 72140J. DOI

Sarangi, R. K., Anandaroop Bhattacharya, and Ravi S. Prasher."Numerical modelling of boiling heat transfer in microchannels."Appl. Therm. Eng. 29 (2009) 300–309. DOI

Brostoff, Lynn B., Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Paul Jett, and Richard E. Russo."Trace element fingerprinting of ancient Chinese gold with femtosecond laser ablation-inductivity coupled mass spectrometry."Journal of Archeological Science 36.2 (2009) 461-466. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Galen L. Barbose, and Carla Peterman."Tracking the Sun: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2007." (2009) 42.

Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, ."CERTS Microgrid Phase Two Results." (2009) 31.

Hong, Tianzhen."A close look at the China design standard for energy efficiency of public buildings."Energy and Buildings 41.4 (2009) 426-435. DOI

Liu, Xiaobing, and Tianzhen Hong."Comparison of energy efficiency between variable refrigerant flow systems and ground source heat pump systems."Energy and Buildings 42.5 (2009) 584-589. DOI

Lai, W. Y., S. Vinod, Patrick E. Phelan, and Ravi S. Prasher."Convective Heat Transfer for Water-Based Alumina Nanofluids in a Single 1.02-mm Tube."Journal of Heat Transfer 131.11 (2009) 112401. DOI

Wang, Liping, and Nyuk Hien Wong."Coupled simulations for naturally ventilated rooms between building simulation (BS) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for better prediction of indoor thermal environment."Building and Environment 44.1 (2009) 95-112.