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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.
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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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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.

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2015

Morrow III, William R, Arman Shehabi, and Sarah Josephine Smith."Manufacturing Cost Levelization Model – A User’s Guide." (2015).

Qi, Wei, Roger Sathre, William R Morrow III, and Arman Shehabi."Unit price scaling trends for chemical products." (2015).

2014

Morrow III, William R, Anand R Gopal, Gary A Fitts, Sarah M Lewis, Larry L Dale, and Eric R Masanet."Feedstock loss from drought is a major economic risk for biofuel producers."Biomass and Bioenergy 69 (2014) 135 - 143. DOI

Morrow III, William R, John Marano, Jayant A Sathaye, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Tengfang T Xu."Energy Efficiency Improvements Potential in the U.S. Petroleum Refining Industry."2014 ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2014).

Sathre, Roger, Corinne D Scown, William R Morrow III, John C Stevens, Ian D Sharp, Joel W Ager, Karl Walczak, Frances A Houle, and Jeffery B Greenblatt."Life-cycle net energy assessment of large-scale hydrogen production via photoelectrochemical water splitting."Energy Environ. Sci. 7.10 (2014) 3264 - 3278. DOI

Shehabi, Arman, Benjamin Walker, and Eric R Masanet."Energy and Greenhouse Implications of Internet Video Streaming in the United States."Environmental Research Letters 9.5 (2014). DOI

Morrow III, William R, Ali Hasanbeigi, Jayant A Sathaye, and Tengfang T Xu."Assessment of energy efficiency improvement and CO₂ emission reduction potentials in India's cement and iron and steel industries."Journal of Cleaner Production 65 (2014) 131 - 141. DOI

Lewis, Sarah M, Stephen Gross, Axel Visel, Maggi Kelly, and William R Morrow III."Fuzzy GIS-based multi-criteria evaluation for U.S. Agave production as a bioenergy feedstock."Global Change Biology – Bioenergy (2014). DOI

2013

Morrow III, William R, John Marano, Jayant A Sathaye, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Tengfang T Xu."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement in the United States Petroleum Refining Industry." (2013).

Masanet, Eric R, Arman Shehabi, and Jonathan G Koomey."Characteristics of low-carbon data centres."Nature Climate Change 3 (2013) 627-630. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, William R Morrow III, Jayant A Sathaye, Eric R Masanet, and Tengfang T Xu."A bottom-up model to estimate the energy efficiency improvement and CO₂ emission reduction potentials in the Chinese iron and steel industry."Energy 50 (2013) 315-325. DOI

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, William R Morrow III, Lynn K Price, and Nina Khanna."China Energy and Emissions Path to 2030." (2013).

2012

Morrow III, William R, Tengfang T Xu, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Jayant A Sathaye."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement and CO₂ Emission Reduction Potentials in India's Cement Industry." (2012).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, William R Morrow III, Lynn K Price, and Nina Khanna."China Energy and Emissions Paths to 2030 (2nd Edition)." (2012).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, William R Morrow III, Eric R Masanet, Jayant A Sathaye, and Tengfang T Xu."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement and CO₂ Emission Reduction Potentials in the Cement Industry in China." (2012).

Shehabi, Arman, William R Morrow III, and Eric R Masanet."United States Industrial Sector Energy End Use Analysis." (2012).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, William R Morrow III, Jayant A Sathaye, Eric R Masanet, and Tengfang T Xu."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement and CO₂ Emission Reduction Potentials in the Iron and Steel Industry in China." (2012).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B, Max Wei, and James E McMahon."California's Energy Future: Buildings and Industrial Efficiency, California Council on Science and Technology." (2012).

Morrow III, William R, Anand R Gopal, Gary A Fitts, Sarah M Lewis, Larry L Dale, Eric R Masanet, and Thomas E McKone."Drought-tolerant Biofuel Crops could be a Critical Hedge for Biorefineries." (2012).

2011

Masanet, Eric R, Richard E Brown, Arman Shehabi, Jonathan G Koomey, and Bruce Nordman."Estimating the Energy Use and Efficiency Potential of U.S. Data Centers." (2011).

2010

Shehabi, Arman, Eric R Masanet, Hillary Price, Arpad Horvath, and William W Nazaroff."Data center design and location: Consequences for electricity use and greenhouse-gas emissions."Building and Environment 46.5 (2010) 990–998. DOI

Shehabi, Arman, Srirupa Ganguly, Lara A Gundel, Arpad Horvath, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Melissa M Lunden, William F Tschudi, Ashok J Gadgil, and William W Nazaroff."Can combining economizers with improved filtration save energy and protect equipment in data centers?."Building and Environment 45.3 (2010) 718-726. DOI

2009

Shehabi, Arman, William W Nazaroff, Arpad Horvath, Ashok J Gadgil, and Edward A Arens."Energy Demands and Efficiency Strategies in Data Center Buildings."Civil and Environmental Engineering (2009) 275.

Shehabi, Arman, Joe Prisco, Joe Prisco, Rich Hill, Pam Lembke, D Moore, Arman Shehabi, and Prabjit Singh."General Description of Particulate Matter."Particulate and Gaseous Contamination in Datacom Environments (2009).

2008

Shehabi, Arman, Arpad Horvath, William F Tschudi, Ashok J Gadgil, and William W Nazaroff."Particle Concentrations in Data Centers."Atmospheric Environment 42.24 (2008) 5978 - 5990. DOI