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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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2009

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).

2008

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."Safer Vehicles for People and the Planet: Response to a Letter to the Editor of American Scientist." (2008).

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

2007

Gordon, Deborah, David L Greene, Marc Ross, and Thomas P Wenzel."Sipping Fuel and Saving Lives: Increasing Fuel Economy Without Sacrificing Safety." (2007).

2006

Wenzel, Thomas P."Increasing the Fuel Economy and Safety of New Light-Duty Vehicles." (2006).

2005

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."The effects of vehicle model and driver behavior on risk."Accident Analysis & Prevention 37.3 (2005) 479 - 494. DOI

2004

Gladwell, Malcolm, Thomas P Wenzel, and Marc Ross."Big and Bad - How the S.U.V. ran over automotive safety."The New Yorker (2004) 28 - 33.

2003

Wenzel, Thomas P."Use of remote sensing measurements to evaluate vehicle emission monitoring programs: results from Phoenix, Arizona."Transportation Research Part D 6.2 (2003). DOI

Levin, Myron."Study Questions Safety of SUVS." (2003).

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."Comment on ‘‘Statistical modelling of vehicle emissions from inspection/maintenance testing data: an explanatory analysis’’."Transportation Research Part D 8.1 (2003) 69-71. DOI

2002

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."Are SUVS Really Safer Than Cars?."Access Magazine (2002).

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."An Analysis of Traffic Deaths by Vehicle Type and Model." (2002).

2001

Wenzel, Thomas P."Evaluating the long-term effectiveness of the Phoenix IM240 program."Environmental Science & Policy 4.6 (2001). DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."Losing Weight to Save Lives: A Review of the Role of Automobile Weight and Size in Traffic Fatalities." (2001).

Wenzel, Thomas P."Can More Frequent Testing Improve I/M Program Effectiveness? Analysis ofthe Effect of Annual Testing in the Phoenix IM240 Program." (2001).

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Nancy J Brown."Can More Frequent Testing Improve I/M Program Effectiveness? Analysis of the Effect of Annual Testing in the Phoenix IM240 Program." (2001).

2000

Wenzel, Thomas P."Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Alternative Fast Pass, Fast Fail, and Retest Algorithms in the Phoenix IM147 Program." (2000).

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Robert Sawyer."Analysis of a State Data on In-Use Emissions from Motor Vehicles (EPA Interagency Agreement DW89938103-01-1): Review of Work Completed." (2000).

Wenzel, Thomas P, Brett C Singer, Etan Gumerman, and Robert Sawyer."Evaluation of the Enhanced Smog Check Program: A Report to the California Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee." (2000).

Barth, Matthew, Feng An, Theodore Younglove, George Scora, Carrie Levine, Marc Ross, and Thomas P Wenzel."Development of a Comprehensive Modal Emissions Model." (2000).

1999

Wenzel, Thomas P."Using Program Test Result Data to Evaluate the Phoenix I/M Program." (1999).

1998

Ross, Marc, Rob Goodwin, Rick Watkins, Thomas P Wenzel, and Michael Q Wang."Real-World Emissions from Conventional Passenger Cars."Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 48.6 (1998) 502 - 515. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P."Review of Sierra Research Report “Development of a Proposed Procedure for Determining the Equivalency of Alternative Inspection and Maintenance Programs”." (1998).

Ross, Marc, Rob Goodwin, Rick Watkins, Thomas P Wenzel, and Michael Q Wang."Real-World Emissions from Conventional Passenger Cars."Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 48.6 (1998) 502 - 515. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."SAE Technical Paper Series Characterization of Recent-Model High-Emitting Automobiles."International Fuels & Lubricants Meeting & ExpositionSAE Technical Paper Series 1 (1998). DOI