Energy Technologies Area

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 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)

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2019

Meier, Alan K.."New standby power targets."Energy Efficiency 12.1 (2019) 175 - 186. DOI

Widergren, Steve, Ron Melton, Aditya Khandekar, Bruce Nordman, and Mark Knight."The Plug-and-Play Electricity Era: Interoperability to Integrate Anything, Anywhere, Anytime."IEEE Power and Energy Magazine 17.5 (2019) 47 - 58. DOI

Poskanzer, Deborah, Alan K. Meier, Margarita Kloss, and Chinmayee Subban."Dressing for the Anthropocene*: A Future History." (2019).

Meier, Alan K., Richard E. Brown, Daniel L. Gerber, Aditya Khandekar, Margarita Kloss, Hidemitsu Koyanagi, Richard Liou, Leo I. Rainer, and Seth Sanders."Efficient and Zero Net Energy-Ready Plug Loads." (2019).

Nordman, Bruce, Margarita Kloss, Bijit Kundu, Nate Dewart, Anand Prakash, Laura Wong, Alanna Torres, Rachel Levine, Marco Pritoni, Jordan Shackelford, Heidi Werner, Rahul Athalye, Aditya Khandekar, Callie Clark, Chris Uraine, and Rebecca Aviles."Energy Reporting: Device Demonstration, Communication Protocols, and Codes and Standards." (2019).

de Bakker, Christel, Marielle Aarts, Helianthe Kort, Alan K. Meier, and Alexander Rosemann."Local lighting control in open-plan offices: the influence of office lay-out."20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) (2019).

Meier, Alan K., Leo I. Rainer, Abigail A. Daken, Tsuyoshi Ueno, Marco Pritoni, and Dan Baldewicz."What can connected thermostats tell us about American heating and cooling habits?."ECEEE 2019 SUMMER STUDY (2019).

2018

Pritoni, Marco, Chris Weyandt, Diedre Carter, and John Elliott."Towards a Scalable Model for Smart Buildings."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Meier, Alan K.."Climate Change, Garage Door Openers, and Home Energy." (2018).

Vossos, Vagelis, Daniel L. Gerber, Youness Bennani Smires, Richard E. Brown, and Chris Marnay."Techno-economic analysis of DC power distribution in commercial buildings."Applied Energy 230 (2018) 663 - 678. DOI

Gerber, Daniel L., Alan K. Meier, Robert Hosbach, and Richard Liou."Zero Standby Solutions with Optical Energy Harvesting from a Laser Pointer."Electronics 7.11 (2018). DOI

Meier, Alan K., Leo Rainer, and Aditya Khandekar."Parts of the House That Stay On . . . and On. Builder-Installed Electrical Loads."Home Energy Magazine (2018).

Gerke, Brian F., Jennifer Potter, Peter Schwartz, Alastair Robinson, David Jagger, Jasmine Shepard, Teddy Kisch, and Adel Suleiman."Driving Adoption of Demand-Responsive Commercial Lighting with a Clarified Value Proposition: Site Level Energy Savings and Cost-Benefit Analysis."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Assessment of NHTSA’s Report “Relationships Between Fatality Risk, Mass, and Footprint in Model Year 2004-2011 Passenger Cars and LTVs” (LBNL Phase 1)." (2018).

Wenzel, Thomas P., and K. Sydny Fujita."Elasticity of Vehicle Miles of Travel to Changes in the Price of Gasoline and the Cost of Driving in Texas." (2018).

Victor, David G., Ahmed Abdulla, David Auston, Wendell Brase, Jack Brouwer, Karl A. Brown, Steven J. Davis, Carrie V. Kappel, Alan K. Meier, Mark Modera, Rebecca Zarin Pass, David Phillips, Jordan Sager, and David Weil."Turning Paris into reality at the University of California."Nature Climate Change 8 (2018). DOI

Pritoni, Marco, Rebecca Ford, Beth Karlin, and Angela Sanguinetti."Home energy management (HEM) database: A list with coded attributes of 308 devices commercially available in the US."Data in Brief 16 (2018) 71 - 74. DOI

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."Consumer Behavior and the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Purchase Decision Process: A Research Synthesis." (2018).

Gerber, Daniel L., Vagelis Vossos, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, Bruce Nordman, and Richard E. Brown."A simulation-based efficiency comparison of AC and DC power distribution networks in commercial buildings."Applied Energy 210 (2018) 1167-1187. DOI

Rainer, Leo I., Aditya Khandekar, and Alan K. Meier."Builder Installed Electrical Loads: The Energy Mortgage on a New House."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Panagopoulos, Athanasios Aris, Michail Katsigiannis, Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro, Daniel Lengyel, Therese Peffer, Georgios Chalkiadakis, and David Culler."Dealing with Expected Thermal Discomfort."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Gerber, Daniel L., Alan K. Meier, Robert Hosbach, and Richard Liou."Emerging Solutions to the Standby Power Problem."ACEEE 2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Fares, Robert, Marina Sofos, Jared Langevin, Robert Hosbach, Alan K. Meier, Joshua Butzbaugh, and Paul Ehrlich."Improving Characterization of Miscellaneous Energy Loads in Energy Demand Models."2018 ACEEE Summer Study (2018).

Yang, Bin, Xiaogang Cheng, Thomas Olofsson, Haibo Li, and Alan K. Meier."Macro pose-based non-invasive thermal comfort perception for energy efficiency." (2018).