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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2015

McKane, Aimee T., Paul Sheihing, Tracy Evans, Sandy Glatt, and William Meffert."The Business Value of Superior Energy Performance."2015 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).

Pritoni, Marco, Alan K. Meier, Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry, and Therese Peffer."Energy efficiency and the misuse of programmable thermostats: The effectiveness of crowdsourcing for understanding household behavior."Energy Research & Social Science 8 (2015). DOI

Weber, Adam Z., Girish Ghatikar, Dale A. Sartor, and Steven Lanzisera."Design and Development of an Integrated Workstation Automation Hub." (2015).

2014

Meier, Alan K., and Hans-Paul Siderius."Assembling Appliances Standards from a Basket of Functions."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Steve E. Greenberg, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Richard E. Brown, and William Tscudi."Energy Efficiency in Small Server Rooms: FIeld Surveys and Findings."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Meier, Alan K.."From Energy Audits to Home Performance: 30 Years of Articles in Home Energy Magazine."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Liao, Anna, Steven Lanzisera, James D. Lutz, Christian Fitting, Margarita Kloss, and Christopher Stiles."Performance Monitoring of Residential Hot Water Distribution Systems."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Kloss, Margarita, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Richard E. Brown, and Alan K. Meier."Using Public Participation to Improve MELs Energy Data Collection."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Weber, Adam Z., Steven Lanzisera, Anna Liao, and Alan K. Meier."We Need to Talk… Developing Communicating Power Supplies to Monitor & Control Miscellaneous Electric Loads."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Custodio, Claudine Y., Travis Walter, Laurel N. Dunn, Andrea C. Mercado, Richard E. Brown, and Paul A. Mathew."Data Preparation Process for the Buildings Performance Database." (2014).

Meier, Alan K., and Sarah J. Olexsak."The electricity impacts of Earth Hour: An international comparative analysis of energy-saving behavior."Energy Research & Social Science 2 (2014). DOI

Lanzisera, Steven, Andrew R. Weber, Anna Liao, Dominic Pajak, and Alan K. Meier."Communicating Power Supplies: Bringing the Internet to the Ubiquitous Energy Gateways of Electronic Devices."IEEE Internet of Things Journal 1.2 (2014). DOI

2013

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard E. Brown, Phillip N. Price, Janie Page, Jessica Granderson, David Riess, Stephen Czarnecki, Girish Ghatikar, and Steven Lanzisera."Automated Measurement and Signaling Systems for the Transactional Network." (2013).

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Margarita Kloss, Richard E. Brown, and Alan K. Meier."Using Public Participation to Improve MELs Energy Data Collection." (2013).

Lanzisera, Steven, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Jay Taneja, David Culler, and Richard E. Brown."Methods for detailed energy data collection of miscellaneous and electronic loads in a commercial office building."Building and Environment 65 (2013) 170 - 177. DOI

Lanzisera, Steven, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Jay Taneja, David Culler, and Richard E. Brown."Methods for Detailed Energy Data Collection of Miscellaneous and Electronic Loads in a Commercial Office Building." (2013).

Nordman, Bruce, Steven Lanzisera, and Richard E. Brown."Energy Efficient Digital Networks." (2013).

Bremson, Joel, Alan K. Meier, C.-Y. Cynthia Lin, and Joan Ogden."New Approach to Modeling Large-Scale Transitions to Alternative Fuels and Vehicles."Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2385.1 (2013) 61 - 69. DOI

Barriga, Claudia A., Nicole Biggart, Ben Finkelor, Natsuko Enomoto, Alan K. Meier, Dina Biscotti, and Toshihide Tanaka."Resident engagement strategies in low and zero net energy communities."ECEEE 2013 SUMMER STUDY (2013).

2012

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Steven Lanzisera, Judy Lai, Richard E. Brown, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Jay Taneja, and David Culler."Detailed Energy Data Collection for Miscellaneous and Electronic Loads in a Commercial Office Building."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Peffer, Therese, Daniel Perry, Marco Pritoni, Cecilia Aragon, and Alan K. Meier."Facilitating energy savings with programmable thermostats: evaluation and guidelines for the thermostat user interface."Ergonomics 56.Issue 3: Ergonomics and Sustainability (2012). DOI

Nordman, Bruce, Ken Christensen, and Alan K. Meier."Think Globally, Distribute Power Locally: The Promise of Nanogrids."Computer 45.9 (2012). DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P.."An Analysis of the Relationship between Casualty Risk Per Crash and Vehicle Mass and Footprint for Model Year 2000-2007 Light-Duty Vehicles - Final Report." (2012).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Assessment of NHTSA’s Report “Relationships Between Fatality Risk, Mass, and Footprint in Model Year 2000-2007 Passenger Cars and LTVs” - Final Report." (2012).

Brown, Richard E., Louis-Benoit Desroches, Karina Garbesi, and Alan K. Meier."Achieving Extreme Efficiency: How to get the job done when energy is extremely expensive and scarce."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).