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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2014

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Greg Leventis, Amol A. Phadke, and Anand R. Gopal."Design of incentive programs for accelerating penetration of energy-efficient appliances."Energy Policy 72 (2014) 56-66. DOI

Xia, Jianjun, Tianzhen Hong, Qi Shen, Wei Feng, Le Yang, Piljae Im, Alison Lu, and Mahabir Bhandari."Comparison of Building Energy Use Data Between the United States and China."Energy and Buildings 78 (2014) 165-175. DOI

Zhou, Nan, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, Lixuan Hong, David Fridley, Jon Creyts, Ellen M. Franconi, Roy Torbert, and Yi Ke."Cost-effective Options for Transforming China's Buildings Sector."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Hong, Tianzhen, Le Yang, David Hill, and Wei Feng."Data and Analytics to Inform Energy Retrofit of High Performance Buildings."Applied Energy 126 (2014) 90-106. DOI

Price, Lynn K., Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Lixuan Hong, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Jing Ke, Stephanie Ohshita, Hu Min, Yong Zhou, Stephen Hammer, and Hu Xulian."Energy-Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policy Options: Assisting Chinese Cities in Prioritizing and Choosing Strategies to Implement to Become a Sustainable Community." American Council for An Energy-Efficient Economy 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

Feng, Wei, Ke Huang, Mark D. Levine, Nan Zhou, and Shicong Zhang."Evaluation of Energy Savings of the New Chinese Commercial Building Energy Standard."The American Council for An Energy-Efficient Economy 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

Khanna, Nina, John Romankiewicz, Nan Zhou, Wei Feng, and Qing Ye."From Platinum to Three Stars: Comparative Analysis of U.S. and China Green Building Rating Programs."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Cabeza, Luisa F., Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Michael A. McNeil, Camila Barreneche, and Susana Serrano."Investigating greenhouse challenge from growing trends of electricity consumption through home appliances in buildings."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 36 (2014) 188-193. DOI

Hong, Lixuan, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Wei Feng, and Nina Khanna."Modeling China's Building Floor-Area Growth and the Implications for Building Materials and Energy Demand."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Khanna, Nina, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, and David Fridley."Quantifying PM2.5 Emissions from China's Building Sector and Co-Benefits of Energy Efficiency."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Shah, Nihar, Won Young Park, Nicholas Bojda, Michael A. McNeil, and Paul Waide."Superefficient Refrigerators: Opportunities and Challenges for Efficiency Improvement Globally."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

He, Gang, Nan Zhou, Lixuan Hong, David Fridley, and Yong Zhou."Is Your City Really Sustainable? A Tale of Jinan City Using Quantitative Low- Carbon Eco-city Tools." 2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Building (2014) 119-130.

Khanna, Nina, David Fridley, and Lixuan Hong."China's Pilot Low-carbon City Initiative: A Comparative Assessment of National Goals and Local Plans."Sustainable Cities and Society 12 (2014) 110–121. DOI

Zhao, Yue, Jing Ke, Chun Chun Ni, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, and Qiqiang Li."A Comparative Study of Energy Consumption and Efficiency of Japanese and Chinese Manufacturing Industry."Energy Policy 70 (2014) 45-56. DOI

Shah, Nihar, Nakul Sathaye, Amol A. Phadke, and Virginie E. Letschert."Efficiency improvement opportunities for ceiling fans."Energy Efficiency 8.1 (2014) 37-50. DOI

Mendes, Gonçalo, Wei Feng, Michael Stadler, Jan Steinbach, Judy Lai, Nan Zhou, Chris Marnay, Yan Ding, Jing Zhao, Zhe Tian, and Neng Zhu."Regional Analysis of Building Distributed Energy Costs and CO₂ Abatement: A U.S.–China comparison."Energy and Buildings 77 (2014) 112-129. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, and Lynn K. Price."Emerging Technologies for an Energy-Efficient, Water- Efficient, and Low- Pollution Textile Industry: A Technical Review."International Conference on Clean Energy (2014).

Phadke, Amol A., Nikit Abhyankar, and Poorvi Rao."Empirical Analysis of the Variability of Wind Generation in India: Implications for Grid Integration." (2014).

Lu, Hongyou, Lynn K. Price, Arvind Thekdi, Sachin Nimbalkar, Matthew DeGroot, and Shi Jun."Energy Assessments under the Top 10,000 Program – A Case Study for A Steel Mill in China."2014 ECEEE Industrial Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

Morrow, William R. III, 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).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Hongyou Lu, Lynn K. Price, and Yue Dai."Including the Co-benefits of Energy-Efficiency Programs and Projects in Cost-Benefit Analysis - A Case Study for the Cement Industry."International Conference on Clean Energy (2014).

Morrow, William R. III, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Andrew Sturges, Samveg Saxena, Anand R. Gopal, Dev Millstein, Nihar Shah, and Elisabeth A. Gilmore."Key Factors Influencing Autonomous Vehicles’ Energy and Environmental Outcome."Road Vehicle Automation (2014) 127-135. DOI

Li, Cheng, and Tianzhen Hong."Revisit of Energy Use and Technologies of High Performance Buildings."2014 ASHRAE Annual Conference (2014).

Xu, Tengfang T., Nihan Karali, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Undertaking high impact strategies: The role of national efficiency measures in long-term energy and emission reduction in steel making."Applied Energy 122 (2014) 179-188. DOI

Karali, Nihan, Tengfang T. Xu, and Jayant A. Sathaye."U.S Iron and Steel Sector and Potential Trading With China and India: Analysis with ISEEM Energy Model."37th IAEE International Conference Proceedings, International Association for Energy Economics (2014).