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

Morrow, William R. III, 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

Brandt, Adam R., Garvin A. Heath, Eric A. Kort, Francis O'Sullivan, Gabrielle Pétron, Sarah M. Jordaan, Pieter P. Tans, Jennifer Wilcox, Avi M. Gopstein, Douglas J. Arent, Steven C. Wofsy, Nancy J. Brown, Richard Bradley, Galen D. Stucky, Douglas Eardley, and Robert Harriss."Methane Leaks from North American Natural Gas Systems."Science 343.6172 (2014) 733 - 735. DOI

Sathre, Roger."Comparing the heat of combustion of fossil fuels to the heat accumulated by their lifecycle greenhouse gases."Fuel 115 (2014) 674 - 677. DOI

Herrmann, Ivan T., Michael Z. Hauschild, Michael D. Sohn, and Thomas E. McKone."Confronting Uncertainty in Life Cycle Assessment Used for Decision Support."Journal of Industrial Ecology 18.3 (2014) 366 - 379. DOI

Parker, Simon T., David M. Lorenzetti, and Michael D. Sohn."Implementing state-space methods for multizone contaminant transport."Building and Environment 71 (2014) 131 - 139. DOI

Brown, Richard E., Travis Walter, Laurel N. Dunn, Claudine Y. Custodio, and Paul A. Mathew."Getting Real with Energy Data: Using the Buildings Performance Database to Support Data-Driven Analyses and Decision-Making." (2014).

Jeong, Seongeun, Dev Millstein, and Marc L. Fischer."Spatially Explicit Methane Emissions from Petroleum Production and the Natural Gas System in California."Environmental Science & Technology 48.10 (2014) 5982–5990. DOI

2013

Billesbach, David P., Joseph A. Berry, Ulli Seibt, Kadmiel Maseyk, Margaret S. Torn, Marc L. Fischer, Mohammad Abu-Naser, and John E. Campbell."Growing season eddy covariance measurements of carbonyl sulfide and CO₂ fluxes: COS and CO₂ relationships in Southern Great Plains winter wheat."Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 184 (2013) 48-55. DOI

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).

Ma, Ookie, Nasr Alkadi, Peter Cappers, Paul Denholm, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Marissa Hummon, Sila Kiliccote, Jason S. MacDonald, Nance Matson, Daniel Olsen, Cody Rose, Michael D. Sohn, Michael Starke, Brendan J. Kirby, and Mark O'Malley."Demand Response for Ancillary Services."IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid 4 (2013).

Dallmann, Timothy R., Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Steven J. DeMartini, and Robert A. Harley."Quantifying On-Road Emissions from Gasoline-Powered Motor Vehicles: Accounting for the Presence of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks."Environmental Science & Technology 47.23 (2013) 13873 - 13881. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P.."The estimated effect of mass or footprint reduction in recent light-duty vehicles on U.S. societal fatality risk per vehicle mile traveled."Accident Analysis & Prevention 59 (2013) 267 - 276. DOI

Greenblatt, Jeffery B.."Estimating Policy-Driven Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trajectories in California: The California Greenhouse Gas Inventory Spreadsheet (GHGIS) Model." (2013).

Jeong, Seongeun, Ying-Kuang Hsu, Arlyn E. Andrews, Laura Bianco, Patrick Vaca, James M. Wilczak, and Marc L. Fischer."A multitower measurement network estimate of California's methane emissions."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118.19 (2013) 11,339-11,351. DOI

Wei, Max, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Sally M. Donovan, James H. Nelson, Ana Meliva, Josiah Johnston, and Daniel M. Kammen."Scenarios For Meeting California's 2050 Climate Goals." (2013).

Lorenzetti, David M., W. Stuart Dols, Andrew K. Persily, and Michael D. Sohn."A stiff, variable time step transport solver for CONTAM."Building and Environment 67 (2013) 260 - 264. DOI

Scown, Corinne D., Michael Taptich, Arpad Horvath, Thomas E. McKone, and William W. Nazaroff."Achieving Deep Cuts in the Carbon Intensity of U.S. Automobile Transportation by 2050: Complementary Roles for Electricity and Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 47.16 (2013) 9044 - 9052. DOI

Masanet, Eric R., Yuan Chang, Anand R. Gopal, Peter H. Larsen, William R. Morrow III, Roger Sathre, Arman Shehabi, and Pei Zhai."Life-Cycle Assessment of Electric Power Systems."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 38 (2013) 107-136. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P.."The effect of recent trends in vehicle design on U.S. societal fatality risk per vehicle mile traveled, and their projected future relationship with vehicle mass."Accident Analysis & Prevention 56 (2013) 71 - 81. DOI

Jin, Ling, Aurore Loisy, and Nancy J. Brown."Role of meteorological processes in ozone responses to emission controls in California's San Joaquin Valley."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118.14 (2013) 8010 - 8022. DOI

Ryerson, Thomas B., Arlyn E. Andrews, Wayne M. Angevine, Timothy S. Bates, Charles A. Brock, Brian Cairns, Ronald C. Cohen, Owen R. Cooper, Joost A de Gouw, Fred C. Fehsenfeld, Rich A. Ferrare, Marc L. Fischer, Richard C. Flagan, Allen H. Goldstein, John W. Hair, R. Michael Hardesty, Chris A. Hostetler, Jose L Jimenez, Andrew O. Langford, Eileen McCauley, Stuart A. McKeen, Luisa T. Molina, Athanasios Nenes, Samuel J Oltmans, David D. Parrish, James R. Pederson, R. Bradley Pierce, Kimberly A. Prather, John H. Seinfeld, Christoph J. Senff, Armin Sorooshian, Jochen Stutz, Jason D Surratt, Michael K. Trainer, Rainer Volkamer, Eric J. Williams, and Steven C. Wofsy."The 2010 California Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change (CalNex) field study."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118.11 (2013) 5830-5866. DOI

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