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.

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Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

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2008

Hauschild, Michael Z., Till M. Bachman, Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Annette Kohler, Henrik F. Larsen, Manuele D. Margni, Thomas E. McKone, Matthew Macleod, Dik van de Meent, Marta Schuhmacher, and Ralph K. Rosenbaum."International consensus model for comparative assessment of chemical emissions in LCA."International Academy for Production Engineering 15th International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, March 17-19, 2008 (2008) 291-296.

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

Menon, Surabi, Nadine Unger, Dorothy M. Koch, Jennifer Francis, Tim J. Garrett, Igor Sednev, Drew T. Shindell, and David G. Streets."Aerosol climate effects and air quality impacts from 1980 to 2030."Environmental Research Letters 3.2 (2008). DOI

Menon, Surabi, Anthony Del Genio, Yoram Kaufman, Ralf Bennartz, Dorothy M. Koch, Norman Loeb, and Daniel Orlikowski."Analyzing signatures of aerosol-cloud interactions from satellite retrievals and the GISS GCM to constrain the aerosol indirect effect."Journal of Geophysical Research 113.D14 (2008) 1-15. DOI

Hauschild, Michael Z., Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Matthew Macleod, Manuele D. Margni, Dik van de Meent, Ralph K. Rosenbaum, and Thomas E. McKone."Building a model based on scientific consensus for Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Chemicals: the Search for Harmony and Parsimony."Environmental Science and Technology 42 (2008) 7032-7037.

Price, Phillip N., Thomas E. McKone, and Michael D. Sohn."Carbon Sequestration Risks and Risk Management." (2008).

Chan, Wanyu R., William W. Nazaroff, Phillip N. Price, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Effectiveness of Urban Shelter-in-Place III: Urban Districts."Building Simulation 1 (2008) 144-157.

Shehabi, Arman, Srirupa Ganguly, Kim Traber, Hillary Price, Arpad Horvath, William W. Nazaroff, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Energy Implications of Economizer Use in California Data Centers." (2008).

Destaillats, Hugo, Randy L. Maddalena, Brett C. Singer, Alfred T. Hodgson, and Thomas E. McKone."Indoor pollutants emitted by office equipment: A review of reported data and information needs."Atmospheric Environment 42 (2008) 1371-1388.

Maddalena, Randy L., and Thomas E. McKone."Insecticide Exposures on Commercial Aircraft: A Literature Review and Screening Level Assessment." (2008).

Wiberg, Karin, Annika Aberg, Thomas E. McKone, Mats Tysklind, Annika Hanberg, and Matthew Macleod."Model selection and evaluation for risk assessment of dioxin contaminated sites."Ambio 36 (2008) 458-466.

Hadley, Odelle L., Craig E. Corrigan, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Modified Thermal-Optical Analysis Using Spectral Absorption Selectivity to Distinguish Black Carbon from Pyrolized Organic Carbon."Environmental Science and Technology 42 (2008) 8459-8464.

Redding, Laurel E., Michael D. Sohn, Thomas E. McKone, Shu-Li Wang, Dennis P.H. Hsieh, and Raymond S. H. Yang."Population Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling for the Human Lactational Transfer of PCB 153 with Consideration of Worldwide Human Biomonitoring Results."Environmental Health Perspectives 116.12 (2008) 1629-1634.

Gadgil, Ashok J., Michael D. Sohn, Priya Sreedharan, Carlos Borrego, and Anna Isabel Miranda."Rapid Data Assimilation in the Indoor Environment: theory and examples from real-time interpretation of indoor plumes of airborne chemicals."Air Pollution Modeling and its Applicatiion XIX (2008) 263-277.

Novakov, Tihomir, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Surabi Menon, and Jeffery Aguiar."Response of California temperature to regional anthropogenic aerosol changes."Geophysical Research Letters 35.19 (2008). DOI

Quinn, Patricia K., Timothy S. Bates, Ellen Baum, Nancy Doubleday, Arlene M. Fiore, Mark Flanner, Ann M. Fridlind, Tim J. Garrett, Dorothy M. Koch, Surabi Menon, Drew T. Shindell, Andreas Stohl, and Stephen G. Warren."Short-lived pollutants in the Arctic: their climate impact and possible mitigation strategies."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 8 (2008) 1723-1735. DOI

Sednev, Igor, Surabi Menon, and Greg M. McFarquhar."Simulating mixed-phase Arctic stratus clouds: Sensitivity to ice initiation mechanisms."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 9 (2008) 4747–4773.

Lewicki, Jennifer L., Marc L. Fischer, and George E. Hilley."Six-week time series of eddy covariance CO₂ flux at Mammoth Mountain, California: Performance evaluation and role of meteorological forcing." Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 171.3 (2008) 178-190.

2007

Lunden, Melissa M., Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Tracy L. Thatcher, Susanne V. Hering, and Nancy J. Brown."Factors affecting the indoor concentrations of carbonaceous aerosols of outdoor origin."Atmospheric Environment 42.22 (2007) 5660-5671. DOI

Kirchstetter, Thomas W., Jeffery Aguiar, Shaheen R. Tonse, Tihomir Novakov, and David Fairly."Black Carbon Concentrations and Diesel Vehicle Emission Factors Derived from Coefficient of Haze Measurements in California: 1967-2003."Atmospheric Environment 42.3 (2007) 480-491. DOI

Hansen, James E., Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, Pushker A. Kharecha, Andrew A. Lacis, Ronald L. Miller, Larissa Nazarenko, Kwok-Wai Ken Lo, Gavin A. Schmidt, Gary L. Russell, Igor D. Aleinov, Susanne E. Bauer, Ellen Baum, Brian Cairns, Vittorio M. Canuto, Mark Chandler, Ye Cheng, Armond Cohen, Anthony Del Genio, Gregory S. Faluvegi, Eric L. Fleming, Andrew D. Friend, Timothy M. Hall, Charles H. Jackman, Jeffrey Jonas, Maxwell Kelley, Nancy Y. Kiang, Dorothy M. Koch, Gordon J. Labow, J. Lerner, Surabi Menon, Tihomir Novakov, Valdar Oinas, Jan Perlwitz, Judith Perlwitz, David H. Rind, Anastasia Romanou, Robert B. Schmunk, Drew T. Shindell, Peter H. Stone, S. Sun, David G. Streets, Nicholas Tausnev, D. Thresher, Nadine Unger, Mao-Sung Yao, and S. Zhang."Climate simulations for 1880–2003 with GISS modelE."Climate Dynamics 29.7-8 (2007) 661-696. DOI

Shindell, Drew T., Gregory S. Faluvegi, Susanne E. Bauer, Dorothy M. Koch, Nadine Unger, Surabi Menon, Ronald L. Miller, Gavin A. Schmidt, and David G. Streets."Climate response to projected changes in short-lived species under an A1B scenario from 2000–2050 in the GISS climate model."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 112.D20 (2007). DOI

Fischer, Marc L., David P. Billesbach, Joseph A. Berry, William J. Riley, and Margaret S. Torn."Spatiotemporal Variations in Growing Season Exchanges of CO₂, H₂O, and Sensible Heat in Agricultural Fields of the Southern Great Plains."Earth Interact 11.17 (2007) 1-21. DOI

Lobscheid, Agnes B., Thomas E. McKone, and Daniel A. Vallero."Exploring relationships between outdoor air particulate-associated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and PM2.5: A case study of benzo(a)pyrene in California metropolitan regions."Atmospheric Environment 41.27 (2007) 5659–5672. DOI