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

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)

2011

Goli, Sasank, Daniel Olsen, Aimee T. McKane, and Mary Ann Piette."2008-2010 Research Summary: Analysis of Demand Response Opportunities in California Industry." (2011).

Goli, Sasank, Aimee T. McKane, and Daniel Olsen."Demand Response Opportunities in Industrial Refrigerated Warehouses in California."2011 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2011).

2010

McKane, Aimee T., and Ali Hasanbeigi."Motor Systems Efficiency Supply Curves." (2010).

Olsen, Daniel, Sasank Goli, David Faulkner, and Aimee T. McKane."Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the California Cement Industry." (2010).

Thompson, Lisa, Alexander B. Lekov, Aimee T. McKane, and Mary Ann Piette."Opportunities for Open Automated Demand Response in Wastewater Treatment Facilities in California - Phase II Report. San Luis Rey Wastewater Treatment Plant Case Study." (2010).

Ghatikar, Girish, Mary Ann Piette, K. Sydny Fujita, Aimee T. McKane, Junqiao Han Dudley, Anthony Radspieler Jr., KC Mares, and Dave Shroyer."Demand Response and Open Automated Demand Response Opportunities for Data Centers." (2010) 56.

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, and Aimee T. McKane."The State–of-the-Art Clean Technologies (SOACT) for Steelmaking Handbook (2nd Edition)." (2010).

2009

Lekov, Alexander B., Lisa Thompson, Aimee T. McKane, Alexandra Rockoff, and Mary Ann Piette."Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Automated Demand Response in Industrial Refrigerated Warehouses in California." (2009) 79.

Lekov, Alexander B., Lisa Thompson, Aimee T. McKane, Alexandra Rockoff, and Mary Ann Piette."Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Automated Demand Response in Industrial Refrigerated Warehouses in California." (2009).

Lekov, Alexander B., Lisa Thompson, Aimee T. McKane, Katherine Song, and Mary Ann Piette."Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Open Automated Demand Response in Wastewater Treatment Facilities in California - Phase I Report." (2009).

Price, Lynn K., and Aimee T. McKane."Policies and Measures to Realise Industrial Energy Efficiency and Mitigate Climate Change." (2009).

2008

Thompson, Lisa, Katherine Song, Alexander B. Lekov, and Aimee T. McKane."Automated Demand Response Opportunities in Wastewater Treatment Facilities."Distributech (2008).

Price, Lynn K., Christina Galitsky, Klaas Jan Kramer, and Aimee T. McKane."International Experience with Key Program Elements of Industrial Energy Efficiency or Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Target-Setting Programs." (2008).

McKane, Aimee T., Ivin Rhyne, Alexander B. Lekov, Lisa Thompson, and Mary Ann Piette."Automated Demand Response: The Missing Link in the Electricity Value Chain."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008).

McKane, Aimee T., Mary Ann Piette, David Faulkner, Girish Ghatikar, Anthony Radspieler Jr., Bunmi Adesola, Scott Murtishaw, and Sila Kiliccote."Opportunities, Barriers and Actions for Industrial Demand Response in California." (2008).

2007

McKane, Aimee T., Lynn K. Price, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."Policies for Promoting Industrial Energy Efficiency in Developing Countries and Transition Economies." (2007) 87.

2005

Sinton, Jonathan E., Rachel E. Stem, Nathaniel T. Aden, Mark D. Levine, Tyler J. Dillavou, David Fridley, Yu Joe Huang, Joanna I. Lewis, Jiang Lin, Aimee T. McKane, Lynn K. Price, Ryan H. Wiser, Nan Zhou, and Jean Y. Ku."Evaluation of China's Energy Strategy Options." (2005).

2003

Nadel, Steven M., Wang Wanxing, Peter Liu, and Aimee T. McKane."The China Motor Systems Energy Conservation Program: A Major National Initiative to Reduce Motor System Energy Use in China." (2003).