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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.
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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)

2014

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Zeyi Jiang, and Lynn K. Price."Why the Energy Use of Chinese Steel Industry May Peak As Early As 2015?."2014 ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2014).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Marlene Arens, and Lynn K. Price."Alternative Emerging Ironmaking Technologies for Energy-efficiency and Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reduction: A Technical Review."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 33 (2014) 645–658. DOI

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

2013

Hasanbeigi, Ali."Alternative and Emerging Technologies for an Energy-Efficient, Water-Efficient, and Low-Pollution Textile Industry." (2013).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Zeyi Jiang, and Lynn K. Price."Analysis of the Past and Future Trends of Energy Use in Key Medium- and Large-Sized Chinese Steel Enterprises, 2000-2030." (2013).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Hongyou Lu, and Jing Ke."Retrospective and prospective decomposition analysis of Chinese manufacturing energy use and policy implications."Energy Policy (2013). DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, Lingbo Kong, and Marlene Arens."Emerging Energy-Efficiency and CO2 Emissions-Reduction Technologies for Industry: A Review of Technologies for Alternative Ironmaking and Pulp and Paper Industry."2013 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2013).

Rao, Prakash, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Aimee T. McKane."A Framework to Survey the Energy Efficiency of Installed Motor Systems."2013 Energy Efficiency in Motor Driven Systems (2013).

Morrow, William R. III, John Marano, Jayant A. Sathaye, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Tengfang T. Xu."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement in the United States Petroleum Refining Industry." (2013).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, William R. Morrow III, Jayant A. Sathaye, Eric R. Masanet, and Tengfang T. Xu."A bottom-up model to estimate the energy efficiency improvement and CO₂ emission reduction potentials in the Chinese iron and steel industry."Energy 50 (2013) 315-325. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, and Marlene Arens."Emerging Energy-efficiency and Carbon Dioxide Emissions-reduction Technologies for the Iron and Steel Industry." (2013).

Kong, Lingbo, Lynn K. Price, Ali Hasanbeigi, Huanbin Liu, and Jigeng Li."Potential for reducing paper mill energy use and carbon dioxide emissions through plant-wide energy audits: A case study in China."Applied Energy 102 (2013).

Kong, Lingbo, Ali Hasanbeigi, Lynn K. Price, and Huanbin Liu."Analysis of Energy-Efficiency Opportunities for the Pulp and Paper Industry in China." (2013).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Hongyou Lu, and Jing Ke."Retrospective and Prospective Decomposition Analysis of Chinese Manufacturing Energy Use, 1995-2020." (2013).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, William R. Morrow III, Lynn K. Price, and Nina Khanna."China Energy and Emissions Path to 2030." (2013).

2012

Morrow, William R. III, Tengfang T. Xu, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement and CO₂ Emission Reduction Potentials in India's Cement Industry." (2012).

Kong, Lingbo, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Lynn K. Price."Emerging Energy-Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Technologies for the Pulp and Paper Industry." (2012).

Williams, Christopher J., Ali Hasanbeigi, Lynn K. Price, and Grace Wu."International Experience with Quantifying the Co-Benefits of Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Programs and Policies." (2012).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Yue Dai, Hongyou Lu, and Lynn K. Price."Quantifying the Co-benefits of Energy-Efficiency Programs: A Case Study of the Cement Industry in Shandong Province, China." (2012).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, William R. Morrow III, Lynn K. Price, and Nina Khanna."China Energy and Emissions Paths to 2030 (2nd Edition)." (2012).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, William R. Morrow III, Eric R. Masanet, Jayant A. Sathaye, and Tengfang T. Xu."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement and CO₂ Emission Reduction Potentials in the Cement Industry in China." (2012).

Price, Lynn K., Ali Hasanbeigi, Nathaniel T. Aden, Zhang Chunxia, Li Xiuping, and Shangguan Fangqin."A Comparison of Iron and Steel Production Energy Intensity in China and the U.S.."ACEEE Industrial Summer Study (2012).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Hongyou Lu, Christopher J. Williams, and Lynn K. Price."International Best Practices for Pre- Processing and Co-Processing Municipal Solid Waste and Sewage Sludge in the Cement Industry." (2012).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, William R. Morrow III, Jayant A. Sathaye, Eric R. Masanet, and Tengfang T. Xu."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement and CO₂ Emission Reduction Potentials in the Iron and Steel Industry in China." (2012).