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)

2012

Sahai, Rashmi, Nihar Shah, and Amol A Phadke."Addressing Water Consumption of Evaporative Coolers with Greywater." (2012).

2011

Phadke, Amol A, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Jagmeet Khangura."Reassessing Wind Potential Estimates for India: Economic and Policy Implications." (2011).

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Nihar Shah, and Amol A Phadke."Country Review of Energy-Efficiency Financial Incentives in the Residential Sector." (2011).

Park, Won Young, Amol A Phadke, Nihar Shah, and Virginie E Letschert."TV Energy Consumption Trends and Energy-Efficiency Improvement Options." (2011).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Ashwin Gambhir, and Amol A Phadke."Analysis of International Policies In The Solar Electricity Sector: Lessons for India." (2011).

Mills, Andrew D, Amol A Phadke, and Ryan H Wiser."Exploration of resource and transmission expansion decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone initiative."Energy Policy 39.3 (2011) 1732 - 1745. DOI

Abhyankar, Nikit, and Amol A Phadke."Impact of Large Scale Energy Efficiency Programs On Consumer Tariffs and Utility Finances in India." (2011).

Gadgil, Ashok J, David Fridley, Nina Zheng, Andree Sosler, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Amol A Phadke, and Nina Khanna."Using Energy Efficiency and Producing it Renewably."Physics of Sustainable Energy II: Using Energy Efficiency and Producing it Renewably 1401 (2011) 54-74. DOI

2010

Mills, Andrew D, Amol A Phadke, and Ryan H Wiser."Exploration of Resource and Transmission Expansion Decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative." (2010) 88.

2008

Phadke, Amol A, Charles A Goldman, Doug Larson, Tom Carr, Larry Rath, Peter Balash, and Wan Yih-Huei."Advanced Coal Wind Hybrid: Economic Analysis." (2008) 85.

Barbose, Galen L, Ryan H Wiser, Amol A Phadke, and Charles A Goldman."Managing Carbon Regulatory Risk in Utility Resource Planning: Current Practices in the Western United States."Energy Policy 36.9 (2008) 3300-3311. DOI

Barbose, Galen L, Ryan H Wiser, Amol A Phadke, and Charles A Goldman."Pursuing Energy Efficiency as a Hedge Against Carbon Regulatory Risks Current Resource Planning Practices in the West." (2008) 12.

Barbose, Galen L, Ryan H Wiser, Amol A Phadke, and Charles A Goldman."Reading the Tea Leaves: How Utilities in the West Are Managing Carbon Regulatory Risk in their Resource Plans." (2008) 80.

2006

Sathaye, Jayant A, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Satish Kumar, Maithili Iyer, Christina Galitsky, Amol A Phadke, Michael A McNeil, Lynn K Price, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Srinivasan Padmanabhan."Implementing End-use Efficiency Improvements in India: Drawing from Experience in the US and Other Countries." (2006).

2005

Sathaye, Jayant A, and Amol A Phadke."Cost and carbon emissions of coal and combined cycle power plants in India: international implications." (2005).

2002

Marnay, Chris, Diane C Fisher, Scott Murtishaw, Amol A Phadke, Lynn K Price, and Jayant A Sathaye."Estimating Carbon Dioxide Emissions Factors for the California Electric Power Sector." (2002) 94.

Marnay, Chris, Diane C Fisher, Scott Murtishaw, Amol A Phadke, Lynn K Price, and Jayant A Sathaye."Estimating carbon dioxide emissions factors for the California electric power sector."In the Proceedings of the 2002 ACEEE's Summer Study on Energy Efficiency 33 (2002).

Price, Lynn K, Chris Marnay, Jayant A Sathaye, Scott Murtishaw, Diane C Fisher, Amol A Phadke, and Guido Franco."The California Climate Action Registry: Development of Methodologies for Calculating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electricity Generation." (2002) 13.

Price, Lynn K, Chris Marnay, Jayant A Sathaye, Scott Murtishaw, Diane C Fisher, and Amol A Phadke."Development of methodologies for calculating greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation for the California climate action registry."International Emissions Inventory Conference 12 (2002).