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

Koch, Dorothy M, Susanne E Bauer, Anthony Del Genio, Gregory S Faluvegi, Joseph R McConnell, Surabi Menon, Ronald L Miller, David H Rind, Reto Ruedy, Gavin A Schmidt, and Drew T Shindell."Coupled aerosol-chemistry-climate twentieth century transient model investigation: Trends in short-lived species and climate responses."Journal of Climate 24 (2011) 2693-2714. DOI

2009

Koch, Dorothy M, Surabi Menon, Anthony Del Genio, Stephen G Warren, Reto Ruedy, Igor Alienov, and Gavin A Schmidt."Distinguishing aerosol impacts on climate over the past century."Journal of Climate 22 (2009) 2659-2677.

Klein, Stephen A, Renata B McCoy, Hugh Morrison, Andrew S Ackerman, Alexander Avramov, Gijs de Boer, Mingxuan Chen, Jason N. S Cole, Anthony Del Genio, Michael Falk, Michael J Foster, Ann M Fridlind, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Tempei Hashino, Jerry Y Harrington, Corinna Hoose, Marat F Khairoutdinov, Vincent E Larson, Xiaohong Liu, Yali Luo, Greg M McFarquhar, Surabi Menon, Roel A. J Neggers, Sungsu Park, Michael R Poellot, Jerome M Schmidt, Igor Sednev, Ben J Shipway, Matthew D Shupe, Douglas A Spangenberg, Yogesh C Sud, David D Turner, Dana E Veron, Knut von Salzen, Gregory K Walker, Zhien Wang, Audrey B Wolf, Shaocheng Xie, Kuan-Man Xu, Fanglin Yang, and Gong Zhang."Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-phase Arctic cloud experiment. Part I: Single layer cloud."Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 135.641 Part B (2009) 979-1002. DOI

2008

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

2007

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

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."Dangerous human-made interference with climate: a GISS modelE study."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 7 (2007) 2287– 2312. DOI

Menon, Surabi, and Anthony Del Genio."Evaluating the impacts of carbonaceous aerosols on clouds and climate."Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment (2007) 34-48 .

2005

Hansen, James E, Larissa Nazarenko, Reto Ruedy, Makiko Sato, Josh Willis, Anthony Del Genio, Dorothy M Koch, Andrew A Lacis, Kwok-Wai Ken Lo, Surabi Menon, Tihomir Novakov, Judith Perlwitz, Gary L Russell, Gavin A Schmidt, and Nicholas Tausnev."Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications."Science 308.5727 (2005) 1431-1435. DOI

2003

Menon, Surabi, Jean-Louis Brenguier, Olivier Boucher, Paul Davison, Anthony Del Genio, Johann Feichter, Steven J Ghan, Sarah Guibert, Xiaohong Liu, Ulrike Lohmann, Hanna Pawlowska, Joyce E Penner, Johannes Quaas, David L Roberts, Lothar Schuller, and Jefferson Snider."Evaluating aerosol//cloud//radiation process parameterizations with single-column models and Second Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACE-2) cloudy column observations."Journal of Geophysical Research 108.D24 (2003). DOI