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)

2015

Phadke, Amol A, Arne Jacobson, Won Young Park, Ga Rick Lee, Peter Alstone, and Amit Khare."Powering a Home with Just 25Watts of Solar PV: Super-Efficient Appliances Can Enable Expanded Off-Grid Energy Service Using Small Solar Power Systems." (2015).

2014

Mills, Evan, J Tracy, P Alstone, Arne Jacobson, and P Avato."Low-cost LED flashlights and market spoiling in Kenya’s off-grid lighting market."Energy Efficiency 8.2 (2014) https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/publications?f%5Bauthor%5D=16780. DOI

Alstone, P, K Radecsky, Arne Jacobson, and Evan Mills."Field Study Methods and Results from a Market Trial of Night Market Vendors in Rural Kenya."Light & Engineering 22.2 (2014).

2011

Mills, Evan, Peter Alstone, and Arne Jacobson.""Embodied Energy and Off-Grid Lighting." Lumina Project ." (2011).

Mills, Evan, and Arne Jacobson."From Carbon to Light: A New Framework for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reducitons from Replacing Fuel-Based Lighting with LED Systems.."Energy Efficiency (2011). DOI

2010

Tracy, Jennifer, Arne Jacobson, and Evan Mills."Assessing the Performance of LED-Based Flashlights Available in the Kenyan Off-Grid Lighting Market." (2010).

Apple, J, R Vicente, A Yarberry, N Lohse, Evan Mills, Arne Jacobson, and D Poppendieck."Characterization of particulate matter size distributions and indoor concentrations from kerosene and diesel lamps."Indoor Air 20.5 (2010). DOI

Alstone, Peter, Arne Jacobson, and Evan Mills."Illumination Survey Techniques: In-situ Measurements of Lighting System Performance and a User Preference Survey for Illuminance in an Off-Grid, African Setting." (2010).

Tracy, Jennifer, Peter Alstone, Arne Jacobson, and Evan Mills."Market Trial: Selling Off-Grid Lighting Products in Rural Kenya." (2010).

Tracy, Jennifer, Arne Jacobson, and Evan Mills."Use Patterns of LED Flashlights in Kenya and a One-Year Cost Analysis of Flashlight Ownership." (2010).

2009

Jacobson, Arne, J Tracy, and Evan Mills."Quality and Performance of LED Flashlights in Kenya: Common End User Preferences and Complaints."Lumina Project Research Note #4 (2009).