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)

2024

Gerke, Brian F., Marius Stübs, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Peter Cappers, Richard E. Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Potential bill impacts of dynamic electricity pricing on California utility customers." (2024). DOI

2023

Grahovac, Milica, Shreya Agarwal, Brian F. Gerke, Sarah Smith, and Marius Stuebs."Quantitative Universal Option Prioritizer (QUOP) v1.0.0." (2023). DOI

2022

Ganeshalingam, Mohan, Robert Hosbach, Liat Zavodivker, Brian F. Gerke, Colleen Kantner, and Hannah Stratton."Consumer Purchasing Behavior and Usage of Lighting in the Residential Sector." (2022).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, Sarah Smith, Richard E. Brown, Marco Pritoni, and Brian F. Gerke."Accelerating Decarbonization with the California Load Flexibility Research and Deployment Hub." (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, Brady Cowiestoll, Elaine Hale, Brian F. Gerke, Paige Jadun, Cong Zhang, and Samanvitha Murthy."Assessing the Interactive Impacts of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response on Power System Costs and Emissions." (2022).

Murthy, Samanvitha, Brian F. Gerke, Sarah Smith, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Richard E. Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."A multi-level load shape clustering and disaggregation approach to characterize patterns of energy consumption behavior."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Gerke, Brian F., Sarah J. Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Jingjing Liu, Richard E. Brown, Mary Ann Piette, and Peter Alstone."Overview of Phase 4 of the California Demand Response Potential Study." (2022).

Gerke, Brian F., Cong Zhang, Samanvitha Murthy, Andrew Satchwell, Elaina Present, Henry Horsey, Eric Wilson, Andrew Parker, Andrew Speake, Rajendra Adhikari, and Mary Ann Piette."Load-driven interactions between energy efficiency and demand response on regional grid scales."Advances in Applied Energy 6 (2022). DOI

Murthy, Samanvitha, Andrew Satchwell, and Brian F. Gerke."Metrics to describe changes in the power system need for demand response resources."Smart Energy 6 (2022). DOI

2021

Sheppard, Colin, Alan T. Jenn, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Gordon S. Bauer, and Brian F. Gerke."Private versus Shared, Automated Electric Vehicles for U.S. Personal Mobility: Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Grid Integration, and Cost Impacts."Environmental Science & Technology (2021). DOI

2020

Gerke, Brian F., Cong Zhang, Andrew Satchwell, Samanvitha Murthy, Mary Ann Piette, Elaina Present, Eric Wilson, Andrew Speake, and Rajendra Adhikari."Modeling the Interaction Between Energy Efficiency and Demand Response on Regional Grid Scales."ACEEE 2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

Gerke, Brian F., Giulia Gallo, Sarah Josephine Smith, Jingjing Liu, Shuba V. Raghavan, Peter Schwartz, Mary Ann Piette, Rongxin Yin, and Sofia Stensson."The California Demand Response Potential Study, Phase 3: Final Report on the Shift Resource through 2030." (2020). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, Jeff Deason, Sydney Forrester, Natalie Mims Frick, Brian F. Gerke, and Mary Ann Piette."A Conceptual Framework to Describe Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Interactions." (2020).

2019

Gerke, Brian F.."Light-emitting diode lighting products."Technological Learning in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Energy System (2019) 233-254.

Sheppard, Colin, Gordon S. Bauer, Brian F. Gerke, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Alan T. Jenn, and Anand R. Gopal."Joint Optimization Scheme for the Planning and Operations of Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicle Fleets Serving Mobility on Demand."Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (2019) 036119811983827. DOI

Schwartz, Peter, Brian F. Gerke, Jennifer Potter, Alastair Robinson, David Jagger, Kelly Sanders, Yao-Yung Wen, Jasmine Shepard, and Teddy Kisch."The Value Proposition for Cost-Effective, Demand Responsive-Enabling, Nonresidential Lighting System Retrofits in California Buildings." (2019).

2018

Gerke, Brian F., Jennifer Potter, Peter Schwartz, Alastair Robinson, David Jagger, Jasmine Shepard, Teddy Kisch, and Adel Suleiman."Driving Adoption of Demand-Responsive Commercial Lighting with a Clarified Value Proposition: Site Level Energy Savings and Cost-Benefit Analysis."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Gallo, Giulia, Brian F. Gerke, Jingjing Liu, Mary Ann Piette, Peter Schwartz, and Peter Alstone."Mobilizing the Anti-Duck Brigade: Technology and Market Pathways for Load-Shifting Demand Response in California."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Bauer, Gordon S., Jeffery B. Greenblatt, and Brian F. Gerke."Cost, Energy, and Environmental Impact of Automated Electric Taxi Fleets in Manhattan."Environmental Science & Technology (2018). DOI

2017

Gerke, Brian F., Michael A. McNeil, and Thomas Tu."The International Database of Efficient Appliances (IDEA): A new tool to support appliance energy-efficiency deployment."Applied Energy 205 (2017) 453 - 464. DOI

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, and Brian F. Gerke."Assessment of commercially available energy-efficient room air conditioners including models with low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants." (2017).

Gerke, Brian F., and Gabrielle Dreyfus."The Advanced Cooling Market Tracker: Monitoring deployment of climate-friendly cooling technology worldwide."9th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2017).

Letschert, Virginie E., Brian F. Gerke, Michael A. McNeil, Thomas Tu, Brian Dean, Edi Sartono, Jaya Rajasa, and Chad Gallinat."Baseline Evaluation and Policy Implications for Air Conditioners in Indonesia."9th International Conference On Energy Efficiency In Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2017).

Kantner, Colleen, Andrea L. Alstone, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Brian F. Gerke, and Robert Hosbach."Impact of the EISA 2007 Energy Efficiency Standard on General Service Lamps." (2017).

2016

Gerke, Brian F., Michael A. McNeil, Thomas Tu, and Feiyang Xu."The International Database of Efficient Appliances (IDEA): A New Resource for Global Efficiency Policy."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).