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)

2016

Ohshita, Stephanie, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Lixuan Hong, and Nina Khanna."BEST Cities: Software User Guide." (2016).

2015

Zhou, Nan, Gang He, John Romankiewicz, David Fridley, and Cecilia Fino-Chen."A Review of Commercially Available Technologies for Developing Low-Carbon Eco-cities." (2015).

Ohshita, Stephanie, Nan Zhou, Lynn K Price, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Lixuan Hong, Hongyou Lu, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Gang He, and Jinyue Yan."Low Carbon Development for Cities: Methods and Measures."Handbook of Clean Energy Systems 6 (2015) 1-23. DOI

2014

Fridley, David, Mark D Levine, Hongyou Lu, and Cecilia Fino-Chen."Key China Energy Statistics 2014." (2014).

Price, Lynn K, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Lixuan Hong, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Jing Ke, Stephanie Ohshita, Hu Min, Yong Zhou, Stephen Hammer, and Hu Xulian."Energy-Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policy Options: Assisting Chinese Cities in Prioritizing and Choosing Strategies to Implement to Become a Sustainable Community." American Council for An Energy-Efficient Economy 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

2013

Khanna, Nina, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, and Cecilia Fino-Chen."Evaluation of China's local enforcement of energy efficiency standards and labeling programs for appliances and equipment."Energy Policy (2013). DOI

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

Hu, Xin, Jingjing Qian, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Bo Shen, and Kuixin Liu."Energy Service Companies in the Building Sector — A Review of International and Chinese Experience." (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).

2012

Price, Lynn K, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Stephanie Ohshita, and Nina Khanna."Development of an End-Use Sector- Based Low-Carbon Indicator System for Cities in China."ACEEE’s 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Zheng, Nina, Nan Zhou, Cecilia Fino-Chen, David Fridley, and Nina Khanna."Evaluation of Local Enforcement of Energy Efficiency Standards and Labeling Program in China."International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2012).

Levine, Mark D, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, and Cecilia Fino-Chen."Key China Energy Statistics 2012." (2012).

Zheng, Nina, Nan Zhou, Cecilia Fino-Chen, David Fridley, and Nina Khanna."Local Enforcement of Appliance Efficiency Standards and Labeling Program in China: Progress and Challenges."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Price, Lynn K, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Stephanie Ohshita, Hongyou Lu, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, and Nina Khanna."Development of a Low-Carbon Indicator System for China."Habitat International (2012).

Levine, Mark D, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, and Cecilia Fino-Chen."Key China Energy Statistics 2011." (2012).

2011

Price, Lynn K, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Stephanie Ohshita, Hongyou Lu, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, and Nina Khanna."Development of a Low-Carbon Indicator System for China." (2011).

Zhou, Nan, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, David Fridley, Cao Ning, and Nina Khanna."Status of the Local Enforcement of Energy Efficiency Standards and Labeling Program in China." (2011).