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)

1999

Gómez, Tomás, Chris Marnay, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Lucy Liew, and Mark Khavkin."Ancillary Services Markets in California." (1999) 54.

1998

Koomey, Jonathan G., R. Cooper Richey, John A. Laitner, Robert J. Markel, and Chris Marnay."Technology and greenhouse gas emissions: An integrated analysis using the LBNL-NEMS model." (1998).

Marnay, Chris, M. Suzie Kito, Dan Kirshner, Osman Sezgen, Steven J. Pickle, Katja B. Schumacher, and Ryan H. Wiser."Restructuring and Renewable Energy Developments in California: Using Elfin to Simulate the Future California Power Market." (1998) 139.

Sezgen, Osman, Chris Marnay, and Sarah E. Bretz."Wind Generation in the Future Competitive California Power Market." (1998) 17.

Turiel, Isaac, Barbara A. Atkinson, Andrea Denver, Chris Marnay, Diane C. Fisher, and Sajid Hakim."Draft Report on Potential Impact of Alternative Efficiency Levels for Fluorescent Lamp Ballasts." (1998).

DeVuono, Anthony, Peter T. Chan, James D. Lutz, Chris Marnay, Gregory J. Rosenquist, and James E. McMahon."Draft Report on Potential Impact of Alternative Efficiency Levels for Residential Cooking Products." (1998).

1997

Rosenquist, Gregory J., Peter T. Chan, Terry W. Chan, Chris Marnay, James E. McMahon, and Steven J. Pickle."Draft Report on Potential Impact of Alternative Efficiency Levels for Room Air Conditioners." (1997).

Chan, Peter T., Terry W. Chan, Anthony DeVuono, Chris Marnay, James E. McMahon, Gregory J. Rosenquist, Isaac Turiel, and Stan Boghosian."General Methodology for the Analysis of Alternative Efficiency Levels for Room Air Conditioners and Residential Cooking Products." (1997).

Marnay, Chris, R. Cooper Richey, Susan A. Mahler, Sarah E. Bretz, and Robert J. Markel."Estimating the Environmental and Economic Effects of Widespread Residential PV Adoption Using GIS and NEMS." (1997) 32.

Marnay, Chris, and Steven J. Pickle."Power Supply Expansion and the Nuclear Option in Poland." (1997) 37.

1993

Marnay, Chris."Intermittent Electrical Dispatch Penalties for Air Quality Improvement."University of California at Berkeley (1993).

1990

Marnay, Chris, and G. Alan Comnes."Ratemaking for Conservation: The California ERAM Experience." (1990) 68.

1989

Marnay, Chris, and Todd P. Strauss."Chronological Model Comparison." (1989).