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)

2022

Abdul-Khabir, Fatima, Billie Holecek, Christopher T Payne, and Gerald Robinson."The Policy Mullet: Good Intentions in Front, Bad Policy in Back."ACEEE Summer Study (2022). DOI

2020

Wang, Liyang, Molly Morabito, Christopher T Payne, and Gerald Robinson."Identifying institutional barriers and policy implications for sustainable energy technology adoption among large organizations in California."Energy Policy 146 (2020) 111768. DOI

Chalasani, Sravan, Clayton Johnson, Molly Morabito, Alexander Newkirk, Liyang Wang, Ian M Hoffman, and Christopher T Payne."Messaging for Impact: Behavioral Science-Based Communication Strategies to Advance Energy Efficiency."ACEEE 2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Morabito, Molly, Liyang Wang, Christopher T Payne, and Luis L Fernandes."National Mandates Won’t Save Us!: How to Design Energy Efficiency Policies that Address Institutional Barriers to Change."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

2018

Siap, David, Christopher T Payne, and Alex Lekov."The United States Federal Energy Management Program lighting energy efficiency 2017 update and impacts."Applied Energy 233-234 (2018) 99 - 104. DOI

Wang, Liyang, and Christopher T Payne."Changing Institutional Procurement Behavior to Achieve Energy Savings."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

2016

Bunch, Saralyn, and Christopher T Payne."Contracting for Efficiency. A Best Practices Guide for Energy -Efficient Product Procurement." (2016). DOI

2014

Payne, Christopher T, H.Y Iris Cheung, and Emily Fisher."Evolution of Energy Efficiency Programs Over Time: The Case of Standby Power."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

2013

Payne, Christopher T, Andrew R Weber, and Abby Semple."Energy-efficient Public Procurement Best Practice in Program Delivery SEAD Initiative Procurement Working Group." (2013).

Malone, Elizabeth L, Richard C Diamond, Amy K Wolfe, Tom Sanquist, Christopher T Payne, and Jerry Dion."Sustainable Behavior."Sustain: "Implementing Sustainability: The Behavioral-Institutional Dimension" Spring/Summer 2013.28 (2013) 28-32.

2012

Weber, Andrew R, and Christopher T Payne."Linking Resources and Structures: Increasing the Effectiveness of Energy Efficient Government Procurement Programs." (2012).

Payne, Christopher T."The Role of Business Systems in Achieving Market Transformation."Procurement, Innovation and Green Growth: The story continues... (2012).

Payne, Christopher T, and Andrew R Weber."Public Sector Procurement: Issues in Program Development & Delivery." (2012).

2011

Malone, Elizabeth L, Tom Sanquist, Amy K Wolfe, Richard C Diamond, Christopher T Payne, and Jerry Dion."Evidence-Based Background Material Underlying Guidance for Federal Agencies in Implementing Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans Implementing Sustainability: The Institutional-Behavioral Dimension." (2011).

2010

Harris, Jeffrey P, Richard C Diamond, Carl Blumstein, Chris Calwell, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T Payne, and Paul Siderius."Towards a Policy of Progressive Efficiency."People-Centered Initiatives for Increasing Energy Saving (2010).

2008

Harris, Jeffrey P, Richard C Diamond, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T Payne, Carl Blumstein, and Paul Siderius."Towards a sustainable energy balance: progressive efficiency and the return of energy conservation."Energy Efficiency 1.3 (2008) 175-188. DOI

Coleman, Philip, Christopher T Payne, and Richard G White."A Plea for Simpler Electricity Tariffs."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 7 (2008) 60-69.

Diamond, Richard C, and Christopher T Payne."Greening the U.S. House of Representatives." (2008).

2007

2006

Iyer, Maithili, Willett Kempton, and Christopher T Payne."Comparison groups on bills: Automated, personalized energy information."Energy and Buildings 38.8 (2006) 988-996. DOI

Payne, Christopher T."The Commercial Energy Consumer: About Whom Are We Speaking?."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Harris, Jeffrey P, Richard C Diamond, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T Payne, and Carl Blumstein."Don't Supersize Me! Toward a Policy of Consumption-Based Energy Efficiency."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006) 7-100-7-114.

2005

Payne, Christopher T, and Beverly Dyer."Federal Participation in LEED in 2005."Greenbuild Expo 2005 (2005).

2004

Payne, Christopher T, and Beverly Dyer."Federal participation in LEED."Greenbuild 2004 (2004).

Payne, Christopher T, and Alan K Meier."Many small consumers, one growing problem: Achieving energy savings for electronic equipment operating in low power modes."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).