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)

2021

Popovich, Natalie, C Anna Spurlock, Zachary Needell, Ling Jin, Thomas P Wenzel, Colin Sheppard, and Mona Asudegi."A methodology to develop a geospatial transportation typology."Journal of Transport Geography 93 (2021) 103061. DOI

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

2019

Szinai, Julia, Colin Sheppard, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R Gopal."Reduced grid operating costs and renewable energy curtailment with electric vehicle charge management."Energy Policy (2019) 111051. DOI

Sheppard, Colin, Julia Szinai, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R Gopal."Grid Impacts of Electric Vehicles and Managed Charging in California." (2019).

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

2018

Fingerman, Kevin, Colin Sheppard, and Andrew Harris."California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Modeling financial least-cost pathways to compliance in Northwest California."Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 63 (2018) 320 - 332. DOI

2017

Sheppard, Colin, Rashid Waraich, Anand R Gopal, Andrew Campbell, and Alexei Pozdnukov."Modeling plug-in electric vehicle charging demand with BEAM, the framework for behavior energy autonomy mobility." (2017).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Anand R Gopal, Colin Sheppard, Won Young Park, and Amol A Phadke."Techno-Economic Assessment of Deep Electrification of Passenger Vehicles in India." (2017).

2016

Sheppard, Colin, Andrew Harris, and Anand R Gopal."Cost-Effective Siting of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure With Agent-Based Modeling."IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification 2.2 (2016) 174 - 189. DOI

2015

Gopal, Anand R, Maggie Witt, Nikit Abhyankar, Colin Sheppard, and Andrew Harris."Battery electric vehicles can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make renewable energy cheaper in India." (2015).