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)

2018

Nevison, Cynthia, Arlyn E. Andrews, Kirk Thoning, Edward J. Dlugokencky, Colm Sweeney, Scot M. Miller, Eri Saikawa, Joshua Benmergui, Marc L. Fischer, Marikate Mountain, and Thomas Nehrkorn."Nitrous Oxide Emissions Estimated With the CarbonTracker-Lagrange North American Regional Inversion Framework."Global Biogeochemical Cycles 32.3 (2018) 463 - 485. DOI

2015

Hu, Lei, Stephen A. Montzka, John B. Miller, Arlyn E. Andrews, Scott J. Lehman, Benjamin R. Miller, Kirk Thoning, Colm Sweeney, Huilin Chen, David S. Godwin, Kenneth A. Masarie, Lori Bruhwiler, Marc L. Fischer, Sebastien C. Biraud, Margaret S. Torn, Marikate Mountain, Thomas Nehrkorn, Janusz Eluszkiewicz, Scott Miller, Roland R. Draxler, Ariel F. Stein, Bradley D. Hall, James W. Elkins, and Pieter P. Tans."U.S. emissions of HFC-134a derived for 2008–2012 from an extensive flask-air sampling network."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120.2 (2015) 801-825. DOI

2013

Miller, Scot M., Steven C. Wofsy, Anna M. Michalak, Eric A. Kort, Arlyn E. Andrews, Sebastien C. Biraud, Edward J. Dlugokencky, Janusz Eluszkiewicz, Marc L. Fischer, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Benjamin R. Miller, John B. Miller, Stephen A. Montzka, Thomas Nehrkorn, and Colm Sweeney."Anthropogenic emissions of methane in the United States."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States (2013). DOI

2012

Jeong, Seongeun, Chuanfeng Zhao, Arlyn E. Andrews, Edward J. Dlugokencky, Colm Sweeney, Laura Bianco, James M. Wilczak, and Marc L. Fischer."Seasonal variations in N₂O emissions from central California."Geophysical Research Letters 39.16 (2012). DOI

2011

Turnbull, Jocelyn C., Anna Karion, Marc L. Fischer, Ian C. Faloona, Tom Guilderson, Scott J. Lehman, Benjamin R. Miller, John B. Miller, Stephen A. Montzka, Thomas S. Sherwood, Suman Saripalli, Colm Sweeney, and Pieter P. Tans."Assessment of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and other anthropogenic trace gas emissions from airborne measurements over Sacramento, California in spring 2009."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 11 (2011) 705-721. DOI

2010

Yurganov, Leonid, W. Wallace McMillan, C. Wilson, Marc L. Fischer, Sebastien C. Biraud, and Colm Sweeney."Carbon monoxide mixing ratios over Oklahoma between 2002 and 2009 retrieved from atmospheric emitted radiance Interferometer spectra."Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 3 (2010) 1319–1331. DOI