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.
Publications
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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)

2017

Cantore, Nicola, Patrick Nussbaumer, Max Wei, and Daniel M Kammen."Promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency in Africa: a framework to evaluate employment generation and cost effectiveness." Environmental Research Letters 12.3 (2017). DOI

Raghavan, Shuba V, Max Wei, and Daniel M Kammen."Scenarios to decarbonize residential water heating in California."Energy Policy 109 (2017) 441 - 451. DOI

2015

Morrison, Geoffrey M, Sonia Yeh, Anthony R Eggert, Christopher Yang, James H Nelson, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Raphael Isaac, Mark Z Jacobson, Josiah Johnston, Daniel M Kammen, Ana Mileva, Jack Moore, David Roland-Holst, Max Wei, John P Weyant, James H Williams, Ray Williams, and Christina B Zapata."Comparison of Low-Carbon Pathways for California."Climatic Change 131.4 (2015) 545-557. DOI

2013

Wei, Max, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Sally M Donovan, James H Nelson, Ana Meliva, Josiah Johnston, and Daniel M Kammen."Scenarios For Meeting California's 2050 Climate Goals." (2013).

Wei, Max, James H Nelson, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Ana Mileva, Josiah Johnston, Michael K Ting, Christopher Yang, Christopher M Jones, James E McMahon, and Daniel M Kammen."Deep carbon reductions in California require electrification and integration across economic sectors."Environmental Research Letters 8.1 (2013). DOI

2012

Wei, Max, James H Nelson, Michael K Ting, Christopher Yang, Jeffery B Greenblatt, James E McMahon, Daniel M Kammen, Christopher M Jones, Ana Mileva, Josiah Johnston, and Ranjit Bharvirkar."California’s Carbon Challenge: Scenarios for Achieving 80% Emissions Reduction in 2050." (2012).

2011

2010

Norwood, Zack, Timothy E Lipman, Chris Marnay, and Daniel M Kammen."Assessment of the Combined Heat and Power System "Premium Power" Applications in California FINAL REPORT." (2010) 36.

Koomey, Jonathan G, Hashem Akbari, Carl Blumstein, Marilyn A Brown, Richard E Brown, Chris Calwell, Sheryl Carter, Ralph Cavanagh, Audrey Chang, David Claridge, Paul P Craig, Richard C Diamond, Joseph H Eto, William Fulkerson, Ashok J Gadgil, Howard S Geller, José Goldemberg, Charles A Goldman, David B Goldstein, Steve E Greenberg, David Hafemeister, Jeffrey P Harris, Hal Harvey, Eric Heitz, Eric Hirst, Holmes Hummel, Daniel M Kammen, Henry Kelly, John A Laitner, Mark D Levine, Amory Lovins, Gil Masters, James E McMahon, Alan K Meier, Michael Messenger, John Millhone, Evan Mills, Steven M Nadel, Bruce Nordman, Lynn K Price, Joseph J Romm, Marc Ross, Michael Rufo, Jayant A Sathaye, Leon J Schipper, Stephen H Schneider, James L Sweeney, Malcolm Verdict, Diana Vorsatz, Devra Wang, Carl Weinberg, Richard Wilk, John Wilson, and Ernst Worrell."Defining a standard metric for electricity savings."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

2004

Ezzati, Majid, Rob Bailis, Daniel M Kammen, Tracey Holloway, Lynn K Price, and Luis A Cifuentes."Energy Systems and Population Health."Annual Review of Energy and Resources 29 (2004).