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)

2011

Koch, Dorothy M, Susanne E Bauer, Anthony Del Genio, Gregory S Faluvegi, Joseph R McConnell, Surabi Menon, Ronald L Miller, David H Rind, Reto Ruedy, Gavin A Schmidt, and Drew T Shindell."Coupled aerosol-chemistry-climate twentieth century transient model investigation: Trends in short-lived species and climate responses."Journal of Climate 24 (2011) 2693-2714. DOI

2010

Unger, Nadine, Tami C Bond, James S Wang, Dorothy M Koch, Surabi Menon, Drew T Shindell, and Susanne E Bauer."Attribution of climate forcing to economic sectors."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (2010) 3382-3387. DOI

2009

Unger, Nadine, Surabi Menon, Drew T Shindell, and Dorothy M Koch."Impacts of aerosol indirect effect on past and future changes in tropospheric composition."American Chemical Physics Discussion 9 (2009) 4691-4725. DOI

2008

Menon, Surabi, Nadine Unger, Dorothy M Koch, Jennifer Francis, Tim J Garrett, Igor Sednev, Drew T Shindell, and David G Streets."Aerosol climate effects and air quality impacts from 1980 to 2030."Environmental Research Letters 3.2 (2008). DOI

Quinn, Patricia K, Timothy S Bates, Ellen Baum, Nancy Doubleday, Arlene M Fiore, Mark Flanner, Ann M Fridlind, Tim J Garrett, Dorothy M Koch, Surabi Menon, Drew T Shindell, Andreas Stohl, and Stephen G Warren."Short-lived pollutants in the Arctic: their climate impact and possible mitigation strategies."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 8 (2008) 1723-1735. DOI

2007

Hansen, James E, Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, Pushker A Kharecha, Andrew A Lacis, Ronald L Miller, Larissa Nazarenko, Kwok-Wai Ken Lo, Gavin A Schmidt, Gary L Russell, Igor D Aleinov, Susanne E Bauer, Ellen Baum, Brian Cairns, Vittorio M Canuto, Mark Chandler, Ye Cheng, Armond Cohen, Anthony Del Genio, Gregory S Faluvegi, Eric L Fleming, Andrew D Friend, Timothy M Hall, Charles H Jackman, Jeffrey Jonas, Maxwell Kelley, Nancy Y Kiang, Dorothy M Koch, Gordon J Labow, J Lerner, Surabi Menon, Tihomir Novakov, Valdar Oinas, Jan Perlwitz, Judith Perlwitz, David H Rind, Anastasia Romanou, Robert B Schmunk, Drew T Shindell, Peter H Stone, S Sun, David G Streets, Nicholas Tausnev, D Thresher, Nadine Unger, Mao-Sung Yao, and S Zhang."Climate simulations for 1880–2003 with GISS modelE."Climate Dynamics 29.7-8 (2007) 661-696. DOI

Shindell, Drew T, Gregory S Faluvegi, Susanne E Bauer, Dorothy M Koch, Nadine Unger, Surabi Menon, Ronald L Miller, Gavin A Schmidt, and David G Streets."Climate response to projected changes in short-lived species under an A1B scenario from 2000–2050 in the GISS climate model."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 112.D20 (2007). DOI

Hansen, James E, Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, Pushker A Kharecha, Andrew A Lacis, Ronald L Miller, Larissa Nazarenko, Kwok-Wai Ken Lo, Gavin A Schmidt, Gary L Russell, Igor D Aleinov, Susanne E Bauer, Ellen Baum, Brian Cairns, Vittorio M Canuto, Mark Chandler, Ye Cheng, Armond Cohen, Anthony Del Genio, Gregory S Faluvegi, Eric L Fleming, Andrew D Friend, Timothy M Hall, Charles H Jackman, Jeffrey Jonas, Maxwell Kelley, Nancy Y Kiang, Dorothy M Koch, Gordon J Labow, J Lerner, Surabi Menon, Tihomir Novakov, Valdar Oinas, Jan Perlwitz, Judith Perlwitz, David H Rind, Anastasia Romanou, Robert B Schmunk, Drew T Shindell, Peter H Stone, S Sun, David G Streets, Nicholas Tausnev, D Thresher, Nadine Unger, Mao-Sung Yao, and S Zhang."Dangerous human-made interference with climate: a GISS modelE study."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 7 (2007) 2287– 2312. DOI