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

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Kenji Shiraishi, and Edward L. Vine."Improving energy performance metrics to maximize the benefits of disruptive technologies."Energy Research & Social Science 89 (2022). DOI

2021

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Edward L. Vine, Patrick Blake, Brian Holuj, James Hyungkwan Kim, and Dae Hoon Kim."Ensuring the climate benefits of the Montreal Protocol: Global governance architecture for cooling efficiency and alternative refrigerants."Energy Research & Social Science Volume 76 (2021). DOI

2014

Williams, Alison A., Sarah K. Price, and Edward L. Vine."The Cost of Enforcing Building Energy Codes: Phase 2." (2014).

Vine, Edward L., Michael J. Sullivan, Loren Lutzenhiser, Carl Blumstein, and Bill Miller."Experimentation and the Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Programs."Energy Efficiency (2014). DOI

2013

Vine, Edward L.."Better Buildings Neighborhood Program."Home Energy 30.5 (2013).

Vine, Edward L.."Transforming the energy efficiency market in California: Key findings, lessons learned and future directions from California's market effects studies."Energy Policy 59 (2013). DOI

Romankiewicz, John, Nina Khanna, Edward L. Vine, and Nan Zhou."Data Availability in Appliance Standards and Labeling Program Development and Evaluation." (2013).

Williams, Alison A., Edward L. Vine, Sarah K. Price, Andrew Sturges, and Gregory J. Rosenquist."The Cost of Enforcing Building Energy Codes: Phase 1." (2013).

Vine, Edward L., William Saxonis, Jane S. Peters, Bobbi Tannenbaum, and Bob Wirtshafter."Training the Next Generation of Energy Efficiency Evaluators."Energy Efficiency 6.2 (2013) 293-303. DOI

2012

Zhou, Nan, John Romankiewicz, Edward L. Vine, Nina Khanna, and David Fridley."International Review of Frameworks for Impact Evaluation of Appliance Standards, Labeling, and Incentives." (2012).

2007

Vine, Edward L.."The Integration of Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Demand Response and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Evaluators and Planners." (2007).

1999

Vine, Edward L., and Jayant A. Sathaye."Guidelines for Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Verification, and Certification of Energy Efficiency Projects for Climate Change Mitigation." (1999).

Vine, Edward L., Jayant A. Sathaye, and Willy Makundi."Guidelines for the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Verification, and Certification of Forestry Projects for Climate Change Mitigation."European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy 4 (1999).

Vine, Edward L., and Jayant A. Sathaye."The Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Verification of Climate Change Projects."Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 4.1 (1999) 43-60. DOI

1998

Vine, Edward L., Eleanor S. Lee, Robert D. Clear, Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Office Worker Response to an Automated Venetian Blind and Electric Lighting System: A Pilot Study."Energy and Buildings 28.2 (1998) 205-218. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S., Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, Edward L. Vine, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Integrated Performance of an Automated Venetian Blind/Electric Lighting System in a Full-Scale Private Office."ASHRAE/DOE/BTECC Conference, Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VII (1998).

Chen, Allan, and Edward L. Vine."A Scoping Study on the Costs of Indoor Air Quality Illnesses: An Insurance Loss Reduction Perspective." (1998).

1996

Eto, Joseph H, Edward L. Vine, Leslie J. Shown, Richard Sonnenblick, and Christopher T. Payne."The Total Cost and Measured Performance of Utility-Sponsored Energy Efficiency Programs."The Energy Journal 17.1 (1996).

1995

Vine, Edward L.."Utility Residential New Construction Programs: Going Beyond the Code." (1995) 138.

Vine, Edward L.."INDEEP Annual Report (1994-1995)." (1995) 71.

Vine, Edward L.."International DSM and DSM Program Evaluation: An INDEEP Assessment." (1995).

1994

Schrock, , Derek W., John L. Stoops, Alan K. Meier, Edward L. Vine, and Barry D. Solomon."Developing Energy and Environmental Reporting Protocols." (1994).

Vine, Edward L., Joseph H Eto, Leslie J. Shown, Richard Sonnenblick, and Christopher T. Payne."Evaluation of Commercial Lighting Programs: A DEEP Assessment."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1994).

Eto, Joseph H, Edward L. Vine, Leslie J. Shown, Richard Sonnenblick, and Christopher T. Payne."The Cost and Performance of Utility Commercial Lighting Programs." (1994).

1993

Vine, Edward L.."The Human Dimension of Program Evaluation." (1993) 18.