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)

2012

Sathre, Roger, Hanna Breunig, Peter H. Larsen, Eric R. Masanet, Thomas E. McKone, Nigel Quinn, and Corinne D. Scown."Spatially-explicit impacts of carbon capture and sequestration on water supply and demand."Eleventh Annual Carbon Capture, Utilization & Sequestration Conference (2012).

Morrow, William R. III, Anand R. Gopal, Gary A. Fitts, Sarah M. Lewis, Larry L. Dale, Eric R. Masanet, and Thomas E. McKone."Drought-tolerant Biofuel Crops could be a Critical Hedge for Biorefineries." (2012).

2011

Brush, Adrian, Eric R. Masanet, and Ernst Worrell."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Dairy Processing Industry." (2011).

Masanet, Eric R., Richard E. Brown, Arman Shehabi, Jonathan G. Koomey, and Bruce Nordman."Estimating the Energy Use and Efficiency Potential of U.S. Data Centers." (2011).

Masanet, Eric R., Richard E. Brown, Arman Shehabi, Jonathan G. Koomey, and Bruce Nordman."Estimating the Energy Use and Efficiency Potential of U.S. Data Centers." (2011).

McKone, Thomas E., William W. Nazaroff, Peter Berck, Maximilian Auffhammer, Timothy E. Lipman, Margaret S. Torn, Eric R. Masanet, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Nicholas J Santero, Umakant Mishra, Audrey Barrett, Matt Bomberg, Kevin Fingerman, Corinne D. Scown, Bret Strogen, and Arpad Horvath."Grand Challenges for Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 45.5 (2011) 1751 - 1756. DOI

2010

Shehabi, Arman, Eric R. Masanet, Hillary Price, Arpad Horvath, and William W. Nazaroff."Data center design and location: Consequences for electricity use and greenhouse-gas emissions."Building and Environment 46.5 (2010) 990–998. DOI

Worrell, Ernst, Paul Blinde, Maarten Neelis, Eliane Blomen, and Eric R. Masanet."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the U.S. Iron and Steel Industry: An ENERGY STAR® Guide for Energy and Plant Managers." (2010).

2009

Lu, Hongyou, Eric R. Masanet, and Lynn K. Price."Evaluation of Life-Cycle Assessment Studies of Chinese Cement Production: Challenges and Opportunities."2009 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2009).

Masanet, Eric R., Klaas Jan Kramer, Gregory K. Homan, Richard E. Brown, and Ernst Worrell."Assessment of Supply Chain Energy Efficiency Potentials: A U.S. Case Study." (2009).

Masanet, Eric R., Klaas Jan Kramer, Gregory K. Homan, Richard E. Brown, and Ernst Worrell."Assessment of Household Carbon Footprint Reduction Potentials." (2009).

Sathaye, Jayant A., Swart Alterra, Eric R. Masanet, Franck Lecocq, Adil Najam, Roberto Schaeffer, and Harald Winkler."Opportunities to change development pathways toward lower greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency." (2009).

Kramer, Klaas Jan, Eric R. Masanet, Tengfang T. Xu, and Ernst Worrell."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Pulp and Paper Industry." (2009).

2008

Lu, Alison, James E. McMahon, Eric R. Masanet, and James D. Lutz."Our Environment in Hot Water: Comparing Water Heaters, A Life Cycle Approach Comparing Tank and Tankless Water Heaters in California." (2008) 25.

Neelis, Maarten, Ernst Worrell, and Eric R. Masanet."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Petrochemical Industry An ENERGY STAR® Guide for Energy and Plant Managers." (2008).

Brown, Richard E., Eric R. Masanet, Bruce Nordman, William F. Tschudi, Arman Shehabi, John Stanley, Jonathan G. Koomey, Dale A. Sartor, and Peter T. Chan."Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency: Public Law 109-431." (2008).

Worrell, Ernst, Christina Galitsky, Eric R. Masanet, and Wina Graus."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Glass Industry." (2008).

Galitsky, Christina, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Ernst Worrell, and Eric R. Masanet."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Pharmaceutical Industry." (2008).

Masanet, Eric R., Ernst Worrell, Wina Graus, and Christina Galitsky."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Fruit and Vegetable Processing Industry. An ENERGY STAR Guide for Energy and Plant Managers." (2008).

2006

Galitsky, Christina, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Ernst Worrell, and Eric R. Masanet."Improving Energy Efficiency in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Operations." (2006).

2005

Murtishaw, Scott, Lynn K. Price, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Eric R. Masanet, Ernst Worrell, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Development of Energy Balances for the State of California." (2005).