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

Masanet, Eric R, Peter L Therkelsen, and Ernst Worrell."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Baking Industry."Energy Star Guide for Plant and Energy Managers (2012).

2011

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

2010

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).

Mundaca, Luis, Lena Neij, Ernst Worrell, and Michael A McNeil."Evaluating Energy Efficiency Policies with Energy-Economy Models." (2010).

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

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).

Worrell, Ernst, Lenny Bernstein, Joyashree Roy, Lynn K Price, Jochen Harnisch, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."Industrial Energy Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation." (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

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).

Galitsky, Christina, and Ernst Worrell."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Vehicle Assembly Industry." (2008).

Worrell, Ernst, and Christina Galitsky."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for Cement Making." (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).

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).

Worrell, Ernst, Lynn K Price, Maarten Neelis, Christina Galitsky, and Nan Zhou."World Best Practice Energy Intensity Values for Selected Industrial Sectors." (2008).

Worrell, Ernst, Christina Galitsky, and Lynn K Price."Energy Efficiency Improvement Opportunities for the Cement Industry." (2008).

2007

Bernstein, Lenny, Joyashree Roy, K. K Casey Delhotal, Jochen Harnisch, Ryuji Matsuhashi, Lynn K Price, Kanako Tanaka, Ernst Worrell, Francis Yamba, and Zhou Fengqi."Industry."Climate Change 2007: Mitigation (2007).

2006

Worrell, Ernst, Christina Galitsky, Lynn K Price, Nathan C Martin, Michael Ruth, R. R Neal Elliott, Anna Shipley, and J Thorne."Energy Efficiency Improvement Opportunities for the Petroleum Refining Industry." (2006).

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

Price, Lynn K, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Jonathan E Sinton, Ernst Worrell, Nan Zhou, Jayant A Sathaye, and Mark D Levine."Sectoral trends in global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions." (2006).

2005

Price, Lynn K, Christina Galitsky, Jonathan E Sinton, Ernst Worrell, and Wina Graus."Tax and Fiscal Policies for Promotion of Industrial Energy Efficiency: A Survey of International Experience." (2005).

Price, Lynn K, Christina Galitsky, Jonathan E Sinton, Ernst Worrell, and Wina Graus."Tax and Fiscal Policies for Promotion of Industrial Energy Efficiency: A Survey of International Experience." (2005).

Worrell, Ernst, Nathan C Martin, Lynn K Price, Michael Ruth, R. R Neal Elliott, Anna Shipley, and Jennifer Thorn."Emerging Energy-Efficient Technologies for Industry." (2005).

Galitsky, Christina, Ernst Worrell, Anthony Radspieler Jr, Patrick Healy, and Susanne Zechiel."BEST Winery Guidebook: Benchmarking and Energy and Water Savings Tool for the Wine Industry." (2005).