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)

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).

Worrell, Ernst, and Christina Galitsky."Energy efficiency improvement and cost saving opportunities for petroleum refineries." (2005).

2004

Galitsky, Christina, Lynn K Price, and Ernst Worrell."Energy efficiency programs and policies in the industrial sector in industrialized countries."Energy 28 (2004).

Galitsky, Christina, and Ernst Worrell."Profile of the chemicals industry in California: California industries of the future program."Energy 28 (2004).

Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National, Lynn K Price, Ernst Worrell, and Jonathan E Sinton."Designing Energy Conservation Voluntary Agreements for the Industrial Sector in China: Experience from a Pilot Project with Two Steel Mills in Shandong Province." (2004).

Worrell, Ernst, and Christina Galitsky."Profile of the petroleum refining industry in California: California industries of the future program."Energy 28 (2004).

Price, Lynn K, Jiang Yun, Ernst Worrell, Du Wenwei, and Jonathan E Sinton."Development of an energy conservation voluntary agreement pilot project in the steel sector in Shandong."Energy 28 (2004).

Price, Lynn K, Jonathan E Sinton, Ernst Worrell, Dian Phylipsen, Hu Xiulian, and Li Ji."Energy use and carbon dioxide emissions from steel production in China."Energy 27 (2004).

2003

Galitsky, Christina, Nathan C Martin, Ernst Worrell, and Bryan Lehman."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for Breweries: An ENERGY STAR(R) Guide for Energy and Plant Managers." (2003).

Worrell, Ernst, John A Laitner, Michael Ruth, and Hodayah Finman."Productivity benefits of industrial energy efficiency measures."Energy 28.11 (2003) 1081-1098. DOI

Laitner, John A, Ernst Worrell, Christina Galitsky, and Donald A Hanson."Characterizing emerging industrial technologies in energy models."Sustainability and Industry, Increasing Energy Efficiency, 7/29/2003 (2003).

Galitsky, Christina, Ernst Worrell, and Michael Ruth."Energy efficiency improvement and cost saving opportunities for the Corn Wet Milling Industry: An ENERGY STAR Guide for Energy and Plant Managers."Sustainability and Industry, Increasing Energy Efficiency (2003).

Worrell, Ernst, Stephan Ramesohl, and Gale Boyd."Towards increased policy relevance in energy modeling."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry 2003, 7/29/2003 6 (2003).

Price, Lynn K, Scott Murtishaw, and Ernst Worrell."Evaluation of metrics and baselines for tracking greenhouse gas emissions trends: Recommendations for the California climate action registry." (2003).

Worrell, Ernst, Hi-Chun Park, Sang-Gon Lee, Yonghun Jung, Hiroyuki Kato, and Stephan Ramesohl."Policy modeling for industrial energy use."Policy Modeling for Industrial Energy Use, 3/1/2003 2 (2003).

Price, Lynn K, Ernst Worrell, Jonathan E Sinton, and Jiang Yun."Voluntary Agreements for Increasing Energy-Efficiency in Industry: Case Study of a Pilot Project with the Steel Industry in Shandong Province, China."Earth Technologies Forum and Exhibition 28 (2003).

Price, Lynn K, Ernst Worrell, and Jonathan E Sinton."Voluntary agreements in the industrial sector in China."Energy Engineering Journal 2 (2003).

Price, Lynn K, Jiang Yun, Ernst Worrell, Du Wenwei, and Jonathan E Sinton."Development of an Energy Conservation Voluntary Agreement: Pilot Project in the Steel Sector in Shandong Province." (2003).

2002

Kim, Yeonbae, and Ernst Worrell."International comparison of CO₂ emission trends in the iron and steel industry."Energy Policy 30 (2002).

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."Energy Engineering 99.2 (2002) 36-55. DOI

Phylipsen, Dian, Kornelis Blok, Ernst Worrell, and Jeroen De Beer."Benchmarking the energy efficiency of Dutch industry: An assessment of the expected effect on energy consumption and CO₂ emissions."Energy Policy 30 (2002).

Worrell, Ernst, Christina Galitsky, and Nathan C Martin."Energy efficiency opportunities in the brewery industry."Cement International 1 (2002).

Worrell, Ernst, and Christina Galitsky."Improving energy efficiency in the U.S. Cement Industry. Part 1: Energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions."Cement International 1 (2002).

2001

Laitner, John A, Michael Ruth, and Ernst Worrell."Incorporating the productivity benefits into the assessment of cost effective energy savings potential using conservation supply curves."ACEEE's 2001 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry Proceedings, 7/24/2001 1 (2001).

Worrell, Ernst, and Lynn K Price."Potential impacts of energy efficiency policies in the U.S. industry: Results from the clean energy futures study."ACEEE's 2001 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry Proceedings, 7/24/2001 2 (2001).