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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2014

Mills, Evan."EnergyIQ for Action-oriented Benchmarking: Final Report." (2014).

Alstone, , P, K Radecsky, Arne Jacobson, and Evan Mills."Field Study Methods and Results from a Market Trial of Night Market Vendors in Rural Kenya."Light & Engineering 22.2 (2014).

Mills, Evan."Light for Life: Identifying and Reducing the Health and Safety Impacts of Fuel-Based Lighting." (2014).

2013

Pendleton, Linwood, Thomas R. Karl, and Evan Mills."Economic Growth in the Face of Weather and Climate Extremes: A Call for Better Data."Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 94 (2013). DOI

Gengnagel, Tim, Phillipp Wollburg, and Evan Mills."Alternatives to Fuel-based Lighting for Night Fishing." (2013).

Mills, Evan."Insurers as Partners in Inclusive Green Growth." (2013).

2012

Mills, Evan."The Greening of Insurance."Science 338.6113 (2012) 1424-1425. DOI

Mills, Evan."The Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis Production."Energy Policy 46 (2012) 58-67. DOI

Bourassa, Norman, Leo I. Rainer, Evan Mills, and Joan Glickman."The Home Energy Scoring Tool: A Simplified Asset Rating for Single Family Homes."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Parker, Danny S., Evan Mills, Leo I. Rainer, Norman Bourassa, and Gregory K. Homan."Accuracy of the Home Energy Saver Energy Calculation Methodology."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Mills, Evan."Doing well by doing good: a scientist frames climate solutions in business terms."Environmental Research Web (2012).

Mills, Evan, and Paul A. Mathew."EnergyIQ: Action-oriented Benchmarking." (2012).

Mills, Evan."Health Impacts of Fuel-based Lighting." (2012).

Mills, Evan, and Paul A. Mathew."Monitoring-Based Commissioning: Benchmarking Analysis of 24 University Buildings in California."Energy Engineering (2012).

Chojnowski, , D, K Straub, Evan Mills, and T White."Online Communities for Creating Change: Home Energy Pros."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Mills, Evan, and Paul A. Mathew."Web Services that Foster Innovation in Buildings Energy Analysis Tools."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Mills, Evan."Weighing the Risks of Climate Change Mitigation Strategies."Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 68.6 (2012) 67-78. DOI

2011

Mills, Evan."Commissioning High-Tech Facilities."ASHRAE Journal 53 (2011).

Mills, Evan."Building Commissioning: A Golden Opportunity for Reducing Energy Costs and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States.."Energy Efficiency (2011). DOI

Mills, Evan, Peter Alstone, and Arne Jacobson.""Embodied Energy and Off-Grid Lighting." Lumina Project ." (2011).

Mills, Evan, and Arne Jacobson."From Carbon to Light: A New Framework for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reducitons from Replacing Fuel-Based Lighting with LED Systems.."Energy Efficiency (2011). DOI

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

Tracy, Jennifer, Arne Jacobson, and Evan Mills."Assessing the Performance of LED-Based Flashlights Available in the Kenyan Off-Grid Lighting Market." (2010).

Apple, J., R. Vicente, A. Yarberry, N. Lohse, Evan Mills, Arne Jacobson, and D. Poppendieck."Characterization of particulate matter size distributions and indoor concentrations from kerosene and diesel lamps."Indoor Air 20.5 (2010). DOI

Mills, Evan, and J Tracy."Illuminating The Pecking Order in Off-Grid Lighting: A Demonstration of LED Lighting for Saving Energy in the Poultry Sector."Light & Engineering 19.4 (2010).