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)

2021

Wells, Emily McAuliffe, Mitchell J. Small, C. Anna Spurlock, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi."Factors associated with emerging multimodal transportation behavior in the San Francisco Bay Area."Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability 1 (2021).

2020

Spurlock, C. Anna, Annika Todd-Blick, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, and Victor Walker."Children, Income, and the Impact of Home- Delivery on Household Shopping Trips."Transportation Research Record (2020). DOI

2019

Hanus, Nichole L, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Parth T Vaishnav, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Inês Lima Azevedo."Solar PV as a mitigation strategy for the US education sector."Environmental Research Letters 14.4 (2019).

Spurlock, C. Anna, James Sears, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Victor Walker, Ling Jin, Margaret Taylor, Andrew Duvall, Anand R. Gopal, and Annika Todd."Describing the users: Understanding adoption of and interest in shared, electrified, and automated transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area."Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 71 (2019) 283-301. DOI

2009

Lekov, Alexander B., Victor H. Franco, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, James E. McMahon, and Peter T. Chan."Economics of Residential Gas Furnaces and Water Heaters in United States New Construction Market." (2009).

2006

Lutz, James D., Victor H. Franco, Alexander B. Lekov, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi."BPM Motors in Residential Gas Furnaces: What are the Savings?."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1 (2006) 12.

Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle, Larry L. Dale, and Alexander B. Lekov."Comparing price forecast accuracy of natural gas models and futures markets."Energy policy 34 (2006) 4115–4122.

2005

Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle, Larry L. Dale, and Alexander B. Lekov."Comparing Price Forecast Accuracy of Natural Gas Models and Futures Markets." (2005).

Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle, Alexander B. Lekov, and Larry L. Dale."Natural Gas Prices Forecast Comparison — AEO vs. Natural Gas Markets." (2005) 16.

2003

Golove, William H., Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Doug Bushey, and Barbara Haya."ProForm: A Tool for Pre-Feasibility Analysis of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects." (2003).