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)

2017

Piette, Mary Ann, Tianzhen Hong, William J. Fisk, Norman Bourassa, Wanyu R. Chan, Yixing Chen, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Toshifumi Hotchi, Margarita Kloss, Sang Hoon Lee, Phillip N. Price, Oren Schetrit, Kaiyu Sun, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Rongpeng Zhang."Small and Medium Building Efficiency Toolkit and Community Demonstration Program." (2017). DOI

2015

Piette, Mary Ann, Oren Schetrit, Sila Kiliccote, H.Y. Iris Cheung, and Becky Zilu LI."Costs to Automate Demand Response – Taxonomy and Results from Field Studies and Programs." (2015).

2014

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Steve E. Greenberg, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Richard E. Brown, and William Tscudi."Energy Efficiency in Small Server Rooms: FIeld Surveys and Findings."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Payne, Christopher T., H.Y. Iris Cheung, and Emily Fisher."Evolution of Energy Efficiency Programs Over Time: The Case of Standby Power."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Kloss, Margarita, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Richard E. Brown, and Alan K. Meier."Using Public Participation to Improve MELs Energy Data Collection."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

2013

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Margarita Kloss, Richard E. Brown, and Alan K. Meier."Using Public Participation to Improve MELs Energy Data Collection." (2013).

Lanzisera, Steven, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Jay Taneja, David Culler, and Richard E. Brown."Methods for detailed energy data collection of miscellaneous and electronic loads in a commercial office building."Building and Environment 65 (2013) 170 - 177. DOI

Lanzisera, Steven, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Jay Taneja, David Culler, and Richard E. Brown."Methods for Detailed Energy Data Collection of Miscellaneous and Electronic Loads in a Commercial Office Building." (2013).

Ghatikar, Girish, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Steven Lanzisera, Bob Wardell, Manoj Deshpande, and Jayraj Ugarkar."Miscellaneous and Electronic Loads Energy Efficiency Opportunities for Commercial Buildings: A Collaborative Study by the United States and India." (2013).

2012

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Steven Lanzisera, Judy Lai, Richard E. Brown, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Jay Taneja, and David Culler."Detailed Energy Data Collection for Miscellaneous and Electronic Loads in a Commercial Office Building."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Steve E. Greenberg, Richard E. Brown, William F. Tschudi, Pierre Delforge, and Joyce Dickerson."Fact Sheet: Improving Energy Efficiency for Server Rooms and Closets." (2012).