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)

2024

Blum, Helcio, Victor H. Franco, Jing Ke, and Sarah K. Price."A Survey of Households with Direct Heating Equipment in California." (2024).

2023

Blum, Helcio, Victor H. Franco, and Sarah K. Price."A Survey of Direct Heating Equipment Market Actors in California." (2023).

2022

Blum, Helcio, and Sarah K. Price."A Review of Non-Regulatory Energy Efficiency Measures in the United States." (2022).

2021

Ke, Jing, and Helcio Blum."A panel analysis of groundwater use in California."Journal of Cleaner Production 326 (2021). DOI

2020

Zhu, Yongnan, Jing Ke, Jianhua Wang, He Liu, Shan Jiang, Helcio Blum, Yong Zhao, Guohua He, Yuan Meng, and Jian Su."Water transfer and losses embodied in the West–East electricity transmission project in China."Applied Energy (2020). DOI

2016

Blum, Helcio, and Edson O. Okwelum."Estimating Returns to Scale and Scale Efficiency for Energy Consuming Appliances." (2016).

2015

Blum, Helcio, and Edson O. Okwelum."Random Numbers Generation for Lifecycle-Cost Analysis of Energy Consuming Equipment." (2015).

2014

Meyers, Stephen, Alison A. Williams, Peter T. Chan, Gregory J. Rosenquist, Helcio Blum, Barbara A. Atkinson, Sanaee Iyama, Jie Gu, Maithili Iyer, and Sarah K. Price."Energy and Economic Impacts of U.S. Federal Energy and Water Conservation Standards Adopted from 1987 through 2013." (2014).

2012

Blum, Helcio, and Luiz F.L. Legey."The Challenging Economics of Energy Security: Ensuring Energy Benefits in Support to Sustainable Development."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012) 1982-1989. DOI

Blum, Helcio, Barbara A. Atkinson, and Alexander B. Lekov."A methodological framework for comparative assessments of equipment energy efficiency policy measures."Energy Efficiency 6.1 (2012) 65-90. DOI

2011

Blum, Helcio, Barbara A. Atkinson, and Alexander B. Lekov."A Framework for Comparative Assessments of Energy Efficiency Policy Measures." (2011) 35.

2010

Höhne, Niklas, Helcio Blum, Jan Fuglestvedt, Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie, Atsushi Kurosawa, Guoquan Hu, Jason Lowe, Laila Gohar, Ben Matthews, Ana Claudia Nioac de Salles, and Christian Ellermann."Contributions of Individual Countries' Emissions to Climate Change and Their Uncertainty." (2010) 33.

Blum, Helcio, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Quantitative Analysis of the Principal-Agent Problem in Commercial Buildings in the U.S.: Focus on Central Space Heating and Cooling." (2010) 20.