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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.
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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)

2015

Shen, Bo, Lynn K. Price, Hongyou Lu, Xu Liu, Katherine Tsen, Wei Xiangyang, Zhang Yunpeng, Guan Jian, Hou Rui, Zhang Junfeng, Zhuo Yuqun, Xia Shumao, Han Yafeng, and Liu Manzhi."Curbing Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Industrial Boilers in China." (2015).

Lu, Hongyou."Capturing the Invisible Resource: Analysis of Waste Heat Potential in Chinese Industry and Policy Options for Waste Heat to Power Generation." (2015) 87.

Shen, Bo, Hongyou Lu, and Lynn K. Price."U.S. Experiences in Tackling Energy and Environmental Challenges of Boiler System." (2015).

Ohshita, Stephanie, Nan Zhou, Lynn K. Price, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Lixuan Hong, Hongyou Lu, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Gang He, and Jinyue Yan."Low Carbon Development for Cities: Methods and Measures."Handbook of Clean Energy Systems 6 (2015) 1-23. DOI

2014

Fridley, David, Mark D. Levine, Hongyou Lu, and Cecilia Fino-Chen."Key China Energy Statistics 2014." (2014).

Price, Lynn K., Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Lixuan Hong, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Jing Ke, Stephanie Ohshita, Hu Min, Yong Zhou, Stephen Hammer, and Hu Xulian."Energy-Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policy Options: Assisting Chinese Cities in Prioritizing and Choosing Strategies to Implement to Become a Sustainable Community." American Council for An Energy-Efficient Economy 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

Lu, Hongyou, Lynn K. Price, Arvind Thekdi, Sachin Nimbalkar, Matthew DeGroot, and Shi Jun."Energy Assessments under the Top 10,000 Program – A Case Study for A Steel Mill in China."2014 ECEEE Industrial Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Hongyou Lu, Lynn K. Price, and Yue Dai."Including the Co-benefits of Energy-Efficiency Programs and Projects in Cost-Benefit Analysis - A Case Study for the Cement Industry."International Conference on Clean Energy (2014).

Shen, Bo, Fan Dai, Lynn K. Price, and Hongyou Lu."California's Cap-and-Trade Programme and Insights for China's Pilot Schemes."Energy & Environment 25.3-4 (2014) 551-575.

2013

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Hongyou Lu, and Jing Ke."Retrospective and prospective decomposition analysis of Chinese manufacturing energy use and policy implications."Energy Policy (2013). DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Hongyou Lu, and Jing Ke."Retrospective and Prospective Decomposition Analysis of Chinese Manufacturing Energy Use, 1995-2020." (2013).

Lu, Hongyou, and Yong Zhou."Direct Allocation of Emission Allowances for Industrial Sectors — Experience from California's Cap-and-Trade Program (in Chinese)."Journal of Science and Management 5 (2013).

Lu, Hongyou, and Yong Zhou."Establishment of California Carbon Emission Trading Market and Recommendations for China (in Chinese)."Journal of Science and Management 4 (2013).

2012

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Yue Dai, Hongyou Lu, and Lynn K. Price."Quantifying the Co-benefits of Energy-Efficiency Programs: A Case Study of the Cement Industry in Shandong Province, China." (2012).

Romankiewicz, John, Bo Shen, Hongyou Lu, and Lynn K. Price."Addressing the effectiveness of industrial energy efficiency incentives in overcoming investment barriers in China."ECEEE 2012 Industrial Summer Study (2012).

Price, Lynn K., Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Stephanie Ohshita, and Nina Khanna."Development of an End-Use Sector- Based Low-Carbon Indicator System for Cities in China."ACEEE’s 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Hongyou Lu, Christopher J. Williams, and Lynn K. Price."International Best Practices for Pre- Processing and Co-Processing Municipal Solid Waste and Sewage Sludge in the Cement Industry." (2012).

Price, Lynn K., Nan Zhou, Hongyou Lu, Emiel van Sambeek, Ping Yowargana, Liu Shuang, and Jiang Kejun."Policy Options for Encouraging Energy Efficiency Best Practices in Shandong Province’s Cement Industry." (2012).

Lu, Hongyou, and Lynn K. Price."China’s Industrial Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Manufacturing Subsectors and in Selected Provinces." (2012).

Shen, Bo, Lynn K. Price, and Hongyou Lu."Energy Audit Practices in China: National and Local Experiences and Issues." 46 (2012).

Levine, Mark D., David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, and Cecilia Fino-Chen."Key China Energy Statistics 2012." (2012).

Price, Lynn K., Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Stephanie Ohshita, Hongyou Lu, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, and Nina Khanna."Development of a Low-Carbon Indicator System for China."Habitat International (2012).

Levine, Mark D., David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, and Cecilia Fino-Chen."Key China Energy Statistics 2011." (2012).

2011

Price, Lynn K., Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Stephanie Ohshita, Hongyou Lu, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, and Nina Khanna."Development of a Low-Carbon Indicator System for China." (2011).

Price, Lynn K., Mark D. Levine, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Nathaniel T. Aden, Hongyou Lu, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Zheng, Yining Qin, Ping Yowargana, and Nina Khanna."Assessment of China’s Energy-Saving and Emission-Reduction Accomplishments and Opportunities During the 11th Five Year Plan."Energy Policy 39 (2011) 2165-2178.