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

Ward, Jacob W, Jeremy J Michalek, Constantine Samaras, Inês Lima Azevedo, Alejandro Henao, Clement Rames, and Thomas P Wenzel."The impact of Uber and Lyft on vehicle ownership, fuel economy, and transit across U.S. cities."iScience 24.1 (2021) 101933. 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).

2016

Lamy, Julian V, Paulina Jaramillo, Inês Lima Azevedo, and Ryan H Wiser."Should we build wind farms close to load or invest in transmission to access better wind resources in remote areas? A case study in the MISO region."Energy Policy 96.September 2016 (2016) 341-350. DOI

Shehabi, Arman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Dale A Sartor, Richard E Brown, Magnus Herrlin, Jonathan G Koomey, Eric R Masanet, Nathaniel Horner, Inês Lima Azevedo, and William Lintner."United States Data Center Energy Usage Report." (2016).

2009

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Inês Lima Azevedo, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."The Open Source Stochastic Building Simulation Tool SLBM and Its Capabilities to Capture Uncertainty of Policymaking in the U.S. Building Sector."32nd IAEE International Conference, Energy, Economy, Environment: The Global View, June 21-24, 2009 (2009).

Komiyama, Ryoichi, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Inês Lima Azevedo, Sam Borgeson, Brian E Coffey, and Judy Lai."Japan's Energy Outlook for 2050 with Stochastic Sectoral Modeling."IEEJ Energy Journal of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan 4 (2009).

Komiyama, Ryoichi, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Judy Lai, Sam Borgeson, Brian E Coffey, and Inês Lima Azevedo."Japan's Long-term Energy Demand and Supply Scenario to 2050 - Estimation for the Potential of Massive CO₂ Mitigation."IEEJ Energy Journal of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan 4 (2009).

2008

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Inês Lima Azevedo, Hirohisa Aki, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."Radical Rethinking in Building Energy Forecasting - The Open Source Stochastic Building Simulation Tool SLBM."2008 Behavior Energy and Climate Change Conference, November 16-19, 2008 (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Inês Lima Azevedo, Hirohisa Aki, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."The Stochastic Building Simulation Tool SLBM and its New Energy Forecasting Approach."Fifth Annual California Climate Change Conference, September 8-10, 2008 (2008).