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

Ding, Chao, Jing Ke, Mark D Levine, and Nan Zhou."Potential of artificial intelligence in reducing energy and carbon emissions of commercial buildings at scale."Nature Communications 15 (2024). DOI

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

Blum, Helcio, Vi H Rapp, Sharon S Chen, Jing Ke, and Katherine Carlson."Laboratory Evaluation of Direct Heating Equipment." (2024).

2023

Sun, Qingyi, Jing Ke, Camilla Dunham, Joong Hoon Sim, and Yuting Chen."Using Field-Metered Data to Characterize Consumer Usage Patterns of Residential Dishwashers." (2023).

2022

Ke, Jing, Nina Khanna, and Nan Zhou."Analysis of water–energy nexus and trends in support of the sustainable development goals: A study using longitudinal water–energy use data."Journal of Cleaner Production 371 (2022) 133448. DOI

Lu, Hongyou, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, Jing Ke, David Fridley, and Nan Zhou."China’s Electrification Pathways: Findings from the China Energy Outlook 2022." (2022).

Ke, Jing, Nina Khanna, and Nan Zhou."Indirect estimation of willingness to pay for energy technology adoption."Applied Energy 312 (2022) 118701. DOI

Zhou, Nan, Nina Khanna, Jingjing Zhang, Hongyou Lu, Lynn K Price, David Fridley, Jing Ke, Wei Feng, Bo Shen, Jiang Lin, and Mark D Levine."China Energy Outlook 2022." (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

2018

Zhou, Nan, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, Jing Ke, and Mark D Levine."Scenarios of energy efficiency and CO₂ emissions reduction potential in the buildings sector in China to year 2050."Nature Energy (2018). DOI

Franco, Victor H, Youness Bennani Smires, Jing Ke, Edward Cubero, and Alex Lekov."Estimating Residential Appliance Lifetime for Energy Efficient Policy Analysis."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Building Energy Efficiency (2018).

2016

McNeil, Michael A, Wei Feng, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Nina Khanna, Jing Ke, and Nan Zhou."Energy efficiency outlook in China’s urban buildings sector through 2030."Energy Policy 97 (2016) 532 - 539. DOI

Feng, Wei, Nina Khanna, David Fridley, Jing Ke, Ke Huang, and Nan Zhou."Impact Analysis of Developing Net Zero Energy Buildings in China."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in BUildings 10 (2016).

Khanna, Nina, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, and Jing Ke."Quantifying the potential impacts of China's power-sector policies on coal input and CO2 emissions through 2050: A bottom-up perspective."Utilities Policy 41 (2016) 128-138. DOI

2014

Khanna, Nina, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, and David Fridley."Evaluation of the Contribution of the Building Sector to PM2.5 Emissions in China." (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).

Khanna, Nina, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, and David Fridley."Quantifying PM2.5 Emissions from China's Building Sector and Co-Benefits of Energy Efficiency."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Zhao, Yue, Jing Ke, Chun Chun Ni, Michael A McNeil, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, and Qiqiang Li."A Comparative Study of Energy Consumption and Efficiency of Japanese and Chinese Manufacturing Industry."Energy Policy 70 (2014) 45-56. DOI

2013

Letschert, Virginie E, Michael A McNeil, Jing Ke, Puneeth Kalavase, and Mahesh Sampat."Energy Efficiency Potential for Distribution Transformers in the APEC Economies." (2013).

Letschert, Virginie E, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Jing Ke, and Michael A McNeil."Energy Efficiency - How Far Can We Raise the Bar? Revealing the Potential of Best Available Technologies."Energy 59 (2013) 72-82. DOI

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

Ke, Jing, Lynn K Price, Michael A McNeil, Nina Khanna, and Nan Zhou."Analysis and Practices of Energy Benchmarking for Industry from the Perspective of Systems Engineering."Energy 54 (2013) 32-44. DOI

Ke, Jing, Michael A McNeil, Lynn K Price, Nina Khanna, and Nan Zhou."Estimation of CO₂ Emissions from China’s Cement Production: Methodologies and Uncertainties."Energy Policy 57 (2013) 172-181.