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)

2013

McNeil, Michael A, Virginie E Letschert, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Jing Ke."Bottom-Up Energy Analysis System (BUENAS) – An International Appliance Efficiency Policy Tool."Energy Efficiency 6.2 (2013) 191-217. DOI

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Michael A McNeil, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, and Jing Ke."Quantifying the potential impact of energy efficiency and low carbon policies for China."the European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 2013 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2013).

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Jing Ke, Michael A McNeil, and Mark D Levine."China's Energy and Emissions Outlook to 2050: Perspectives from Bottom-Up Energy End-Use Model."Energy Policy 53 (2013) 51-62. 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).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, William R Morrow III, Lynn K Price, and Nina Khanna."China Energy and Emissions Path to 2030." (2013).

2012

Letschert, Virginie E, Nicholas Bojda, Jing Ke, and Michael A McNeil."Estimate of Cost-Effective Potential for Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards in 13 Major World Economies Energy Savings, Environmental and Financial Impacts." (2012).

Ke, Jing, Lynn K Price, Stephanie Ohshita, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, and Mark D Levine."China’s Industrial Energy Consumption Trends and Impacts of the Top-1000 Enterprises Energy-Saving Program and the Ten Key Energy-Saving Projects."Energy Policy 50 (2012) 562-569. DOI

Levine, Mark D, Wei Feng, Jing Ke, Tianzhen Hong, and Nan Zhou."A Retrofit Tool for Improving Energy Efficiency of Commercial Buildings."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study (2012).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, William R Morrow III, Lynn K Price, and Nina Khanna."China Energy and Emissions Paths to 2030 (2nd Edition)." (2012).

McNeil, Michael A, Virginie E Letschert, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Jing Ke."Bottom-Up Energy Analysis System - Methodology and Results." (2012).

Letschert, Virginie E, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Jing Ke, and Michael A McNeil."Estimate of Technical Potential for Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards in 13 Major World Economies." (2012).

McNeil, Michael A, Nicholas Bojda, Won Young Park, Mo Zhou, Jing Ke, and Jun Young Choi."Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in the Republic of Korea." (2012).

Ke, Jing, Nina Zheng, David Fridley, Lynn K Price, Nan Zhou, and Nina Khanna."Potential Energy Savings and CO₂ Emissions Reduction of China’s Cement Industry." (2012).

Xu, Tengfang T, Joris Flapper, Jing Ke, Klaas Jan Kramer, and Jayant A Sathaye."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program Development of a Computer-based Benchmarking and Analytical Tool: Benchmarking and Energy & Water Savings Tool in Dairy Plants (BEST-Dairy)." (2012).

McNeil, Michael A, Jing Ke, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Virginie E Letschert, and James E McMahon."Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in India." (2012).

Xu, Tengfang T, Joris Flapper, Jing Ke, Klaas Jan Kramer, and Jayant A Sathaye."Development of a Computer-based Benchmarking and Analytical Tool: Benchmarking and Energy & Water Savings Tool in Dairy Plants (BEST-Dairy)." (2012).

Ke, Jing, and Nan Zhou."GREAT Tool User Manual (in Chinese)." (2012).

Letschert, Virginie E, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Jing Ke, and Michael A McNeil."Technical Potential of Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards: A Global Analysis of Best Available Technology." (2012).

2011

McNeil, Michael A, Nicholas Bojda, Jing Ke, Yining Qin, Stephane de la Rue du Can, David Fridley, Virginie E Letschert, and James E McMahon."Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in China." (2011).

Zhou, Nan, Lynn K Price, Nina Zheng, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Nina Khanna."National Level Co-Control Study of the Targets for Energy Intensity and Sulfur Dioxide in China." (2011).

Fridley, David, Michael A McNeil, Nina Zheng, Virginie E Letschert, Jing Ke, Yamina Saheb, and Nina Khanna."Analysis of Potential Energy Saving and CO₂ Emission Reduction of Home Appliances and Commercial Equipments in China."Energy Policy 39.8 (2011) 4541-4550. DOI

Bojda, Nicholas, Jing Ke, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Virginie E Letschert, James E McMahon, and Michael A McNeil."Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in the United States." (2011).

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Michael A McNeil, Nina Zheng, Jing Ke, and Mark D Levine."Peak CO₂? China’s Emissions Trajectories to 2050." (2011).

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Michael A McNeil, Nina Zheng, Jing Ke, Mark D Levine, and Nina Khanna."China’s Energy and Carbon Emissions Outlook to 2050." (2011) 83.

Xu, Tengfang T, Jing Ke, and Jayant A Sathaye."User's Manual for BEST-Dairy: Benchmarking and Energy/water-Saving Tool (BEST) for the Dairy Processing Industry (Version 1.2)." (2011).