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)

2020

Masanet, Eric R, Arman Shehabi, Nuoa Lei, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Jonathan G Koomey."Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates."Science 367.6481 (2020) 984 - 986. DOI

2019

Masanet, Eric R, Arman Shehabi, Nuoa Lei, Harald Vranken, Jonathan G Koomey, and Jens Malmodin."Implausible projections overestimate near-term Bitcoin CO2 emissions." (2019). DOI

2018

Shehabi, Arman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Eric R Masanet, and Jonathan G Koomey."Data center growth in the United States: decoupling the demand for services from electricity use."Environmental Research Letters 13.12 (2018) 124030. DOI

2016

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).

2013

Masanet, Eric R, Arman Shehabi, and Jonathan G Koomey."Characteristics of low-carbon data centres."Nature Climate Change 3 (2013) 627-630. DOI

2011

Masanet, Eric R, Richard E Brown, Arman Shehabi, Jonathan G Koomey, and Bruce Nordman."Estimating the Energy Use and Efficiency Potential of U.S. Data Centers." (2011).

Masanet, Eric R, Richard E Brown, Arman Shehabi, Jonathan G Koomey, and Bruce Nordman."Estimating the Energy Use and Efficiency Potential of U.S. Data Centers." (2011).

2010

Koomey, Jonathan G, Hashem Akbari, Carl Blumstein, Marilyn A Brown, Richard E Brown, Chris Calwell, Sheryl Carter, Ralph Cavanagh, Audrey Chang, David Claridge, Paul P Craig, Richard C Diamond, Joseph H Eto, William Fulkerson, Ashok J Gadgil, Howard S Geller, José Goldemberg, Charles A Goldman, David B Goldstein, Steve E Greenberg, David Hafemeister, Jeffrey P Harris, Hal Harvey, Eric Heitz, Eric Hirst, Holmes Hummel, Daniel M Kammen, Henry Kelly, John A Laitner, Mark D Levine, Amory Lovins, Gil Masters, James E McMahon, Alan K Meier, Michael Messenger, John Millhone, Evan Mills, Steven M Nadel, Bruce Nordman, Lynn K Price, Joseph J Romm, Marc Ross, Michael Rufo, Jayant A Sathaye, Leon J Schipper, Stephen H Schneider, James L Sweeney, Malcolm Verdict, Diana Vorsatz, Devra Wang, Carl Weinberg, Richard Wilk, John Wilson, and Ernst Worrell."Defining a standard metric for electricity savings."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

2008

Brown, Richard E, Sam Borgeson, Jonathan G Koomey, and Peter J Biermayer."U.S. Building-Sector Energy Efficiency Potential." (2008).

Brown, Richard E, Eric R Masanet, Bruce Nordman, William F Tschudi, Arman Shehabi, John Stanley, Jonathan G Koomey, Dale A Sartor, and Peter T Chan."Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency: Public Law 109-431." (2008).

2004

Koomey, Jonathan G."Energy Efficiency in New Office Buildings: An Investigation of Market Failures and Corrective Policies." (2004).

Tschudi, William F, Tengfang T Xu, Dale A Sartor, Jonathan G Koomey, Bruce Nordman, and Osman Sezgen."Energy Efficient Data Centers." (2004).

2003

Brown, Richard E, and Jonathan G Koomey."Electricity Use in California: Past Trends and Present Usage Patterns."Energy Policy 31.9 (2003) 849-864. DOI

Koomey, Jonathan G, Paul P Craig, Ashok J Gadgil, and David M Lorenzetti."Improving Long-Range Energy Modeling: A Plea for Historical Retrospectives."The Energy Journal 24.4 (2003) 75-92.

2002

Koomey, Jonathan G, Chris Calwell, John A Laitner, Jane Thornton, Richard E Brown, Joseph H Eto, Carrie A Webber, Cathy Cullicott, Robert H Socolow, Dennis Anderson, and John Harte."Sorry, wrong number: The use and misuse of numerical facts in analysis and media reporting of energy issues."Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 2002 27 (2002) 119-158. DOI

Craig, Paul P, Ashok J Gadgil, and Jonathan G Koomey."What can history teach us?: A retrospective analysis of long-term energy forecasts for the U.S."Annual Reviews of Energy and the Environment 27 (2002) 83-118. DOI

Koomey, Jonathan G, and Richard E Brown."The role of building technologies in reducing and controlling peak electricity demand." (2002).

Roberson, Judy A, Gregory K Homan, Akshay Mahajan, Bruce Nordman, Carrie A Webber, Richard E Brown, Marla C McWhinney, and Jonathan G Koomey."Energy Use and Power Levels in New Monitors and Personal Computers." (2002).

Roberson, Judy A, Gregory K Homan, Akshay Mahajan, Bruce Nordman, Carrie A Webber, Richard E Brown, Marla C McWhinney, and Jonathan G Koomey."Enery Use and Power Management in New Personal Computers and Monitors." (2002) 36.

Kawamoto, Kaoru, Jonathan G Koomey, Bruce Nordman, Richard E Brown, Mary Ann Piette, Michael K Ting, and Alan K Meier."Electricity Used by Office Equipment and Network Equipment in the U.S.."Energy 27.3 (2002) 255-269. DOI

Webber, Carrie A, Richard E Brown, Akshay Mahajan, and Jonathan G Koomey."Savings Estimates for the ENERGY STAR Voluntary Labeling Program: 2001 Status Report." (2002).

2001

Webber, Carrie A, Judy A Roberson, Richard E Brown, Christopher T Payne, Bruce Nordman, and Jonathan G Koomey."Field Surveys of Office Equipment Operating Patterns." (2001).

Eto, Joseph H, Jonathan G Koomey, Bryan Lehman, Nathan C Martin, Evan Mills, Carrie A Webber, and Ernst Worrell."Scoping Study on Trends in the Economic Value of Electricity Reliability to the U.S. Economy." (2001) 148.

Kawamoto, Kaoru, Jonathan G Koomey, Michael K Ting, Bruce Nordman, Richard E Brown, Mary Ann Piette, and Alan K Meier."Electricity Used by Office Equipment and Network Equipment in the U.S.: Detailed Report and Appendices." (2001).

Osborn, Julie G, Frances Wood, R. R Cooper Richey, Sandy Sanders, Walter Short, and Jonathan G Koomey."A Sensitivity Analysis of the Treatment of Wind Energy in the AEO99 Version of NEMS." (2001) 43.