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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

1986

Kahn, Edward P, Joseph H Eto, Jonathan G. Koomey, Peter T. Chan, and Mark D. Levine."Valuation of Demand-side Utility Programs."1986 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1986).

Eto, Joseph H, Jonathan G. Koomey, Chris Pignone, James E. McMahon, and Peter T. Chan."Thermal Integrity Measures for Residential Buildings: Texas Utilities Electric Company and Nevada Power Company." (1986).

Eto, Joseph H, Jonathan G. Koomey, James E. McMahon, and Peter T. Chan."Financial Impacts on Utilities of Load Shape Changes: The Nevada Power Company." (1986).

Eto, Joseph H, Jonathan G. Koomey, James E. McMahon, and Peter T. Chan."Financial Impacts on Utilities of Load Shape Changes: The Texas Utility Electric Company." (1986).

Pignone, Chris, Joseph H Eto, and Edward P Kahn."Corporate Planning Models as Least‑Cost Utility Planning Tools." (1986).

1985

Eto, Joseph H."A Comparison of Weather Normalization Techniques for Commercial Building Energy Use."DOE/ASHRAE/BTECC Conference on Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings III (1985).

Eto, Joseph H."Cooling Strategies Based on Indicators of Thermal Storage in Commercial Building Mass."Second Symposium on Improving Building Systems in Hot and Humid Climates (1985).

Eto, Joseph H."Characterizing the Effects of Weather on Commercial Building Energy Use."IBPSA Building Simulation Conference (1985).

Eto, Joseph H, and Gay Powell."Implications of Office Building Thermal Mass and Multi-day Temperature Profiles for Cooling Strategies."ASME/AIChe National Heat Transfer Conference (1985).

Birdsall, , Bruce E., Walter F. Buhl, Richard B. Curtis, Ender Erdem, Joseph H Eto, James J. Hirsch, Karen H. Olson, and Frederick C. Winkelmann."The DOE-2 Computer Program for Thermal Simulation of Buildings."American Institute of Physics (AIP) 135 (1985). DOI

Buhl, Walter F., Ender Erdem, Joseph H Eto, James J. Hirsch, and Frederick C. Winkelmann."New Features of the DOE-2.1c Energy Analysis Program."International Building Performance Simulation Association (1985).

1984

Eto, Joseph H, James E. McMahon, and Peter T. Chan."Financial Impacts on Utilities of Load Shape Changes Project: Stage III Summary Report - Virginia Electric and Power Company." (1984).

Eto, Joseph H."Commercial Building Cogeneration Opportuntities."ACEEE Summer Study in Energy Efficient Buildings (1984).

Kahn, Edward P, Chris Pignone, Joseph H Eto, James E. McMahon, and Mark D. Levine."Regulatory Factors Affecting the Financial Impact of Conservation Programs on Utilities."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Summer Study in Energy Efficient Buildings, August 1984 (1984).

Eto, Joseph H, James E. McMahon, and Peter T. Chan."Financial Impacts on Utilities of Load Shape Changes Project: Stage II Technical Report - Pacific Gas and Electric Company." (1984).

Curtis, Richard B., Bruce E. Birdsall, Walter F. Buhl, Ender Erdem, Joseph H Eto, James J. Hirsch, Karen H. Olson, and Frederick C. Winkelmann."The DOE-2 Building Energy Analysis Program."ASEAN Conference on Energy Conservation in Buildings (1984).

1983

Eto, Joseph H."Optimal Cogeneration Systems for High-Rise Office Buildings."18th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (1983).