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)

2022

Wai, Travis Hee, Joshua S Apte, Maria H Harris, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Christopher J Portier, Chelsea V Preble, Ananya Roy, and Adam A Szpiro."Insights from application of a hierarchical spatio-temporal model to an intensive urban black carbon monitoring dataset."Atmospheric Environment 277 (2022) 119069. DOI

Deng, Hang, Hanna Breunig, Joshua S Apte, and Yue Qin."An Early Career Perspective on the Opportunities and Challenges of Team Science."Environmental Science & Technology (2022). DOI

2020

Chambliss, Sarah E, Chelsea V Preble, Julien J Caubel, Troy Cados, Kyle P Messier, Ramon A Alvarez, Brian W LaFranchi, Melissa M Lunden, Julian D Marshall, Adam A Szpiro, Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Joshua S Apte."Comparison of Mobile and Fixed-Site Black Carbon Measurements for High-Resolution Urban Pollution Mapping."Environmental Science & Technology 54.13 (2020) 7848 - 7857. DOI

2017

Apte, Joshua S, Kyle P Messier, Shahzad Gani, Michael Brauer, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Melissa M Lunden, Julian D Marshall, Christopher J Portier, Roel C.H Vermeulen, and Steven P Hamburg."High-Resolution Air Pollution Mapping with Google Street View Cars: Exploiting Big Data."Environmental Science & Technology (2017). DOI

2016

Kirchstetter, Thomas W, Chelsea V Preble, Odelle L Hadley, Tami C Bond, and Joshua S Apte."Large reductions in urban black carbon concentrations in the United States between 1965 and 2000."Atmospheric Environment 151 (2016) 17-23. DOI

2015

Tang, Nicholas W, Joshua S Apte, Philip T Martien, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."Measurement of black carbon emissions from in-use diesel-electric passenger locomotives in California."Atmospheric Environment 115 (2015) 295 - 303. DOI

2011

Apte, Joshua S, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Alexander H Reich, Shyam J Deshpande, Geetanjali Kaushik, Arvind Chel, Julian D Marshall, and William W Nazaroff."Concentrations of fine, ultrafine, and black carbon particles in auto-rickshaws in New Delhi, India."Atmospheric Environment 45.26 (2011) 4470–4480. DOI

2010

Apte, Michael G, and Joshua S Apte."A Pilot Study of the Effectiveness of Indoor Plants for Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds in Indoor Air in a Seven-Story Office Building." (2010).

2009

Coffey, Brian E, Sam Borgeson, Stephen E Selkowitz, Joshua S Apte, Paul A Mathew, and Philip Haves."Towards a Very Low Energy Building Stock: Modeling the U.S. Commercial Building Sector to Support Policy and Innovation Planning."Building Research & Information (2009).

Coffey, Brian E, Sam Borgeson, Stephen E Selkowitz, Joshua S Apte, Paul A Mathew, and Philip Haves."Towards a Very Low Energy Building Stock: Modeling the US Commercial Building Stock to Support Policy and Innovation Planning."Building Research and Information 37:5 (2009).

2006

Arasteh, Dariush K, Stephen E Selkowitz, Joshua S Apte, and Marc LaFrance."Zero Energy Windows."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Apte, Joshua S, and Dariush K Arasteh."Window-Related Energy Consumption in the US Residential and Commercial Building Stock." (2006).

2002

Apte, Joshua S, Dariush K Arasteh, and Yu Joe Huang."Future Advanced Windows for Zero-Energy Homes."ASHRAE Transactions 109, pt 2 (2002) 871-888.