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)

2014

Vossos, Vagelis, Karina Garbesi, and Hongxia Shen."Energy savings from direct-DC in U.S. residential buildings."Energy and Buildings Volume 68, Part A (2014) 223–231. DOI

2013

Kantner, Colleen, Scott J. Young, Sally M. Donovan, Karina Garbesi, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Bereket Beraki, and Sarah K. Price."Ceiling Fan and Ceiling Fan Light Kit use in the U.S.—Results of a Survey on Amazon Mechanical Turk." (2013).

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Karina Garbesi, Colleen Kantner, Robert D Van Buskirk, and Hung-Chia Yang."Incorporating Experience Curves in Appliance Standards Analysis."Energy Policy 52 (2013) 402-416. DOI

2012

Brown, Richard E., Louis-Benoit Desroches, Karina Garbesi, and Alan K. Meier."Achieving Extreme Efficiency: How to get the job done when energy is extremely expensive and scarce."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Williams, Alison A., Barbara A. Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, and Francis M. Rubinstein."Quantifying National Energy Savings Potential of Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings." (2012) 14.

Williams, Alison A., Barbara A. Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, Erik Page, and Francis M. Rubinstein."Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings."Leukos: The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America 8.3 (2012) 19. DOI

2011

Garbesi, Karina, Vagelis Vossos, and Hongxia Shen."Catalog of DC Appliances and Power Systems." (2011).

Garbesi, Karina, Vagelis Vossos, Alan H. Sanstad, and Gabriel Burch."Optimizing Energy Savings from Direct-DC in U.S. Residential Buildings." (2011) 59.

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Karina Garbesi, Colleen Kantner, Robert D Van Buskirk, and Hung-Chia Yang."Incorporating Experience Curves in Appliance Standards Analysis." (2011).

Williams, Alison A., Barbara A. Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, Francis M. Rubinstein, and Erik Page."A Meta-Analysis of Energy Savings from Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings." (2011) 25.

Garbesi, Karina, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Christopher A. Bolduc, Gabriel Burch, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, and Seth Saltiel."Max Tech Appliance Design: Potential for Maximizing U.S. Energy Savings through Standards." (2011) 13.

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, and Karina Garbesi."Max Tech and Beyond." (2011) 60.

1999

Garbesi, Karina, Allen L. Robinson, Richard G. Sextro, and William W. Nazaroff."Radon entry into houses: The importance of scale-dependent permeability."Health Physics 77 (1999) 83-191.

1996

Garbesi, Karina, Richard G. Sextro, Allen L. Robinson, John D. Wooley, Jonathan A. Owens, and William W. Nazaroff."Scale Dependence of Soil Permeability to Air: Measurement Method and Field Investigation."Water Resources Research 32.3 (1996) 547-560. DOI