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)

2018

Victor, David G, Ahmed Abdulla, David Auston, Wendell Brase, Jack Brouwer, Karl A Brown, Steven J Davis, Carrie V Kappel, Alan K Meier, Mark Modera, Rebecca Zarin Pass, David Phillips, Jordan Sager, and David Weil."Turning Paris into reality at the University of California."Nature Climate Change 8 (2018). DOI

1998

Walker, Iain S, Jeffrey A Siegel, Karl A Brown, and Max H Sherman."Saving Tons at the Register."Proceedings of the 1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Effciency in Buildings, Pacific Grove, CA 1 (1998) 367-383.

1996

Brown, Karl A, Carl Blumstein, Loren Lutzenhiser, Bruce Hackett, and Yu Joe Huang."Does the Air-Conditioning Engineering Rubric Work in Residences?."1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1996).

Sartor, Dale A, Richard C Diamond, Andy Walker, Michael Giller, Karl A Brown, and Anne S Crawley."Designing an Environmental Showcase: The San Francisco Presidio."Proceedings of the 1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Pacific Grove, CA 5 (1996) 209-218.

Brown, Karl A, Dale A Sartor, Steve E Greenberg, Tai Voong, Doug Lockhart, Dennis Kincy, Scott Wentworth, Thomas Riley, Doug Chamberlin, Brian Hines, James P Waltz, and Frank W Mayhew."Guidelines for Sustainable Building Design: Recommendations from the Presidio of San Francisco Energy Efficiency Design Charrette." (1996).