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)

2019

Cui, Xinguang, Sally Newman, Xiaomei Xu, Arlyn E Andrews, John Miller, Scott J Lehman, Seongeun Jeong, Jingsong Zhang, Chad Priest, Mixtli Campos-Pineda, Kevin R Gurney, Heather Graven, John Southon, and Marc L Fischer."Atmospheric observation-based estimation of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions from regions of central and southern California."Science of The Total Environment (2019). DOI

2018

Graven, Heather, Marc L Fischer, T Lueker, Seongeun Jeong, Tom Guilderson, Ralph Keeling, Ray P Bambha, Kieran Brophy, W Callahan, Xinguang Cui, C Frankenberg, Kevin R Gurney, Brian W LaFranchi, Scott J Lehman, Hope A Michelsen, John B Miller, Sally Newman, W Paplawsky, Nicholas Parazoo, Christopher D Sloop, and S.J Walker."Assessing fossil fuel CO ₂ emissions in California using atmospheric observations and models."Environmental Research Letters 13.6 (2018) 065007. DOI

2017

Fischer, Marc L, Nicholas Parazoo, Kieran Brophy, Xinguang Cui, Seongeun Jeong, Junjie Liu, Ralph Keeling, Thomas E Taylor, Kevin R Gurney, Tomohiro Oda, and Heather Graven."Simulating Estimation of California Fossil Fuel and Biosphere Carbon Dioxide Exchanges Combining In-situ Tower and Satellite Column Observations."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122.6 (2017) 3653-3671. DOI

2015

Newman, Sally, Xiaomei Xu, Kevin R Gurney, Ying-Kuang Hsu, King Fai Li, Xun Jiang, Ralph Keeling, Sha Feng, Darragh O'Keefe, Risa Patarasuk, Kam Weng Wong, Preeti Rao, Marc L Fischer, and Yuk L Yung."Toward consistency between trends in bottom-up CO₂ emissions and top-down atmospheric measurements in the Los Angeles megacity."Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics (2015). DOI

2012

Newman, Sally, Seongeun Jeong, Marc L Fischer, Xiaomei Xu, Christine L Haman, Barry Lefer, Sergio Alvarez, Bernhard Rappenglueck, Eric A Kort, Arlyn E Andrews, Jeffrey Peischl, Kevin R Gurney, Charles E Miller, and Yuk L Yung."Diurnal tracking of anthropogenic CO₂ emissions in the Los Angeles basin megacity during spring 2010."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 13.8 (2012) 4359-4372. DOI

2009

Gurney, Kevin R, Daniel L Mendoza, Yuyu Zhou, Marc L Fischer, Chris C Miller, Sarath Geethakumar, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."High resolution fossil fuel combustion CO₂ emission fluxes for the United States."Environmental Science and Technology 43.14 (2009) 5535-5541. DOI