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)

1996

Heinemeier, Kristin E, Hashem Akbari, and John S Kromer."Measuring savings in energy savings performance contracts using in-place energy management systems- A case study."1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 5 (1996) 77-86.

1994

Heinemeier, Kristin E."The Use of Energy Management and Control Systems to Monitor the Energy Performance of Commercial Buildings."Department of Architecture (1994).

Akbari, Hashem, Joseph H Eto, Steven J Konopacki, Asim Afzal, Kristin E Heinemeier, and Leo I Rainer."A New Approach to Estimate Commercial Sector End-Use Load Shapes and Energy Use Intensities."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1994 (1994).

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard C Diamond, Bruce Nordman, Odon D Buen, Jeffrey P Harris, Kristin E Heinemeier, and Kathryn B Janda."Final Report on the Energy Edge Impact Evaluation of 28 New, Low-Energy Commercial Buildings." (1994).

Koomey, Jonathan G, Francis X Johnson, Jennifer E Schuman, Ellen M Franconi, Steve E Greenberg, James D Lutz, Brent T Griffith, Dariush K Arasteh, Celina S Atkinson, Kristin E Heinemeier, Yu Joe Huang, Lynn K Price, Gregory J Rosenquist, Francis M Rubinstein, Stephen E Selkowitz, Haider Taha, and Isaac Turiel."Buildings Sector Demand-Side Efficiency Technology Summaries." (1994).

1993

Akbari, Hashem, Joseph H Eto, Steven J Konopacki, Asim Afzal, Kristin E Heinemeier, and Leo I Rainer."Integrated Estimation of Commerical Sector End-Use Load Shapes and Energy Use Intensities in the PG&E Service Area." (1993).

Heinemeier, Kristin E."The Use of EMCs in Building Monitoring: Experience From Energy Edge and LoanSTAR Programs."National Conference on Building Commissioning, Sacramento, CA, April 28-30, 1993 (1993) 5.

1990

Akbari, Hashem, Isaac Turiel, Joseph H Eto, Kristin E Heinemeier, Benoit Lebot, and Leo I Rainer."A Review of Existing Commercial Energy Use Intensity and Load Shape Studies."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1990).

Eto, Joseph H, Isaac Turiel, Hashem Akbari, Benoit Lebot, and Kristin E Heinemeier."An Investigation of the Use of Prototypes for Commercial Sector EUI Analysis."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy 1990 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1990).

1989

Eto, Joseph H, Henry Ruderman, Amos Golan, Kristin E Heinemeier, and David J Wood."Analysis of California Hourly End‑Use Residential Electricity Load Shapes."End-Use Load Information and Application Conference for Customer and Utility Communication (1989).

Ruderman, Henry, Joseph H Eto, Kristin E Heinemeier, Amos Golan, and David J Wood."Residential End-Use Load Shape Data Analysis." (1989) 62.

Akbari, Hashem, Joseph H Eto, Isaac Turiel, Kristin E Heinemeier, Benoit Lebot, Bruce Nordman, and Leo I Rainer."Integrated Estimation of Commercial Sector End‑Use Load Shapes and Energy Use Intensities, Final Report." (1989).