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)

2010

Koomey, Jonathan G., Hashem Akbari, Carl Blumstein, Marilyn A. Brown, Richard E. Brown, Chris Calwell, Sheryl Carter, Ralph Cavanagh, Audrey Chang, David Claridge, Paul P. Craig, Richard C. Diamond, Joseph H Eto, William Fulkerson, Ashok J. Gadgil, Howard S. Geller, José Goldemberg, Charles A. Goldman, David B Goldstein, Steve E. Greenberg, David Hafemeister, Jeffrey P. Harris, Hal Harvey, Eric Heitz, Eric Hirst, Holmes Hummel, Daniel M. Kammen, Henry Kelly, John A. Laitner, Mark D. Levine, Amory Lovins, Gil Masters, James E. McMahon, Alan K. Meier, Michael Messenger, John Millhone, Evan Mills, Steven M. Nadel, Bruce Nordman, Lynn K. Price, Joseph J. Romm, Marc Ross, Michael Rufo, Jayant A. Sathaye, Leon J. Schipper, Stephen H. Schneider, James L. Sweeney, Malcolm Verdict, Diana Vorsatz, Devra Wang, Carl Weinberg, Richard Wilk, John Wilson, and Ernst Worrell."Defining a standard metric for electricity savings."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

2001

Murtishaw, Scott, and Leon J. Schipper."Energy savings and structural changes in the U.S. economy: Evidence from disaggregated data using decomposition techniques."International Emissions Inventory Conference (2001).

2000

Murtishaw, Scott, Leon J. Schipper, and Fridtjof Unander."The Mine/Yours method of international comparisons of carbon emissions."2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 29 (2000).

Murtishaw, Scott, Leon J. Schipper, Fridtjof Unander, Sohbet Karbuz, and Marta Khrushch."Lost carbon emissions: The role of non-manufacturing other industries and refining in industrial energy use and carbon emissions in IEA countries."Energy Policy 29 (2000).

Schipper, Leon J., Scott Murtishaw, Marta Khrushch, Michael K. Ting, Sohbet Karbuz, and Fridtjof Unander."Carbon emissions from manufacturing energy use in 13 IEA countries: long-term trends through 1995."Energy Policy 29 (2000).

1997

Golove, William H., and Leon J. Schipper."Restraining carbon emissions: measuring energy use and efficiency in the USA." (1997) 10.

1993

Schipper, Leon J., Frank Johnson, Richard Howarth, Bjorn Andersson, Bo G. Andersson, and Lynn K. Price."Energy Use in Sweden: An International Perspective." (1993).

Meyers, Stephen, Leon J. Schipper, Jurgen Salay, Andrzej Gromadzinski, Ewaryst Hille, Piotr Kaleta, Marek Kumanowski, J. Maron, Jan Norwisz, and Slawomir Pasierb."Energy Use in Poland, 1970-1991: Sectoral Analysis and International Comparison." (1993).

1992

Schipper, Leon J., Richard Howarth, Bo G. Andersson, and Lynn K. Price."Energy Use in Denmark: An International Perspective." (1992).

Schipper, Leon J., Ruth Steiner, and Stephen Meyers."Trends in Transportation Energy Use, 1970-1988: An International Perspective."Asilomar Conference on Transportation and Global Climate Change, 1991 (1992).

Schipper, Leon J., and Stephen Meyers."World Energy: Building a Sustainable Future." (1992).

1983

Schipper, Leon J., Jayant A. Sathaye, and Stephen Meyers."Energy Demand in the Developing Countries: Towards a Better Understanding." (1983).

1981

Schipper, Leon J., Stephen Meyers, and Andrea Ketoff."Progress in Residential Energy Conservation -- a Multi Country Perspective."International Energy Agency Conference, "New Energy Conservation Technologies," Berlin, W. Germany, April 6-9, 1981 (1981).

1980

Schipper, Leon J., and Andrea Ketoff."International Residential Energy End Use Data: Analysis of Historical and Present Day Structure and Dynamics."Conference on Consumer Behavior and Energy Use (1980).

Schipper, Leon J.."Energy Demand and Conservation in Kenya: Initial Appraisal."Electric Power Research Institute Workshop on Energy and the Developing Nations (1980).

Schipper, Leon J.."Implications of International Comparisons of Energy Use: The Swedish/American Case Reviewed."Workshop on Contemporary Scandinavian-American Issues (1980).