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

2008

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."Safer Vehicles for People and the Planet: Response to a Letter to the Editor of American Scientist." (2008).

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."Safer Vehicles for People and the Planet." (2008).

2007

Gordon, Deborah, David L Greene, Marc Ross, and Thomas P Wenzel."Sipping Fuel and Saving Lives: Increasing Fuel Economy Without Sacrificing Safety." (2007).

2005

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."The effects of vehicle model and driver behavior on risk."Accident Analysis & Prevention 37.3 (2005) 479 - 494. DOI

2004

Gladwell, Malcolm, Thomas P Wenzel, and Marc Ross."Big and Bad - How the S.U.V. ran over automotive safety."The New Yorker (2004) 28 - 33.

2003

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."Comment on ‘‘Statistical modelling of vehicle emissions from inspection/maintenance testing data: an explanatory analysis’’."Transportation Research Part D 8.1 (2003) 69-71. DOI

2002

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."Are SUVS Really Safer Than Cars?."Access Magazine (2002).

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."An Analysis of Traffic Deaths by Vehicle Type and Model." (2002).

2001

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."Losing Weight to Save Lives: A Review of the Role of Automobile Weight and Size in Traffic Fatalities." (2001).

2000

Barth, Matthew, Feng An, Theodore Younglove, George Scora, Carrie Levine, Marc Ross, and Thomas P Wenzel."Development of a Comprehensive Modal Emissions Model." (2000).

1998

Ross, Marc, Rob Goodwin, Rick Watkins, Thomas P Wenzel, and Michael Q Wang."Real-World Emissions from Conventional Passenger Cars."Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 48.6 (1998) 502 - 515. DOI

Ross, Marc, Rob Goodwin, Rick Watkins, Thomas P Wenzel, and Michael Q Wang."Real-World Emissions from Conventional Passenger Cars."Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 48.6 (1998) 502 - 515. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."SAE Technical Paper Series Characterization of Recent-Model High-Emitting Automobiles."International Fuels & Lubricants Meeting & ExpositionSAE Technical Paper Series 1 (1998). DOI

1997

Barth, Matthew, Theodore Younglove, Thomas P Wenzel, George Scora, Feng An, Marc Ross, and Joseph Norbeck."Analysis of Modal Emissions From Diverse In-Use Vehicle Fleet."Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1587.1 (1997) 73 - 84. DOI

1995

Ross, Marc, Rob Goodwin, Rick Watkins, Michael Q Wang, and Thomas P Wenzel."Real-World Emissions from Model Year 1993, 2000, and 2010 Passenger Cars." (1995).