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)

2009

Xu, Tengfang T., Chuang Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Mark D. Levine."US Department of Energy (DOE) Technical Assistance to Beichuan Reconstruction: Creating and Designing Low- to Zero-carbon Communities in New Beichuan, Sichuan Province." (2009).

Zhou, Nan, Michael A. McNeil, and Mark D. Levine."Energy for 500 million Homes: Drivers and Outlook for Residential Energy Consumption in China." (2009).

Levine, Mark D., Nan Zhou, and Lynn K. Price."The Greening of the Middle Kingdom: The Story of Energy Efficiency in China." (2009).

Xu, Tengfang T., Chuang Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Mark D. Levine."Technical Assistance to Beichuan Reconstruction: Creating and Designing Low- to Zero-carbon Communities in New Beichuan." (2009).

2008

Levine, Mark D., and Nathaniel T. Aden."Global Carbon Emissions in the Coming Decades: The Case of China." (2008).

Levine, Mark D., and Nathaniel T. Aden."Sustainable and Unsustainable Developments in the U.S.Energy System." (2008).

Gadgil, Ashok J., David Hafemeister, Barbara G. Levi, Mark D. Levine, and Peter Schwartz."Safe and Affordable Drinking Water for Developing Countries."Physics of Sustainable Energy: Using Energy Efficiently and Producing It Renewably AIP Conference Proceedings 1044 (2008) 176-191.

2007

Lin, Jiang, Nan Zhou, Mark D. Levine, and David Fridley."Taking out One Billion Tons of CO₂: The Magic of China’s 11th Five Year Plan?." (2007).

Zhou, Nan, Michael A. McNeil, David Fridley, Jiang Lin, Lynn K. Price, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Jayant A. Sathaye, and Mark D. Levine."Energy Use in China: Sectoral Trends and Future Outlook." (2007).

2006

Lin, Jiang, Nan Zhou, Mark D. Levine, and David Fridley."Achieving China’s Target for Energy Intensity Reduction in 2010: An exploration of recent trends and possible future scenarios." (2006).

Price, Lynn K., Stephane de la Rue du Can, Jonathan E. Sinton, Ernst Worrell, Nan Zhou, Jayant A. Sathaye, and Mark D. Levine."Sectoral trends in global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions." (2006).

2005

Fulkerson, William, Mark D. Levine, Jonathan E. Sinton, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Sustainable, efficient electricity service for one billion people."Energy for Sustainable Development 9.2 (2005) 26-34. DOI

Sinton, Jonathan E., Rachel E. Stem, Nathaniel T. Aden, Mark D. Levine, Tyler J. Dillavou, David Fridley, Yu Joe Huang, Joanna I. Lewis, Jiang Lin, Aimee T. McKane, Lynn K. Price, Ryan H. Wiser, Nan Zhou, and Jean Y. Ku."Evaluation of China's Energy Strategy Options." (2005).

2004

Lin, Jiang, Charles A. Goldman, Mark D. Levine, and Nicole C. Hopper."Developing an Energy Efficiency Service Industry in Shanghai." (2004).

2003

Sinton, Jonathan E., Joanna I. Lewis, Mark D. Levine, and Yuezhong Zhu."China's Sustainable Energy Future--Scenarios of Energy and Carbon Emissions." (2003).

2002

Price, Lynn K., and Mark D. Levine."Sustainable production and consumption of energy: Developments since the 1992 Rio Summit."Environmental Law Reporter 33 (2002).

1999

Sinton, Jonathan E., Mark D. Levine, David Fridley, Fuqiang Yang, and Jiang Lin."Status Report on Energy Efficiency Policy and Programs in China." (1999).

1998

Koomey, Jonathan G., Nathan C. Martin, Marilyn A. Brown, Lynn K. Price, and Mark D. Levine."Cost of reducing carbon emissions."Energy Policy 26 (1998).

1997

Levine, Mark D., Jonathan G. Koomey, Lynn K. Price, and Nathan C. Martin."Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Reductions: Potential Impacts of Energy-Efficient and Low-Carbon Technologies by 2010 and Beyond." (1997).

1995

Davis, William B., Mark D. Levine, Kenneth Train, and K.G. Duleep."Effects of Feebates on Vehicle Fuel Economy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, and Consumer Surplus." (1995).

1994

Liu, , Zhiping, Jonathan E. Sinton, Fuqiang Yang, Mark D. Levine, and Michael K. Ting."Industrial Sector Energy Conservation Programs in the People's Republic of China during the Seventh Five-Year Plan (1986-1990)." (1994).

Levine, Mark D., Eric Hirst, Jonathan G. Koomey, James E. McMahon, and Alan H. Sanstad."Energy Efficiency, Market Failures, and Government Policy." (1994) 42.

1993

Koomey, Jonathan G., Francis X Johnson, James E. McMahon, Mary C. Orland, Mark D. Levine, Peter T. Chan, and Florentin Krause."An Assessment of Future Energy Use and Carbon Emissions from U.S. Residences." (1993) 48.

1992

Deringer, Joseph J, John F. Busch, and Mark D. Levine."ASEAN-USAID Buildings Energy Conservation Project FINAL REPORT Volume I: Energy Standards." I: Energy Standards (1992).

Busch, John F., and Mark D. Levine."ASEAN-USAID Buildings Energy Conservation Project FINAL REPORT Volume II: Technology." Volume II: Technology (1992).