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)

2022

Ganeshalingam, Mohan, Robert Hosbach, Liat Zavodivker, Brian F Gerke, Colleen Kantner, and Hannah Stratton."Consumer Purchasing Behavior and Usage of Lighting in the Residential Sector." (2022).

2021

Kantner, Colleen, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Robert Hosbach, and Liat Zavodivker."Impact of the EISA 2007 backstop requirement on general service lamps." (2021).

Ganeshalingam, Mohan, Chun Chun Ni, and Hung-Chia Yang."A Retrospective Analysis of the 2011 Direct Final Rule for Room Air Conditioners." (2021).

Stratton, Hannah, Yuting Chen, Camilla Dunham, Thomas A Burke, Hung-Chia Yang, and Mohan Ganeshalingam."Dishwashers in the Residential Sector: A Survey of Product Characteristics, Usage, and Consumer Preferences." (2021).

Grahovac, Milica, Youness Bennani Smires, Thomas A Burke, Katie Coughlin, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Akhil Mathur, Evan Neil, and Akshay Sharma."Adapter Python IO (Adapter) v1.0. Computer Software." (2021). DOI

2020

Grahovac, Milica, Katie Coughlin, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Robert Hosbach, and Vagelis Vossos."Costs and Benefits of Community Scale Solar Water Heating."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

2019

Fuchs, Heidi, Arman Shehabi, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Brian Lim, Kurt Roth, and Allen Tsao."Comparing datasets of volume servers to illuminate their energy use in data centers."Energy Efficiency 13 (2019) 379-392. DOI

Grahovac, Milica, Robert Hosbach, Katie Coughlin, Mohan Ganeshalingam, and Hannes Gerhart."Multiscale Solar Water Heating (MSWH) v1.0." (2019). DOI

2018

Fuchs, Heidi, Arman Shehabi, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Brian Lim, Kurt Roth, and Allen Tsao."Characteristics and Energy Use of Volume Servers in the U.S.."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

2017

Fuchs, Heidi, Arman Shehabi, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Brian Lim, Kurt Roth, and Allen Tsao."Characteristics and Energy Use of Volume Servers in the United States." (2017).

Ganeshalingam, Mohan, Arman Shehabi, and Louis-Benoit Desroches."Shining a Light on Small Data Centers in the U.S.." (2017).

Shehabi, Arman, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Laurèn DeMates, Paul A Mathew, and Dale A Sartor."Characterizing the Laboratory Market." (2017).

Kantner, Colleen, Andrea L Alstone, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Brian F Gerke, and Robert Hosbach."Impact of the EISA 2007 Energy Efficiency Standard on General Service Lamps." (2017).

2014

Burke, Thomas A, Henry Willem, Chun Chun Ni, Hannah Stratton, Yuting Chen, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Maithili Iyer, Sarah K Price, and Camilla Dunham."Using Field-Metered Data to Quantify Annual Energy Use of Portable Air Conditioners." (2014).

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Erin S Claybaugh, Bereket Beraki, Mythri Nagaraju, Sarah K Price, Scott J Young, Sally M Donovan, and Mohan Ganeshalingam."Video game console usage and US national energy consumption: Results from a field-metering study."Energy Efficiency (2014). DOI

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, and Mohan Ganeshalingam."The dynamics of incremental costs of efficient television display technologies."Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2014). DOI