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)

2008

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, and Nina Khanna."Estimating Total Energy Consumption and Emissions of China’s Commercial and Office Buildings." (2008).

Zhou, Nan."Status of China’s Energy Efficiency Standards and Labels for Appliances and International Collaboration." (2008).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Nathaniel T. Aden, Jiang Lin, Jianhong Cheng, Tomoyuki Sakamoto, and Nina Khanna."China Refrigerator Information Label: Specification Development and Potential Impact." (2008).

Marnay, Chris, and Nan Zhou."Status of Overseas Microgrid Programs: Microgrid Research Activities in the U.S. (English version)." (2008) 8.

Worrell, Ernst, Lynn K. Price, Maarten Neelis, Christina Galitsky, and Nan Zhou."World Best Practice Energy Intensity Values for Selected Industrial Sectors." (2008).

2007

Fridley, David, Nathaniel T. Aden, Nan Zhou, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."China’s Building Energy Use." (2007).

Zhou, Nan, and Jiang Lin."The Reality and Future Scenarios of Commercial Building Energy Consumption in China." (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).

Fridley, David, Nathaniel T. Aden, Nan Zhou, and Jiang Lin."Impacts of China’s Current Appliance Standards and Labeling Program to 2020." (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).

Bressand, Florian, Nan Zhou, and Jiang Lin."al Energy use in commercial building in China: Current situation and future scenarios."2007 ECEEE Summer Study Proceedings (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).

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."An Analysis of the DER Adoption Climate in Japan Using Optimization Results for Prototype Buildings with U.S. Comparisons."Energy and Buildings Journal Vol. 38.Issue 12 (2006) 10.

Yang, Yongwen, Weijun Gao, Nan Zhou, and Chris Marnay."Optimal Combination of Distributed Energy System in an Eco-Campus of Japan."Second International Green Energy Conference, Ontario, Canada, June 25-29, 2006 (2006).

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Ryan M. Firestone, Karl M. Maribu, Nan Zhou, and Chris Marnay."A Model of U.S. Commercial Distributed Generation Adoption." (2006) 113.

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

Zhou, Nan, Masaru Nishida, Weijun Gao, and Chris Marnay."Assessment of Distributed Energy Adoption in Commercial Buildings. Part 1: An Analysis of Policy, Building loads, Tariff Design, and Technology Development."Bulletin of The Faculty of Engineering Kyushu Sangyo University 42 (2005) 8.

Yang, Yongwen, Weijun Gao, Yingjun Ruan, Ji Xuan, Nan Zhou, and Chris Marnay."Optimal Model of Distributed Energy System by Using GAMS and Case Study."International Symposium on Sustainable Development of the Asian City Environment (SDACE) 2005 (2005).

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."An Optimization and Assessment on DG Adoption in Japanese Prototype Buildings."International Symposium on Sustainable Development of the Asian City Environment (SDACE) 2005 (2005).

Curtil, Dimitri, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Nan Zhou, Ryan M. Firestone, and Judy Lai."Distributed Energy Enabling Technologies: Site Energy Simulation." (2005).

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, and Nan Zhou."Distributed Generation with Heat Recovery and Storage."7th Annual International Association for Energy Economics European Energy Conference (2005) 39.

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."Assessment of Distributed Generation Potential in Japanse Buildings." (2005) 7.

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).

Yang, Yongwen, Weijun Gao, Yingjun Ruan, Nan Zhou, Ji Xuan, and Chris Marnay."Optimum Model-E-GAMS for Distributed Energy System by using GAMS Method."Journal of the Society of Heating Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan (SHASE) 12 (2005) 4.

2004

Zhou, Nan, Weijun Gao, Masaru Nishida, Hiroki Kitayama, and Toshio Ojima."Field Study on the Thermal Environment of Passive Cooling System in RC Building."Energy and Buildings Journal 36 (2004) 8.