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)

2012

Price, Lynn K, Ali Hasanbeigi, Nathaniel T Aden, Zhang Chunxia, Li Xiuping, and Shangguan Fangqin."A Comparison of Iron and Steel Production Energy Intensity in China and the U.S.."ACEEE Industrial Summer Study (2012).

2011

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K Price, Nathaniel T Aden, Zhang Chunxia, Li Xiuping, and Shangguan Fangqin."A Comparison of Iron and Steel Production Energy Use and Energy Intensity in China and the U.S.." (2011).

Price, Lynn K, Mark D Levine, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Nathaniel T Aden, Hongyou Lu, Michael A McNeil, Nina Zheng, Yining Qin, Ping Yowargana, and Nina Khanna."Assessment of China’s Energy-Saving and Emission-Reduction Accomplishments and Opportunities During the 11th Five Year Plan."Energy Policy 39 (2011) 2165-2178.

2010

Aden, Nathaniel T, Yining Qin, and David Fridley."Urban Form Energy Use and Emissions in China: Preliminary Findings and Model Proof of Concept." (2010).

Aden, Nathaniel T, Yining Qin, and David Fridley."Lifecycle Assessment of Beijing-Area Building Energy Use and Emissions: Summary Findings andPolicy Applications." (2010).

Levine, Mark D, Lynn K Price, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Nathaniel T Aden, Hongyou Lu, Michael A McNeil, Nina Zheng, Yining Qin, Ping Yowargana, and Nina Khanna."Assessment of China’s Energy-Saving and Emission-Reduction Accomplishments and Opportunities During the 11th Five Year Plan." 39.4 (2010).

2009

Aden, Nathaniel T, David Fridley, Nina Zheng, and Nina Khanna."China’s Coal: Demand, Constraints, and Externalities." (2009) 41.

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).

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).

2007

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

Fridley, David, Nathaniel T Aden, Nan Zhou, and Jiang Lin."Impacts of China’s Current Appliance Standards and Labeling Program to 2020." (2007).

2006

Aden, Nathaniel T, and Jonathan E Sinton."Environmental implications of energy policy in china."Environmental Politics 15.2 (2006) 248-270.

2005

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).