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)

2024

Karali, Nihan, Nina Khanna, and Nihar Shah."Climate Impact of Primary Plastic Production." (2024).

Park, Won Young, Nihan Karali, and Nihar Shah."Driving the Shift to Energy-Efficient and Climate-Responsible Commercial Refrigeration Equipment in Chile." (2024).

2023

Coalition, UNEP Cool, and Nihar Shah."Keeping it chill: How to meet cooling demand, while cutting emissions." (2023). DOI

Dreyfus, Gabrielle, Max Wei, Nihar Shah, and Kristen Taddonio."Ambitious Replenishment of the Multilateral Fund for Implementation of the Montreal Protocol Delivers High Impact Climate Benefits at Low Cost." (2023).

Park, Won Young, Nihan Karali, Peng Peng, Sunhee Baik, Nihar Shah, Brian Holuj, and Marco Duran."Model Quality and Performance Guidelines for Off-Grid Refrigerating Appliances." (2023).

Wei, Max, Chao Ding, Nihar Shah, Brian Holuj, and Marco Duran."Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Ceiling Fans." (2023).

Wei, Max, and Nihar Shah."Costs and benefits of improving cooling equipment efficiency including a novel improvement-linked incentive approach: Quantifying the opportunity for combining aggressive energy efficiency with Montreal Protocol refrigerant transition." (2023).

Dhawan, Vibha, Nihar Shah, Gabrielle Dreyfus, Durwood Zaelke, Zerin Osho, Amelia Murphy, and Sanjay Seth."Low Carbon Development Pathways for Cooling: Leveraging Kigali Amendment Across Residential Applications." (2023).

2022

Khanna, Nina, Chao Ding, Won Young Park, Nihan Karali, and Nihar Shah."International review of market trends, technologies and policies for commercial refrigeration equipment and implications for China." (2022).

Shaffie, Ambereen, Nihar Shah, Nihan Karali, Won Young Park, Moustafa Al-Sammany, Brian Holuj, and Leon Becker."Cooling Egypt: Cost and benefits of room air conditioner efficiency improvement in Egypt." (2022).

Park, Won Young, and Nihar Shah."Assessment of Seasonal Energy Performance for Room Air Conditioners in Multiple Climates." (2022).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Kenji Shiraishi, and Edward L Vine."Improving energy performance metrics to maximize the benefits of disruptive technologies."Energy Research & Social Science 89 (2022). DOI

Shah, Nihar, and UNEP TEAP."Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Vol. 3, Decision XXXIII/5." 3 (2022).

Karali, Nihan, and Nihar Shah."Bolstering supplies of critical raw materials for low-carbon technologies through circular economy strategies."Energy Research & Social Science 88 (2022). DOI

2021

Jacob, Tabeel A, Nihar Shah, and Won Young Park."Evaluation of hybrid evaporative-vapor compression air conditioners for different global climates."Energy Conversion and Management 249 (2021). DOI

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Chao Ding, Brian Holuj, and Marco Duran."Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Commercial Refrigeration Equipment." (2021).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Tabeel A Jacob, Chao Ding, Nihan Karali, Brian Holuj, and Marco Duran."Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Supporting Information." (2021).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Edward L Vine, Patrick Blake, Brian Holuj, James Hyungkwan Kim, and Dae Hoon Kim."Ensuring the climate benefits of the Montreal Protocol: Global governance architecture for cooling efficiency and alternative refrigerants."Energy Research & Social Science Volume 76 (2021). DOI

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Virginie E Letschert, and Patrick Blake."Harmonizing Energy-Efficiency Standards for Room Air Conditioners in Southeast Asia." (2021).

Shah, Nihar, EE Task Force, and UNEP TEAP."Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer report of the technology and economic assesment panel volume 4: decision XXXI/7 - continued provision of information on energy-efficient and low-global-warming-potential technologies.." (2021).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Patrick Blake, and Madeleine Edl."Technical Note on Quality and Performance Metrics of Cooling Products for East African Community (EAC) and Southern African Development Community (SADC)." (2021).

Shah, Nihar, Won Young Park, and Chao Ding."Trends in best-in-class energy-efficient technologies for room air conditioners."Energy Reports 7 (2021) 3162 - 3170. DOI

2020

Khanna, Nina, Nihar Shah, Won Young Park, Chao Ding, and Jiang Lin."Designing Policies and Programs to Accelerate High Efficiency Appliance Adoption." (2020).

Shah, Nihar, EE Task Force, and UNEP TEAP."Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, Report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Volume 2 Decision XXXI/7 - Continued Provision of Information on Energy-Efficient and Low Global Warming Potential Technologies."UNEP Report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Pane (2020).

Karali, Nihan, Chao Ding, Won Young Park, Nihar Shah, and Jiang Lin."Energy-Efficiency Improvement Potential of Multi-split Air Conditioning Systems in China." (2020).