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

Casquero-Modrego, Nuria, M Venkatraman, and Iain S Walker."The Costs of Decarbonizing Multifamily Buildings in DACs and Rural Areas."2024 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) (2024). DOI

Walker, Iain S, Brennan Less, Cara Lozinsky, David M Lorenzetti, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Michael D Sohn."Compartmentalization and Ventilation System Impacts on Air and Contaminant Transport for Multifamily Buildings."International Journal of Ventilation. (2024). DOI

2023

de Mesquita, P. Jacob Bueno, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, Iain S Walker, Brennan Less, and Brett C Singer."Quantifying the Potential Health Impacts of Unvented Combustion in Homes – A Meta-Analysis."43rd AIVC-11th TightVent & 9th Venticool Conference, 4-5 October 2023, Copenhagen (2023).

Walker, Iain S, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Brennan Less."Challenges and Opportunities for Home Decarbonization." (2023).

2022

Casquero-Modrego, Nuria, WR Chan, Brennan Less, and Iain S Walker."Getting to Scale for Decarbonizing Homes in the US: An Industry Survey."SBE22Delft - Innovations for the Urban Energy Transition: Preparing for the European Renovation Wave (2022). DOI

Walker, Iain S, Brennan Less, David M Lorenzetti, Michael D Sohn, and Nuria Casquero-Modrego."Compartmentalization and Ventilation System Impacts on Air and Contaminant Transport for a Multifamily Building."Buildings XV Conference (2022).

Less, Brennan, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Iain S Walker."Home Energy Upgrades as a Pathway to Home Decarbonization in the US: A Literature Review."Energies (2022). DOI

Walker, Iain S, Brennan Less, and Nuria Casquero-Modrego."Pathways to Home Decarbonization."Proceedings of the 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. (2022).

Walker, Iain S, Brennan Less, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Leo I Rainer."The Costs of Home Decarbonization in the US."Proceedings of the 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. (2022).

Walker, Iain S, Brennan Less, and Nuria Casquero-Modrego."Carbon and Energy Cost Impacts of Electrification of Space Heating with Heat Pumps in the US." (2022). DOI

2021

Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, and Nuria Casquero-Modrego."Emerging Pathways to Upgrade the US Housing Stock: A Review of the Home Energy Upgrade Literature." (2021).

Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Leo I Rainer."The Cost of Decarbonization and Energy Upgrade Retrofits for US Homes." (2021).