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)

2009

Rosenbaum, Ralph K, Thomas E McKone, and Olivier Jolliet."CKow – A More Transparent and Reliable Model for Chemical Transfer to Meat and Milk."Environmental Science and Technology 43 (2009) 8191–8198.

2008

Rosenbaum, Ralph K, Till M Bachman, Lois S Gold, Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Ronnie Juraske, Annette Koehler, Henrik F Larsen, Matthew Macleod, Manuele D Margni, Thomas E McKone, Jérôme Payet, Marta Schuhmacher, Dik van de Meent, and Michael Z Hauschild."USEtox - The UNEP-SETAC toxicity model: recommended characterisation factors for human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity in Life Cycle Impact Assessment."The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 13.7 (2008) 532-546. DOI

Hauschild, Michael Z, Till M Bachman, Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Annette Kohler, Henrik F Larsen, Manuele D Margni, Thomas E McKone, Matthew Macleod, Dik van de Meent, Marta Schuhmacher, and Ralph K Rosenbaum."International consensus model for comparative assessment of chemical emissions in LCA."International Academy for Production Engineering 15th International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, March 17-19, 2008 (2008) 291-296.

Hauschild, Michael Z, Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Matthew Macleod, Manuele D Margni, Dik van de Meent, Ralph K Rosenbaum, and Thomas E McKone."Building a model based on scientific consensus for Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Chemicals: the Search for Harmony and Parsimony."Environmental Science and Technology 42 (2008) 7032-7037.

2006

McKone, Thomas E, Amy D Kyle, Olivier Jolliet, Stig I Olsen, and Michael Z Hauschild."Dose-response modeling for life cycle impact assessment, Findings of the Portland Review Workshop."International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 11 (2006) 209-212.

2002

Bennett, Deborah H, Thomas E McKone, John S Evans, William W Nazaroff, Manuele D Margni, Olivier Jolliet, and Kirk R Smith."Defining intake fraction."Environmental Science & Technology 36 (2002) 207A-211A.

Bennett, Deborah H, Manuele D Margni, Thomas E McKone, and Olivier Jolliet."Intake Fraction for Multimedia Pollutants: A Tool for Life Cycle Analysis and Comparative Risk Assessment."Risk Analysis 22 (2002) 903-916.