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)

2019

Mathew, Paul A., Philip Coleman, Janie Page, Cynthia Regnier, Jordan Shackelford, Greg Hopkins, Matt Jungclaus, and Victor Olgyay."Energy Efficiency and the Real Estate Lifecycle: Stakeholder Perspectives." (2019).

Walter, Travis, and Paul A. Mathew."Is the BPD Nationally Representative? A Comparison of the Building Performance Database to the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey." (2019).

2018

Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A. Mathew, Alastair Robinson, Peter Schwartz, Jordan Shackelford, and Travis Walter."Beyond Widgets: Validated Systems Energy Savings and Utility Custom Incentive Program Systems Trends."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Mathew, Paul A., Nancy Wallace, Paulo Issler, Baptiste Ravache, Philip Coleman, and Cindy Zhu."Do energy costs really affect commercial mortgage default risk? New results and implications for energy efficiency investments."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Zhu, Cindy, Andrew White, Paul A. Mathew, Jeff Deason, and Philip Coleman."Raising the Rent Premium: Moving Green Building Research Beyond Certifications and Rent."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Singh, Reshma, Paul A. Mathew, Jessica Granderson, Yash Shukla, Amiya Ranjan Behera, and Michael Pitt."Packaged Scalable Energy Information Systems for Hotels."Journal of Facilities Management 16.2 (2018) 119 - 141. DOI

Mathew, Paul A., Robin Mitchell, and Travis Walter."Using Data for Policy: A Manual for C40 Cities." (2018).

Mathew, Paul A., Cynthia Regnier, Travis Walter, and Jordan Shackelford."ComEd – LBNL ‘Beyond Widgets’ Project Automated Shading Integrated with Lighting and HVAC Controls System Program Manual." (2018).

Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A. Mathew, Alastair Robinson, Peter Schwartz, Jordan Shackelford, and Travis Walter."Energy Cost Savings of Systems-Based Building Retrofits: A Study of Three Integrated Lighting Systems in Comparison with Component Based Retrofits." (2018).

2017

Iyer, Maithili, Satish Kumar, Sangeeta Mathew, Hannah Stratton, Paul A. Mathew, and Mohini Singh."Establishing a commercial building energy data framework for India: Approaches, use cases, and institutions."INSPIRE 2017 (2017).

Robinson, Alastair, Paul A. Mathew, Cynthia Regnier, Peter Schwartz, Jordan Shackelford, and Travis Walter."California Publicly‐Owned Utilities (POUs) – LBNL ‘Beyond Widgets’ Project Task‐ambient lighting and occupancy‐based plug load control System Program Manual ." (2017).

Wallace, Nancy, Paulo Issler, Paul A. Mathew, and Kaiyu Sun."Impact of Energy Factors on Default Risk in Commercial Mortgages." (2017).

Mathew, Paul A., Kaiyu Sun, Baptiste Ravache, Paulo Issler, and Nancy Wallace."Impact of Energy Use and Price Variations on Default Risk in Commercial Mortgages: Case Studies." (2017).

Shehabi, Arman, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Laurèn DeMates, Paul A. Mathew, and Dale A. Sartor."Characterizing the Laboratory Market." (2017).

Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A. Mathew, Alastair Robinson, Jordan Shackelford, Peter Schwartz, and Travis Walter."Xcel Energy – LBNL ‘Beyond Widgets’ Project Workstation Specific Lighting with Daylight Dimming Controls System Program Manual." (2017).

2016

Iyer, Maithili, Satish Kumar, Sangeeta Mathew, Hannah Stratton, Paul A. Mathew, and Mohini Singh."Establishing a Commercial Buildings Energy Data Framework for India: A Comprehensive Look at Data Collection Approaches, Use Cases and Institutions." (2016).

Berger, Michael A., Paul A. Mathew, and Travis Walter."Big Data Analytics in the Building Industry."ASHRAE Journal (2016) 38-45.

Granderson, Jessica, Erin L. Hult, Samuel Fernandes, Paul A. Mathew, and Robin Mitchell."Unlocking Energy Efficiency in Small Commercial Buildings through Mechanical Contractors."Journal of Architectural Engineering (2016).

Mathew, Paul A., Sangeeta Mathew, Satish Kumar, Mohini Singh, Hannah Stratton, and Maithili Iyer."India Commercial Buildings Data Framework: A Summary of Potential Use Cases." (2016).

Iyer, Maithili, Hannah Stratton, Sangeeta Mathew, Satish Kumar, Paul A. Mathew, and Mohini Singh."Review of Building Data Frameworks Across Countries: Lessons for India." (2016).

Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A. Mathew, Alastair Robinson, Peter Schwartz, and Travis Walter."Beyond Widgets – Systems Incentive Programs for Utilities."ACEEE (2016).

Singh, Reshma, Paul A. Mathew, Jessica Granderson, Rohini Srivastava, and Yash Shukla."Caring for the Energy Health of Healthcare Facilities U.S.– India Joint Center for Building Energy Research and Development (CBERD)." (2016).

Mathew, Paul A., Nancy Wallace, Elena Alschuler, and Leonard Kolstad."Commercial mortgages: An underutilized channel for scaling energy efficiency investments?."ACEEE (2016).

Mathew, Paul A., Philip Coleman, Nancy Wallace, Paulo Issler, Lenny Kolstad, and Robert Sahadi."Energy Factors in Commercial Mortgages: Gaps and Opportunities." (2016).

2015

Mills, Evan, Jessica Granderson, Wanyu R. Chan, Richard C. Diamond, Philip Haves, Bruce Nordman, Paul A. Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Gerald Robinson, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Green, Clean, & Mean: Pushing the Energy Envelope in Tech Industry Buildings." (2015).