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)

2020

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard C Diamond, Stephen E Selkowitz, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Tianzhen Hong, Kaiyu Sun, Paul A Mathew, Iain S Walker, Alan K Meier, Erik Page, Jessica Granderson, Nan Zhou, and Peter Alstone."Chapter 2: Global Opportunities and Challenges in Energy and Environmental Issues in the Buildings Sector."World Scientific Series in Current Energy Issues (2020). DOI

2016

Siderius, Hans-Paul, Sophie Attali, Nils Borg, Richard C Diamond, and Alan K Meier."Why Americans Misunderstand European Energy Policies (and vice versa)."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (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).

2014

Diamond, Richard C, and Wei Feng."Sustainability by Design: How One Building in China Could Change the World." (2014).

Mercado, Andrea C, Robin Mitchell, Shankar Earni, Richard C Diamond, and Elena Alschuler."Enabling Interoperability through a Common Language for Building Performance Data."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Mercado, Andrea C, Robin Mitchell, Shankar Earni, Richard C Diamond, and Elena Alschuler."Enabling Interoperability through a Common Language for Building Performance Data."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Hong, Tianzhen, Cheng Li, Richard C Diamond, Da Yan, Qi Zhang, Xin Zhou, Siyue Guo, Kaiyu Sun, and Jingyi Wang."Integrated Design for High Performance Buildings." (2014).

2013

Diamond, Richard C, Qing Ye, Wei Feng, Tao Yan, Hongwei Mao, Yutong Li, Yongcong Guo, and Jialang Wang."Sustainable Building in China—A Green Leap Forward?."Buildings 3.3 (2013) 639-658. DOI

Malone, Elizabeth L, Richard C Diamond, Amy K Wolfe, Tom Sanquist, Christopher T Payne, and Jerry Dion."Sustainable Behavior."Sustain: "Implementing Sustainability: The Behavioral-Institutional Dimension" Spring/Summer 2013.28 (2013) 28-32.

2012

Ingle, Aaron, Mithra M Moezzi, Loren Lutzenhiser, Zac Hathaway, Susan Lutzenhiser, Joe Van Clock, Jane S Peters, Rebecca Smith, David Heslam, and Richard C Diamond."Behavioral Perspectives on Home Energy Audits: The Role of Auditors, Labels, Reports, and Audit Tools on Homeowner Decision-‐Making." (2012).

Ingle, Aaron, Mithra M Moezzi, Loren Lutzenhiser, and Richard C Diamond."How well do home energy audits serve the homeowner?."2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

2011

Marini, Kyle, Girish Ghatikar, and Richard C Diamond."Using Dashboards to Improve Energy and Comfort in Federal Buildings." (2011).

Malone, Elizabeth L, Tom Sanquist, Amy K Wolfe, Richard C Diamond, Christopher T Payne, and Jerry Dion."Evidence-Based Background Material Underlying Guidance for Federal Agencies in Implementing Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans Implementing Sustainability: The Institutional-Behavioral Dimension." (2011).

Diamond, Richard C."The California Statewide Strategic Plan for Energy Efficiency."The California Statewide Strategic Plan for Energy Efficiency (2011).

2010

Harris, Jeffrey P, Richard C Diamond, Carl Blumstein, Chris Calwell, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T Payne, and Paul Siderius."Towards a Policy of Progressive Efficiency."People-Centered Initiatives for Increasing Energy Saving (2010).

Kircher, Kevin, Girish Ghatikar, Steve E Greenberg, David S Watson, Richard C Diamond, Dale A Sartor, Clifford C Federspiel, Alex McEachern, and Tom Owen."Toward the Holy Grail of Perfect Information: Lessons Learned Implementing an Energy Information System in a Commercial Building."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Koomey, Jonathan G, Hashem Akbari, Carl Blumstein, Marilyn A Brown, Richard E Brown, Chris Calwell, Sheryl Carter, Ralph Cavanagh, Audrey Chang, David Claridge, Paul P Craig, Richard C Diamond, Joseph H Eto, William Fulkerson, Ashok J Gadgil, Howard S Geller, José Goldemberg, Charles A Goldman, David B Goldstein, Steve E Greenberg, David Hafemeister, Jeffrey P Harris, Hal Harvey, Eric Heitz, Eric Hirst, Holmes Hummel, Daniel M Kammen, Henry Kelly, John A Laitner, Mark D Levine, Amory Lovins, Gil Masters, James E McMahon, Alan K Meier, Michael Messenger, John Millhone, Evan Mills, Steven M Nadel, Bruce Nordman, Lynn K Price, Joseph J Romm, Marc Ross, Michael Rufo, Jayant A Sathaye, Leon J Schipper, Stephen H Schneider, James L Sweeney, Malcolm Verdict, Diana Vorsatz, Devra Wang, Carl Weinberg, Richard Wilk, John Wilson, and Ernst Worrell."Defining a standard metric for electricity savings."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

Rajkovich, Nicholas B, Richard C Diamond, and Bill Burke."Zero Net Energy Myths and Modes of Thought." (2010).

2009

Ehrlich, Paul, and Richard C Diamond."Smart Buildings:Business Case and Action Plan." (2009).

2008

Harris, Jeffrey P, Richard C Diamond, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T Payne, Carl Blumstein, and Paul Siderius."Towards a sustainable energy balance: progressive efficiency and the return of energy conservation."Energy Efficiency 1.3 (2008) 175-188. DOI

Diamond, Richard C, and Christopher T Payne."Greening the U.S. House of Representatives." (2008).

2007

2006

Harris, Jeffrey P, Richard C Diamond, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T Payne, and Carl Blumstein."Don't Supersize Me! Toward a Policy of Consumption-Based Energy Efficiency."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006) 7-100-7-114.

Mendell, Mark J, Richard C Diamond, William J Fisk, Terry Brennan, Lee Hathon, J. J David Odom, Francis J Offermann, Bradley H Turk, and Kenneth M Wallingford."Causes and prevention of symptom complaints in office buildings: Distilling the experience of indoor environmental quality investigators."Facilities 24.11/12 (2006) 436-444. DOI

Diamond, Richard C, Mike Opitz, Tom Hicks, Bill Von Neida, and Shawn Herrera."Evaluating the energy performance of the first generation of LEED-certified commercial buildings."ACEEE 2006 Summer Study 3 (2006) 245-257.