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)

2022

Ganeshalingam, Mohan, Robert Hosbach, Liat Zavodivker, Brian F. Gerke, Colleen Kantner, and Hannah Stratton."Consumer Purchasing Behavior and Usage of Lighting in the Residential Sector." (2022).

2021

Kantner, Colleen, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Robert Hosbach, and Liat Zavodivker."Impact of the EISA 2007 backstop requirement on general service lamps." (2021).

Rainer, Leo, Alan K. Meier, and Robert Hosbach."Energy use of residential safety, security, and health devices."Energy and Buildings 250 (2021) 111217. DOI

Butzbaugh, Joshua, Robert Hosbach, and Alan K. Meier."Miscellaneous electric loads: Characterization and energy savings potential."Energy and Buildings 241 (2021) 110892. DOI

2020

Grahovac, Milica, Katie Coughlin, Hannes Gerhart, and Robert Hosbach."Multiscale Solar Water Heating." (2020). DOI

Grahovac, Milica, Katie Coughlin, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Robert Hosbach, and Vagelis Vossos."Costs and Benefits of Community Scale Solar Water Heating."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

2019

Gerber, Daniel L., Alan K. Meier, Richard Liou, and Robert Hosbach."Emerging Zero-Standby Solutions for Miscellaneous Electric Loads and the Internet of Things."Electronics 8.5 (2019). DOI

Grahovac, Milica, Robert Hosbach, Katie Coughlin, Mohan Ganeshalingam, and Hannes Gerhart."Multiscale Solar Water Heating (MSWH) v1.0." (2019). DOI

2018

Gerber, Daniel L., Alan K. Meier, Robert Hosbach, and Richard Liou."Zero Standby Solutions with Optical Energy Harvesting from a Laser Pointer."Electronics 7.11 (2018). DOI

Gerber, Daniel L., Alan K. Meier, Robert Hosbach, and Richard Liou."Emerging Solutions to the Standby Power Problem."ACEEE 2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Fares, Robert, Marina Sofos, Jared Langevin, Robert Hosbach, Alan K. Meier, Joshua Butzbaugh, and Paul Ehrlich."Improving Characterization of Miscellaneous Energy Loads in Energy Demand Models."2018 ACEEE Summer Study (2018).

2017

Kantner, Colleen, Andrea L. Alstone, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Brian F. Gerke, and Robert Hosbach."Impact of the EISA 2007 Energy Efficiency Standard on General Service Lamps." (2017).