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)

2015

Van Buskirk, Robert D."Doubling the global pace of progress for energy efficiency (EE): Applying a “Moore’s Law” of EE to technology innovation for off-grid applications." (2015).

Touzani, Samir, and Robert D Van Buskirk."Estimating Sales and Sales Market Share from Sales Rank Data for Consumer Appliances." (2015).

2014

Van Buskirk, Robert D, Colleen Kantner, Brian F Gerke, and S Chu."A retrospective investigation of energy efficiency standards: policies may have accelerated long term declines in appliance costs."Environmental Research Letters 9.11 (2014) 114010. DOI

2013

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Karina Garbesi, Colleen Kantner, Robert D Van Buskirk, and Hung-Chia Yang."Incorporating Experience Curves in Appliance Standards Analysis."Energy Policy 52 (2013) 402-416. DOI

2011

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Karina Garbesi, Colleen Kantner, Robert D Van Buskirk, and Hung-Chia Yang."Incorporating Experience Curves in Appliance Standards Analysis." (2011).

2007

McNeil, Michael A, Virginie E Letschert, and Robert D Van Buskirk."Methodology for the Policy Analysis Modeling System." (2007).

McNeil, Michael A, Virginie E Letschert, and Robert D Van Buskirk."User Instructions for the Policy Analysis Modeling System (PAMS)." (2007).

2006

Ben Hagan, Essel, Robert D Van Buskirk, Alfred Ofosu-Ahenkorah, and Michael A McNeil."Refrigerator Efficiency in Ghana: Tailoring an Appliance Market Transformation Program Design for Africa." (2006) 37.

Van Buskirk, Robert D."Analysis of Long-range Clean Energy Investment Scenarios for Eritrea, East Africa."Energy Policy 34 (2006) 25.

2004

Dale, Larry L, Dev Millstein, Katie Coughlin, Robert D Van Buskirk, Gregory J Rosenquist, Alexander B Lekov, and Sanjib Bhuyan."An Analysis of Price Determination and Markups in the Air-Conditioning and Heating Equipment Industry." (2004).

2002

Bartholomew, Emily S, Robert D Van Buskirk, and Chris Marnay."Conservation in California During the Summer of 2001." (2002) 22.

Bartholomew, Emily S, Robert D Van Buskirk, and Chris Marnay."Conservation in California During the Summer of 2001." (2002) 19.

2001

Rosenquist, Gregory J, Peter T Chan, Alexander B Lekov, James E McMahon, and Robert D Van Buskirk."Consumer Life-Cycle Cost Impacts of Energy-Efficiency Standards for Residential-Type Central Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps." (2001) 30.

Rosenquist, Gregory J, Peter T Chan, Alexander B Lekov, James E McMahon, and Robert D Van Buskirk."Consumer Life-Cycle Cost Impacts of Energy-Efficiency Standards for Residential-Type Central Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps."2002 Winter Meeting of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE), January 11-16, 2002 108.Part 1 (2001) 619-630.

2000

Van Buskirk, Robert D."Econometric Modeling of the Effects of Energy Efficiency Standards on Appliance Shipments." (2000).

Chaitkin, Stuart, James E McMahon, Camilla Dunham, Robert D Van Buskirk, and James D Lutz."Estimating Marginal Residential Energy Prices in the Analysis of Proposed Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards." (2000).