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)

2005

Levinson, Ronnen M, Hashem Akbari, Steven J Konopacki, and Sarah E Bretz."Inclusion of cool roofs in nonresidential Title 24 prescriptive requirements."Energy Policy 33.2 (2005) 151-170. DOI

1999

Chaitkin, Stuart, Peter J Biermayer, Sarah E Bretz, Stephen R Brown, Sachu Constantine, and Diane C Fisher."Marginal Energy Prices Report." (1999) 38.

1998

Akbari, Hashem, and Sarah E Bretz."Cool systems for hot cities."Professional Roofing 32-35 (1998) 1-5.

Brown, Richard E, Celina S Atkinson, Jeffrey L Warner, Judy A Roberson, Marla C Sanchez, Sarah E Bretz, and Jonathan G Koomey."Developing Energy-Efficiency Packages for New Production Homes."1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).

Sezgen, Osman, Chris Marnay, and Sarah E Bretz."Wind Generation in the Future Competitive California Power Market." (1998) 17.

Bretz, Sarah E, Hashem Akbari, and Arthur H Rosenfeld."Practical issues for using solar-reflective materials to mitigate urban heat islands."Atmospheric Environment 32 (1998) 95-101. DOI

1997

Marnay, Chris, R. R Cooper Richey, Susan A Mahler, Sarah E Bretz, and Robert J Markel."Estimating the Environmental and Economic Effects of Widespread Residential PV Adoption Using GIS and NEMS." (1997) 32.

Bretz, Sarah E, and Hashem Akbari."Long-term performance of high-albedo roof coatings."Energy and Buildings 25.2 (1997) 159-167. DOI

Akbari, Hashem, Sarah E Bretz, Dan M Kurn, and James W Hanford."Peak power and cooling energy savings of high-albedo roofs."Energy and Buildings 25 (1997) 117-126. DOI

Berdahl, Paul H, and Sarah E Bretz."Preliminary survey of the solar reflectance of cool roofing materials."Energy and Buildings 25 (1997) 149-158. DOI

1995

Rosenfeld, Arthur H, Hashem Akbari, Sarah E Bretz, Beth L Fishman, Dan M Kurn, David J Sailor, and Haider Taha."Mitigation of urban heat islands: materials, utility programs, updates."Energy and Buildings 22.3 (1995) 255-265. DOI

1994

Kurn, Dan M, Sarah E Bretz, Benson Huang, and Hashem Akbari."The potential for reducing urban air temperatures and energy consumption through vegetative cooling." (1994). DOI

1993

Akbari, Hashem, Sarah E Bretz, James W Hanford, Dan M Kurn, Beth L Fishman, and Haider Taha."Monitoring peak power and cooling energy savings of shade trees and white surfaces in the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) service area: data analysis, simulations, and results." (1993).

1992

Akbari, Hashem, Sarah E Bretz, James W Hanford, Arthur H Rosenfeld, David J Sailor, Haider Taha, and Willem Bos."Monitoring peak power and cooling energy savings of shade trees and white surfaces in the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) service area: project design and preliminary results." (1992). DOI

Bretz, Sarah E, Hashem Akbari, Arthur H Rosenfeld, and Haider Taha."Implementation of solar-reflective surfaces: materials and utility programs." (1992) 67. DOI