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

Yang, Hung-Chia, Sally M Donovan, Scott J Young, Jeffery B Greenblatt, and Louis-Benoit Desroches."Assessment of household appliance surveys collected with Amazon Mechanical Turk."Energy Efficiency (2015). DOI

Donovan, Sally M, Scott J Young, and Jeffery B Greenblatt."Ice-Making in the U.S.: Results from an Amazon Mechanical Turk Survey." (2015).

2014

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Heidi Fuchs, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Erin S Claybaugh, Bereket Beraki, Mythri Nagaraju, Sarah K Price, and Scott J Young."Computer usage and national energy consumption: Results from a field-metering study." (2014).

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Erin S Claybaugh, Bereket Beraki, Mythri Nagaraju, Sarah K Price, Scott J Young, Sally M Donovan, and Mohan Ganeshalingam."Video game console usage and US national energy consumption: Results from a field-metering study."Energy Efficiency (2014). DOI

2013

Kantner, Colleen, Scott J Young, Sally M Donovan, Karina Garbesi, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Bereket Beraki, and Sarah K Price."Ceiling Fan and Ceiling Fan Light Kit use in the U.S.—Results of a Survey on Amazon Mechanical Turk." (2013).

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Erin S Claybaugh, Bereket Beraki, Mythri Nagaraju, Sarah K Price, Scott J Young, and Sally M Donovan."Video game console usage and national energy consumption: Results from a field-metering study." (2013).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Erin S Claybaugh, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Bereket Beraki, Mythri Nagaraju, Sarah K Price, and Scott J Young."Field data collection of miscellaneous electrical loads in Northern California: Initial results, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory." (2013).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B, Hung-Chia Yang, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Scott J Young, Bereket Beraki, Sarah K Price, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, and Sally M Donovan."U.S. residential consumer product information: Validation of methods for post-stratification weighting of Amazon Mechanical Turk surveys." (2013).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B, Scott J Young, Hung-Chia Yang, T Long, Bereket Beraki, Sarah K Price, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Louis-Benoit Desroches, and Sally M Donovan."U.S. Residential Miscellaneous Refrigeration Products: Results from Amazon Mechanical Turk Surveys." (2013).

2012

Williams, Alison A, Hung-Chia Yang, Bereket Beraki, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Scott J Young, Chun Chun Ni, Henry Willem, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Camilla Dunham, and Sally M Donovan."Surveys of Microwave Ovens in U.S. Homes." (2012).