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

Jeong, Seongeun, Marc L. Fischer, Hanna Breunig, Alison R. Marklein, Francesca M. Hopkins, and Sebastien C. Biraud."Artificial Intelligence Approach for Estimating Dairy Methane Emissions."Environmental Science & Technology 56.8 (2022) 4849 - 4858. DOI

2015

Hu, Lei, Stephen A. Montzka, John B. Miller, Arlyn E. Andrews, Scott J. Lehman, Benjamin R. Miller, Kirk Thoning, Colm Sweeney, Huilin Chen, David S. Godwin, Kenneth A. Masarie, Lori Bruhwiler, Marc L. Fischer, Sebastien C. Biraud, Margaret S. Torn, Marikate Mountain, Thomas Nehrkorn, Janusz Eluszkiewicz, Scott Miller, Roland R. Draxler, Ariel F. Stein, Bradley D. Hall, James W. Elkins, and Pieter P. Tans."U.S. emissions of HFC-134a derived for 2008–2012 from an extensive flask-air sampling network."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120.2 (2015) 801-825. DOI

2013

Miller, Scot M., Steven C. Wofsy, Anna M. Michalak, Eric A. Kort, Arlyn E. Andrews, Sebastien C. Biraud, Edward J. Dlugokencky, Janusz Eluszkiewicz, Marc L. Fischer, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Benjamin R. Miller, John B. Miller, Stephen A. Montzka, Thomas Nehrkorn, and Colm Sweeney."Anthropogenic emissions of methane in the United States."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States (2013). DOI

2012

Fischer, Marc L., Margaret S. Torn, David P. Billesbach, Geoffrey Doyle, Brian Northup, and Sebastien C. Biraud."Carbon, water, and heat flux responses to experimental burning and drought in a tallgrass prairie."Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 166-167 (2012) 169–174. DOI

2010

McMillan, W. Wallace, R. Bradley Pierce, Lynn C. Sparling, Gregory Osterman, Kevin McCann, Marc L. Fischer, Bernhard Rappenglueck, Rob K. Newsom, David D. Turner, Chieko Kittaka, Keith Evans, Sebastien C. Biraud, Barry Lefer, Arlyn E. Andrews, and Samuel J Oltmans."An observational and modeling strategy to investigate the impact of remote sources on local air quality: A Houston, Texas, case study from the Second Texas Air Quality Study (TexAQS II)."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 115.D1 (2010). DOI

Wunch, Debra, Geoffrey C. Toon, Paul O. Wennberg, Steven C. Wofsy, Britton B. Stephens, Marc L. Fischer, Osamu Uchino, James B. Abshire, Peter Bernath, and Sebastien C. Biraud."A calibration of the total carbon column observing network using aircraft profile data."Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 3 (2010) 1351–1362.

Yurganov, Leonid, W. Wallace McMillan, C. Wilson, Marc L. Fischer, Sebastien C. Biraud, and Colm Sweeney."Carbon monoxide mixing ratios over Oklahoma between 2002 and 2009 retrieved from atmospheric emitted radiance Interferometer spectra."Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 3 (2010) 1319–1331. DOI

2009

Riley, William J., Sebastien C. Biraud, Margaret S. Torn, Marc L. Fischer, David P. Billesbach, and Joseph A. Berry."Regional CO₂ and latent heat surface fluxes in the Southern Great Plains: Measurements, modeling, and scaling."Journal of Geophysical Research 114 (2009). DOI