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)

2012

Salamanca, Francisco, Shaheen R Tonse, Surabi Menon, Vishal Garg, Krishna P Singh, Manish Naja, and Marc L Fischer."Top-of-atmosphere radiative cooling with white roofs: experimental verification and model-based evaluation."Environmental Research Letters 7.4 (2012). DOI

2011

Tonse, Shaheen R, and Brett C Singer."Natural Gas Variability In California: Environmental Impacts And Device Performance, Combustion Modeling of Pollutant Emissions From a Residential Cooking Range." (2011).

Tonse, Shaheen R, and Brett C Singer."Modeling of Pollutant Emissions From a Residential Cooking Range." (2011).

2008

Tonse, Shaheen R, Nancy J Brown, Ling Jin, and Robert A Harley."A Process-Analysis Based Study of the Ozone Weekend Effect."Atmospheric Environment 42.33 (2008) 7728-7736. DOI

Jin, Ling, Shaheen R Tonse, Daniel S Cohan, Xianglei Mao, Robert A Harley, and Nancy J Brown."Sensitivity Analysis of Ozone Formation and Transport for a Central California Air Pollution Episode."Environmental Science & Technology 42.10 (2008) 3683-3689. DOI

2007

Kirchstetter, Thomas W, Jeffery Aguiar, Shaheen R Tonse, Tihomir Novakov, and David Fairly."Black Carbon Concentrations and Diesel Vehicle Emission Factors Derived from Coefficient of Haze Measurements in California: 1967-2003."Atmospheric Environment 42.3 (2007) 480-491. DOI

Tonse, Shaheen R, Marcus S Day, and Nancy J Brown."Dynamic Reduction of a CH4/Air Chemical Mechanism Appropriate for Investigating Vortex Flame Interactions."International Journal of Chemical Kinetics (2007) 204-220.

2004

Tonse, Shaheen R, and Nancy J Brown."Dimensionality Estimate of the Manifold in Chemical Composition Space for a Turbulent Premixed H2+air Flame."International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 36.6 (2004) 326-336. DOI

2003

Tonse, Shaheen R, Nigel W Moriarty, Michael Frenklach, and Nancy J Brown."Computational Economy Improvements in PRISM."International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 35 (2003) 438-452.

Tonse, Shaheen R, Nigel W Moriarty, Michael Frenklach, and Nancy J Brown."Computational Economy Improvements in PRISM."International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 35 (2003) 438-452.

2002

Littlejohn, David, Adrian J Majeski, Shaheen R Tonse, Carlo Castaldini, and Robert K Cheng."Laboratory investigation of an ultralow NO_x premixed combustion concept for industrial boilers."Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 29 (2002) 1115-1121. DOI