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)

2020

Wei, Max, Douglas R. Black, John Elliott, Howdy Goudey, Steve E. Greenberg, and Adam Z. Weber."Improving Energy System Resilience at Berkeley Lab and Beyond." (2020).

Earni, Shankar, and Steve E. Greenberg."The Installation of Direct Water-Cooling Systems to Reduce Cooling Energy Requirements for High-Performance Computing Centers."ACEEE 2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

2016

Ganguly, Suprotim, Sanyukta Raje, Satish Kumar, Dale A. Sartor, and Steve E. Greenberg."Accelerating Energy Efficiency in Indian Data Centers: Final Report for Phase I Activities." (2016).

2015

Raje, Sanyukta, Hermant Maan, Suprotim Ganguly, Tanvin Singh, Nisha Jayaram, Girish Ghatikar, Steve E. Greenberg, Satish Kumar, and Dale A. Sartor."Data Center Energy Efficiency Standards in India: Preliminary Findings from Global Practices."e-Energy Conference (2015).

2014

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Steve E. Greenberg, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Richard E. Brown, and William Tscudi."Energy Efficiency in Small Server Rooms: FIeld Surveys and Findings."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Coles, Henry C., and Steve E. Greenberg."Direct Liquid Cooling for Electronic Equipment." (2014).

2013

Coles, Henry C., Steve E. Greenberg, and William F. Tschudi."Demonstration of Data Center Energy Use Prediction Software." (2013).

2012

Coles, Henry C., and Steve E. Greenberg."Data Center Economizer Cooling with Tower Water; Demonstration of a Dual Heat Exchanger Rack Cooling Device." (2012).

Coles, Henry C., Steve E. Greenberg, and Corrine Vita."Demonstration of Intelligent Control and Fan Improvements in Computer Room Air Handlers." (2012).

Earni, Shankar, Spencer Woodworth, Xiufeng Pang, Jorge Hernandez-Maldonado, Rongxin Yin, Liping Wang, Steve E. Greenberg, John Fiegel, and Alma Rubalcava."Monitoring-based HVAC Commissioning of an Existing Office Building for Energy Efficiency." (2012).

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Steve E. Greenberg, Richard E. Brown, William F. Tschudi, Pierre Delforge, and Joyce Dickerson."Fact Sheet: Improving Energy Efficiency for Server Rooms and Closets." (2012).

2011

2010

Kircher, Kevin, Girish Ghatikar, Steve E. Greenberg, David S. Watson, Richard C. Diamond, Dale A. Sartor, Clifford C. Federspiel, Alex McEachern, and Tom Owen."Toward the Holy Grail of Perfect Information: Lessons Learned Implementing an Energy Information System in a Commercial Building."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Koomey, Jonathan G., Hashem Akbari, Carl Blumstein, Marilyn A. Brown, Richard E. Brown, Chris Calwell, Sheryl Carter, Ralph Cavanagh, Audrey Chang, David Claridge, Paul P. Craig, Richard C. Diamond, Joseph H Eto, William Fulkerson, Ashok J. Gadgil, Howard S. Geller, José Goldemberg, Charles A. Goldman, David B Goldstein, Steve E. Greenberg, David Hafemeister, Jeffrey P. Harris, Hal Harvey, Eric Heitz, Eric Hirst, Holmes Hummel, Daniel M. Kammen, Henry Kelly, John A. Laitner, Mark D. Levine, Amory Lovins, Gil Masters, James E. McMahon, Alan K. Meier, Michael Messenger, John Millhone, Evan Mills, Steven M. Nadel, Bruce Nordman, Lynn K. Price, Joseph J. Romm, Marc Ross, Michael Rufo, Jayant A. Sathaye, Leon J. Schipper, Stephen H. Schneider, James L. Sweeney, Malcolm Verdict, Diana Vorsatz, Devra Wang, Carl Weinberg, Richard Wilk, John Wilson, and Ernst Worrell."Defining a standard metric for electricity savings."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

2009

Singer, Brett C., Paul A. Mathew, Steve E. Greenberg, William F. Tschudi, Dale A. Sartor, Susan Strom, and Walter Vernon."Hospital Energy Benchmarking Guidance." (2009) 32.

Mathew, Paul A., Steve E. Greenberg, Srirupa Ganguly, Dale A. Sartor, and William F. Tschudi."How Does Your Data Center Measure Up? Energy Efficiency Metrics and Benchmarks for Data Center Infrastructure Systems."HPAC Journal (2009).

Mathew, Paul A., Srirupa Ganguly, Steve E. Greenberg, and Dale A. Sartor."Self-benchmarking Guide for Data Centers: Metrics, Benchmarks, Actions." (2009).

Mathew, Paul A., Steve E. Greenberg, and Dale A. Sartor."Self-benchmarking Guide for Laboratory Buildings: Metrics, Benchmarks, Actions." (2009).

2008

Mathew, Paul A., Steve E. Greenberg, Dale A. Sartor, and Peter Rumsey."Metrics and Benchmarks for Energy Efficiency in Laboratories."ASHRAE Journal (2008) 40-47.

2007

Xu, Tengfang T., and Steve E. Greenberg."Data Center Energy Benchmarking: Part 1-5." (2007).

2005

Frenze, David, Steve E. Greenberg, Paul A. Mathew, Michael Morehead, Dale A. Sartor, and William Starr Jr."Minimizing Reheat Energy Use in Laboratories." (2005).

Frenze, David, Steve E. Greenberg, Paul A. Mathew, Dale A. Sartor, and William Starr Jr."Right-Sizing Laboratory Equipment Loads." (2005).

1998

Roberson, Judy A., Richard E. Brown, Jonathan G. Koomey, and Steve E. Greenberg."Recommended Ventilation Strategies for Energy-Efficient Production Homes." (1998).

Roberson, Judy A., Richard E. Brown, Jonathan G. Koomey, Jeffrey L. Warner, and Steve E. Greenberg."Recommended Ventilation Strategies for New Energy-Efficient Production Homes."1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).