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)

2014

Brandt, Adam R., Garvin A. Heath, Eric A. Kort, Francis O'Sullivan, Gabrielle Pétron, Sarah M. Jordaan, Pieter P. Tans, Jennifer Wilcox, Avi M. Gopstein, Douglas J. Arent, Steven C. Wofsy, Nancy J. Brown, Richard Bradley, Galen D. Stucky, Douglas Eardley, and Robert Harriss."Methane Leaks from North American Natural Gas Systems."Science 343.6172 (2014) 733 - 735. DOI

2013

Ryerson, Thomas B., Arlyn E. Andrews, Wayne M. Angevine, Timothy S. Bates, Charles A. Brock, Brian Cairns, Ronald C. Cohen, Owen R. Cooper, Joost A de Gouw, Fred C. Fehsenfeld, Rich A. Ferrare, Marc L. Fischer, Richard C. Flagan, Allen H. Goldstein, John W. Hair, R. Michael Hardesty, Chris A. Hostetler, Jose L Jimenez, Andrew O. Langford, Eileen McCauley, Stuart A. McKeen, Luisa T. Molina, Athanasios Nenes, Samuel J Oltmans, David D. Parrish, James R. Pederson, R. Bradley Pierce, Kimberly A. Prather, John H. Seinfeld, Christoph J. Senff, Armin Sorooshian, Jochen Stutz, Jason D Surratt, Michael K. Trainer, Rainer Volkamer, Eric J. Williams, and Steven C. Wofsy."The 2010 California Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change (CalNex) field study."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118.11 (2013) 5830-5866. DOI

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

Wennberg, Paul O., Wilton Mui, Debra Wunch, Eric A. Kort, Donald R. Blake, Elliot L. Atlas, Gregory W. Santoni, Steven C. Wofsy, Glenn S. Diskin, Seongeun Jeong, and Marc L. Fischer."On the Sources of Methane to the Los Angeles Atmosphere."Environmental Science & Technology 46.17 (2012) 9282–9289. DOI

2010

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.

Xiao, Jingfeng, Qianlai Zhuang, Beverly E. Law, Jiquan Chen, Dennis D. Baldocchi, David R. Cook, Ram Oren, Andrew D. Richardson, Sonia Wharton, Siyan Ma, Timothy A. Martin, Shashi B. Verma, Andrew E. Suyker, Russell L. Scott, Russell K. Monson, Marcy Litvak, David Y. Hollinger, Ge Sun, Kenneth J. Davis, Paul V. Bolstad, Sean P. Burns, Peter S. Curtis, Bert G. Drake, Matthias Falk, Marc L. Fischer, David R. Foster, Lianhong Gu, Julian L. Hadley, Gabriel G. Katul, Roser Matamala, Steve McNulty, Tilden P. Meyers, William J Munger, Asko Noormets, Walter C. Oechel, Kyaw Tha Paw U, Hans Peter Schmid, Gregory Starr, Margaret S. Torn, and Steven C. Wofsy."A continuous measure of gross primary production for the conterminous United States derived from MODIS and AmeriFlux data."Remote Sensing of Environment 114.576 (2010). DOI

2008