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)

2008

Quinn, Patricia K., Timothy S. Bates, Ellen Baum, Nancy Doubleday, Arlene M. Fiore, Mark Flanner, Ann M. Fridlind, Tim J. Garrett, Dorothy M. Koch, Surabi Menon, Drew T. Shindell, Andreas Stohl, and Stephen G. Warren."Short-lived pollutants in the Arctic: their climate impact and possible mitigation strategies."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 8 (2008) 1723-1735. DOI

Sednev, Igor, Surabi Menon, and Greg M. McFarquhar."Simulating mixed-phase Arctic stratus clouds: Sensitivity to ice initiation mechanisms."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 9 (2008) 4747–4773.

2007

Hansen, James E., Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, Pushker A. Kharecha, Andrew A. Lacis, Ronald L. Miller, Larissa Nazarenko, Kwok-Wai Ken Lo, Gavin A. Schmidt, Gary L. Russell, Igor D. Aleinov, Susanne E. Bauer, Ellen Baum, Brian Cairns, Vittorio M. Canuto, Mark Chandler, Ye Cheng, Armond Cohen, Anthony Del Genio, Gregory S. Faluvegi, Eric L. Fleming, Andrew D. Friend, Timothy M. Hall, Charles H. Jackman, Jeffrey Jonas, Maxwell Kelley, Nancy Y. Kiang, Dorothy M. Koch, Gordon J. Labow, J. Lerner, Surabi Menon, Tihomir Novakov, Valdar Oinas, Jan Perlwitz, Judith Perlwitz, David H. Rind, Anastasia Romanou, Robert B. Schmunk, Drew T. Shindell, Peter H. Stone, S. Sun, David G. Streets, Nicholas Tausnev, D. Thresher, Nadine Unger, Mao-Sung Yao, and S. Zhang."Climate simulations for 1880–2003 with GISS modelE."Climate Dynamics 29.7-8 (2007) 661-696. DOI

Shindell, Drew T., Gregory S. Faluvegi, Susanne E. Bauer, Dorothy M. Koch, Nadine Unger, Surabi Menon, Ronald L. Miller, Gavin A. Schmidt, and David G. Streets."Climate response to projected changes in short-lived species under an A1B scenario from 2000–2050 in the GISS climate model."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 112.D20 (2007). DOI

Akbari, Hashem, Surabi Menon, and Arthur H. Rosenfeld."Global cooling: effect of urban albedo on global temperature."2nd PALENC and 28th AIVC Conference (2007) 1-5.

Hansen, James E., Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, Pushker A. Kharecha, Andrew A. Lacis, Ronald L. Miller, Larissa Nazarenko, Kwok-Wai Ken Lo, Gavin A. Schmidt, Gary L. Russell, Igor D. Aleinov, Susanne E. Bauer, Ellen Baum, Brian Cairns, Vittorio M. Canuto, Mark Chandler, Ye Cheng, Armond Cohen, Anthony Del Genio, Gregory S. Faluvegi, Eric L. Fleming, Andrew D. Friend, Timothy M. Hall, Charles H. Jackman, Jeffrey Jonas, Maxwell Kelley, Nancy Y. Kiang, Dorothy M. Koch, Gordon J. Labow, J. Lerner, Surabi Menon, Tihomir Novakov, Valdar Oinas, Jan Perlwitz, Judith Perlwitz, David H. Rind, Anastasia Romanou, Robert B. Schmunk, Drew T. Shindell, Peter H. Stone, S. Sun, David G. Streets, Nicholas Tausnev, D. Thresher, Nadine Unger, Mao-Sung Yao, and S. Zhang."Dangerous human-made interference with climate: a GISS modelE study."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 7 (2007) 2287– 2312. DOI

Menon, Surabi, and Anthony Del Genio."Evaluating the impacts of carbonaceous aerosols on clouds and climate."Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment (2007) 34-48 .

2006

Niyogi, Dev, Hsin-I Chang, Fei Chen, Lianhong Gu, Anil Kumar, Surabi Menon, and Roger A. Pielke Sr.."Potential impacts of aerosol-land-atmosphere interactions on the Indian monsoonal rainfall characteristics."Natural Hazards 42.2 (2006) 345-359. DOI

2005

Novakov, Tihomir, Surabi Menon, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Dorothy M. Koch, and James E. Hansen."Aerosol organic carbon to black carbon ratios: Analysis of published data and implications for climate forcing."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 110.D21 (2005). DOI

Hansen, James E., Larissa Nazarenko, Reto Ruedy, Makiko Sato, Josh Willis, Anthony Del Genio, Dorothy M. Koch, Andrew A. Lacis, Kwok-Wai Ken Lo, Surabi Menon, Tihomir Novakov, Judith Perlwitz, Gary L. Russell, Gavin A. Schmidt, and Nicholas Tausnev."Earth's Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications."Science 308.5727 (2005) 1431-1435. DOI

2004

Menon, Surabi."Current Uncertainties in Assessing Aerosol Effects on Climate."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 29 (2004) 1-30. DOI

2003

Menon, Surabi, Jean-Louis Brenguier, Olivier Boucher, Paul Davison, Anthony Del Genio, Johann Feichter, Steven J. Ghan, Sarah Guibert, Xiaohong Liu, Ulrike Lohmann, Hanna Pawlowska, Joyce E. Penner, Johannes Quaas, David L. Roberts, Lothar Schuller, and Jefferson Snider."Evaluating aerosol//cloud//radiation process parameterizations with single-column models and Second Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACE-2) cloudy column observations."Journal of Geophysical Research 108.D24 (2003). DOI