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)

2002

Novakov, Tihomir, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Jonathan E. Sinton, Jayant A. Sathaye, and James E. Hansen."Large historical changes of fossil-fuel black carbon aerosols."Geophysical Research Letters 30.6 (2002). DOI

Fischer, Marc L., Melissa M. Lunden, Tracy L. Thatcher, David Littlejohn, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Susanne V. Hering, Richard G. Sextro, and Nancy J. Brown."Building a predictive model of indoor concentrations of outdoor PM-2.5 for a residential research house in Clovis, California." (2002).

Hering, Susanne V., Melissa M. Lunden, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Tracy L. Thatcher, Kenneth L. Revzan, Richard G. Sextro, Nancy J. Brown, John G. Watson, and Judith C. Chow."Indoor, Outdoor And Regional Profiles Of Pm2.5 Sulfate, Nitrate And Carbon."9th International Conference on Indoor Air 2002 1 (2002) 874-879.

2001

Lunden, Melissa M., Tracy L. Thatcher, David Littlejohn, Marc L. Fischer, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Nancy J. Brown, Susanne V. Hering, and Mark Stolzenburg."Building a predictive model of indoor concentrations of outdoor PM-2.5 in homes." (2001).

2000

Thatcher, Tracy L., Melissa M. Lunden, Marc L. Fischer, James D. Fine, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Susanne V. Hering, Richard G. Sextro, and Nancy J. Brown."A Concentration Rebound Method For Measuring Particle Penetration Into A Residence, Section 12A1."Proceedings of the 19th Annual American Association for Aerosol Research, St. Louis, MO (2000).

1999

Singer, Brett C., Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Robert A. Harley, Gary R. Kendall, and James M. Hesson."A fuel-based approach to estimating motor vehicle cold start emissions."Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 49.2 (1999) 125-135. DOI

Kirchstetter, Thomas W., Brett C. Singer, Robert A. Harley, Gary R. Kendall, and Michael Traverse."Impact of California reformulated gasoline on motor vehicle emissions: 1. Mass emission rates."Environmental Science & Technology 33.2 (1999) 318-328. DOI

Kirchstetter, Thomas W., Brett C. Singer, Robert A. Harley, Gary R. Kendall, and James M. Hesson."Impact of California reformulated gasoline on motor vehicle emissions: 2. VOC speciation and reactivity."Environmental Science & Technology 33.2 (1999) 329-336. DOI

1996

Kirchstetter, Thomas W., Brett C. Singer, Robert A. Harley, Gary R. Kendall, and Waymond Chan."Impact of oxygenated gasoline use on California light-duty vehicle emissions."Environmental Science & Technology 30.2 (1996) 661-670. DOI