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)

2000

Wenzel, Thomas P, Brett C Singer, and Robert R Slott."Some Issues in the Statistical Analysis of Vehicle Emissions."Journal of Transportation and Statistics 3.2 (2000) 1-14.

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Robert Sawyer."Analysis of a State Data on In-Use Emissions from Motor Vehicles (EPA Interagency Agreement DW89938103-01-1): Review of Work Completed." (2000).

Wenzel, Thomas P, Brett C Singer, Etan Gumerman, and Robert Sawyer."Evaluation of the Enhanced Smog Check Program: A Report to the California Inspection and Maintenance Review Committee." (2000).

Barth, Matthew, Feng An, Theodore Younglove, George Scora, Carrie Levine, Marc Ross, and Thomas P Wenzel."Development of a Comprehensive Modal Emissions Model." (2000).

1999

Wenzel, Thomas P."Using Program Test Result Data to Evaluate the Phoenix I/M Program." (1999).

1998

Ross, Marc, Rob Goodwin, Rick Watkins, Thomas P Wenzel, and Michael Q Wang."Real-World Emissions from Conventional Passenger Cars."Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 48.6 (1998) 502 - 515. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Robert Sawyer."Analysis of a Remote Sensing Clean Screen Program in Arizona." (1998).

Wenzel, Thomas P."Review of Sierra Research Report “Development of a Proposed Procedure for Determining the Equivalency of Alternative Inspection and Maintenance Programs”." (1998).

Ross, Marc, Rob Goodwin, Rick Watkins, Thomas P Wenzel, and Michael Q Wang."Real-World Emissions from Conventional Passenger Cars."Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 48.6 (1998) 502 - 515. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P, and Marc Ross."SAE Technical Paper Series Characterization of Recent-Model High-Emitting Automobiles."International Fuels & Lubricants Meeting & ExpositionSAE Technical Paper Series 1 (1998). DOI

1997

Wenzel, Thomas P, Jonathan G Koomey, Gregory J Rosenquist, Marla C Sanchez, and James W Hanford."Energy Data Sourcebook for the U.S. Residential Sector." (1997).

Barth, Matthew, Theodore Younglove, Thomas P Wenzel, George Scora, Feng An, Marc Ross, and Joseph Norbeck."Analysis of Modal Emissions From Diverse In-Use Vehicle Fleet."Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1587.1 (1997) 73 - 84. DOI

1995

Ross, Marc, Rob Goodwin, Rick Watkins, Michael Q Wang, and Thomas P Wenzel."Real-World Emissions from Model Year 1993, 2000, and 2010 Passenger Cars." (1995).

Wenzel, Thomas P."Analysis of National Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Systems and Other Variable Driving Charges." (1995).

1992

Atkinson, Barbara A, James E McMahon, Evan Mills, Peter T Chan, Terry W Chan, Joseph H Eto, Judy D Jennings, Jonathan G Koomey, Kwok-Wai Ken Lo, Matthew E Lecar, Lynn K Price, Francis M Rubinstein, Osman Sezgen, and Thomas P Wenzel."Analysis of Federal Policy Options for Improving U.S. Lighting Energy Efficiency: Commercial and Residential Buildings." (1992).