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)

2011

Soto-García, Lydia L, Meinrat O Andreae, Tracey W Andreae, Paulo Artaxo, Willy Maenhaut, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Tihomir Novakov, Judith C Chow, and Olga L Mayol-Bracero."Evaluation of the carbon content of aerosols from the burning of biomass in the Brazilian Amazon using thermal, optical and thermal-optical analysis methods."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 11 (2011) 4425-4444. DOI

2008

Novakov, Tihomir, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Surabi Menon, and Jeffery Aguiar."Response of California temperature to regional anthropogenic aerosol changes."Geophysical Research Letters 35.19 (2008). DOI

2007

Kirchstetter, Thomas W, Jeffery Aguiar, Shaheen R Tonse, Tihomir Novakov, and David Fairly."Black Carbon Concentrations and Diesel Vehicle Emission Factors Derived from Coefficient of Haze Measurements in California: 1967-2003."Atmospheric Environment 42.3 (2007) 480-491. DOI

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

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

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

Magi, Brian I, Peter V Hobbs, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Tihomir Novakov, Dean A Hegg, Song Gao, Jens Redemann, and Beat Schmid."Aerosol properties and chemical apportionment of aerosol optical depth at locations off the US east coast in July and August 2001."Journal of Atmospheric Sciences - Special Issue 62 (2005) 919-933. 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

Kirchstetter, Thomas W, Tihomir Novakov, and Peter V Hobbs."Evidence that the spectral dependence of light absorption by aerosols is affected by organic carbon."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 109.D21 (2004). DOI

2003

Kirchstetter, Thomas W, Tihomir Novakov, and Peter V Hobbs."Airborne measurements of carbonaceous aerosols in southern Africa during the dry, biomass burning season."Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres (2003). DOI

Sinha, Parikhit, Peter V Hobbs, Robert J Yokelson, Isaac T Bertschi, Donald R Blake, Isobel J Simpson, Song Gao, Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Tihomir Novakov."Emissions of trace gases and particles from savanna fires in southern Africa."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 108.D13 (2003). DOI

Hobbs, Peter V, Parikhit Sinha, Robert J Yokelson, Ted J Christian, Donald R Blake, Song Gao, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Tihomir Novakov, and Peter Pilewski."Evolution of gases and particles from a savanna fire in South Africa."Journal of Geophysical Research 108.D13 (2003). DOI

Eatough, Delbert J, Norman L Eatough, Yanbo Pang, Samantha L Sizemore, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Tihomir Novakov, and Peter V Hobbs."Semivolatile particulate organic material in southern Africa during SAFARI 2000."Journal of Geophysical Research 108.D13 (2003). DOI

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