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)

2020

Leifer, Ira, Christopher Melton, Robert Chatfield, Xinguang Cui, Marc L Fischer, Matthew Fladeland, Warren Gore, Dennis L Hlavka, Laura T Iraci, Jocette E Marrero, Ju-Mee Ryoo, Tomoaki Tanaka, Emma L Yates, and John E Yorks."Air pollution inputs to the Mojave Desert by fusing surface mobile and airborne in situ and airborne and satellite remote sensing: A case study of interbasin transport with numerical model validation."Atmospheric Environment 224 (2020) 117184. DOI

Huntington, Tyler, Xinguang Cui, Umakant Mishra, and Corinne D Scown."Machine learning to predict biomass sorghum yields under future climate scenarios."Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 14.3 (2020) 566 - 577. DOI

2019

Martinez‐Hernandez, Elias, Xinguang Cui, Corinne D Scown, Myriam A Amezcua‐Allieri, Jorge Aburto, and Blake A Simmons."Techno‐economic and greenhouse gas analyses of lignin valorization to eugenol and phenolic products in integrated ethanol biorefineries."Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining (2019). DOI

Cui, Xinguang, Sally Newman, Xiaomei Xu, Arlyn E Andrews, John Miller, Scott J Lehman, Seongeun Jeong, Jingsong Zhang, Chad Priest, Mixtli Campos-Pineda, Kevin R Gurney, Heather Graven, John Southon, and Marc L Fischer."Atmospheric observation-based estimation of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions from regions of central and southern California."Science of The Total Environment (2019). DOI

2018

Cui, Xinguang, Olga Kavvada, Tyler Huntington, and Corinne D Scown."Strategies for near-term scale-up of cellulosic biofuel production using sorghum and crop residues in the U.S.."Environmental Research Letters (2018). DOI

Jeong, Seongeun, Sally Newman, Jingsong Zhang, Arlyn E Andrews, Laura Bianco, Edward J Dlugokencky, Justin Bagley, Xinguang Cui, Chad Priest, Mixtli Campos-Pineda, and Marc L Fischer."Inverse Estimation of an Annual Cycle of California's Nitrous Oxide Emissions."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123.9 (2018) 4758 - 4771. DOI

Graven, Heather, Marc L Fischer, T Lueker, Seongeun Jeong, Tom Guilderson, Ralph Keeling, Ray P Bambha, Kieran Brophy, W Callahan, Xinguang Cui, C Frankenberg, Kevin R Gurney, Brian W LaFranchi, Scott J Lehman, Hope A Michelsen, John B Miller, Sally Newman, W Paplawsky, Nicholas Parazoo, Christopher D Sloop, and S.J Walker."Assessing fossil fuel CO ₂ emissions in California using atmospheric observations and models."Environmental Research Letters 13.6 (2018) 065007. DOI

2017

Fischer, Marc L, Nicholas Parazoo, Kieran Brophy, Xinguang Cui, Seongeun Jeong, Junjie Liu, Ralph Keeling, Thomas E Taylor, Kevin R Gurney, Tomohiro Oda, and Heather Graven."Simulating Estimation of California Fossil Fuel and Biosphere Carbon Dioxide Exchanges Combining In-situ Tower and Satellite Column Observations."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122.6 (2017) 3653-3671. DOI

Bagley, Justin, Seongeun Jeong, Xinguang Cui, Sally Newman, Jingsong Zhang, Chad Priest, Mixtli Campos-Pineda, Arlyn E Andrews, Laura Bianco, Matthew Lloyd, Neil Lareau, Craig B Clements, and Marc L Fischer."Assessment of an atmospheric transport model for annual inverse estimates of California greenhouse gas emissions."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122.2 (2017) 1901 - 1918. DOI

Jeong, Seongeun, Xinguang Cui, Donald R Blake, Benjamin R Miller, Stephen A Montzka, Arlyn E Andrews, Abhinav Guha, Philip T Martien, Ray P Bambha, Brian W LaFranchi, Hope A Michelsen, Craig B Clements, Pierre Glaize, and Marc L Fischer."Estimating methane emissions from biological and fossil-fuel sources in the San Francisco Bay Area."Geophysical Research Letters (2017) 486 - 495. DOI

2016

Jeong, Seongeun, Sally Newman, Jingsong Zhang, Arlyn E Andrews, Laura Bianco, Justin Bagley, Xinguang Cui, Heather Graven, Jooil Kim, Peter Salameh, Brian W LaFranchi, Chad Priest, Mixtli Campos-Pineda, Elena Novakovskaia, Christopher D Sloop, Hope A Michelsen, Ray P Bambha, Ray F Weiss, Ralph Keeling, and Marc L Fischer."Estimating methane emissions in California's urban and rural regions using multitower observations."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 121 (2016). DOI

Leifer, Ira, Christopher Melton, Jason Frash, Marc L Fischer, Xinguang Cui, John Murray, and David S Green."Fusion of Mobile In Situ and Satellite Remote Sensing Observations of Chemical Release Emissions to Improve Disaster Response." (2016).