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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.
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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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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.

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2015

Weber, Adam Z., Girish Ghatikar, Dale A. Sartor, and Steven Lanzisera."Design and Development of an Integrated Workstation Automation Hub." (2015).

Mills, Evan."A New Appraisal- Lessons from the History of Efforts to Value Green and High-Performance Home Attributes in the United States." (2015).

Mills, Evan, and Nathaniel Mills."Taming the Energy Use of Gaming Computers."Energy Efficiency (2015). DOI

2014

Mills, Evan, J. Tracy, P. Alstone, Arne Jacobson, and P. Avato."Low-cost LED flashlights and market spoiling in Kenya’s off-grid lighting market."Energy Efficiency 8.2 (2014) https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/publications?f%5Bauthor%5D=16780. DOI

Alstone, Peter, Patricia Lai, and Evan Mills."High Life Cycle Efficacy Explains Fast Energy Payback for Improved Off-Grid Lighting in the Developing World."Journal of Industrial Ecology 18.5 (2014) 722-733. DOI

Mills, Evan, Norman Bourassa, Leo I. Rainer, Gregory K. Homan, Noel Market, Danny S. Parker, Glenn Dickey, and Joan Glickman."Asset Rating with the Home Energy Scoring Tool."Energy and Building 80 (2014) 441-450. DOI

Meier, Alan K., and Hans-Paul Siderius."Assembling Appliances Standards from a Basket of Functions."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Steve E. Greenberg, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Richard E. Brown, and William Tscudi."Energy Efficiency in Small Server Rooms: FIeld Surveys and Findings."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Meier, Alan K.."From Energy Audits to Home Performance: 30 Years of Articles in Home Energy Magazine."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Liao, Anna, Steven Lanzisera, James D. Lutz, Christian Fitting, Margarita Kloss, and Christopher Stiles."Performance Monitoring of Residential Hot Water Distribution Systems."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Mills, Evan, Tim Gengnagel, and Philipp Wollburg."Solar-LED Alternatives to Fuel-based Lighting for Night Fishing."Energy and Sustainable Development 21 (2014) 30-41. DOI

Kloss, Margarita, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Richard E. Brown, and Alan K. Meier."Using Public Participation to Improve MELs Energy Data Collection."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Weber, Adam Z., Steven Lanzisera, Anna Liao, and Alan K. Meier."We Need to Talk… Developing Communicating Power Supplies to Monitor & Control Miscellaneous Electric Loads."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Custodio, Claudine Y., Travis Walter, Laurel N. Dunn, Andrea C. Mercado, Richard E. Brown, and Paul A. Mathew."Data Preparation Process for the Buildings Performance Database." (2014).

Meier, Alan K., and Sarah J. Olexsak."The electricity impacts of Earth Hour: An international comparative analysis of energy-saving behavior."Energy Research & Social Science 2 (2014). DOI

Lanzisera, Steven, Andrew R. Weber, Anna Liao, Dominic Pajak, and Alan K. Meier."Communicating Power Supplies: Bringing the Internet to the Ubiquitous Energy Gateways of Electronic Devices."IEEE Internet of Things Journal 1.2 (2014). DOI

Mills, Evan."Light for Life: Identifying and Reducing the Health and Safety Impacts of Fuel-Based Lighting." (2014).

2013

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard E. Brown, Phillip N. Price, Janie Page, Jessica Granderson, David Riess, Stephen Czarnecki, Girish Ghatikar, and Steven Lanzisera."Automated Measurement and Signaling Systems for the Transactional Network." (2013).

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Margarita Kloss, Richard E. Brown, and Alan K. Meier."Using Public Participation to Improve MELs Energy Data Collection." (2013).

Lanzisera, Steven, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Jay Taneja, David Culler, and Richard E. Brown."Methods for detailed energy data collection of miscellaneous and electronic loads in a commercial office building."Building and Environment 65 (2013) 170 - 177. DOI

Lanzisera, Steven, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Jay Taneja, David Culler, and Richard E. Brown."Methods for Detailed Energy Data Collection of Miscellaneous and Electronic Loads in a Commercial Office Building." (2013).

Nordman, Bruce, Steven Lanzisera, and Richard E. Brown."Energy Efficient Digital Networks." (2013).

Bremson, Joel, Alan K. Meier, C.-Y. Cynthia Lin, and Joan Ogden."New Approach to Modeling Large-Scale Transitions to Alternative Fuels and Vehicles."Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2385.1 (2013) 61 - 69. DOI

Gengnagel, Tim, Phillipp Wollburg, and Evan Mills."Alternatives to Fuel-based Lighting for Night Fishing." (2013).

Barriga, Claudia A., Nicole Biggart, Ben Finkelor, Natsuko Enomoto, Alan K. Meier, Dina Biscotti, and Toshihide Tanaka."Resident engagement strategies in low and zero net energy communities."ECEEE 2013 SUMMER STUDY (2013).