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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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2012

Long, Jane C.S., and Jeffery B. Greenblatt."The 80% Solution: Radical Carbon Emission Cuts for California."Issues in Science and Technology (2012) 61-66.

Wei, Max, James H. Nelson, Michael K. Ting, and Christopher Yang."California’s Carbon Challenge: Scenarios for Achieving 80% Emissions Reduction in 2050." (2012).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B., Max Wei, and James E. McMahon."California's Energy Future: Buildings and Industrial Efficiency, California Council on Science and Technology." (2012).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B., Jane C.S. Long, and B. Hannegan."California's Energy Future: Electricity from Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuels with Carbon Capture and Sequestration." (2012).

Morrow, William R. III, Anand R. Gopal, Gary A. Fitts, Sarah M. Lewis, Larry L. Dale, Eric R. Masanet, and Thomas E. McKone."Drought-tolerant Biofuel Crops could be a Critical Hedge for Biorefineries." (2012).

2011

Sathaye, Jayant A., Larry L. Dale, Peter H. Larsen, Gary A. Fitts, Kevin Koy, Sarah M. Lewis, and André Frossard Pereira de Lucena."Estimating Risk to California Energy Infrastructure From Projected Climate Change." (2011).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B.."California's Energy Future: The View to 2050." (2011).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B.."Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Refrigerators, Refrigerator-Freezers, and Freezers, Final Rule." (2011).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B.."Technical Support Document for the Final Rule on Residential Refrigerators, Refrigerator-Freezers and Freezers." (2011).

2009

Orans, Ren, Mike King, Chi-Keung Woo, and William R. Morrow III."Inclining for the Climate: GHG Reduction via Residential Electricity Ratemaking."Public Utilities Fortnightly 147.5 (2009) 40-45.

Fisk, William J.."Climate Change, and IEQ."ASHRAE Journal 51 (2009) 22-23.

2008

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, and Lynn K. Price."Sectoral trends in global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions."Energy Policy (2008). DOI

Morrow, William R. III, and Peter Balash."Biomass Allocation Model – Comparing Alternative Uses of Scarce Biomass Energy Resource Through Estimations of Future Biomass Use for Liquid Fuels and Electricity." (2008).

Morrow, William R. III, W. Michael Griffin, and H. Scott Matthews."National-level infrastructure and economic effects of switchgrass co-firing with coal in existing power-plants for carbon mitigation. Environmental Science and Technology."Environmental Science & Technology 42.10 (2008) 3501-3507. DOI

2007

Morrow, William R. III, W. Michael Griffin, and H. Scott Matthews."State-level infrastructure and economic effects of switchgrass co-firing with coal in existing power plants for carbon mitigation."Environmental Science and Technology 41.19 (2007) 6657–6662. DOI

2006

Morrow, William R. III, W. Michael Griffin, and W.M. Matthews."Modeling Switchgrass Derived Cellulosic Ethanol Distribution in the United States."Environmental Science and Technology 40.9 (2006) 2877–2886. DOI