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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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2024

Wei, Max, Gregory J Rosenquist, Katie Coughlin, Edward Cubero, Chao Ding, Thomas A Burke, Omar Abdelaziz, Jackson Thach, Anthony Ng, Jonah Steinbuck, and Drew Bohan."Benefits and Challenges in Using Low GWP A3 Refrigerants in Residential Air Condition Equipment." (2024).

2023

Sun, Qingyi, Jing Ke, Camilla Dunham, Joong Hoon Sim, and Yuting Chen."Using Field-Metered Data to Characterize Consumer Usage Patterns of Residential Dishwashers." (2023).

2022

Meyers, Stephen, Rongxin Yin, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Cynthia Regnier, and Purabi Thakre."Innovative Technologies for a Low Carbon Electricity System." (2022).

Vossos, Vagelis, Daniel L Gerber, Melanie Gaillet-Tournier, Bruce Nordman, Richard E Brown, Willy Bernal Heredia, Omkar Ghatpande, Avijit Saha, Gabe Arnold, and Stephen M Frank."Adoption Pathways for DC Power Distribution in Buildings."MDPI (2022). DOI

2021

Iyer, Maithili, Satish Kumar, Paul A Mathew, Sangeeta Mathew, Hannah Stratton, and Mohini Singh."Commercial buildings energy data framework for India: an exploratory study."Springer (2021). DOI

Iyer, Maithili, Satish Kumar, Paul A Mathew, Sangeeta Mathew, Hannah Stratton, and Mohini Singh."Commercial buildings energy data framework for India: an exploratory study."Springer (2021). DOI

Fujita, K Sydny."Commercial, industrial, and institutional discount rate estimation for efficiency standards analysis:." Sector-level data 1998-2020 (2021).

2018

Franco, Victor H, Youness Bennani Smires, Jing Ke, Edward Cubero, and Alex Lekov."Estimating Residential Appliance Lifetime for Energy Efficient Policy Analysis."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Building Energy Efficiency (2018).

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, and Michael A McNeil."South Africa: Energy Savings Estimates from New Standard and Labeling Program Policy Brief." (2018).

Wang, Dai, Matteo Muratori, Joshua Eichman, Max Wei, Samveg Saxena, and Cong Zhang."Quantifying the flexibility of hydrogen production systems to support large-scale renewable energy integration."Journal of Power Sources 399 (2018) 383 - 391. DOI

Sakah, Marriette, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Felix Amankwah Diawuo, Morkporkpor Delight Sedzro, and Christoph Kuhne."A study of appliance ownership and electricity consumption determinants in urban Ghanaian households."Sustainable Cities and Society 44.January 2019 (2018). DOI

2017

Gerke, Brian F, Michael A McNeil, and Thomas Tu."The International Database of Efficient Appliances (IDEA): A new tool to support appliance energy-efficiency deployment."Applied Energy 205 (2017) 453 - 464. DOI

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, and Brian F Gerke."Assessment of commercially available energy-efficient room air conditioners including models with low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants." (2017).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Nihar Shah, Virginie E Letschert, and Amol A Phadke."Assessing the Cost-Effective Energy Saving Potential from Top-10 Appliances in India."9th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL) (2017).

Letschert, Virginie E, Brian F Gerke, Michael A McNeil, Thomas Tu, Brian Dean, Edi Sartono, Jaya Rajasa, and Chad Gallinat."Baseline Evaluation and Policy Implications for Air Conditioners in Indonesia."9th International Conference On Energy Efficiency In Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2017).

Vossos, Vagelis, Stephen Pantano, Ruby Heard, and Richard E Brown."DC Appliances and DC Power Distribution: A Bridge to the Future Net Zero Energy Home."9th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2017).

Park, Won Young, and Amol A Phadke."Adoption of energy-efficient televisions for expanded off-grid electricity service."Development Engineering 2 (2017). DOI

Springer, Cecilia, and Ali Hasanbeigi."Emerging Energy Efficiency and Carbon Dioxide Emissions-Reduction Technologies for the Glass Industry." (2017).

Shah, Nihar, Nina Khanna, Nihan Karali, Won Young Park, Yi Qu, and Nan Zhou."Opportunities for Simultaneous Efficiency Improvement and Refrigerant Transition in Air Conditioning." (2017).

McNeil, Michael A, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Philipp Munzinger, Noah Horowitz, Marie Baton, Jeremy Tait, and et al."Accelerating the Global Adoption of Climate-Friendly and Energy-Efficient Refrigerators."U4E Policy Guide Series (2017).

Shah, Nihar, Dietram Oppelt, Ana Maria Carreno, and Nicole Kearney."Accelerating the Global Adoption of Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Air Conditioners."U4E Policy Guide Series (2017).

Ganeshalingam, Mohan, Arman Shehabi, and Louis-Benoit Desroches."Shining a Light on Small Data Centers in the U.S.." (2017).

Zhang, Qi, Xiaoyu Zhao, Hongyou Lu, Tuanjie Ni, and Yu Li."Waste Energy Recovery and Energy Efficiency Improvement in China’s Iron and Steel Industry."Applied Energy 191 (2017) 502 - 520. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Nina Khanna, and Lynn K Price."Air Pollutant Emissions Projection for the Cement and Steel Industry in China and the Impact of Emissions Control Technologies." (2017).

Shehabi, Arman, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Laurèn DeMates, Paul A Mathew, and Dale A Sartor."Characterizing the Laboratory Market." (2017).