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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) 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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2017

McNeil, Michael A., and Virginie E. Letschert."Paying Attention to the Peak: Indonesia." (2017).

Kong, Lingbo, Ali Hasanbeigi, Lynn K. Price, and Huanbin Liu."Energy conservation and CO₂ mitigation potentials in the Chinese pulp and paper industry."Resource, Conservation and Recycling 117.Part A (2017) 74-84. DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C., Max Wei, William R. Morrow III, Jeff Deason, Steven R. Schiller, Greg Leventis, Sarah Josephine Smith, Woei Ling Leow, Todd Levin, Steven Plotkin, Yan Zhou, and Joseph Teng."Electricity end uses, energy efficiency, and distributed energy resources baseline." (2017).

Kantner, Colleen, Andrea L. Alstone, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Brian F. Gerke, and Robert Hosbach."Impact of the EISA 2007 Energy Efficiency Standard on General Service Lamps." (2017).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Nihar Shah, Won Young Park, and Amol A. Phadke."Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Room Air Conditioners in India: Potential, Costs-Benefits, and Policies." (2017).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Nihar Shah, Amol A. Phadke, and Won Young Park."Technical and Economic Aspects of Designing an Efficient Room Air-Conditioner Program in India." (2017).

2016

Park, Won Young, Anand R. Gopal, and Amol A. Phadke."Energy savings opportunities in the global digital television transition."Energy Efficiency (2016). DOI

Zhang, Qi, Ali Hasanbeigi, Lynn K. Price, Hongyou Lu, and Marlene Arens."A Bottom-up Energy Efficiency Improvement Roadmap for China’s Iron and Steel Industry up to 2050." (2016).

Houde, Sebastien, and C. Anna Spurlock."Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards and Appliances: Old and New Economic Rationales."Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy 5.2 (2016). DOI

Johnson, Karl, Vagelis Vossos, Margarita Kloss, Gerald Robinson, and Richard E. Brown."Direct Current as an Integrating Platform for ZNE Buildings with EVs and Storage: DC Direct Systems - A Bridge to a Low Carbon Future."ACEEE 2016 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Zhou, Nan, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, Ellen M. Franconi, Jon Creyts, Lijing Gu, and Jianguo Zhang."Policy Roadmap to 50% Energy Reduction in Chinese Buildings by 2050."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Shah, Nihar, Nikit Abhyankar, Won Young Park, Amol A. Phadke, Saurabh Diddi, Deepanshu Ahuja, P.K. Mukherjee, and Archana Walia."Cost-Benefit of Improving the Efficiency of Room Air Conditioners (Inverter and Fixed Speed) in India." (2016).

Springer, Cecilia, and Ali Hasanbeigi."Emerging Energy Efficiency and Carbon Dioxide Emissions-Reduction Technologies for Industrial Production of Aluminum." (2016).

Morrow, William R. III, Arman Shehabi, and Sarah Josephine Smith."Lifecycle Industry GreenHouse gas, Technology and Energy through the Use Phase (LIGHTEnUP) – Analysis Tool User’s Guide." (2016).

Shehabi, Arman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Dale A. Sartor, Richard E. Brown, Magnus Herrlin, Jonathan G. Koomey, Eric R. Masanet, Nathaniel Horner, Inês Lima Azevedo, and William Lintner."United States Data Center Energy Usage Report." (2016).

Meyers, Stephen, Alison A. Williams, Peter T. Chan, and Sarah K. Price."Energy and Economic Impacts of the U.S. Federal Energy and Water Conservation Standards Adopted From 1987 Through 2015." (2016).

Letschert, Virginie E., Michael Scholand, Ana Maria Carreno, and Carolina Hernandez."International Review of Standards and Labeling Programs for Distribution Transformers." (2016).

Lu, Hongyou, Lynn K. Price, and Qi Zhang."Capturing the invisible resource: Analysis of waste heat potential in Chinese industry."Applied Energy 161 (2016) 497 - 511. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Jose Carlos Rojas Cardenas, Lynn K. Price, Ryan Triolo, and Marlene Arens."Comparison of Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions Intensity of the International Iron and Steel Industry: Case Studies from China, Germany, Mexico, and the United States." (2016) 1-36.

2015

Shah, Nihar, Max Wei, Virginie E. Letschert, and Amol A. Phadke."Benefits of Leapfrogging to Superefficiency and Low Global Warming Potential Refrigerants in Room Air Conditioning." (2015).

Shen, Bo, Lynn K. Price, Hongyou Lu, Xu Liu, Katherine Tsen, Wei Xiangyang, Zhang Yunpeng, Guan Jian, Hou Rui, Zhang Junfeng, Zhuo Yuqun, Xia Shumao, Han Yafeng, and Liu Manzhi."Curbing Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Industrial Boilers in China." (2015).

Morrow, William R. III, Arman Shehabi, and Sarah Josephine Smith."Manufacturing Cost Levelization Model – A User’s Guide." (2015).

Qi, Wei, Roger Sathre, William R. Morrow III, and Arman Shehabi."Unit price scaling trends for chemical products." (2015).

Taylor, Margaret, C. Anna Spurlock, and Hung-Chia Yang."Confronting Regulatory Cost and Quality Expectations: An Exploration of Technical Change in Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards." (2015).

Ma, Ding, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Wenying Chen."Energy-Efficiency and Air-Pollutant Emissions-Reduction Opportunities for the Ammonia Industry in China." (2015).