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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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2006

Lekov, Alexander B, Victor H Franco, and James D Lutz."Residential Two-Stage Gas Furnaces - Do They Save Energy?." (2006) 11.

Lekov, Alexander B, Victor H Franco, Stephen Meyers, James E McMahon, Michael A McNeil, and James D Lutz."Electricity and Natural Gas Efficiency Improvements for Residential Gas Furnaces in the U.S.." (2006).

Morrow III, William R, W. 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

2005

Biermayer, Peter J."Potential Water and Energy Savings from Showerheads." (2005).

Price, Lynn K, Christina Galitsky, Jonathan E Sinton, Ernst Worrell, and Wina Graus."Tax and Fiscal Policies for Promotion of Industrial Energy Efficiency: A Survey of International Experience." (2005).

Wiel, Stephen, and James E McMahon."Energy-Efficiency Labels and Standards: A Guidebook for Appliances, Equipment, and Lighting - 2nd Edition." (2005).

Lin, Jiang, Donald Gilligan, and Yinghua Zhao."Financing the Growth of Energy Efficiency Service Industry in Shanghai." (2005).

2004

Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National, Lynn K Price, Ernst Worrell, and Jonathan E Sinton."Designing Energy Conservation Voluntary Agreements for the Industrial Sector in China: Experience from a Pilot Project with Two Steel Mills in Shandong Province." (2004).

Lin, Jiang, Charles A Goldman, Mark D Levine, and Nicole C Hopper."Developing an Energy Efficiency Service Industry in Shanghai." (2004).

Biermayer, Peter J, James D Lutz, and Alexander B Lekov."Measurement of Airflow in Residential Furnaces." (2004) 58.

Price, Lynn K, Jiang Yun, Ernst Worrell, Du Wenwei, and Jonathan E Sinton."Development of an energy conservation voluntary agreement pilot project in the steel sector in Shandong."Energy 28 (2004).

Price, Lynn K, Jonathan E Sinton, Ernst Worrell, Dian Phylipsen, Hu Xiulian, and Li Ji."Energy use and carbon dioxide emissions from steel production in China."Energy 27 (2004).

2003

Galitsky, Christina, Nathan C Martin, Ernst Worrell, and Bryan Lehman."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for Breweries: An ENERGY STAR(R) Guide for Energy and Plant Managers." (2003).

Lewis, Joanna I, David Fridley, Jonathan E Sinton, and Jieming Lin."Sectoral and Geographic Analysis of the Decline in China’s National Energy Consumption in the Late 1990s." 2003 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry 3 (2003).

Galitsky, Christina, Ernst Worrell, and Michael Ruth."Energy efficiency improvement and cost saving opportunities for the Corn Wet Milling Industry: An ENERGY STAR Guide for Energy and Plant Managers."Sustainability and Industry, Increasing Energy Efficiency (2003).

Price, Lynn K, and Jiang Yun."Voluntary Agreements for Increasing Energy-Efficiency in Industry: Case Study of a Pilot Project with the Steel Industry in Shandong Province, China."2003 ACEEE Industrial Summer Study on Energy-Efficiency in Industry (2003).

Price, Lynn K, Ernst Worrell, Jonathan E Sinton, and Jiang Yun."Voluntary Agreements for Increasing Energy-Efficiency in Industry: Case Study of a Pilot Project with the Steel Industry in Shandong Province, China."Earth Technologies Forum and Exhibition 28 (2003).

Fridley, David, Jonathan E Sinton, and Joanna I Lewis."Working out the Kinks: Understanding the Fall and Rise of Energy Use in China." (2003).

Price, Lynn K, Jiang Yun, Ernst Worrell, Du Wenwei, and Jonathan E Sinton."Development of an Energy Conservation Voluntary Agreement: Pilot Project in the Steel Sector in Shandong Province." (2003).

2002

Yamaguchi, Nancy, David Fridley, and Ke Xiaoming."Improving Transport Fuel Quality in China: Implications for the Refining Sector." (2002).

Lin, Jiang."A Trickle Turns into a Flood: Standby Power Loss in China." (2002).

Lin, Jiang."Made for China: Energy Efficiency Standards and Labels for Household Appliances."Sinosphere (2002).

Lin, Jiang, Jeanne Townend, David Fridley, Tony Silva, and Robin Clark."Energy-Efficient Appliance Labeling in China: Lessons for Successful Labeling Programs in Varied Markets."2002 ACEEE Summer Studies on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

2001

Rosenquist, Gregory J, Peter T Chan, Alexander B Lekov, James E McMahon, and Robert D Van Buskirk."Consumer Life-Cycle Cost Impacts of Energy-Efficiency Standards for Residential-Type Central Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps."2002 Winter Meeting of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE), January 11-16, 2002 108.Part 1 (2001) 619-630.

Price, Lynn K, Jonathan E Sinton, Ernst Worrell, Dian Phylipsen, Hu Xiulian, and Li Ji."Energy Use and Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Steel Production in China." (2001).