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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

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

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Greg Leventis, Nihar Shah, and Michael A McNeil."Cooling the Growth of Air Conditioners Energy Consumption."ECEEE 2015 Summer Study on energy efficiency (2015).

Houde, Sebastien, and C Anna Spurlock."Do Energy Efficiency Standards Improve Quality? Evidence from a Revealed Preference Approach." (2015).

Zhou, Nan, Wei Feng, Nina Khanna, Lixuan Hong, David Fridley, and Ellen M Franconi."Transformative Pathway for Chinese Buildings by 2050."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, June 1-6, 2015 (2015).

Lu, Hongyou."Capturing the Invisible Resource: Analysis of Waste Heat Potential in Chinese Industry and Policy Options for Waste Heat to Power Generation." (2015) 87.

Shah, Nihar, Nikit Abhyankar, Amol A Phadke, and Girish Ghatikar."Considerations in Standardization for Demand Response Ready Air Conditioners in India."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Meyers, Stephen, Alison A Williams, Peter T Chan, and Sarah K Price."Energy and Economic Impacts of U.S. Federal Energy and Water Conservation Standards Adopted From 1987 Through 2014." (2015).

Gerke, Brian F, Michael A McNeil, and Thomas Tu."International Database of Efficient Appliances (IDEA): A Novel Tool for Efficiency Program Development and Evaluation." (2015).

2014

Morrow III, William R, Anand R Gopal, Gary A Fitts, Sarah M Lewis, Larry L Dale, and Eric R Masanet."Feedstock loss from drought is a major economic risk for biofuel producers."Biomass and Bioenergy 69 (2014) 135 - 143. DOI

Zhao, Yue, Jing Ke, Chun Chun Ni, Michael A McNeil, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, and Qiqiang Li."A Comparative Study of Energy Consumption and Efficiency of Japanese and Chinese Manufacturing Industry."Energy Policy 70 (2014) 45-56. DOI

Shah, Nihar, Nakul Sathaye, Amol A Phadke, and Virginie E Letschert."Efficiency improvement opportunities for ceiling fans."Energy Efficiency 8.1 (2014) 37-50. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, and Lynn K Price."Emerging Technologies for an Energy-Efficient, Water- Efficient, and Low- Pollution Textile Industry: A Technical Review."International Conference on Clean Energy (2014).

Morrow III, William R, John Marano, Jayant A Sathaye, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Tengfang T Xu."Energy Efficiency Improvements Potential in the U.S. Petroleum Refining Industry."2014 ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2014).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Agnes B Lobscheid, Hongyou Lu, Lynn K Price, and Yue Dai."Including the Co-benefits of Energy-Efficiency Programs and Projects in Cost-Benefit Analysis - A Case Study for the Cement Industry."International Conference on Clean Energy (2014).

Sathre, Roger, Corinne D Scown, William R Morrow III, John C Stevens, Ian D Sharp, Joel W Ager, Karl Walczak, Frances A Houle, and Jeffery B Greenblatt."Life-cycle net energy assessment of large-scale hydrogen production via photoelectrochemical water splitting."Energy Environ. Sci. 7.10 (2014) 3264 - 3278. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Zeyi Jiang, and Lynn K Price."Why the Energy Use of Chinese Steel Industry May Peak As Early As 2015?."2014 ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2014).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Marlene Arens, and Lynn K Price."Alternative Emerging Ironmaking Technologies for Energy-efficiency and Carbon Dioxide Emissions Reduction: A Technical Review."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 33 (2014) 645–658. DOI

Shehabi, Arman, Benjamin Walker, and Eric R Masanet."Energy and Greenhouse Implications of Internet Video Streaming in the United States."Environmental Research Letters 9.5 (2014). DOI

Melody, Moya, Hannah Stratton, Alison A Williams, and Camilla Dunham."Resources for National Water Savings for Outdoor Water Use." (2014).

Williams, Alison A, Heidi Fuchs, and Camilla Dunham."Estimates of Savings Achievable from Irrigation Controller." (2014).

Morrow III, William R, Ali Hasanbeigi, Jayant A Sathaye, and Tengfang T Xu."Assessment of energy efficiency improvement and CO₂ emission reduction potentials in India's cement and iron and steel industries."Journal of Cleaner Production 65 (2014) 131 - 141. DOI

Johnson, Alissa K, Amol A Phadke, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."Energy Savings Potential for Street Lighting in India." (2014).

Lewis, Sarah M, Stephen Gross, Axel Visel, Maggi Kelly, and William R Morrow III."Fuzzy GIS-based multi-criteria evaluation for U.S. Agave production as a bioenergy feedstock."Global Change Biology – Bioenergy (2014). DOI

Vossos, Vagelis, Karina Garbesi, and Hongxia Shen."Energy savings from direct-DC in U.S. residential buildings."Energy and Buildings Volume 68, Part A (2014) 223–231. DOI