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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

Williams, Alison A., Barbara A. Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, Erik Page, and Francis M. Rubinstein."Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings."Leukos: The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America 8.3 (2012) 19. DOI

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Analysis of the Energy Intensity of Industries in California."2011 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2012).

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Analysis and Decomposition of the Energy Intensity of Industries in California."Energy Policy 46 (2012) 234-245.

2011

McNeil, Michael A., Nicholas Bojda, Jing Ke, Yining Qin, Stephane de la Rue du Can, David Fridley, Virginie E. Letschert, and James E. McMahon."Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in China." (2011).

Zhou, Nan, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, David Fridley, Cao Ning, and Nina Khanna."Status of the Local Enforcement of Energy Efficiency Standards and Labeling Program in China." (2011).

Brush, Adrian, Eric R. Masanet, and Ernst Worrell."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Dairy Processing Industry." (2011).

Zhou, Nan, Lynn K. Price, Stephanie Ohshita, Nina Zheng, Hu Min, and Nina Khanna."A Guidebook for Low-Carbon Development at the Local Level." (2011).

Zhou, Nan, Lynn K. Price, Nina Zheng, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Nina Khanna."National Level Co-Control Study of the Targets for Energy Intensity and Sulfur Dioxide in China." (2011).

Garbesi, Karina, Vagelis Vossos, Alan H. Sanstad, and Gabriel Burch."Optimizing Energy Savings from Direct-DC in U.S. Residential Buildings." (2011) 59.

Williams, Alison A., Barbara A. Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, Francis M. Rubinstein, and Erik Page."A Meta-Analysis of Energy Savings from Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings." (2011) 25.

Fridley, David, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Zheng, Virginie E. Letschert, Jing Ke, Yamina Saheb, and Nina Khanna."Analysis of Potential Energy Saving and CO₂ Emission Reduction of Home Appliances and Commercial Equipments in China."Energy Policy 39.8 (2011) 4541-4550. DOI

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Nihar Shah, and Amol A. Phadke."Country Review of Energy-Efficiency Financial Incentives in the Residential Sector." (2011).

Masanet, Eric R., Richard E. Brown, Arman Shehabi, Jonathan G. Koomey, and Bruce Nordman."Estimating the Energy Use and Efficiency Potential of U.S. Data Centers." (2011).

Park, Won Young, Amol A. Phadke, Nihar Shah, and Virginie E. Letschert."TV Energy Consumption Trends and Energy-Efficiency Improvement Options." (2011).

Bojda, Nicholas, Jing Ke, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Virginie E. Letschert, James E. McMahon, and Michael A. McNeil."Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in the United States." (2011).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Abdollah Hasanabadi, and Mohamad Abdolrazaghi."Energy-Efficiency Technologies and Benchmarking the Energy Intensity for the Textile Industry."2011 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2011).

Price, Lynn K., Ali Hasanbeigi, Nan Zhou, Arvind Thekdi, and Wang Lan."Increasing Energy Efficiency and Reducing Emissions from China’s Cement Kilns: Audit Report of Two Cement Plants in Shandong Province, China." (2011).

Garbesi, Karina, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Christopher A. Bolduc, Gabriel Burch, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, and Seth Saltiel."Max Tech Appliance Design: Potential for Maximizing U.S. Energy Savings through Standards." (2011) 13.

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, Nathaniel T. Aden, Zhang Chunxia, Li Xiuping, and Shangguan Fangqin."A Comparison of Iron and Steel Production Energy Use and Energy Intensity in China and the U.S.." (2011).

Yun, Jiang, and Lynn K. Price."Voluntary Energy Efficiency Agreements in China: History, Impact, and Future."ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2011).

Price, Lynn K., Mark D. Levine, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Nathaniel T. Aden, Hongyou Lu, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Zheng, Yining Qin, Ping Yowargana, and Nina Khanna."Assessment of China’s Energy-Saving and Emission-Reduction Accomplishments and Opportunities During the 11th Five Year Plan."Energy Policy 39 (2011) 2165-2178.

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, and Karina Garbesi."Max Tech and Beyond." (2011) 60.

Lekov, Alexander B., Victor H. Franco, Stephen Meyers, Lisa Thompson, and Virginie E. Letschert."Energy Efficiency Design Options for Residential Water Heaters: Economic Impacts on Consumers." (2011) 10.

Lutz, James D.."Review of International Methods of Test to Rate the Efficiency of Water Heaters." (2011) 21.

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Zheng, Virginie E. Letschert, Jing Ke, and Nina Khanna."Analysis of Potential Energy Saving and CO₂ Emission Reduction of Home Appliances and Commercial Equipments in China." (2011).