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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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2014

Scown, Corinne D., Amit A. Gokhale, Paul A. Willems, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E. McKone."Role of Lignin in Reducing Life-Cycle Carbon Emissions, Water Use, and Cost for United States Cellulosic Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 48.15 (2014) 8446 - 8455. DOI

Morrow, William R. III, 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).

Morrow, William R. III, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Andrew Sturges, Samveg Saxena, Anand R. Gopal, Dev Millstein, Nihar Shah, and Elisabeth A. Gilmore."Key Factors Influencing Autonomous Vehicles’ Energy and Environmental Outcome."Road Vehicle Automation (2014) 127-135. DOI

Sathre, Roger, Corinne D. Scown, William R. Morrow III, John C. Stevens, Ian D. Sharp, Joel W. Ager III, 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

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

Breunig, Hanna, Jens T. Birkholzer, Andrea Borgia, Phillip N. Price, Curtis M. Oldenburg, and Thomas E. McKone."Assessment of Brine Management for Geologic Carbon Sequestration." (2014).

Morrow, William R. III, 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

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

Herrmann, Ivan T., Michael Z. Hauschild, Michael D. Sohn, and Thomas E. McKone."Confronting Uncertainty in Life Cycle Assessment Used for Decision Support."Journal of Industrial Ecology 18.3 (2014) 366 - 379. DOI

2013

Greenblatt, Jeffery B.."Estimating Policy-Driven Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trajectories in California: The California Greenhouse Gas Inventory Spreadsheet (GHGIS) Model." (2013).

Wei, Max, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Sally M. Donovan, James H. Nelson, Ana Meliva, Josiah Johnston, and Daniel M. Kammen."Scenarios For Meeting California's 2050 Climate Goals." (2013).

Scown, Corinne D., Michael Taptich, Arpad Horvath, Thomas E. McKone, and William W. Nazaroff."Achieving Deep Cuts in the Carbon Intensity of U.S. Automobile Transportation by 2050: Complementary Roles for Electricity and Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 47.16 (2013) 9044 - 9052. DOI

Masanet, Eric R., Yuan Chang, Anand R. Gopal, Peter H. Larsen, William R. Morrow III, Roger Sathre, Arman Shehabi, and Pei Zhai."Life-Cycle Assessment of Electric Power Systems."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 38 (2013) 107-136. DOI

Masanet, Eric R., Arman Shehabi, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Characteristics of low-carbon data centres."Nature Climate Change 3 (2013) 627-630. DOI

Masanet, Eric R., Jiaqi Liang, XiaoHui Ma, Benjamin Walker, Arman Shehabi, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Valerie Hendrix, and Pradeep Mantha."The Energy Efficiency Potential of Cloud-Based Software: A U.S. Case Study." (2013).

Lekov, Alexander B., Victor H. Franco, and Stephen Meyers."Evaluation of energy efficiency standards for residential clothes dryers in the USA."Energy Efficiency (2013). DOI

Breunig, Hanna, Jens T. Birkholzer, Andrea Borgia, Curtis M. Oldenburg, Phillip N. Price, and Thomas E. McKone."Regional evaluation of brine management for geologic carbon sequestration."International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 14 (2013) 39 - 48. DOI

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Erin S. Claybaugh, Bereket Beraki, Mythri Nagaraju, Sarah K. Price, Scott J. Young, and Sally M. Donovan."Video game console usage and national energy consumption: Results from a field-metering study." (2013).

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."Accounting for Technological Change in Regulatory Impact Analyses: The Learning Curve Technique." (2013).

Coughlin, Katie, Hongxia Shen, Peter T. Chan, Brian McDevitt, and Andrew Sturges."Modeling the Capacity and Emissions Impacts of Reduced Electricity Demand." (2013).

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Karina Garbesi, Colleen Kantner, Robert D Van Buskirk, and Hung-Chia Yang."Incorporating Experience Curves in Appliance Standards Analysis."Energy Policy 52 (2013) 402-416. DOI

Coughlin, Katie."Projections of Full-Fuel-Cycle Energy and Emissions Metrics." (2013).

Wei, Max, James H. Nelson, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Ana Mileva, Josiah Johnston, Michael K. Ting, Christopher Yang, Christopher M. Jones, James E. McMahon, and Daniel M. Kammen."Deep carbon reductions in California require electrification and integration across economic sectors."Environmental Research Letters 8.1 (2013). DOI

Greenblatt, Jeffery B., Asa S. Hopkins, Virginie E. Letschert, and Michael Blasnik."Energy use of U.S. residential refrigerators and freezers: function derivation based on household and climate characteristics."Energy Efficiency 6.1 (2013) 135-162. DOI

Greenblatt, Jeffery B., Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Erin S. Claybaugh, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Bereket Beraki, Mythri Nagaraju, Sarah K. Price, and Scott J. Young."Field data collection of miscellaneous electrical loads in Northern California: Initial results, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory." (2013).