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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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About Us +
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.

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications: Energy Efficiency

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2023

Zhou, Ella, Sika Gadzanku, Cabell Hodge, Mike Campton, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Jingjing Zhang."Best Practices in Electricity Load Modeling and Forecasting for Long-Term Power System Planning." (2023).

Fujita, K. Sydny."Commercial, industrial, and institutional discount rate estimation for efficiency standards analysis: Sector-level data 1998–2022." (2023).

Sun, Qingyi, Jing Ke, Camilla Dunham, Joong Hoon Sim, and Yuting Chen."Using Field-Metered Data to Characterize Consumer Usage Patterns of Residential Dishwashers." (2023).

Letschert, Virginie E., Shreya Agarwal, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Won Young Park."Cost-Benefit Analysis for Air Conditioner in Tunisia." (2023).

Murphy, Sean, and Natalie Mims Frick."Estimating the Drivers of the Cost of Saved Electricity in Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs."Energies 16.5 (2023). DOI

Blum, Helcio, Victor H. Franco, and Sarah K. Price."A Survey of Direct Heating Equipment Market Actors in California." (2023).

2022

Ganeshalingam, Mohan, Robert Hosbach, Liat Zavodivker, Brian F. Gerke, Colleen Kantner, and Hannah Stratton."Consumer Purchasing Behavior and Usage of Lighting in the Residential Sector." (2022).

Woolf, Tim, Alice Napoleon, Natalie Mims Frick, Lisa C. Schwartz, Julie Michals, and Natalie Fortman."Distributional Equity Analysis: Advisory Committee." (2022).

Pigman, Margaret, Natalie Mims Frick, Eric Wilson, Andrew Parker, and Elaina Present."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Practical Guidance on Accessing and Using the Data." (2022).

Viaud, Gautier, Yuting Chen, and Paul-Henry Cournede."Full Bayesian Inference in Hidden Markov Models of Plant Growth."The Annals of Applied Statistics 16 (2022). DOI

Hu, Wei, Kyle Bradbury, Jordan M. Malof, Boning Li, Bohao Huang, Artem Streltsov, K. Sydny Fujita, and Ben Hoen."What you get is not always what you see—pitfalls in solar array assessment using overhead imagery."Applied Energy 327 (2022). DOI

Fujita, K. Sydny."Commercial, industrial, and institutional discount rate estimation for efficiency standards analysis: Sector-level data 1998–2021." (2022).

Shaffie, Ambereen, Nihar Shah, Nihan Karali, Won Young Park, Moustafa Al-Sammany, Brian Holuj, and Leon Becker."Cooling Egypt: Cost and benefits of room air conditioner efficiency improvement in Egypt." (2022).

Langevin, Jared, Aven Satre-Meloy, Andrew Satchwell, Ryan Hledik, Julia Olszewski, Kate Peters, and Handi Chandra-Putra."The role of buildings in U.S. energy system decarbonization by mid-century."One Earth (2022).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, Sarah Smith, Richard E. Brown, Marco Pritoni, and Brian F. Gerke."Accelerating Decarbonization with the California Load Flexibility Research and Deployment Hub." (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, Brady Cowiestoll, Elaine Hale, Brian F. Gerke, Paige Jadun, Cong Zhang, and Samanvitha Murthy."Assessing the Interactive Impacts of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response on Power System Costs and Emissions." (2022).

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Greg Leventis."Customer outcomes in Pay-As-You-Save programs."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Schiller, Steven R., Jeff Deason, Greg Leventis, Lisa C. Schwartz, and Kelly Parmenter."The Future of Energy Efficiency for U.S. Buildings - Drivers and Market Scenarios." (2022).

Pigman, Margaret, Jeff Deason, Nancy Wallace, and Paulo Issler."How Does Home Energy Score Affect Home Value and Mortgage Performance?."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Schwartz, Lisa C., David Nemtzow, and Natalie Mims Frick."How to Build a Connected Community: Policies to Promote Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings and Demand Flexibility."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Nemtzow, David, Cynthia Regnier, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Natalie Mims Frick, and Jason S. MacDonald."If One GEB is Good, a Community of GEBs is Better."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, and Ryan Hledik."Making Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings a “Win” for Both Customers and Utilities."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Satchwell, Andrew, Ryan Hledik, Oleksandr Kuzura, Oluwatobi Adekanye, and Chioke B. Harris."Valuing Residential Energy Efficiency: Analysis for a Prototypical Southeastern Utility." (2022).

Schiller, Steven R., Jeff Deason, Kelly Parmenter, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Future of Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Drivers and Market Expectations." (2022).

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