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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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2019

Covary, Theo, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Mercy Shuma-Iwisi."A Review of the Residential Efficient Lighting Programme Rollout in South Africa."eceee 2019 Summer Study (2019).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Chao Ding, and Yi Qu."Challenges and Recommended Policies for Simultaneous Global Implementation of Low-GWP Refrigerants and High Efficiency in Room Air Conditioners." (2019).

McNeil, Michael A., Nihan Karali, and Virginie E. Letschert."Forecasting Indonesia's electricity load through 2030 and peak demand reductions from appliance and lighting efficiency."Energy for Sustainable Development 49.April 2019 (2019). DOI

2017

McNeil, Michael A., Stephane de la Rue du Can, Philipp Munzinger, Noah Horowitz, Marie Baton, Jeremy Tait, and et al.."Accelerating the Global Adoption of Climate-Friendly and Energy-Efficient Refrigerators."U4E Policy Guide Series (2017).

Shah, Nihar, Dietram Oppelt, Ana Maria Carreno, and Nicole Kearney."Accelerating the Global Adoption of Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Air Conditioners."U4E Policy Guide Series (2017).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Nihar Shah, Won Young Park, and Amol A. Phadke."Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in Room Air Conditioners in India: Potential, Costs-Benefits, and Policies." (2017).

2016

Park, Won Young, Anand R. Gopal, and Amol A. Phadke."Energy savings opportunities in the global digital television transition."Energy Efficiency (2016). DOI

2015

Fujita, K. Sydny."Estimating Price Elasticity using Market-Level Appliance Data." (2015).

Gerke, Brian F., Allison T. Ngo, and Kibret S. Fisseha."Recent price trends and learning curves for household LED lamps from a regression analysis of Internet retail data." (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).

2013

Sathaye, Jayant A., Larry L. Dale, Peter H. Larsen, Gary A. Fitts, Kevin Koy, Sarah M. Lewis, and André Frossard Pereira de Lucena."Estimating impacts of warming temperatures on California's electricity system."Global Environmental Change 23.2 (2013) 499-511. DOI

Fujita, K. Sydny, and Margaret Taylor."Accounting for Innovation in Energy Efficiency Regulation."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (2013).

2012

Fujita, K. Sydny, and Margaret Taylor."Achieved and Potential Energy Savings through Energy Efficient Procurement." (2012).

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."The Path to Savings: Understanding the Federal Purchase of Energy-Consuming Products." (2012).

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."Program Potential: Estimates of Federal Energy Cost Savings from Energy Efficient Procurement." (2012).

Fujita, K. Sydny, Gary A. Fitts, and Larry L. Dale."Peak Electricity Impacts of Residential Water Use." (2012).

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."Who Buys What? Understanding Federal Procurement of Energy Efficient Products."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (2012).

Taylor, Margaret, K. Sydny Fujita, Larry L. Dale, and James E. McMahon."An Exploration of Innovation and Energy Efficiency in an Appliance Industry."European Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy (2012).

2009

McNeil, Michael A., Virginie E. Letschert, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Christine Egan."Acting Globally: Potential Carbon Emissions Mitigation Impacts from an International Standards and Labeling Program."European Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy (2009).

2007

Garcia, Agenor Gomes Pinto, Alexandre S. Szklo, Roberto Schaeffer, and Michael A. McNeil."Energy-efficiency standards for electric motors in Brazilian industry."Energy Policy 35.6 (2007). DOI

2004

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Etan Gumerman, Chris Marnay, Peter T. Chan, and Katie Coughlin."A New Approach for Modeling the Peak Utility Impacts from a Proposed Commerical Unitary Air-Conditioning Standard." (2004) 102.