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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

Hasanbeigi, Ali, and Virginie E. Letschert."Methodology for Estimating Purchased Prices of Energy-efficient Motors Internationally and Results for Selected Countries." (2015).

Zhou, Nan, Gang He, John Romankiewicz, David Fridley, and Cecilia Fino-Chen."A Review of Commercially Available Technologies for Developing Low-Carbon Eco-cities." (2015).

Shen, Bo, Hongyou Lu, and Lynn K. Price."U.S. Experiences in Tackling Energy and Environmental Challenges of Boiler System." (2015).

Hoffman, Ian M., Gregory M. Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A. Goldman, Lisa C. Schwartz, Megan A. Billingsley, and Steven R. Schiller."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs: Estimates at the National, State, Sector and Program Level." (2015).

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).

Granderson, Jessica, Phillip N. Price, Stephen Czarnecki, Janie Page, Richard E. Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of Diagnostic and M&V Agents, and Implementation in an Occupied Office Environment." (2015).

Kramer, Chris, Emily Martin Fadrhonc, Peter J. Thompson, and Charles A. Goldman."Accessing Secondary Markets as a Capital Source for Energy Efficiency Finance Programs: Program Design Considerations for Policymakers and Administrators." (2015).

Shen, Bo, Lynn K. Price, Manzhi Liu, Lu Meng, Pei Miao, and Fan Dai."White Paper: Unleashing Energy Efficiency Retrofits Through Energy Performance Contracts in China and the United States." (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).

Blum, Helcio, and Edson O. Okwelum."Random Numbers Generation for Lifecycle-Cost Analysis of Energy Consuming Equipment." (2015).

2014

Mathew, Paul A., Laurel N. Dunn, Michael D. Sohn, Andrea C. Mercado, Claudine Y. Custodio, and Travis Walter."Big-Data for Building Energy Performance: Lessons from Assembling a Very Large National Database of Building Energy Use." (2014).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H. Larsen, and Charles A. Goldman."Estimating customer electricity savings from projects installed by the U.S. ESCO industry." (2014).

Karali, Nihan, Tengfang T. Xu, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Developing long-term strategies to reduce energy use and CO2 emissions—analysis of three mitigation scenarios for iron and steel production in China."Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change (2014). DOI

Morrow, William R. III, 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

Stuart, Elizabeth, Peter H. Larsen, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."A method to estimate the size and remaining market potential of the U.S. ESCO (energy service company) industry."Energy 77 (2014) 362-371. DOI

Larsen, Peter H., Elizabeth Stuart, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Current Policies and Practices Related to the Incorporation of Non-energy Benefits in Energy Saving Performance Contract Projects."ACEEE 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Zimring, Mark, Greg Leventis, Charles A. Goldman, Merrian Borgeson, Peter J. Thompson, and Ian M. Hoffman."On-Bill Finance: From Policy to Promise to Practice."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Granderson, Jessica, David A. Jump, Phillip N. Price, and Michael D. Sohn."Performance Metrics and Objective Testing Methods for Energy Baseline Modeling Software." (2014).

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

Thompson, Peter J., Peter H. Larsen, Chris Kramer, and Charles A. Goldman."Energy Efficiency Finance Programs: Use-case Analysis to Define Data Needs and Guidelines." (2014).

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, 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).

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).