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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) 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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2005

Wiel, Stephen, and James E. McMahon."Energy-Efficiency Labels and Standards: A Guidebook for Appliances, Equipment, and Lighting - 2nd Edition." (2005).

Hopper, Nicole C., Charles A. Goldman, Jennifer A. McWilliams, David Birr, and Kate McMordie Stoughton."Public and Institutional Markets for ESCO Services: Comparing Programs, Practices and Performance." (2005) 109.

Goldman, Charles A., Nicole C. Hopper, Julie G. Osborn, and Terry E. Singer."Review of U.S. ESCO Industry Market Trends: An Empirical Analysis of Project Data."Energy Policy 33 (2005) 44.

Lin, Jiang, Donald Gilligan, and Yinghua Zhao."Financing the Growth of Energy Efficiency Service Industry in Shanghai." (2005).

2004

Hopper, Nicole C., Charles A. Goldman, and David Birr."The Federal Market for ESCO Services: How Does it Measure Up?." (2004) 17.

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.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, , Lynn K. Price, Ernst Worrell, and Jonathan E. Sinton."Designing Energy Conservation Voluntary Agreements for the Industrial Sector in China: Experience from a Pilot Project with Two Steel Mills in Shandong Province." (2004).

Golove, William H.."Designing and Implementing an Award- Winning Energy Management Program at the USPS." (2004).

Lin, Jiang, Charles A. Goldman, Mark D. Levine, and Nicole C. Hopper."Developing an Energy Efficiency Service Industry in Shanghai." (2004).

Biermayer, Peter J., James D. Lutz, and Alexander B. Lekov."Measurement of Airflow in Residential Furnaces." (2004) 58.

Price, Lynn K., Jiang Yun, Ernst Worrell, Du Wenwei, and Jonathan E. Sinton."Development of an energy conservation voluntary agreement pilot project in the steel sector in Shandong."Energy 28 (2004).

Price, Lynn K., Jonathan E. Sinton, Ernst Worrell, Dian Phylipsen, Hu Xiulian, and Li Ji."Energy use and carbon dioxide emissions from steel production in China."Energy 27 (2004).

2003

Nadel, Steven M., Wang Wanxing, Peter Liu, and Aimee T. McKane."The China Motor Systems Energy Conservation Program: A Major National Initiative to Reduce Motor System Energy Use in China." (2003).

Galitsky, Christina, Nathan C. Martin, Ernst Worrell, and Bryan Lehman."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for Breweries: An ENERGY STAR(R) Guide for Energy and Plant Managers." (2003).

Lewis, Joanna I., David Fridley, Jonathan E. Sinton, and Jieming Lin."Sectoral and Geographic Analysis of the Decline in China’s National Energy Consumption in the Late 1990s." 2003 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry 3 (2003).

Blumstein, Carl, Charles A. Goldman, and Galen L. Barbose."Who Should Administer Energy Efficiency Programs?." (2003) 24.

Goldman, Charles A., Rick Weston, Jeff Schlegel, Richard Sedano, Jim Lazar, Brendan J. Kirby, and Eric Hirst."Dimensions of Demand Response: Capturing Customer Based Resources in New England's Power System and Markets." (2003) 86.

Galitsky, Christina, Ernst Worrell, and Michael Ruth."Energy efficiency improvement and cost saving opportunities for the Corn Wet Milling Industry: An ENERGY STAR Guide for Energy and Plant Managers."Sustainability and Industry, Increasing Energy Efficiency (2003).

Price, Lynn K., and Jiang Yun."Voluntary Agreements for Increasing Energy-Efficiency in Industry: Case Study of a Pilot Project with the Steel Industry in Shandong Province, China."2003 ACEEE Industrial Summer Study on Energy-Efficiency in Industry (2003).

Goldman, Charles A.."Energy Efficiency Programs: Administration and Governance Options."New Jersey Clean Energy Council April 23, 2003 (2003).

Price, Lynn K., Ernst Worrell, Jonathan E. Sinton, and Jiang Yun."Voluntary Agreements for Increasing Energy-Efficiency in Industry: Case Study of a Pilot Project with the Steel Industry in Shandong Province, China."Earth Technologies Forum and Exhibition 28 (2003).

Fridley, David, Jonathan E. Sinton, and Joanna I. Lewis."Working out the Kinks: Understanding the Fall and Rise of Energy Use in China." (2003).

Price, Lynn K., Jiang Yun, Ernst Worrell, Du Wenwei, and Jonathan E. Sinton."Development of an Energy Conservation Voluntary Agreement: Pilot Project in the Steel Sector in Shandong Province." (2003).

Golove, William H., Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Doug Bushey, and Barbara Haya."ProForm: A Tool for Pre-Feasibility Analysis of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects." (2003).

2002

Goldman, Charles A., Nicole C. Hopper, and Terry E. Singer."Examining U.S. ESCO Industry Trends: Practices and Applied Technologies: Results from the NAESCO Database Project."NAESCO International Roundtable Los Angeles, CA October 11, 2002 (2002).