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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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2024

Sawe, Nik, Hongyou Lu, Jeffrey Rissman, Zhiyu Tian, and Nan Zhou."Clean Industry in China: A Techno-Economic Comparison of Electrified Heat Technologies, Barriers, and Policy Options." (2024). DOI

2023

Singh, Reshma, and Yashima Jain."Advancing Net-zero Built Environments: Promoting Equitable Wellness for All."SHELTER 24 (2023).

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).

2021

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Chao Ding, Brian Holuj, and Marco Duran."Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Commercial Refrigeration Equipment." (2021).

Saunders, Harry D, Joyashree Roy, Inês M.L Azevedo, Debalina Chakravarty, Shyamasree Dasgupta, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Angela Druckman, Roger Fouquet, Michael Grubb, Boqiang Lin, Robert Lowe, Reinhard Madlener, Daire M McCoy, Luis Mundaca, Tadj Oreszczyn, Steven Sorrell, David Stern, Kanako Tanaka, and Taoyuan Wei."Energy Efficiency: What Has Research Delivered in the Last 40 Years?."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 46 (2021). DOI

Nilsson, Lars J, Fredric Bauer, Max Ahman, Fredrik N.G Andersson, Chris Bataille, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Karin Ericsson, Teis Hansen, Bengt Johansson, Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Mariësse van Sluisveld, and Valentin Vogl."An industrial policy framework for transforming energy and emissions intensive industries towards zero emissions."Climate Policy 21.8 (2021). DOI

Abhyankar, Nikit, Umed Paliwal, Taylor McNair, David Wooley, Michael O’Boyle, and Amol A Phadke."2030 Report: Powering America's Clean Economy." (2021).

2020

Phadke, Amol A, Umed Paliwal, Nikit Abhyankar, Taylor McNair, Bentham Paulos, David Wooley, and Ric O'Connell."2035 The Report: Plummeting Solar, Wind, And Battery Costs Can Accelerate Our Clean Electricity Future." (2020).

2019

Phadke, Amol A, and Elif Tasar."Working Paper 004: Big Batteries on Wheels - The economic, environmental, and resilience case for rapidly converting diesel locomotives to battery-electric." (2019).

Clark, Jordan D, Brennan Less, Spencer M Dutton, Iain S Walker, and Max H Sherman."Efficacy of occupancy-based smart ventilation control strategies in energy-efficient homes in the United States."Building and Environment 156 (2019) 253 - 267. DOI

2018

Shah, Nihar, Scientific Assessment Panel, and et al."Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018 - Report and Executive Summary."Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project (2018).

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).

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, David Pudleiner, David Jones, and Aleisha Khan."Energy Efficiency Roadmap for Uganda, Making Energy Efficiency Count." (2017).

2016

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, and Ranjit Deshmukh."Techno-Economic Assessment of Integrating 175GW of Renewable Energy into the Indian Grid by 2022." (2016).

2015

Ohshita, Stephanie, Lynn K Price, Nan Zhou, Nina Khanna, David Fridley, and Xu Liu."The Role of Chinese Cities in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction." (2015) 19.

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, Lynn K Price, Xu Liu, Lu Meng, Wenjing Shi, Meredydd Evans, Volha Roshchanka, and Sha Yu."Expanding Energy Performance Contracting in China: Policy Solutions and Market Mechanisms." (2015) 29.

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

2014

Seel, Joachim, Galen L Barbose, and Ryan H Wiser."An Analysis of Residential PV System Price Differences Between the United States and Germany."Energy Policy 69.June 2014 (2014). DOI

2013

Hong, Lixuan, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, and Chris Raczkowski."Assessment of China's Renewable Energy Contribution During the 12th Five Year Plan."Energy Policy 62 (2013) 1533-1543. DOI

Borgeson, Merrian, and Mark Zimring."Financing Energy Upgrades for K-12 School Districts: A Guide to Tapping into Funding for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Improvements." (2013).

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Michael A McNeil, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, and Jing Ke."Quantifying the potential impact of energy efficiency and low carbon policies for China."the European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 2013 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2013).