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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

Bracho, Riccardo, Julie Doherty Kowalski, Nina Khanna, Virginie E Letschert, Nicholas DeForest, Rongxin Lin, Keith Kline, Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Loreta Lancellotti, Natalie Kempkey, and Mijal Brady Berkowitz."Leadership and Community Engagement in Chile: Deploying Net-Zero Technologies and Solutions." (2024).

Muehleisen, Ralph, Ji-Hyun Kim, Carolyn Szum, Ronnen M Levinson, Zhaoyun Zeng, H Kim, Bruce Hamilton, and Mark Lister."Cost-Benefit Analysis For Indonesia Building Sector: Whole-Building Cooling Solutions." (2024). DOI

Lu, Hongyou, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Virginie E Letschert, Hon LeungCurt Wong, Nan Zhou, Farid Wijaya, Faricha Hidayati, and Dwi Cahyo Husodo."Industry Decarbonization Roadmaps for Indonesia: Opportunities and challenges to net-zero emissions." (2024).

Moon, Hee Seung, Won Young Park, Thomas P Hendrickson, Amol A Phadke, and Natalie Popovich."Exploring the cost and emissions impacts, feasibility and scalability of battery electric ships."Nature Energy (2024). DOI

2023

Coalition, UNEP Cool, and Nihar Shah."Keeping it chill: How to meet cooling demand, while cutting emissions." (2023). DOI

Wang, Wenjun, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, and Jiang Lin."Measurement, reporting and Verification (MRV) of non-CO2 greenhouse gases: International Best Practices and Suggestions for China." (2023).

Xiang, Chenxi, Xinye Zheng, Feng Song, Jiang Lin, and Zhigao Jiang."Assessing the roles of efficient market versus regulatory capture in China’s power market reform."Nature Energy (2023). DOI

Lu, Hongyou, Tianqi Zhou, and Nan Zhou."Industrial Energy Intensity Benchmarking and Energy Transition in Inner Mongolia." (2023).

Dhawan, Vibha, Nihar Shah, Gabrielle Dreyfus, Durwood Zaelke, Zerin Osho, Amelia Murphy, and Sanjay Seth."Low Carbon Development Pathways for Cooling: Leveraging Kigali Amendment Across Residential Applications." (2023).

Wang, Wenjun, Nina Khanna, Jiang Lin, and Xu Liu."Black carbon emissions and reduction potential in China: 2015–2050."Journal of Environmental Management 329 (2023). DOI

Abhyankar, Nikit, Priyanka Mohanty, Shruti M Deorah, Nihan Karali, Umed Paliwal, Jessica Kersey, and Amol A Phadke."Pathways to Atmanirbhar Bharat: Harnessing India's Renewable Edge for Cost-Effective Energy Independence by 2047." (2023).

2022

Abhyankar, Nikit, Narayan Gopinathan, Aditya Khandekar, Nihan Karali, Amol A Phadke, and Deepak Rajagopal."Freight Trucks in India are Primed for Electrification." (2022).

Lin, Jiang, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, Wenjun Wang, Jessica Gordon, and Fan Dai."Opportunities to tackle short-lived climate pollutants and other greenhouse gases for China."Science of The Total Environment 842 (2022). DOI

Ding, Tao, Yuge Sun, Can Huang, Chenlu Mu, Yuqi Fan, Jiang Lin, and Yining Qin."Pathways of clean energy heating electrification programs for reducing carbon emissions in Northwest China."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 166 (2022). DOI

Lu, Hongyou, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, Jing Ke, David Fridley, and Nan Zhou."China’s Electrification Pathways: Findings from the China Energy Outlook 2022." (2022).

Deorah, Shruti M, Aditya Khandekar, Deepak Rajagopal, and Nikit Abhyankar."Pathways for Electrification of South Asia’s Transportation Sector." (2022).

2021

Abhyankar, Nikit, Shruti M Deorah, and Amol A Phadke."Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power System Investments through 2030." (2021).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Shruti M Deorah, Lakshmi Alagappan, Paul M Sotkiewicz, and Nikit Abhyankar."Policy and Regulatory Recommendations to Support a Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power Sector." (2021).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Edward L Vine, Patrick Blake, Brian Holuj, James Hyungkwan Kim, and Dae Hoon Kim."Ensuring the climate benefits of the Montreal Protocol: Global governance architecture for cooling efficiency and alternative refrigerants."Energy Research & Social Science Volume 76 (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).

Singh, Reshma, Monto Mani, and Swapnil Joshi."Transforming India's Built Environment: A 2050 Vision for Wellness and Resilience." (2021).

2020

Karali, Nihan, Chao Ding, Won Young Park, Nihar Shah, and Jiang Lin."Energy-Efficiency Improvement Potential of Multi-split Air Conditioning Systems in China." (2020).

Purohit, Pallav, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, John Dulac, Nihar Shah, Max Wei, Peter Rafaj, and Wolfgang Schöpp."Electricity savings and greenhouse gas emission reductions from global phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20.19 (2020) 11305 - 11327. DOI

Letschert, Virginie E, Sarah K Price, Ambereen Shaffie, Won Young Park, Nihan Karali, Nikit Abhyankar, Nihar Shah, and Ari Darmawan Pasek."Accelerating the Transition to More Energy Efficient Air Conditioners in Indonesia." (2020).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Jun Young Choi, Hee Jeong Kang, Dae Hoon Kim, and Amol A Phadke."Lost in translation: Overcoming divergent seasonal performance metrics to strengthen air conditioner energy-efficiency policies."Energy for Sustainable Development 55 (2020) 56 - 68. DOI