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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, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."When the Party’s Over, Don’t Turn off the Lights! - Making Donor Funded S&L Programs Sustainable."10th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL’19) (2019).

McCall, Margaret, and Amol A Phadke."California semi truck electrification: Preliminary assessment of infrastructure needs and cost-benefit analysis." (2019).

Rajagopal, Deepak, and Amol A Phadke."Prioritizing electric miles over electric vehicles will deliver greater benefits at lower cost."Environmental Research Letters 14.9 (2019).

Bauer, Gordon S, Amol A Phadke, Jeffery B Greenblatt, and Deepak Rajagopal."Electrifying urban ridesourcing fleets at no added cost through efficient use of charging infrastructure."Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 105 (2019). DOI

Singh, Reshma, Paul A Mathew, Jessica Granderson, and Yash Shukla."Energy Information Systems: From the Basement to the Boardroom." (2019). DOI

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).

2018

Singh, Reshma, Paul A Mathew, Jessica Granderson, Yash Shukla, Amiya Ranjan Behera, and Michael Pitt."Packaged Scalable Energy Information Systems for Hotels."Journal of Facilities Management 16.2 (2018) 119 - 141. DOI

Singh, Reshma, Baptiste Ravache, and Dale A Sartor."Building Innovation: A Guide For High-Performance Energy Efficient Buildings In India." (2018).

2017

Kohler, Christian, Yash Shukla, and Rajan Rawal."Calculating the Effect of External Shading on the Solar Heat Gain Coefficient of Windows."Building Simulation 2017 (2017).

2016

Kumar, Sanjay, Jyotirmay Mathur, Sanjay Mathur, Manoj Kumar Singh, and Vivian Loftness."An adaptive approach to define thermal comfort zones on psychrometric chart for naturally ventilated buildings in composite climate of India."Building and Environment 109 (2016) 135 - 153. DOI

Singh, Reshma, Paul A Mathew, Jessica Granderson, Rohini Srivastava, and Yash Shukla."Caring for the Energy Health of Healthcare Facilities U.S.– India Joint Center for Building Energy Research and Development (CBERD)." (2016).

2015

Singh, Reshma, Baptiste Ravache, and Spencer M Dutton."CLIMATE-SPECIFIC MODELING AND ANALYSIS FOR BEST-PRACTICE INDIAN OFFICE BUILDINGS."BS2015: 14th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (2015).

Chuang, Frank, and Francesco Borrelli."Dynamic state and input aggregation."2015 American Control Conference (ACC)2015 American Control Conference (ACC) (2015). DOI

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).

2014

Karali, Nihan, Tengfang T Xu, and Jayant A Sathaye."Reducing energy consumption and CO₂ emissions by energy efficiency measures and international trading: A bottom-up modeling for the U.S. iron and steel sector."Applied Energy 120 (2014) 133-146. DOI

Rawal, Rajan, Keyur Vadodaria, Mona Galsar, Girish Ghatikar, Reshma Singh, and Diane Douglas."Collaborative research to promote energy efficiency innovation towards significant reduction in buildings energy use in the United States and India." (2014).

Sarraf, Saket, Shilpi Anand, Yash Shukla, Paul A Mathew, and Reshma Singh."Building Energy Benchmarking in India: An Action Plan for Advancing the State-of-the-Art." (2014).

Chuang, Frank, Claus Danielson, and Francesco Borrelli."Optimality of certainty equivalence in expected value problems for uncertain linear systems."2014 IEEE 53rd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2014). DOI

2013

Singh, Reshma, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Paul A Mathew, Jessica Granderson, and Yash Shukla."Guidelines for Datacenter Energy Information System." (2013).

Schewel, Laura, Anand R Gopal, and Amol A Phadke."Mobility Towers: Improving transportation efficiency measures by persistent evaluation of city-wide travel behavior."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study (2013).

Gopal, Anand R, Greg Leventis, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Nihar Shah, and Amol A Phadke."Trading Appliance Efficiency for Electricity Subsidies: The Potential in Emerging Economies."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study (2013).

Singh, Reshma, Dale A Sartor, and Girish Ghatikar."Best Practices Guide for High - Performance Indian Office Buildings." (2013) 53.

Karali, Nihan, Tengfang T Xu, and Jayant A Sathaye."Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Options in ISEEM Global Energy Model: 2010-2050 Scenario Analysis for Least-Cost Carbon Reduction in Iron and Steel Sector." (2013).

2012

Booker, Kayje, Ashok J Gadgil, and David Winickoff."Engineering for the Global Poor: The Role of Intellectual Property."Science and Public Policy 39.6 (2012) 775-786. DOI