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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

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Comments on NRC Committee report Assessment of Technologies for Improving Fuel Economy of Light-Duty Vehicles, Phase 2." (2015).

Khanna, Nina, and David Fridley."Mind the Gap: New Developments and Outlook for China’s Transport Sector to 2030."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, June 1-6, 2015 (2015).

2014

Lewis, Sarah M., Stephen Gross, Axel Visel, Maggi Kelly, and William R. Morrow III."Fuzzy GIS-based multi-criteria evaluation for U.S. Agave production as a bioenergy feedstock."Global Change Biology – Bioenergy (2014). DOI

2013

Wenzel, Thomas P.."The estimated effect of mass or footprint reduction in recent light-duty vehicles on U.S. societal fatality risk per vehicle mile traveled."Accident Analysis & Prevention 59 (2013) 267 - 276. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P.."The effect of recent trends in vehicle design on U.S. societal fatality risk per vehicle mile traveled, and their projected future relationship with vehicle mass."Accident Analysis & Prevention 56 (2013) 71 - 81. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Relationships between Mass, Footprint, and Societal Risk in Recent Light-Duty Vehicles." (2013).

Gopal, Anand R., Laura Schewel, Samveg Saxena, and Amol A. Phadke."The Transportation Leapfrog: Using Smart Phones to Collect Driving Data and Model Fuel Economy in India." (2013).

2012

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Relationships between Vehicle Mass, Footprint, and Societal Risk." (2012).

Saxena, Samveg, Iván Dario Bedoya, Nihar Shah, and Amol A. Phadke."Understanding Loss Mechanisms and Efficiency Improvement Options for HCCI Engines Using Detailed Exergy Analysis." (2012). DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Assessment of NHTSA’s Report “Relationships Between Fatality Risk, Mass, and Footprint in Model Year 2000-2007 Passenger Cars and LTVs” - Final Report." (2012).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Peer Review of LBNL Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Vehicle Mass & Footprint Reduction on Safety (LBNL Phase 1 and 2 Reports)." (2012).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Analysis of Casualty Risk per Police-Reported Crash for Model Year 2000 to 2004 Vehicles, using Crash Data from Five States." (2012).

2011

Wenzel, Thomas P.."An Analysis of the Relationship between Casualty Risk Per Crash and Vehicle Mass and Footprint for Model Year 2000-2007 Light-Duty Vehicles - Preliminary Report." (2011).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Assessment of NHTSA’s Report “Relationships Between Fatality Risk, Mass, and Footprint in Model Year 2000-2007 Passenger Cars and LTVs” - Preliminary Report." (2011).

2010

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Analysis of the Relationship Between Vehicle Weight/Size and Safety, and Implications for Federal Fuel Economy Regulation." (2010).

2009

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Comments on the Joint Proposed Rulemaking to Establish Light- Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards Docket No. NHTSA–2009–0059 and." (2009).

Zhou, Nan, and Michael A. McNeil."Assessment of Historic Trend in Mobility and Energy Use in India Transportation Sector Using Bottom-up Approach." (2009).

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Thomas P. Wenzel, and Lynn K. Price."Improving the Carbon Dioxide Emission Estimates from the Combustion of Fossil Fuels in California." (2009).

2008

Wenzel, Thomas P., and Marc Ross."Safer Vehicles for People and the Planet: Response to a Letter to the Editor of American Scientist." (2008).

Wenzel, Thomas P., and Marc Ross."Safer Vehicles for People and the Planet." (2008).

2007

Gordon, Deborah, David L. Greene, Marc Ross, and Thomas P. Wenzel."Sipping Fuel and Saving Lives: Increasing Fuel Economy Without Sacrificing Safety." (2007).

2006

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Increasing the Fuel Economy and Safety of New Light-Duty Vehicles." (2006).

2005

Wenzel, Thomas P., and Marc Ross."The effects of vehicle model and driver behavior on risk."Accident Analysis & Prevention 37.3 (2005) 479 - 494. DOI

2004

Gladwell, Malcolm, Thomas P. Wenzel, and Marc Ross."Big and Bad - How the S.U.V. ran over automotive safety."The New Yorker (2004) 28 - 33.

2003

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Use of remote sensing measurements to evaluate vehicle emission monitoring programs: results from Phoenix, Arizona."Transportation Research Part D 6.2 (2003). DOI