Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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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About Us +
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.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2023

Nordahl, Sarah L., Chelsea V. Preble, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Corinne D. Scown."Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions from Composting."Environmental Science & Technology 57.6 (2023) 2235 - 2247. DOI

2022

Sugrue, Rebecca, Chelsea V. Preble, Anna G. Tarplin, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."In-Use Passenger Vessel Emission Rates of Black Carbon and Nitrogen Oxides."Environmental Science & Technology 56.12 (2022) 7679 - 7686. DOI

Wai, Travis Hee, Joshua S. Apte, Maria H. Harris, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Christopher J. Portier, Chelsea V. Preble, Ananya Roy, and Adam A. Szpiro."Insights from application of a hierarchical spatio-temporal model to an intensive urban black carbon monitoring dataset."Atmospheric Environment 277 (2022) 119069. DOI

2021

Singer, Brett C., Haoran Zhao, Chelsea V. Preble, William W. Delp, Jovan Pantelic, Michael D. Sohn, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Measured Influence of Overhead HVAC on Exposure to Airborne Contaminants from Simulated Speaking in a Meeting and a Classroom."Indoor Air (2021). DOI

Schlaerth, Hannah, Joseph Ko, Rebecca Sugrue, Chelsea V. Preble, and George A. Ban-Weiss."Determining black carbon emissions and activity from in-use harbor craft in Southern California."Atmospheric Environment 256 (2021) 118382. DOI

2020

Preble, Chelsea V., Sharon S. Chen, Toshifumi Hotchi, Michael D. Sohn, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, Nancy J. Brown, Corinne D. Scown, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Air Pollutant Emission Rates for Dry Anaerobic Digestion and Composting of Organic Municipal Solid Waste."Environmental Science & Technology (2020). DOI

Chambliss, Sarah E., Chelsea V. Preble, Julien J. Caubel, Troy Cados, Kyle P. Messier, Ramon A. Alvarez, Brian W. LaFranchi, Melissa M. Lunden, Julian D. Marshall, Adam A. Szpiro, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Joshua S. Apte."Comparison of Mobile and Fixed-Site Black Carbon Measurements for High-Resolution Urban Pollution Mapping."Environmental Science & Technology 54.13 (2020) 7848 - 7857. DOI

Nordahl, Sarah L., Jay P. Devkota, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Sarah Josephine Smith, Hanna Breunig, Chelsea V. Preble, Andrew Satchwell, Ling Jin, Nancy J. Brown, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Corinne D. Scown."Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management StrategiesLife-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management Strategies."Environmental Science & Technology 54.15 (2020) 9200 - 9209. DOI

Sugrue, Rebecca, Chelsea V. Preble, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Comparing the Use of High- to Low-Cost Black Carbon and Carbon Dioxide Sensors for Characterizing On-Road Diesel Truck Emissions."Sensors 20.23 (2020) 6714. DOI

2019

Preble, Chelsea V., Robert A. Harley, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Control Technology-Driven Changes to In-Use Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck Emissions of Nitrogenous Species and Related Environmental Impacts."Environmental Science & Technology (2019). DOI

Caubel, Julien J., Troy Cados, Chelsea V. Preble, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."A Distributed Network of 100 Black Carbon Sensors for 100 Days of Air Quality Monitoring in West Oakland, California."Environmental Science & Technology (2019). DOI

Sun, T., L. Liu, M. G. Flanner, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, C. Jiao, Chelsea V. Preble, W. L. Chang, and T. C. Bond."Constraining a Historical Black Carbon Emission Inventory of the United States for 1960–2000."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124.7 (2019) 4004 - 4025. DOI

2018

Satchwell, Andrew, Corinne D. Scown, Sarah Josephine Smith, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Ling Jin, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Nancy J. Brown, and Chelsea V. Preble."Accelerating the Deployment of Anaerobic Digestion to Meet Zero Waste Goals."Environmental Science & Technology 52.23 (2018) 13663–13669. DOI

Preble, Chelsea V., Troy Cados, Robert A. Harley, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."In-Use Performance and Durability of Particle Filters on Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks."Environmental Science Technology 52.20 (2018) 11913-11921. DOI

2016

Kirchstetter, Thomas W., Chelsea V. Preble, Odelle L. Hadley, Tami C. Bond, and Joshua S. Apte."Large reductions in urban black carbon concentrations in the United States between 1965 and 2000."Atmospheric Environment 151 (2016) 17-23. DOI

2015

Preble, Chelsea V., Timothy R. Dallmann, Nathan M. Kreisberg, Susanne V. Hering, Robert A. Harley, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Effects of Particle Filters and Selective Catalytic Reduction on Heavy-Duty Diesel Drayage Truck Emissions at the Port of Oakland."Environmental Science & Technology 49.14 (2015) 8864 - 8871. DOI

2014

Preble, Chelsea V., Odelle L. Hadley, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Emissions and Climate-Relevant Optical Properties of Pollutants Emitted from a Three-Stone Fire and the Berkeley-Darfur Stove Tested under Laboratory Conditions."Environmental Science & Technology 48.11 (2014) 6484 - 6491. DOI

Sleiman, Mohamad, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Paul H. Berdahl, Haley E. Gilbert, Sarah Quelen, Lea Marlot, Chelsea V. Preble, Sharon S. Chen, Amandine Montalbano, Olivier Rosseler, Hashem Akbari, Ronnen M. Levinson, and Hugo Destaillats."Soiling of building envelope surfaces and its effect on solar reflectance – Part II: Development of an accelerated aging method for roofing materials."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 122 (2014) 271-281. DOI

2010

Kirchstetter, Thomas W., Chelsea V. Preble, Odelle L. Hadley, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Quantification of Black Carbon and Other Pollutant Emissions from a Traditional and an Improved Cookstove." (2010).