Energy Technologies Area

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 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)

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2013

Williams, Charles H., Andrew S. Green, Douglas Dahle, John Barnett, Pat Butler, and David Kerner."Potential for the Use of Energy Savings Performance Contracts to Reduce Energy Consumption and Provide Energy and Cost Savings in Non-Building Applications." (2013).

Payne, Christopher T., Andrew R. Weber, and Abby Semple."Energy-efficient Public Procurement Best Practice in Program Delivery SEAD Initiative Procurement Working Group." (2013).

Malone, Elizabeth L., Richard C. Diamond, Amy K. Wolfe, Tom Sanquist, Christopher T. Payne, and Jerry Dion."Sustainable Behavior."Sustain: "Implementing Sustainability: The Behavioral-Institutional Dimension" Spring/Summer 2013.28 (2013) 28-32.

2012

Fujita, K. Sydny, and Margaret Taylor."Achieved and Potential Energy Savings through Energy Efficient Procurement." (2012).

Earni, Shankar, Spencer Woodworth, Xiufeng Pang, Jorge Hernandez-Maldonado, Rongxin Yin, Liping Wang, Steve E. Greenberg, John Fiegel, and Alma Rubalcava."Monitoring-based HVAC Commissioning of an Existing Office Building for Energy Efficiency." (2012).

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."The Path to Savings: Understanding the Federal Purchase of Energy-Consuming Products." (2012).

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."Program Potential: Estimates of Federal Energy Cost Savings from Energy Efficient Procurement." (2012).

Weber, Andrew R., and Christopher T. Payne."Linking Resources and Structures: Increasing the Effectiveness of Energy Efficient Government Procurement Programs." (2012).

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."Who Buys What? Understanding Federal Procurement of Energy Efficient Products."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (2012).

Payne, Christopher T.."The Role of Business Systems in Achieving Market Transformation."Procurement, Innovation and Green Growth: The story continues... (2012).

Payne, Christopher T., and Andrew R. Weber."Public Sector Procurement: Issues in Program Development & Delivery." (2012).

Sanders, Mark D., Kristen Parrish, and Paul A. Mathew."Ready to Retrofit: The Process of Project Team Selection, Building Benchmarking, and Financing Commercial Building Energy Retrofit Projects." (2012).

2011

Malone, Elizabeth L., Tom Sanquist, Amy K. Wolfe, Richard C. Diamond, Christopher T. Payne, and Jerry Dion."Evidence-Based Background Material Underlying Guidance for Federal Agencies in Implementing Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans Implementing Sustainability: The Institutional-Behavioral Dimension." (2011).

Earni, Shankar, Philip Coleman, and Mark D. Sanders."Integrated Framework toward a Closed Loop Measurement and Verification Approach."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry 1 (2011) 68-79.

2010

Harris, Jeffrey P., Richard C. Diamond, Carl Blumstein, Chris Calwell, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T. Payne, and Paul Siderius."Towards a Policy of Progressive Efficiency."People-Centered Initiatives for Increasing Energy Saving (2010).

2008

Coleman, Philip, Christopher T. Payne, and Richard G. White."A Plea for Simpler Electricity Tariffs."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 7 (2008) 60-69.

Diamond, Richard C., and Christopher T. Payne."Greening the U.S. House of Representatives." (2008).

2007

Tschudi, William F., and Charles H. Williams."Power Supply Options for Data Centers." (2007).

2006

Payne, Christopher T.."The Commercial Energy Consumer: About Whom Are We Speaking?."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Iyer, Maithili, Willett Kempton, and Christopher T. Payne."Comparison groups on bills: Automated, personalized energy information."Energy and Buildings 38.8 (2006) 988-996. DOI

Harris, Jeffrey P., Richard C. Diamond, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T. Payne, and Carl Blumstein."Don't Supersize Me! Toward a Policy of Consumption-Based Energy Efficiency."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006) 7-100-7-114.

McGrory, Laura Van Wie, Philip Coleman, David Fridley, Jeffrey P. Harris, and Edgar Villasenor Franco."Two Paths to Transforming Markets through Public Sector Energy Efficiency: Bottom Up versus Top Down."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 6 (2006) 265-276.

2005

Payne, Christopher T., and Beverly Dyer."Federal Participation in LEED in 2005."Greenbuild Expo 2005 (2005).

2004

Payne, Christopher T., and Beverly Dyer."Federal participation in LEED."Greenbuild 2004 (2004).

Payne, Christopher T., and Alan K. Meier."Many small consumers, one growing problem: Achieving energy savings for electronic equipment operating in low power modes."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).