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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 scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2025

Fuchs, Heidi, Unique Karki, Arman Shehabi, Tiana Nishime, and Prakash Rao."Geographic, sectoral, and constituent characteristics of US off‐site manufacturing wastewater disposal."Journal of Industrial Ecology 29.6 (2025) 2442-2456. DOI

Fuchs, Heidi."Success & Lessons Learned from 3 Years of 50001 Ready Cohort Training Programs." (2025).

Fuchs, Heidi, and Patty Angus."The Role of Leadership in Implementing 50001 Ready." (2025).

Rao, Prakash, Heidi Fuchs, Amal Alsaffar, Kristina Armstrong, Sravan Chalasani, Sujit Das, Susana Garcia Gonzalez, Diane J Graziano, Unique Karki, Mini Malhotra, James McCall, Sachin Nimbalkar, Frédéric Petit, Lino Sanchez, Rob Spencer, Sarang Supekar, and Kiran Thirumaran."Advancing Manufacturing Water Resilience: Addressing Risks through New Approaches and Technologies." (2025). DOI

Office, U.S Department of Energy Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization, Heidi Fuchs, Unique Karki, Tae-Hwan Lim, Peng Peng, Prakash Rao, Arman Shehabi, and Jibran Zuberi."Transformative Pathways for U.S. Industry: Unlocking American Innovation." (2025). DOI

Fuchs, Heidi."Energy Management Policy – The Voluntary Approach U.S. Case Study." (2025).

2024

Fuchs, Heidi."Making Energy Management Systems Case Studies Easily Searchable and Shareable." (2024).

Chen, Yuting, Heidi Fuchs, Hung-Chia Yang, Hannah Stratton, and Camilla Dunham."Assessment of Two Water and Wastewater Price Sources and Their Applicability in Determining Trends for Planning and Conservation." (2024).

Fuchs, Heidi, and William Miller."DOE 50001 Ready Update." (2024).

2023

Das, Sujit, Heidi Fuchs, Ritu Philip, and Prakash Rao."A review of water valuation metrics: Supporting sustainable water use in manufacturing."Water Resources and Industry 29 (2023) 100199. DOI

Miller, William, and Heidi Fuchs."50001 Ready: A Proven Platform for Decarbonization." (2023).

Fuchs, Heidi, Peter L Therkelsen, William Miller, Graziella Siciliano, and Paul Sheaffer."ISO 50001-Based Energy Management Systems as a Practical Path for Decarbonization: Initial Findings from a Survey of Technical Assistance Cohort Participants."Energies 16.14 (2023) 5441. DOI

Schmick, Rory, and Heidi Fuchs."Pathway to Decarbonization: 50001 Ready and GHG Emissions Reduction Planning Framework." (2023).

2022

Siciliano, Graziella, Anne Joiner, Michael Socks, Heidi Fuchs, and William Miller."ISO 50001-Based Energy Management Systems: Behavior and Organizational Change Strategies to Optimize Energy and Carbon Performance." (2022).

Fuchs, Heidi."Organizational Behavior Insights from 50001 Ready Technical Assistance Cohorts." (2022).

Miller, William, Heidi Fuchs, and Peter L Therkelsen."Strategic Energy Management and Metrics for Market Transformation." (2022).

2021

Fuchs, Heidi, and Prakash Rao."Survey of Available Information on U.S. Manufacturing Wastewater and Energy Requirements for Reuse." (2021). DOI

Therkelsen, Peter L, Heidi Fuchs, William Miller, A Whitlock, and E Rightor."Strategic Energy Management Program Persistence and Cost Effectiveness An Analysis of the SEM Program Landscape." (2021). DOI

Chen, Yuting, Heidi Fuchs, Jonah Schein, Victor H Franco, Hannah Stratton, Thomas A Burke, and Camilla Dunham."Water heating energy use reductions from EPA WaterSense lavatory plumbing fittings."Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Volume 174, 2021, 105781, ISSN 0921-3449. (2021). DOI

Fuchs, Heidi, and Prakash Rao."Characterizing manufacturing wastewater in the United States for the purpose of analyzing energy requirements for reuse."Journal of Industrial Ecology (2021). DOI

2020

Chen, Yuting, Heidi Fuchs, Jonah Schein, Victor H Franco, Hannah Stratton, and Camilla Dunham."Calculating average hot water mixes of residential plumbing fixtures." (2020).

Fuchs, Heidi, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Peter L Therkelsen."Identification of drivers, benefits, and challenges of ISO 50001 through case study content analysis."Energy Policy 142 (2020). DOI

2019

Fuchs, Heidi, Arman Shehabi, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Brian Lim, Kurt Roth, and Allen Tsao."Comparing datasets of volume servers to illuminate their energy use in data centers."Energy Efficiency 13 (2019) 379-392. DOI

2018

Fuchs, Heidi, Arman Shehabi, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Brian Lim, Kurt Roth, and Allen Tsao."Characteristics and Energy Use of Volume Servers in the U.S.."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Schein, Jonah, Peter T Chan, Yuting Chen, Camilla Dunham, Heidi Fuchs, Virginie E Letschert, Michael A McNeil, Moya Melody, Sarah K Price, Hannah Stratton, and Alison A Williams."Methodology for the national water savings models– indoor residential and commercial/institutional products, and outdoor residential products."Water Supply (2018). DOI