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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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Publications by Research Area

Buildings
Demand Response
Energy Markets & Planning
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
Industrial Energy Analysis
Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis
Transportation

Publications by Division

Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)
Energy Analysis (EA)
Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)
X Author: James Sears

2020

Jin, Ling, Alina Lazar, James Sears, Annika Todd-Blick, Alex Sim, Kesheng Wu, Hung-Chia Yang, and C Anna Spurlock."Clustering Life Course to Understand the Heterogeneous Effects of Life Events, Gender, and Generation on Habitual Travel Modes."IEEE Access (2020) 1-17. DOI

2019

Spurlock, C Anna, James Sears, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Victor Walker, Ling Jin, Margaret Taylor, Andrew Duvall, Anand R Gopal, and Annika Todd-Blick."Describing the users: Understanding adoption of and interest in shared, electrified, and automated transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area."Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 71 (2019) 283-301. DOI
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