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)

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).

Koomey, Jonathan G., Hashem Akbari, Carl Blumstein, Marilyn A. Brown, Richard E. Brown, Chris Calwell, Sheryl Carter, Ralph Cavanagh, Audrey Chang, David Claridge, Paul P. Craig, Richard C. Diamond, Joseph H Eto, William Fulkerson, Ashok J. Gadgil, Howard S. Geller, José Goldemberg, Charles A. Goldman, David B Goldstein, Steve E. Greenberg, David Hafemeister, Jeffrey P. Harris, Hal Harvey, Eric Heitz, Eric Hirst, Holmes Hummel, Daniel M. Kammen, Henry Kelly, John A. Laitner, Mark D. Levine, Amory Lovins, Gil Masters, James E. McMahon, Alan K. Meier, Michael Messenger, John Millhone, Evan Mills, Steven M. Nadel, Bruce Nordman, Lynn K. Price, Joseph J. Romm, Marc Ross, Michael Rufo, Jayant A. Sathaye, Leon J. Schipper, Stephen H. Schneider, James L. Sweeney, Malcolm Verdict, Diana Vorsatz, Devra Wang, Carl Weinberg, Richard Wilk, John Wilson, and Ernst Worrell."Defining a standard metric for electricity savings."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

2008

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Jessica Granderson, Philip Haves, Paul A. Mathew, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Scale Matters: An Action Plan for Realizing Sector-Wide "Zero-Energy" Performance Goals in Commercial Buildings."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 17-22, 2008 (2008).

Harris, Jeffrey P., Richard C. Diamond, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T. Payne, Carl Blumstein, and Paul Siderius."Towards a sustainable energy balance: progressive efficiency and the return of energy conservation."Energy Efficiency 1.3 (2008) 175-188. DOI

2006

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.

2004

Coleman, Philip, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Public Sector Leadership: Government Purchasing of Energy-efficient Products to Save Energy and “Pull” the Market."Kuwait ASST Workshop on Energy Conservation in Buildings (2004).

2002

McGrory, Laura Van Wie, Jeffrey P. Harris, Miguel Breceda, Stephani Campbell, Sachu Constantine, and Mirka della Cava."Market Leadership By Example: Government Sector Energy Efficiency in Developing Countries." (2002) 16.

2001

Piette, Mary Ann, Joseph H Eto, Iain S. Walker, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Craig P. Wray, Bruce Nordman, Alan K. Meier, Philip Haves, Richard C. Diamond, Jeffrey P. Harris, Mithra M. Moezzi, Christopher T. Payne, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Demand-Responsive and Efficient Building Systems as a Resource for Electricity Reliability." (2001).

2000

Johnson, Francis X, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Estimated Savings from Energy- Efficient Federal Purchasing." (2000).

1994

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard C. Diamond, Bruce Nordman, Odon D. Buen, Jeffrey P. Harris, Kristin E. Heinemeier, and Kathryn B. Janda."Final Report on the Energy Edge Impact Evaluation of 28 New, Low-Energy Commercial Buildings." (1994).

1993

Piette, Mary Ann, Bruce Nordman, Odon D. Buen, Richard C. Diamond, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Uses of Monitored Data to Evaluate the Energy Edge Demonstration Program of New, Energy-Efficient Commercial Buildings."ASHRAE Symposium Denver, Colorado, June 26-30, 1993. (1993).

1992

Diamond, Richard C., Mary Ann Piette, Odon D. Buen, Bruce Nordman, Jeffrey P. Harris, and Bruce Cody."Energy Use and Energy Savings: Measured Results from the Energy Edge Demonstration Project."1992 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (1992).

Diamond, Richard C., Mary Ann Piette, Odon D. Buen, Bruce Nordman, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Energy Edge Impact Evaluation: Middle Overview."Prepared for the Bonneville Power Administration (1992).

1991

Piette, Mary Ann, Joseph H Eto, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Office Equipment Energy Use and Trends." (1991).

Cohen, Samuel D., Charles A. Goldman, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Energy savings and economics of retrofitting single-family buildings."Energy and Buildings 17.4 (1991) 15. DOI

Cohen, Samuel D., Charles A. Goldman, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Measured Energy Savings and Economics of Retrofitting Existing Single-Family Homes: An Update of the BECA-B Database." (1991) 82.

Piette, Mary Ann, Jeffrey P. Harris, Richard C. Diamond, Bruce Nordman, Odon D. Buen, and Bruce Cody."Evaluating Savings from Design Predictions through Measured Performance in New, Energy-Efficient Commercial Buildings."5th International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (1991).

1990

Cohen, Samuel D., Charles A. Goldman, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Measured Energy Savings for Individual Retrofit Measures in Single-Family Buildings." (1990) 9.

Harris, Jeffrey P., Richard C. Diamond, Odon D. Buen, A. Hatcher, Bruce Nordman, and Mary Ann Piette."Energy Edge Impact Evaluation, Findings and Recommendations from the Phase One Evaluation."Prepared for the Bonneville Power Administration (1990).

Diamond, Richard C., Jeffrey P. Harris, Mary Ann Piette, Odon D. Buen, and Bruce Nordman."Energy Edge Impact Evaluation: Early Overview."Prepared for the Bonneville Power Administration (1990).

1989

Anderson, Karen, Linda Berry, Joseph H Eto, Howard S. Geller, Jeffrey P. Harris, Mark D. Levine, Alan K. Meier, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Carol Sabo, Edward L. Vine, Stephen Wiel, Cheryl Wodley, Charles A. Goldman, Eric Hirst, and Florentin Krause."Least Cost Planning in the Utility Sector: Progress and Challenges." (1989) 24.

Harris, Jeffrey P., Charles A. Goldman, Kathleen M. Greely, Francis Wenger, Andre Gsponer, and Veronique Richalet."Comparing Measured Savings and Cost-Effectiveness of Multifamily Retrofits in the U.S. and Europe." (1989) 18.

1988

Goldman, Charles A., Kathleen M. Greely, and Jeffrey P. Harris."An Updated Compliation of Measured Energy Savings in Retrofitted Multifamily Buildings."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1988).

Meier, Alan K., Charles A. Goldman, Kathleen M. Greely, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Estimating Conservation Potential Using BECA Data." (1988).