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)

2013

Lowenthal-Savy, Danielle, Michael A. McNeil, and Lloyd Harrington."Evidence of Progress – Measurement of Impacts of Australia’s S&L Program from 1990-2010."7th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2013).

Johnson, Alissa K., James D. Lutz, Michael A. McNeil, and Theo Covary."An international Survey of Electric Storage Tank Water Heater Efficiency and Standards."Southern African Energy Efficiency Convention 2013 (2013).

Katzman, Alex, Michael A. McNeil, and Stephen Pantano."The benefits of creating a cross-country data framework for energy efficiency."7th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL ’13) (2013).

Letschert, Virginie E., Louis-Benoit Desroches, Jing Ke, and Michael A. McNeil."Energy Efficiency - How Far Can We Raise the Bar? Revealing the Potential of Best Available Technologies."Energy 59 (2013) 72-82. DOI

Ke, Jing, Lynn K. Price, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Khanna, and Nan Zhou."Analysis and Practices of Energy Benchmarking for Industry from the Perspective of Systems Engineering."Energy 54 (2013) 32-44. DOI

Letschert, Virginie E., Stephane de la Rue du Can, Michael A. McNeil, Puneeth Kalavase, Allison Hua Fan, and Gabrielle Dreyfus."Energy Efficiency Appliance Standards: Where do we stand, how far can we go and how do we get there? An analysis across several economies." (2013).

Ke, Jing, Michael A. McNeil, Lynn K. Price, Nina Khanna, and Nan Zhou."Estimation of CO₂ Emissions from China’s Cement Production: Methodologies and Uncertainties."Energy Policy 57 (2013) 172-181.

McNeil, Michael A., Virginie E. Letschert, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Jing Ke."Bottom-Up Energy Analysis System (BUENAS) – An International Appliance Efficiency Policy Tool."Energy Efficiency 6.2 (2013) 191-217. DOI

Letschert, Virginie E., Michael A. McNeil, Mariana Pavon, and Wolfgang F. Lutz."Design of Standards and Labeling programs in Chile: Techno-Economic Analysis for Refrigerators." (2013).

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, and Jing Ke."Quantifying the potential impact of energy efficiency and low carbon policies for China."the European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 2013 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2013).

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Jing Ke, Michael A. McNeil, and Mark D. Levine."China's Energy and Emissions Outlook to 2050: Perspectives from Bottom-Up Energy End-Use Model."Energy Policy 53 (2013) 51-62. DOI

Letschert, Virginie E., and Michael A. McNeil."Potential Savings for Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal from BUENAS modeling." (2013).

2012

Letschert, Virginie E., Nicholas Bojda, Jing Ke, and Michael A. McNeil."Estimate of Cost-Effective Potential for Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards in 13 Major World Economies Energy Savings, Environmental and Financial Impacts." (2012).

McNeil, Michael A., Virginie E. Letschert, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Jing Ke."Bottom-Up Energy Analysis System - Methodology and Results." (2012).

Letschert, Virginie E., Louis-Benoit Desroches, Jing Ke, and Michael A. McNeil."Estimate of Technical Potential for Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards in 13 Major World Economies." (2012).

McNeil, Michael A., Nicholas Bojda, Won Young Park, Mo Zhou, Jing Ke, and Jun Young Choi."Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in the Republic of Korea." (2012).

McNeil, Michael A., Jing Ke, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Virginie E. Letschert, and James E. McMahon."Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in India." (2012).

McNeil, Michael A., Virginie E. Letschert, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Christine Egan."Acting Globally: Potential Carbon Emissions Mitigation Impacts from an International Standards and Labelling Program." (2012).

McNeil, Michael A., Virginie E. Letschert, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Christine Egan."Acting Globally: Potential Carbon Emissions Mitigation Impacts from an International Standards and Labelling Program." (2012).

Letschert, Virginie E., Louis-Benoit Desroches, Jing Ke, and Michael A. McNeil."Technical Potential of Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards: A Global Analysis of Best Available Technology." (2012).

2011

McNeil, Michael A., Nicholas Bojda, Jing Ke, Yining Qin, Stephane de la Rue du Can, David Fridley, Virginie E. Letschert, and James E. McMahon."Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in China." (2011).

Fridley, David, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Zheng, Virginie E. Letschert, Jing Ke, Yamina Saheb, and Nina Khanna."Analysis of Potential Energy Saving and CO₂ Emission Reduction of Home Appliances and Commercial Equipments in China."Energy Policy 39.8 (2011) 4541-4550. DOI

Bojda, Nicholas, Jing Ke, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Virginie E. Letschert, James E. McMahon, and Michael A. McNeil."Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in the United States." (2011).

Letschert, Virginie E., Michael A. McNeil, Francisco Humberto Leiva Ibáñez, Ana Maria Ruiz, Mariana Pavon, and Stephen Hall."Analysis of Minimum efficiency Performance Standards for Residential General Service Lighting in Chile."Latin American Meeting on Energy Economics (2011) 15.

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Zheng, Jing Ke, and Mark D. Levine."Peak CO₂? China’s Emissions Trajectories to 2050." (2011).