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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

Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

Publications by Division

Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2009

Levine, Mark D, Nan Zhou, and Lynn K Price."The Greening of the Middle Kingdom: The Story of Energy Efficiency in China." (2009).

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Virginie E Letschert, Michael A McNeil, Nan Zhou, and Jayant A Sathaye."Residential and Transport Energy Use in India: Past Trend and Future Outlook." (2009).

2008

Zhou, Nan, Masaru Nishida, and Weijun Gao."Current Status and Future Scenarios of Residential Building Energy Consumption in China." (2008).

Zhou, Nan, Nina Zheng, and Nina Khanna."International Experience in Standards and Labeling Programs for Rice Cookers." (2008).

Galitsky, Christina, Lynn K Price, Nan Zhou, Zhou Fuqiu, Xiong Huawen, Zeng Xuemin, and Wang Lan."Guidebook for Using the Tool BEST Cement: Benchmarking and Energy Savings Tool for the Cement Industry." (2008).

Galitsky, Christina, Lynn K Price, Nan Zhou, Zhou Fuqiu, Xiong Huawen, Zeng Xuemin, and Wang Lan."水泥工业能效对标和节能分析工具－BESTCement使用指南." (2008).

Zhou, Nan, Nina Zheng, David Fridley, Ruohong Wang, Christine Egan, and Nina Khanna."Check-Testing of Manufacturer Self Reported Labeling Data & Compliance with MEPS." (2008).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, and Nina Khanna."Estimating Total Energy Consumption and Emissions of China’s Commercial and Office Buildings." (2008).

Zhou, Nan."Status of China’s Energy Efficiency Standards and Labels for Appliances and International Collaboration." (2008).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Nathaniel T Aden, Jiang Lin, Jianhong Cheng, Tomoyuki Sakamoto, and Nina Khanna."China Refrigerator Information Label: Specification Development and Potential Impact." (2008).

Marnay, Chris, and Nan Zhou."Status of Overseas Microgrid Programs: Microgrid Research Activities in the U.S. (English version)." (2008) 8.

Worrell, Ernst, Lynn K Price, Maarten Neelis, Christina Galitsky, and Nan Zhou."World Best Practice Energy Intensity Values for Selected Industrial Sectors." (2008).

2007

Fridley, David, Nathaniel T Aden, Nan Zhou, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."China’s Building Energy Use." (2007).

Zhou, Nan, and Jiang Lin."The Reality and Future Scenarios of Commercial Building Energy Consumption in China." (2007).

Lin, Jiang, Nan Zhou, Mark D Levine, and David Fridley."Taking out One Billion Tons of CO₂: The Magic of China’s 11th Five Year Plan?." (2007).

Fridley, David, Nathaniel T Aden, Nan Zhou, and Jiang Lin."Impacts of China’s Current Appliance Standards and Labeling Program to 2020." (2007).

Zhou, Nan, Michael A McNeil, David Fridley, Jiang Lin, Lynn K Price, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Jayant A Sathaye, and Mark D Levine."Energy Use in China: Sectoral Trends and Future Outlook." (2007).

Bressand, Florian, Nan Zhou, and Jiang Lin."al Energy use in commercial building in China: Current situation and future scenarios."Proceedings of the 2007 ECEEE Summer Study (2007).

2006

Lin, Jiang, Nan Zhou, Mark D Levine, and David Fridley."Achieving China’s Target for Energy Intensity Reduction in 2010: An exploration of recent trends and possible future scenarios." (2006).

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."An Analysis of the DER Adoption Climate in Japan Using Optimization Results for Prototype Buildings with U.S. Comparisons."Energy and Buildings Journal Vol. 38.Issue 12 (2006) 10.

Yang, Yongwen, Weijun Gao, Nan Zhou, and Chris Marnay."Optimal Combination of Distributed Energy System in an Eco-Campus of Japan."Second International Green Energy Conference, Ontario, Canada, June 25-29, 2006 (2006).

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Ryan M Firestone, Karl M Maribu, Nan Zhou, and Chris Marnay."A Model of U.S. Commercial Distributed Generation Adoption." (2006) 113.

Price, Lynn K, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Jonathan E Sinton, Ernst Worrell, Nan Zhou, Jayant A Sathaye, and Mark D Levine."Sectoral trends in global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions." (2006).

2005

Zhou, Nan, Masaru Nishida, Weijun Gao, and Chris Marnay."Assessment of Distributed Energy Adoption in Commercial Buildings. Part 1: An Analysis of Policy, Building loads, Tariff Design, and Technology Development."Bulletin of The Faculty of Engineering Kyushu Sangyo University 42 (2005) 8.

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."An Optimization and Assessment on DG Adoption in Japanese Prototype Buildings."International Symposium on Sustainable Development of the Asian City Environment (SDACE) 2005 (2005).