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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)

2018

Deason, Jeff, Max Wei, Greg Leventis, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Lisa C Schwartz."Electrification of buildings and industry in the United States: Drivers, barriers, prospects, and policy approaches." (2018).

Shehabi, Arman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Eric R Masanet, and Jonathan G Koomey."Data center growth in the United States: decoupling the demand for services from electricity use."Environmental Research Letters 13.12 (2018) 124030. DOI

2017

Alstone, Peter, Jennifer Potter, Mary Ann Piette, Peter Schwartz, Michael A Berger, Laurel N Dunn, Sarah Josephine Smith, Michael D Sohn, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Sofia Stensson, and Julia Szinai."Demand Response Potential for California SubLAPs and Local Capacity Planning Areas: An Addendum to the 2025 California Demand Response Potential Study - Phase 2." (2017).

Wei, Max, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Michael D Sohn."Experience curve development and cost reduction disaggregation for fuel cell markets in Japan and the US."Applied Energy 191 (2017) 346 - 357. DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C, Max Wei, William R Morrow III, Jeff Deason, Steven R Schiller, Greg Leventis, Sarah Josephine Smith, Woei Ling Leow, Todd Levin, Steven Plotkin, Yan Zhou, and Joseph Teng."Electricity end uses, energy efficiency, and distributed energy resources baseline." (2017).

2016

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Max Wei, and Michael D Sohn."A retrospective analysis of compact fluorescent lamp experience curves and their correlations to deployment programs."Energy Policy 98 (2016) 505 - 512. DOI

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Max Wei, and Michael D Sohn."A retrospective analysis of compact fluorescent lamp experience curves and their correlations to deployment programs."Energy Policy 98 (2016) 505 - 512. DOI

Morrow III, William R, Arman Shehabi, and Sarah Josephine Smith."Lifecycle Industry GreenHouse gas, Technology and Energy through the Use Phase (LIGHTEnUP) – Analysis Tool User’s Guide." (2016).

Shehabi, Arman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Dale A Sartor, Richard E Brown, Magnus Herrlin, Jonathan G Koomey, Eric R Masanet, Nathaniel Horner, Inês Lima Azevedo, and William Lintner."United States Data Center Energy Usage Report." (2016).

Alstone, Peter, Jennifer Potter, Mary Ann Piette, Peter Schwartz, Michael A Berger, Laurel N Dunn, Sarah Josephine Smith, Michael D Sohn, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Sofia Stensson, and Julia Szinai."2015 California Demand Response Potential Study - Charting California's Demand response Future: Interim Report on Phase 1 Results." (2016).

2015

Wei, Max, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Michael D Sohn."Non-Constant Learning Rates in Retrospective Experience Curve Analyses and their Correlation to Deployment Programs."Energy Policy 107 (2015) 356–369. DOI

Morrow III, William R, Arman Shehabi, and Sarah Josephine Smith."Manufacturing Cost Levelization Model – A User’s Guide." (2015).

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Max Wei, and Michael D Sohn."Retrospective North American CFL Experience Curve Analysis and Correlation to Deployment Programs." (2015).