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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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2016

Mills, Evan."Identifying and Reducing the Health and Safety Impacts of Fuel-Based Lighting."Energy for Sustainable Development 30 (2016) 39-50. DOI

Chen, Yuche, and Alan K Meier."Fuel consumption impacts of auto roof racks."Energy Policy 92 (2016) 325 - 333. DOI

Daken, Abigail A, Alan K Meier, and Douglas G Frazee."Do Connected Thermostats Save Energy?."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Meier, Alan K, and Quentin Aillot."Permanent Electrical Loads in New Homes."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Siderius, Hans-Paul, Sophie Attali, Nils Borg, Richard C Diamond, and Alan K Meier."Why Americans Misunderstand European Energy Policies (and vice versa)."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

2015

Meier, Alan K, and Quentin Aillot."Builder-Installed Electrical Loads in New Homes."Energy Efficient Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2015).

Pritoni, Marco, Alan K Meier, Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry, and Therese Peffer."Energy efficiency and the misuse of programmable thermostats: The effectiveness of crowdsourcing for understanding household behavior."Energy Research & Social Science 8 (2015). DOI

Weber, Adam Z, Girish Ghatikar, Dale A Sartor, and Steven Lanzisera."Design and Development of an Integrated Workstation Automation Hub." (2015).

Mills, Evan."A New Appraisal- Lessons from the History of Efforts to Value Green and High-Performance Home Attributes in the United States." (2015).

Mills, Evan, and Nathaniel Mills."Taming the Energy Use of Gaming Computers."Energy Efficiency (2015). DOI

2014

Mills, Evan, J Tracy, Peter Alstone, Arne Jacobson, and P Avato."Low-cost LED flashlights and market spoiling in Kenya’s off-grid lighting market."Energy Efficiency 8.2 (2014) https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/publications?f%5Bauthor%5D=16780. DOI

Alstone, Peter, Patricia Lai, and Evan Mills."High Life Cycle Efficacy Explains Fast Energy Payback for Improved Off-Grid Lighting in the Developing World."Journal of Industrial Ecology 18.5 (2014) 722-733. DOI

Mills, Evan, Norman Bourassa, Leo I Rainer, Gregory K Homan, Noel Market, Danny S Parker, Glenn Dickey, and Joan Glickman."Asset Rating with the Home Energy Scoring Tool."Energy and Building 80 (2014) 441-450. DOI

Meier, Alan K, and Hans-Paul Siderius."Assembling Appliances Standards from a Basket of Functions."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Cheung, H.Y Iris, Steve E Greenberg, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Richard E Brown, and William Tscudi."Energy Efficiency in Small Server Rooms: FIeld Surveys and Findings."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Meier, Alan K."From Energy Audits to Home Performance: 30 Years of Articles in Home Energy Magazine."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Liao, Anna, Steven Lanzisera, James D Lutz, Christian Fitting, Margarita Kloss, and Christopher Stiles."Performance Monitoring of Residential Hot Water Distribution Systems."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Mills, Evan, Tim Gengnagel, and Philipp Wollburg."Solar-LED Alternatives to Fuel-based Lighting for Night Fishing."Energy and Sustainable Development 21 (2014) 30-41. DOI

Kloss, Margarita, H.Y Iris Cheung, Richard E Brown, and Alan K Meier."Using Public Participation to Improve MELs Energy Data Collection."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Weber, Adam Z, Steven Lanzisera, Anna Liao, and Alan K Meier."We Need to Talk… Developing Communicating Power Supplies to Monitor & Control Miscellaneous Electric Loads."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Custodio, Claudine Y, Travis Walter, Laurel N Dunn, Andrea C Mercado, Richard E Brown, and Paul A Mathew."Data Preparation Process for the Buildings Performance Database." (2014).

Meier, Alan K, and Sarah J Olexsak."The electricity impacts of Earth Hour: An international comparative analysis of energy-saving behavior."Energy Research & Social Science 2 (2014). DOI

Lanzisera, Steven, Andrew R Weber, Anna Liao, Dominic Pajak, and Alan K Meier."Communicating Power Supplies: Bringing the Internet to the Ubiquitous Energy Gateways of Electronic Devices."IEEE Internet of Things Journal 1.2 (2014). DOI

Mills, Evan."Light for Life: Identifying and Reducing the Health and Safety Impacts of Fuel-Based Lighting." (2014).

2013

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard E Brown, Phillip N Price, Janie Page, Jessica Granderson, David Riess, Stephen Czarnecki, Girish Ghatikar, and Steven Lanzisera."Automated Measurement and Signaling Systems for the Transactional Network." (2013).