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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 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.
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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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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.

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2020

Schiller, Steven R., Lisa C. Schwartz, and Sean Murphy."Performance Assessments of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Issues and Considerations." (2020).

Eckman, Tom, Lisa C. Schwartz, and Greg Leventis."Determining Utility System Value of Demand Flexibility From Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings." (2020).

Karali, Nihan, Chao Ding, Won Young Park, Nihar Shah, and Jiang Lin."Energy-Efficiency Improvement Potential of Multi-split Air Conditioning Systems in China." (2020).

Schwartz, Lisa C., and Greg Leventis."Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: An Introduction for State and Local Governments." (2020).

Earni, Shankar, Philip Coleman, Elizabeth Stuart, and Peter H. Larsen."eProject Builder: Promoting wider adoption of energy savings performance contracts through standardization and transparency."energise 2020 ENERGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY (2020) 300-308.

Letschert, Virginie E., Sarah K. Price, Ambereen Shaffie, Won Young Park, Nihan Karali, Nikit Abhyankar, Nihar Shah, and Ari Darmawan Pasek."Accelerating the Transition to More Energy Efficient Air Conditioners in Indonesia." (2020).

Phadke, Amol A., Nihar Shah, Jiang Lin, Won Young Park, Yongsheng Zhang, Durwood Zaelke, Chao Ding, and Nihan Karali."Chinese policy leadership would cool global air conditioning impacts: Looking East."Energy Research & Social Science 66 (2020) 101570. DOI

Karali, Nihan, Nihar Shah, Won Young Park, Nina Khanna, Chao Ding, Jiang Lin, and Nan Zhou."Improving the energy efficiency of room air conditioners in China: Costs and benefits."Applied Energy 258 (2020) 114023. DOI

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Jun Young Choi, Hee Jeong Kang, Dae Hoon Kim, and Amol A. Phadke."Lost in translation: Overcoming divergent seasonal performance metrics to strengthen air conditioner energy-efficiency policies."Energy for Sustainable Development 55 (2020) 56 - 68. DOI

O'Neill, Nicholas F., James Minh Ma, David Charles Walther, Lance R. Brockway, Chao Ding, and Jiang Lin."A modified total equivalent warming impact analysis: Addressing direct and indirect emissions due to corrosion."Science of The Total Environment 741 (2020) 140312. DOI

2019

Schwartz, Lisa C., Ian M. Hoffman, Steven R. Schiller, Sean Murphy, and Greg Leventis."Cost of Saving Electricity Through Efficiency Programs Funded by Customers of Publicly Owned Utilities: 2012–2017." (2019).

Sheppard, Colin, Julia Szinai, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R. Gopal."Grid Impacts of Electric Vehicles and Managed Charging in California." (2019).

Phadke, Amol A., Won Young Park, and Nikit Abhyankar."Providing reliable and financially sustainable electricity access in India using super-efficient appliances."Energy Policy 132 (2019). DOI

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, and Amol A. Phadke."Enabling access to household refrigeration services through cost reductions from energy efficiency improvements."Energy Efficiency (2019). DOI

Phadke, Amol A., and Elif Tasar."Working Paper 004: Big Batteries on Wheels - The economic, environmental, and resilience case for rapidly converting diesel locomotives to battery-electric." (2019).

Letschert, Virginie E., Nihar Shah, Won Young Park, Nihan Karali, Ambereen Shaffie, Sarah K. Price, Nikit Abhyankar, Ari Darmawan Pasek, Edi Sartono, Hari Kusmardianto, and Andi Novianto."Accelerating Cooling Efficiency in Indonesia." (2019).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Sean Murphy, Elizabeth Stuart, Peter H. Larsen, and Charles A. Goldman."Evaluating project level investment trends for the U.S. ESCO industry: 1990-2017."Energy Policy 130.July 2019 (2019) 139-161. DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C., and Natalie Mims Frick."Evolving Approaches to Electricity System Planning." (2019).

Karali, Nihan, Nikit Abhyankar, Ben Sharpe, and Anup Bandivadekar."Improving fuel efficiency for heavy-duty vehicles of 3.5–12 tonnes in India: Benefits, costs, and environmental impacts." (2019).

2018

Khandekar, Aditya, Deepak Rajagopal, Nikit Abhyankar, Shruti M. Deorah, and Amol A. Phadke."The Case for All New City Buses in India to be Electric." (2018).

Abhyankar, Nikit."The 1,000 Power Plant Question:Cooling the Planet Sustainably." (2018).

Abhyankar, Nikit."Leapfrogging to Electric and Smart Vehicles: Key Challenges and Opportunities." (2018).

Stuart, Elizabeth, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Peter H. Larsen, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Understanding recent market trends of the US ESCO industry."Energy Efficiency 11 (2018) 1303–1324. DOI

Potter, Jennifer, Elizabeth Stuart, and Peter Cappers."Barriers and Opportunities to Broader Adoption of Integrated Demand Side Management at Electric Utilities: A Scoping Study." (2018).

Schiller, Steven R., and Tom Eckman."SEE Action Guide for States: Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification Frameworks—Guidance for Energy Efficiency Portfolios Funded by Utility Customers." (2018).