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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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2013

Borgeson, Merrian, and Mark Zimring."Financing Energy Upgrades for K-12 School Districts: A Guide to Tapping into Funding for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Improvements." (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).

2012

Sathre, Roger, Ambrose Dodoo, Leif Gustavsson, Bruce Lippke, Gregg Marland, Eric R Masanet, Birger Solberg, and Frank Werner."Material Nature Versus Structural Nurture: The Embodied Carbon of Fundamental Structural Elements."Environmental Science & Technology (2012).

2010

Sathaye, Jayant A, and Arjun Gupta."Eliminating Electricity Deficit through Energy Efficiency in India: An Evaluation of Aggregate Economic and Carbon Benefits." (2010).

2009

Sathaye, Jayant A, Swart Alterra, Eric R Masanet, Franck Lecocq, Adil Najam, Roberto Schaeffer, and Harald Winkler."Opportunities to change development pathways toward lower greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency." (2009).

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 Labeling Program."European Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy (2009).

2008

Bharvirkar, Ranjit, Charles A Goldman, Donald Gilligan, Terry E Singer, David Birr, Patricia Donahue, and Scott Serota."Performance Contracting and Energy Efficiency in the State Government Market." (2008).

Bharvirkar, Ranjit, Charles A Goldman, Grayson C Heffner, and Richard Sedano."Coordination of Retail Demand Response with Midwest ISO Wholesale Markets." (2008) 39.

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, and Lynn K Price."Sectoral trends in global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions."Energy Policy (2008). DOI