  The almost hermetic coverage of CMS is used to measure the distribution of
transverse energy as a function of pseudo-rapidity for pPb collisions at
$\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV. For minimum bias collisions $(1/N)~dE_T/d\eta$
reaches 23 GeV which implies an $E_T$ per participant pair comparable to that
of peripheral PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV. The centrality
dependence of transverse energy production has been studied using centrality
measures defined in three different angular regions. There is a strong
auto-correlation between $(1/N)~dE_T/d\eta$ and the $\eta$ range used to define
centrality %both for data and the EPOS-LHC and HIJING event generators. The
centrality dependence of the data is much stronger for $\eta$ values on the
lead side than the proton side and shows significant differences from that
predicted by either event generator.
