Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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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About Us +
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.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2011

Zuo, Wangda, and Michael Wetter."Advanced simulations of building energy and control systems with an example of chilled water plant modeling."the 8th International Forum and Workshop on Combined Heat, Air, Moisture and Pollutant Simulations (CHAMPS 2011) (2011).

Sleiman, Mohamad, Peyton Jacob III, Emma Smith, Kevin R. Wilson, Musahid Ahmed, Neal L. Benowitz, James F. Pankow, Brett C. Singer, Lara A. Gundel, and Hugo Destaillats."After the Smoke Clears: Indoor Chemistry of Thirdhand Smoke."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2011, The International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (2011).

Nobuaki, , Nonoyama, Shinobu,Okazaki, Adam Z. Weber, Ikogi Yoshihiro, and Yoshida Toshihiko."Analysis of Oxygen-Transport Diffusion Resistance in Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cells."J. Electrochem. Society 158 (2011).

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Zheng, Virginie E. Letschert, Jing Ke, and Nina Khanna."Analysis of Potential Energy Saving and CO₂ Emission Reduction of Home Appliances and Commercial Equipments in China." (2011).

Sednev, Igor, and Surabi Menon."Analyzing numerics of bulk microphysics schemes in community models: warm rain processes."Geoscientific Model Development 4 (2011) 1403-1434.

Turnbull, Jocelyn C., Anna Karion, Marc L. Fischer, Ian C. Faloona, Tom Guilderson, Scott J. Lehman, Benjamin R. Miller, John B. Miller, Stephen A. Montzka, Thomas S. Sherwood, Suman Saripalli, Colm Sweeney, and Pieter P. Tans."Assessment of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and other anthropogenic trace gas emissions from airborne measurements over Sacramento, California in spring 2009."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 11 (2011) 705-721. DOI

Logue, Jennifer M., Phillip N. Price, Max H. Sherman, and Brett C. Singer."Assessment of Indoor Air Quality Benefits and Energy Costs of Mechanical Ventilation."Proceedings of the 2011 32nd AIVC Conference and 1st Tightvent Conference, Toward Optimal Airtightness Performance (2011).

Chi, M., T. Mizoguchi, L.W. Martin, J.P. Bradley, H. Ikeno, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, I. Tanaka, and N. Browning."Atomic and electronic structures of the SrVO3-LaAlO3 interface."Journal of Applied Physics 110 (2011). DOI

Chang, H.J., S.V. Kalinin, A.N. Morozovska, M. Huijben, Y.-H. Chu, P. Yu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, E.A. Eliseev, G.S. Svechnikov, S.J. Pennycook, and A.Y. Borisevich."Atomically resolved mapping of polarization and electric fields across ferroelectric/oxide interfaces by z-contrast imaging."Advanced Materials 23 (2011) 2474-2479. DOI

Chiu, Y.-P., Y.-T. Chen, B.-C. Huang, M.-C. Shih, J.-C. Yang, Q. He, C.-W. Liang, J. Seidel, Y.-C. Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Y.-H. Chu."Atomic-scale evolution of local electronic structure across multiferroic domain walls."Advanced Materials 23 (2011) 1530-1534. DOI

Fisk, William J., Douglas R. Black, and Gregory Brunner."Benefits and costs of improved IEQ in offices."Indoor Air 21.3 (2011) 357–367. DOI

Singh-Bhalla, G., C. Bell, J. Ravichandran, W. Siemons, Y. Hikita, S. Salahuddin, A.F. Hebard, H.Y. Hwang, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Built-in and induced polarization across LaAlO 3 /SrTiO 3 heterojunctions."Nature Physics 7 (2011) 80-86. DOI

Diamond, Richard C.."The California Statewide Strategic Plan for Energy Efficiency."The California Statewide Strategic Plan for Energy Efficiency (2011).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B.."California's Energy Future: The View to 2050." (2011).

Klug, Victoria L., Brett C. Singer, Tod Bedrosian, and Chris D’Cruz."Characteristics of Range Hoods in California Homes — Data Collected from a Real Estate Web Site." (2011).

Saxena, Samveg, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W. Dibble."Characterization of HCCI ringing behavior using ion sensors." (2011).

Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z. Weber."Compression and Hydration Effects of PFSA Membranes."9th European Symposium on Electrochemical Engineering (2011).

Ko, K.-T., M.H. Jung, Q. He, J.H. Lee, C.S. Woo, K. Chu, J. Seidel, B.-G. Jeon, Y.S. Oh, K.H. Kim, W.-I. Liang, H.-J. Chen, Y.-H. Chu, Y.H. Jeong, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J.-H. Park, and C.-H. Yang."Concurrent transition of ferroelectric and magnetic ordering near room temperature."Nature Communications 2 (2011). DOI

Polking, M.J., H. Zheng, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and A.P. Alivisatos."Controlled synthesis and size-dependent polarization domain structure of colloidal germanium telluride nanocrystals."Journal of the American Chemical Society 133 (2011) 2044-2047. DOI

Gadgil, Ashok J., and Kayje Booker."Cookstove dissemination in Haiti: Improving collaboration and information-sharing."Boiling Point (2011) 5-7.

He, Qinggang, Ahmet Kusoglu, Ivan T. Lucas, Kyle Clark, Adam Z. Weber, and Robert Kostecki."Correlating Humidity-Dependent Ionically Conductive Surface Area with Transport Phenomena in Proton-Exchange Membranes."J. Phys. Chem. B. 115.40 (2011) 11650-11657. DOI

Polomoff, N.A., A. Rakin, S. Lee, V. Palumbo, P. Yu, Y.H. Chu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and B.D. Huey."Correlation between nanoscale and nanosecond resolved ferroelectric domain dynamics and local mechanical compliance."Journal of Applied Physics 109 (2011). DOI

Koch, Dorothy M., Susanne E. Bauer, Anthony Del Genio, Gregory S. Faluvegi, Joseph R. McConnell, Surabi Menon, Ronald L. Miller, David H. Rind, Reto Ruedy, Gavin A. Schmidt, and Drew T. Shindell."Coupled aerosol-chemistry-climate twentieth century transient model investigation: Trends in short-lived species and climate responses."Journal of Climate 24 (2011) 2693-2714. DOI

Pasquier, Sara, and Alan K. Meier."Creating long-term electricity savings from short-term crises."ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2011).

Bazjanac, Vladimir, Tobias Maile, James O'Donnell, Cody Rose, and Natasa Mrazovic."Data Enviroments and Processing in Sem-Automated Simulation with EnergyPlus."CIB W078-W102 (2011).