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)

2008

Mitchell, Robin, Christian Kohler, Joseph H. Klems, Michael D. Rubin, Dariush K. Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, Tiefeng Yu, and Dragan C. Curcija."WINDOW 6.2/THERM 6.2 Research Version User Manual." (2008) 1-126.

Delacourt, Charles, Paul L. Ridgway, John B. Kerr, and John S. Newman."Design of an Electrochemical Cell Making Syngas (CO + H₂) from CO₂ and H₂O Reduction at Room Temperature."Journal of Electrochemical Society 155 (2008) B42-B49. DOI

Chen, Cliff, Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Weighing the Costs and Benefits of State Renewables Portfolio Standards: A Comparative Analysis of State- Level Policy Impact Projections." (2008) 87.

Mathew, Paul A.."An Estimate of Energy Use in Laboratories, Cleanrooms, and Data Centers in New York." (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryan M. Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Commercial- Building Microgrids." (2008) 10. DOI

Cheng, Robert K., David Littlejohn, Wazeer A. Nazeer, and Kenneth O. Smith."Laboratory Studies of the Flow Field Characteristics of Low-Swirl Injectors for Application to Fuel-Flexible Turbines."ASME Turbo Expo 2006: Power for Land, Sea, and Air 1 (2008) 21501-21511. DOI

Anders, André."Self-sputtering runaway in high power impulse magnetron sputtering: The role of secondary electrons and multiply charged metal ions."Applied Physics Letters 92.20 (2008). DOI

Anders, André, Jonathan L. Slack, and Thomas J. Richardson."Electrochromically switched, gas-reservoir metal hydride devices with application to energy-efficient windows."Thin Solid Films 1 (2008).

Fisk, William J., David Faulkner, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Accuracy of CO₂ sensors."IAQ Applications 9 (2008) 15-17.

Mills, Evan, Paul A. Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Norman Bourassa, and Martha Brook."Action-Oriented Benchmarking: Concepts and Tools."Energy Engineering (2008).

Mathew, Paul A., Evan Mills, Norman Bourassa, and Martha Brook."Action-Oriented Benchmarking: Using the CEUS Database to Benchmarking Commercial Buildings in California."Energy Engineering (2008).

Ihlefeld, J.F., W. Tian, Z.K. Liu, W.A. Doolittle, M. Bernhagen, P. Reiche, R. Uecker, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and D.G. Schlom."Adsorption-controlled growth of BiFeO3 by MBE and integration with wide band gap semiconductors."IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics 3 (2008). DOI

Menon, Surabi, Nadine Unger, Dorothy M. Koch, Jennifer Francis, Tim J. Garrett, Igor Sednev, Drew T. Shindell, and David G. Streets."Aerosol climate effects and air quality impacts from 1980 to 2030."Environmental Research Letters 3.2 (2008). DOI

Sherman, Max H., and Iain S. Walker."Air Distribution Effectiveness for Different Mechanical Ventilation Systems."International Journal of Ventilation 6 (2008) 307-314.

Buchanan, Ian S., Mark J. Mendell, Anna G. Mirer, and Michael G. Apte."Air Filter Materials, Outdoor Ozone and Building-Related Symptoms in the BASE Study."Indoor Air 18 (2008) 144-155.

Menon, Surabi, Anthony Del Genio, Yoram Kaufman, Ralf Bennartz, Dorothy M. Koch, Norman Loeb, and Daniel Orlikowski."Analyzing signatures of aerosol-cloud interactions from satellite retrievals and the GISS GCM to constrain the aerosol indirect effect."Journal of Geophysical Research 113.D14 (2008) 1-15. DOI

Scullin, M.L., C. Yu, M. Huijben, S. Mukerjee, J. Seidel, Q. Zhan, J. Moore, A. Majumdar, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Anomalously large measured thermoelectric power factor in Sr1-x Lax TiO3 thin films due to SrTiO3 substrate reduction."Applied Physics Letters 92 (2008). DOI

Yin, Rongxin, Peng Xu, and Sila Kiliccote."Auto-DR and Pre-cooling of Buildings at Tri-City Corporate Center." (2008).

McKane, Aimee T., Ivin Rhyne, Alexander B. Lekov, Lisa Thompson, and Mary Ann Piette."Automated Demand Response: The Missing Link in the Electricity Value Chain."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008).

Sreedharan, Priya, William W. Nazaroff, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Bayesian based design of real-time sensor systems for high-risk indoor contaminants."Mechanical Engineering (2008) 350.

Haves, Philip, Brian E. Coffey, and Scott Williams."Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a ‘Big Box’ Retail Chain."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008).

Morrow, William R. III, and Peter Balash."Biomass Allocation Model – Comparing Alternative Uses of Scarce Biomass Energy Resource Through Estimations of Future Biomass Use for Liquid Fuels and Electricity." (2008).

Hauschild, Michael Z., Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Matthew Macleod, Manuele D. Margni, Dik van de Meent, Ralph K. Rosenbaum, and Thomas E. McKone."Building a model based on scientific consensus for Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Chemicals: the Search for Harmony and Parsimony."Environmental Science and Technology 42 (2008) 7032-7037.

Price, Phillip N., Thomas E. McKone, and Michael D. Sohn."Carbon Sequestration Risks and Risk Management." (2008).

Zhang, L.C., A.L. Vasiliev, I.B. Misirlioglu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.P. Alpay, and M. Aindow."Cation ordering in epitaxial lead zirconate titanate films."Applied Physics Letters 93 (2008). DOI