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)

2007

Cruz, M.P., Y.H. Chu, J.X. Zhang, P.L. Yang, F. Zavaliche, Q. He, P. Shafer, L.Q. Chen, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Strain control of domain-wall stability in epitaxial BiFeO3 (110) films."Physical Review Letters 99 (2007). DOI

Iyer, Maithili."Techno-economic Analysis for Labeling Color Televisions in India." (2007).

Gabrisch, , Heike, James D. Wilcox, and Marca M. Doeff."TEM Studies of Carbon Coated LiFePO₄ After Charge Discharge Cycling."ECS Transactions 3.36 (2007) 29-36. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S.."Thermal conductance of single-walled carbon nanotube embedded in an elastic half-space."Appl. Phys. Lett. 90 (2007) 143110. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S., and Gregory M . Chrysler."Thermal management arrangement with a low heat flux channel flow coupled to high heat flux channels." (2007).

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Time resolved shadowgraph images of silicon during laser ablation: Shockwaves and Particle generation."Journal of Physics: Conference Series 59.1 (2007) 338-342. DOI

Baudelet, Matthieu, Myriam Boueri, Jin Yu, Samuel S. Mao, Vincent Piscitelli, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Time-resolved ultraviolet laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for organic material analysis."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 20 (2007) 1329-1334.

Price, Phillip N., Ashok J. Gadgil, and Michael D. Sohn."Trade-offs between moving and stationary particle collectors for detecting a bio-agent plume."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 8818-8824.

Hu, , X Jack, Ravi S. Prasher, and Kelly Lofgreen."Ultralow thermal conductivity of nanoparticle packed bed."Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 (2007) 203113. DOI

Jia, C.-L., V. Nagarajan, J.-Q. He, L. Houben, T. Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, K. Urban, and R. Waser."Unit-cell scale mapping of ferroelectricity and tetragonality in epitaxial ultrathin ferroelectric films."Nature Materials 6 (2007) 64-69. DOI

Wikler, Greg."Update and Participants Forum." (2007).

McNeil, Michael A., Virginie E. Letschert, and Robert D Van Buskirk."User Instructions for the Policy Analysis Modeling System (PAMS)." (2007).

Ryan, P. Barry, Thomas A. Burke, Elaine A Cohen Hubal, Jerome J. Cura, and Thomas E. McKone."Using Biomarkers to Inform Cumulative Risk Assessment."Environmental Health Perspectives 115.5 (2007) 833-840. DOI

Hering, Susanne V., Melissa M. Lunden, Marc L. Fischer, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Tracy L. Thatcher, and Nancy J. Brown."Using Regional Data and Building Leakage to Assess Indoor Concentrations of Particles of Outdoor Origin."Aerosol Science and Technology 41 (2007) 639-654.

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Validation of fast fluid dynamics for room airflow."the 10th International IBPSA Conference (Building Simulation 2007) (2007) 980-983.

House, Lon."Water Supply Related Electricity Demand in California." (2007).

Federspiel, Clifford C.."Wireless Demand Response Controls for HVAC Systems." (2007).

2006

Goldman, Charles A., Galen L. Barbose, and Bernard Neenan."RTP as an Optional Service: It’s Alive, But Is It Well?."The Electricity Journal Vol. 19.Issue 1 (2006) 18.

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Analysis of laser ablation: contribution of ionization energy to the plasma and shockwave properties."Journal of Applied Physics 102.4 (2006). DOI

Niyogi, Dev, Hsin-I Chang, Fei Chen, Lianhong Gu, Anil Kumar, Surabi Menon, and Roger A. Pielke Sr.."Potential impacts of aerosol-land-atmosphere interactions on the Indian monsoonal rainfall characteristics."Natural Hazards 42.2 (2006) 345-359. DOI

Ravindranath, Nijavalli H., Indu K. Murthy, Padmanabha Sudha, Vijay Ramprasad, M.D.V. Nagendra, C.A. Sahana, K.G. Srivathsa, and H. Khan."Methodological Issues in Forestry Mitigation Projects: A Case Study of Kolar District."Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 12.6 (2006) 1077-1098. DOI

Tschudi, William F., and Stephen Fok."Best Practices for Energy Efficient Data Centers Identified Through Case Studies and Demonstration Projects."2007 ASHRAE Winter Meeting (2006).

Xu, Peng, Yu Joe Huang, Ruidong Jin, and Guoxiong Yang."Measured energy performance of a US-China demonstration energy-efficient commercial building."2007 ASHRAE Winter Meeting, January 27-31, 2007 (2006).

Arasteh, Dariush K., Howdy Goudey, Yu Joe Huang, Christian Kohler, and Robin Mitchell."Performance Criteria for Residential Zero Energy Windows."2007 ASHRAE Winter Meeting (2006).

Anders, André, Nitisak Pasaja, Sunnie H.N. Lim, Tim C. Petersen, and Vicki J. Keast."Plasma biasing to control the growth conditions of diamond-like carbon."Surface and Coatings Technology 201.8 (2006) 4628-4632. DOI