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)

2006

Tsioliaridou, Elena, Georgios C. Bakos, and Michael Stadler."A new energy planning methodology for the penetration of renewable energy technologies in electricity sector - application for the island of Crete."Energy Policy 34 (2006) 3757-3764.

Lee, Eleanor S., and Stephen E. Selkowitz."The New York Times Headquarters Daylighting Mockup: Monitored Performance of the Daylighting Control System."Energy & Buildings 38 (2006) 914-929.

Wikler, Greg."PG&E Automated Demand Response Program 2007 Program Design." (2006).

Orans, Ren, and Inc. Energy and Environmental Economics."Phase 1 Results: Establish the Value of Demand Response." (2006).

Polak, Elijah, and Michael Wetter."Precision control for generalized pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision function evaluations."SIAM Journal on Optimization 16.3 (2006) 650-669 . DOI

Seppänen, Olli, William J. Fisk, and Derek Clements Croome."A procedure to estimate the cost-effectiveness of the indoor environment improvements in office work."Creating the Productive Workplace (2006) 407-433.

Maddalena, Randy L., Matthew Macleod, Thomas E. McKone, and Michael D. Sohn."Prospective Hazard Assessment and Sensitivity Analysis for Buckminsterfullerene in the Environment." (2006).

Lobscheid, Agnes B., and Thomas E. McKone."Public Health Benefits of End-Use Electrical Energy Efficiency in California." (2006).

Woo, Chi-Keung, and Karen Herter."Residential demand response evaluation scoping study." (2006).

Walker, Iain S.."Residential Furnace Blower Performance in U.S. Homes."Air Infiltration Review 28 (2006) 3-4.

Apte, Michael G.."A Review of Demand Control Ventilation."Proceedings of Healthy Buildings 2006 IV (2006).

Mathew, Paul A., and Tim Kehrli."Review of EPA Energy Efficiency Targets: A Case Study Analysis of Five EPA Buildings." (2006).

Seppänen, Olli, William J. Fisk, Quanhong Lei-Gomez, and Quanhong Lei."Room temperature and productivity in office work."Healthy Buildings 2006 Conference 1 (2006) 243-247.

Nagarajan, V., J. Junquera, J.Q. He, C.L. Jia, R. Waser, K. Lee, Y.K. Kim, Sunhee Baik, T. Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Ph. Ghosez, and K.M. Rabe."Scaling of structure and electrical properties in ultrathin epitaxial ferroelectric heterostructures."Journal of Applied Physics 100 (2006). DOI

Price, Lynn K., Stephane de la Rue du Can, Jonathan E. Sinton, Ernst Worrell, Nan Zhou, Jayant A. Sathaye, and Mark D. Levine."Sectoral trends in global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions." (2006).

Zheng, H., F. Straub, Q. Zhan, P.-L. Yang, W.-K. Hsieh, F. Zavaliche, Y.-H. Chu, U. Dahmen, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Self-assembled growth of BiFeO3-CoFe2O4 nanostructures."Advanced Materials 18 (2006) 2747-2752. DOI

Petraru, A., V. Nagarajan, H. Kohlstedt, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D.G. Schlom, and R. Waser."Simultaneous measurement of the piezoelectric and dielectric response of nanoscale ferroelectric capacitors by an atomic force microscopy based approach."Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing 84 (2006) 67-71. DOI

McMeeking, Gavin R., Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Melissa M. Lunden, Jacqueline Carrillo, Christian M. Carrico, Taehyoung Lee, Pierre Herckes, Guenter Engling, Derek E. Day, Jennifer Hand, Nancy J. Brown, William C. Malm, and Jeffrey L Collett Jr.."Smoke-impacted regional haze in California during the summer of 2002."Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 173 (2006) 25-42. DOI

Anders, André, Eungsun Byon, Dong-Ho Kim, Kentaro Fukuda, and Sunnie H.N. Lim."Smoothing of ultrathin silver films by transition metal seeding."Applied Physics Letters (2006).

Seppänen, Olli, and William J. Fisk."Some quantitative relations between Indoor environmental quality and work performance or health."International Journal of HVAC&R Research 12 (2006) 957-973.

Fisk, William J.."Sorbent-based gas phase air cleaning for VOCs in Commercial Buildings." (2006).

Piette, Mary Ann, and David S. Watson."Statewide Auto-DR Planning Meeting." (2006).

Watson, David S., Sila Kiliccote, Naoya Motegi, and Mary Ann Piette."Strategies for Demand Response in Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Mohamed, Sodky H., and André Anders."Structural, optical and electrical properties of WOxNy films deposited by reactive dual magnetron sputtering."Surface and Coatings Technology 201.6 (2006) 2977-2983. DOI

Zhan, Q., R. Yu, S.P. Crane, H. Zheng, C. Kisielowski, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Structure and interface chemistry of perovskite-spinel nanocomposite thin films."Applied Physics Letters 89 (2006). DOI