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

Prasher, Ravi S., Tao Tong, and Arun Majumdar."Thermal Resistance of Nano Constrictions."ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2006) 535–540. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S.."Thermal Transport Due to Phonons in Random Nano-particulate Media in the Multiple and Dependent (Correlated) Elastic Scattering Regime."J. Heat Transfer 128 (2006) 627–637. DOI

Kim, D.M., C.B. Eom, V. Nagarajan, J. Ouyang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, V. Vaithyanathan, and D.G. Schlom."Thickness dependence of structural and piezoelectric properties of epitaxial Pb(Zr 0.52Ti 0.48)O 3 films on Si and SrTiO 3 substrates."Applied Physics Letters 88 (2006). DOI

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Michael D. Sohn, Tracy L. Thatcher, Phillip N. Price, Emily E. Wood, Richard G. Sextro, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Tracer Gas Transport under Mixed Convection Conditions in an Experimental Atrium: Comparison Between Experiments and CFD Predictions."Atmospheric Environment 40 (2006) 5236-5250.

Prasher, Ravi S.."Ultralow thermal conductivity of a packed bed of crystalline nanoparticles: A theoretical study."Phys. Rev. B Condens. Matter 74 (2006) 165413. DOI

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, and Andreas Holm."Validierung der eindimensionalen hygrothermischen Wandmodelle der Modelica-Bibliothek "BuildingPhysicsLibrary"."BauSIM 2006 (2006) pp.144-146.

Seppänen, Olli, William J. Fisk, and Quanhong Lei-Gomez."Ventilation and Work Performance in office work."Indoor Air 16 (2006) 28-36. DOI

Shaughnessy, Richard J., and Richard G. Sextro."What is an Effective Air Cleaning Device? A Review."Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 3.4 (2006) 169-181. DOI

Apte, Joshua S., and Dariush K. Arasteh."Window-Related Energy Consumption in the US Residential and Commercial Building Stock." (2006).

2005

Prasher, Ravi S., and Ravi Mahajan."Two-phase cooling utilizing microchannel heat exchangers and channeled heat sink." (2005).

Zhou, Nan, Masaru Nishida, Weijun Gao, and Chris Marnay."Assessment of Distributed Energy Adoption in Commercial Buildings. Part 1: An Analysis of Policy, Building loads, Tariff Design, and Technology Development."Bulletin of The Faculty of Engineering Kyushu Sangyo University 42 (2005) 8.

Levinson, Ronnen M., Paul H. Berdahl, Asmeret A. Berhe, and Hashem Akbari."Effects of soiling and cleaning on the reflectance and solar heat gain of a light-colored roofing membrane."Atmospheric Environment 39.40 (2005) 7807-7824. DOI

Firestone, Ryan M., and Chris Marnay."Microturbine Economic Competitiveness: A Study of Two Potential Adopters." (2005) 49.

McNeil, Michael A., Maithili Iyer, Stephen Meyers, Virginie E. Letschert, and James E. McMahon."Potential Benefits from Improved Energy Efficiency of Key Electrical Products: The Case of India." (2005) 60.

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Douglas R. Hale."A Review of Recent RTO Benefit-Cost Studies: Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies." (2005) 61.

Levinson, Ronnen M., Paul H. Berdahl, and Hashem Akbari."Solar spectral optical properties of pigments—Part I: model for deriving scattering and absorption coefficients from transmittance and reflectance measurements."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 89.4 (2005) 319-349. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M., Paul H. Berdahl, and Hashem Akbari."Solar spectral optical properties of pigments—Part II: survey of common colorants."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 89.4 (2005) 351-389. DOI

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, Patrick E. Phelan, and Ravi S. Prasher."Computational Analysis of the Colloidal Stability of Nanofluids."International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (2005).

Torresola, Javier, Chia-Pin Chiu, Gregory M . Chrysler, Dean Grannes, Ravi Mahajan, Ravi S. Prasher, and Abhay A. Watwe."Density factor approach to representing impact of die power maps on thermal management."IEEE Trans. Adv. Packag. 28.4 (2005) 659–664. DOI

Nara, S., Prajesh Bhattacharya, P. Vijayan, W. Y. Lai, W. Rosenthal, Patrick E. Phelan, Ravi S. Prasher, David W. Song, and Jinlin Wang."Experimental Determination of the Effect of Varying Base Fluid and Temperature on the Static Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids."ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 5-11, 2005 (2005). DOI

Payne, Christopher T., and Beverly Dyer."Federal Participation in LEED in 2005."Greenbuild Expo 2005 (2005).

Lewis, Joanna I., and Ryan H. Wiser."Fostering a Renewable Energy Technology Industry: An International Comparison of Wind Industry Policy Support Mechanisms." (2005) 30.

Lesieutre, Bernard."Improving Dynamic Load and Generator Response Performance Tools." (2005) 74.

Lesieutre, Bernard."Improving Dynamic Load and Generator Response Performance Tools." (2005) 74.

Prasher, Ravi S., J Y Chang, Ioan Sauciuc, and others."Nano and Micro Technology-Based Next-Generation Package-Level Cooling Solutions."Intel Technology (2005).