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)

2012

Zhang, Liang, Elad Pollak, Wei-Cheng Wang, Peng Jiang, Per-Anders Glans, Yuegang Zhang, Jordi Cabana, Robert Kostecki, Chinglin Chang, Miquel Salmeron, Junfa Zhu, and Jinghua Guo."Electronic structure study of ordering and interfacial interaction in graphene/Cu composites."Carbon 50.14 (2012) 5316-5322. DOI

Larsen, Peter H., Charles A. Goldman, and Andrew Satchwell."Evolution of the U.S. Energy Service Company Industry: Market Size and Project Performance from 1990-2008."Energy Policy 50 (2012). DOI

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."Ex Post Analysis of Economic Impacts from Wind Power Development in U.S. Counties."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012). DOI

Hautier, Geoffroy, Anubhav Jain, and Shyue P. Ong."From the computer to the laboratory: materials discovery and design using first-principles calculations."Journal of Materials Science 47.21 (2012) 7317-7340. DOI

Williams, Christopher J., Ali Hasanbeigi, Lynn K. Price, and Grace Wu."International Experience with Quantifying the Co-Benefits of Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Programs and Policies." (2012).

Parrish, Kristen, Andrea C. Mercado, and Cynthia Regnier."Keeping Energy Savings in the LOOP." (2012).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, James D. Fine, Oren Schetrit, Junqiao Han Dudley, and Heather Langford."LEED Demand Response Credit: A Plan for Research towards Implementation."2012 Greenbuild Conference & Expo (2012).

Stratton, J. Chris, William J. N. Turner, Craig P. Wray, and Iain S. Walker."Measuring Residential Ventilation System Airflows: Part 1 – Laboratory Evaluation of Airflow Meter Devices." (2012).

Li, Lei, Case M. van Genuchten, Susan E. Addy, Juanjuan Yao, Naiyun Gao, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Modeling As(III) Oxidation and Removal with Iron Electrocoagulation in Groundwater."Environmental Science & Technology 46.21 (2012) 12038 - 12045. DOI

Holmberg, , David G., Girish Ghatikar, Edward Koch, and Jim Boch."OpenADR Advances."ASHRAE Journal 54.11 (2012).

Lin, , Chao-Han, Andrey Gunawan, Patrick E. Phelan, Daniel A Buttry, Vladimiro Mujica, Robert A. Taylor, and Ravi S. Prasher."Optimization of Cell Configuration for Maximizing Performance of a Cu/Cu2+ Aqueous Thermogalvanic Cell."ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2012) 541–547. DOI

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Alan Goodrich."Photovoltaic (PV) Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections." (2012).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."The Potential Impact of Increased Renewable Energy Penetration Levels on Electricity Bill Savings From Residential Photovoltaic Systems."31st USAEE/IAEE North American Conference (2012).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Yue Dai, Hongyou Lu, and Lynn K. Price."Quantifying the Co-benefits of Energy-Efficiency Programs: A Case Study of the Cement Industry in Shandong Province, China." (2012).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Relationships between Vehicle Mass, Footprint, and Societal Risk." (2012).

Borgeson, Merrian."Review of Self-direct Demand Side Management (DSM) Programs." (2012).

Zhou, Nan, Lynn K. Price, David Fridley, Stephanie Ohshita, Hu Min, Nina Khanna, and Hu Xiulian."Strategies for Local Low-Carbon Development." (2012).

Hart, Robert, Howdy Goudey, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Dragan C. Curcija."Thermal Performance Impacts of Center-of-Glass Deflections in Installed Insulating Glazing Units."Energy and Buildings 54.November 2012 (2012) 453-460. DOI

Zhang, Lianbin, Guoying Chen, Mohamed N. Hedhili, Hongnan Zhang, and Peng Wang."Three-dimensional assemblies of graphene prepared by a novel chemical reduction-induced self-assembly method."Nanoscale 4.22 (2012) 7038-7045. DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, and Ryan H. Wiser."Tracking the Sun V An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2011." (2012).

Levine, Mark D., Stephane de la Rue du Can, Nina Zheng, Christopher J. Williams, Jennifer Amann, Dan Staniaszek, and Nina Khanna."Building Energy-Efficiency Best Practice Policies and Policy Packages." (2012).

Wei, Max, James H. Nelson, Michael K. Ting, Christopher Yang, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, James E. McMahon, Daniel M. Kammen, Christopher M. Jones, Ana Mileva, Josiah Johnston, and Ranjit Bharvirkar."California’s Carbon Challenge: Scenarios for Achieving 80% Emissions Reduction in 2050." (2012).

Wang, Yungang, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Critical Review of Particulate Matter Emitted from Biomass Cookstoves."AAAR 31st Annual Conference (2012).

Less, Brennan, Jeremy Fisher, and Iain S. Walker."Deep Energy Retrofits—Eleven California Case Studies." (2012).

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Peter H. Larsen, Annika Todd, and Emily Fisher."Distribution-level electricity reliability: Temporal trends using statistical analysis."Energy Policy 49 (2012) 243 - 252. DOI