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)

2020

Kistler, Tobias A., Guosong Zeng, James L. Young, Lien-Chun Weng, Chase Aldridge, Keenan Wyatt, Myles A. Steiner, Oscar Solorzano, Frances A. Houle, Francesca M. Toma, Adam Z. Weber, Todd G. Deutsch, and Nemanja Danilovic."Emergent Degradation Phenomena Demonstrated on Resilient, Flexible, and Scalable Integrated Photoelectrochemical Cells."Advanced Energy Materials 10.48 (2020) 2002706. DOI

Soniat, Marielle, Meron Tesfaye, Amirhossein Mafi, Daniel J. Brooks, Nicholas D. Humphrey, Lien‐Chun Weng, Boris Merinov, William A. Goddard, Adam Z. Weber, and Frances A. Houle."Permeation of CO₂ and N₂ through glassy poly(dimethyl phenylene) oxide under steady‐ and presteady‐state conditions."Journal of Polymer Science 58.9 (2020) 1207 - 1228. DOI

2018

Soniat, Marielle, Meron Tesfaye, Daniel Brooks, Boris Merinov, William A. Goddard, Adam Z. Weber, and Frances A. Houle."Predictive simulation of non-steady-state transport of gases through rubbery polymer membranes."Polymer 134 (2018) 125 - 142. DOI

2016

Toma, Francesca M., Jason K. Cooper, Viktoria Kunzelmann, Matthew T. McDowell, Jie Yu, David M. Larson, Nicholas J. Borys, Christine Abelyan, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Kin Man Yu, Jinhui Yang, Le Chen, Matthew R. Shaner, Joshua Spurgeon, Frances A. Houle, Kristin A. Persson, and Ian D. Sharp."Mechanistic insights into chemical and photochemical transformations of bismuth vanadate photoanodes."Nature Communications 7.1 (2016). DOI

Sathre, Roger, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Karl Walczak, Ian D. Sharp, John C. Stevens, Joel W. Ager III, and Frances A. Houle."Opportunities to improve the net energy performance of photoelectrochemical water-splitting technology."Energy & Environmental Science (2016). DOI

2014

Sathre, Roger, Corinne D. Scown, William R. Morrow III, John C. Stevens, Ian D. Sharp, Joel W. Ager III, Karl Walczak, Frances A. Houle, and Jeffery B. Greenblatt."Life-cycle net energy assessment of large-scale hydrogen production via photoelectrochemical water splitting."Energy Environ. Sci. 7.10 (2014) 3264 - 3278. DOI