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

Marnay, Chris, Steven Lanzisera, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."Building Scale DC Microgrids."2012 IEEE Energytech (2012).

Chen, Hailong, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, Charles J. Moore, Byoungwoo Kang, Robert E Doe, Lijun Wu, Yime Zhu, Yuanzhi Tang, and Gerbrand Ceder."Carbonophosphates: A New Family of Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries Identified Computationally."Chemistry of Materials 24 (2012) 2009-2016. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M.."The Case for Cool Roofs." (2012).

Jain, Anubhav, Geoffroy Hautier, Charles J. Moore, Byoungwoo Kang, Jinhyuk Lee, Hailong Chen, Nancy Twu, and Gerbrand Ceder."A Computational Investigation of Li₉M₃(P₂O₇)₃(PO₄)₂ (M = V, Mo) as Cathodes for Li Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.5 (2012) A622-A633. DOI

Fisk, William J., Mark J. Mendell, Molly Davies, Ekaterina Eliseeva, David Faulkner, Tianzhen Hong, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Demand Controlled Ventilation and Classroom Ventilation." (2012).

Clear, Robert D.."Discomfort Glare: What Do We Actually Know?."Lighting Research and Technology April 2012 (2012). DOI

Todd, Annika, Elizabeth Stuart, Steven R. Schiller, and Charles A. Goldman."Evaluation, Measurement, and Verification (EM&V) of Residential Behavior-Based Energy Efficiency Programs: Issues and Recommendations." (2012).

Bourassa, Norman, Leo I. Rainer, Evan Mills, and Joan Glickman."The Home Energy Scoring Tool: A Simplified Asset Rating for Single Family Homes."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Ingle, Aaron, Mithra M. Moezzi, Loren Lutzenhiser, and Richard C. Diamond."How well do home energy audits serve the homeowner?."2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Lantz, Eric, Ryan H. Wiser, M Maureen Hand, Athanasia Arapogianni, Alberto Ceña, Emilien Simonot, and Edward James-Smith."IEA Wind Task 26: The Past And Future Cost Of Wind Energy." (2012).

Aldi, Kellie A., Jordi Cabana, Paul J. Sideris, and Clare P. Grey."Investigation of cation ordering in triclinic sodium birnessite via ²³Na MAS NMR spectroscopy."American Mineralogist 97 (2012) 883-889. DOI

Weber, Andrew R., and Christopher T. Payne."Linking Resources and Structures: Increasing the Effectiveness of Energy Efficient Government Procurement Programs." (2012).

Sathre, Roger, Ambrose Dodoo, Leif Gustavsson, Bruce Lippke, Gregg Marland, Eric R. Masanet, Birger Solberg, and Frank Werner."Material Nature Versus Structural Nurture: The Embodied Carbon of Fundamental Structural Elements."Environmental Science & Technology (2012).

Mathieu, Johanna L.."Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Demand Response Resources."Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Doctor of Philosophy in (2012).

Rao, Mumin, Xiangyun Song, and Elton J. Cairns."Nano-carbon/sulfur composite cathode materials with carbon nanofiber as electrical conductor for advanced secondary lithium/sulfur cells."Journal of Power Sources 205 (2012) 474-478. DOI

Williams, Alison A., Barbara A. Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, and Francis M. Rubinstein."Quantifying National Energy Savings Potential of Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings." (2012) 14.

Thomas, Edward V., Ira Bloom, Jon P. Christophersen, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Rate-based degradation modeling of lithium-ion cells."Journal of Power Sources 206 (2012) 378-382. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, and Elina Lin."A Review of Emerging Energy-efficiency and CO₂ Emission-reduction Technologies for Cement and Concrete Production."Industrial Energy Technology Conference (2012).

Anders, André."Self-organization and self-limitation in high power impulse magnetron sputtering."Applied Physics Letters 100.22 (2012). DOI

White, Richard M., Igor Paprotny, Frederick Doering, Wayne E. Cascio, Paul A. Solomon, and Lara A. Gundel."Sensors and ‘apps’ for community-based atmospheric monitoring."EM: The Magazine for Environmental Managers May (2012) 36-40.

Zorba, Vassilia, Jaroslaw S. Syzdek, Xianglei Mao, Richard E. Russo, and Robert Kostecki."Ultrafast laser induced breakdown spectroscopy of electrode/electrolyte interfaces."Applied Physics Letters 100.23 (2012). DOI

Zhou, Nan, and Lixuan Hong."Urban RAM User Guide (in Chinese)." (2012).

Lutz, James D., Asa S. Hopkins, Virginie E. Letschert, Victor H. Franco, and Andrew Sturges."Using National Survey Data to Estimate Lifetimes of Residential Appliances."HVAC&R Research (2012).

McNeil, Andrew, and Eleanor S. Lee."A validation of the Radiance three-phase simulation method for modeling annual daylight performance of optically-complex fenestration systems."Journal of Building Performance Simulation April 2012 (2012). DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Adam Z. Weber, Kirt A. Page, Christopher L. Soles, and James Runt."Water Transport and Sorption in Nafion Membrane."Polymers for Energy Storage and Delivery: Polyelectrolytes for Batteries and Fuel Cells 1096 (2012) 175 - 199. DOI