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)

2014

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Zitao Li, Yuchun Zhai, Zhihui Wang, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Microsized single-crystal spinel LAMO for high-power lithium ion batteries synthesized via polyvinylpyrrolidone combustion method."Journal of Power Sources 248 (2014) 22-27. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M., Sharon S. Chen, Paul H. Berdahl, Pablo J. Rosado, and Louis A. Medina."Reflectometer measurement of roofing aggregate albedo."Solar Energy 100 (2014) 159-171. DOI

van Genuchten, Case M., Jasquelin Peña, Susan Amrose, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Structure of Fe(III) precipitates generated by the electrolytic dissolution of Fe(0) in the presence of groundwater ions."Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 127 (2014) 285 - 304. DOI

Diwakar, Prasoon K., Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Sivanandan S. Harilal, Richard E. Russo, and Ahmed Hassanein."Ultrafast laser ablation ICP-MS: role of spot size, laser fluence, and repetition rate in signal intensity and elemental fractionation."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 29.2 (2014) 339-346. DOI

Saxena, Samveg, Nihar Shah, Iván Dario Bedoya, and Amol A. Phadke."Understanding Optimal Engine Operating Strategies for Gasoline-Fueled HCCI Engines using Crank-Angle Resolved Exergy Analysis."Applied Energy 114 (2014) 155-163. DOI

Lee, Seok-Hee, Chan-Kyu Kim, Hee-Sang Shim, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Richard E. Russo, and Sungho Jeong."Ablation and spectroscopic characteristics of thin CuIn_1-xGa_xSe₂ solar cell films fabricated by co-evaporation and co-sputtering processes."International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology 1.1 (2014) 17-24. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, David Riess, and Mary Ann Piette."Analysis of Open Automated Demand Response Deployments in California and Guidelines to Transition to Industry Standards." (2014).

Fernandes, Luis L., Eleanor S. Lee, Andrew McNeil, Jacob C. Jonsson, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Xiufeng Pang, and Sabine Hoffmann."Angular selective window systems: Assessment of technical potential for energy saving." (2014) 36.

Tucker, Michael C., and Jay Tu."Ceramic Coatings and Glass Additives for Improved SiC-Based Filters for Molten Iron Filtration."International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology 11.1 (2014) 118-124. DOI

Sathre, Roger."Comparing the heat of combustion of fossil fuels to the heat accumulated by their lifecycle greenhouse gases."Fuel 115 (2014) 674 - 677. DOI

Xia, Jianjun, Tianzhen Hong, Qi Shen, Wei Feng, Le Yang, Piljae Im, Alison Lu, and Mahabir Bhandari."Comparison of building energy use data between the United States and China."Energy and Buildings 78 (2014) 165 - 175. DOI

Herrmann, Ivan T., Michael Z. Hauschild, Michael D. Sohn, and Thomas E. McKone."Confronting Uncertainty in Life Cycle Assessment Used for Decision Support."Journal of Industrial Ecology 18.3 (2014) 366 - 379. DOI

Fisher, Emily, and Joseph H Eto."Congestion Measures for Organized Markets in the U.S.."IEEE 47th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) (2014). DOI

Weber, Adam Z., Rodney L. Borup, Robert M. Darling, Prodip K. Das, Thomas J. Dursch, Wenbin Gu, David Harvey, Ahmet Kusoglu, Shawn Litster, Matthew M Mench, Rangachary Mukundan, Jon P. Owejan, Jon G. Pharoah, Marc Secanell, and Iryna V. Zenyuk."A Critical Review of Modeling Transport Phenomena in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.12 (2014) F1254 - F1299. DOI

Singh, Meenesh R., John C. Stevens, and Adam Z. Weber."Design of Membrane-Encapsulated Wireless Photoelectrochemical Cells for Hydrogen Production."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.8 (2014) E3283 - E3296. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Michelle Calabrese, and Adam Z. Weber."Effect of Mechanical Compression on Chemical Degradation of Nafion Membranes."ECS Electrochemistry Letters 3.5 (2014) F33 - F36. DOI

Cheng, Lei, Joong Sun Park, Huaming Hou, Vassilia Zorba, Guoying Chen, Thomas J. Richardson, Jordi Cabana, Richard E. Russo, and Marca M. Doeff."Effect of microstructure and surface impurity segregation on the electrical and electrochemical properties of dense Al-substituted Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2.1 (2014) 172-181. DOI

Syzdek, Jaroslaw S., Marek Marcinek, and Robert Kostecki."Electrochemical activity of carbon blacks in LiPF_6-based organic electrolytes."Journal of Power Sources 245 (2014) 739-744. DOI

Zimring, Mark."Energy Efficiency Financing Program Implementation Primer." (2014).

Vossos, Vagelis, Karina Garbesi, and Hongxia Shen."Energy savings from direct-DC in U.S. residential buildings."Energy and Buildings Volume 68, Part A (2014) 223–231. DOI

Kaur, Sumanjeet, Nachiket Raravikar, Brett A. Helms, Ravi S. Prasher, and D. Frank Ogletree."Enhanced thermal transport at covalently functionalized carbon nanotube array interfaces."Nature Communications 5 (2014) 3082. DOI

Vine, Edward L., Michael J. Sullivan, Loren Lutzenhiser, Carl Blumstein, and Bill Miller."Experimentation and the Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Programs."Energy Efficiency (2014). DOI

Pascal, , Tod A., Ulrike Boesenberg, Robert Kostecki, Thomas J. Richardson, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Eamon McDermott, Alexander Moewes, Jordi Cabana, and David G. Prendergast."Finite temperature effects on the X-ray absorption spectra of lithium compounds: First-principles interpretation of X-ray Raman measurements."The Journal of Chemical Physics 140.3 (2014). DOI

Dursch, Thomas J., Gregory J Trigub, Roger Lujan, J. F. Liu, Rangachary Mukundan, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Ice-Crystallization Kinetics in the Catalyst Layer of a Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cell."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.3 (2014) F199 - F207. DOI