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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.
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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

Craine, Stewart, Evan Mills, and Justin Guay."Clean Energy Services for All: Financing Universal Electrification." (2014).

Coles, Henry C., Yong Qin, and Phillip N. Price."Comparing Server Energy Use and Efficiency Using Small Sample Sizes." (2014).

Ravichandran, J., A.K. Yadav, R. Cheaito, P.B. Rossen, A. Soukiassian, S.J. Suresha, J.C. Duda, B.M. Foley, C.-H. Lee, Y. Zhu, A.W. Lichtenberger, J.E. Moore, D.A. Muller, D.G. Schlom, P.E. Hopkins, A. Majumdar, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M.A. Zurbuchen."Crossover from incoherent to coherent phonon scattering in epitaxial oxide superlattices."Nature Materials 13 (2014) 168-172. DOI

Walker, Iain S., Brennan Less, and Jeremy Fisher."Deep Energy Retrofit Performance Metric Comparison: Eight California Case Studies." (2014).

Heron, J.T., J.L. Bosse, Q. He, Y. Gao, M. Trassin, L. Ye, J.D. Clarkson, C. W. Wang, J. F. Liu, S. Salahuddin, D.C. Ralph, D.G. Schlom, J. Íñiguez, B.D. Huey, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Deterministic switching of ferromagnetism at room temperature using an electric field."Nature 516 (2014) 370-373. DOI

Logue, Jennifer M., Melissa M. Lunden, and Brett C. Singer."Development and Application of a Physics-Based Simulation Model to Investigate Residential PM_2.5 Composition and Size Distribution Across the US." (2014).

Less, Brennan, Iain S. Walker, and Yihuan Tang."Development of an Outdoor Temperature-Based Control Algorithm for Residential Mechanical Ventilation Control." (2014).

Walker, Iain S., and Max H. Sherman."Duct Leakage Repeatability Testing." (2014).

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, and Mohan Ganeshalingam."The dynamics of incremental costs of efficient television display technologies."Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2014). DOI

Rapp, Vi H., and Brett C. Singer."Effect of Fuel Wobbe Number on Pollutant Emissions from Advanced Technology Residential Water Heaters: Results of Controlled Experiments." (2014).

Imholt, Laura, Simon F. Lux, Hinrich W. Meyer, Martin Winter, and Robert Kostecki."The Effect of Linear Carbonates on HF Formation in LiPF₆-based Electrolytes."ECS Transactions 58.15 (2014) 1-5. DOI

Schlom, D.G., L.-Q. Chen, C.J. Fennie, V. Gopalan, D.A. Muller, X. Pan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and R. Uecker."Elastic strain engineering of ferroic oxides."MRS Bulletin 39 (2014) 118-130. DOI

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy."Electric field control of ferromagnetism using multi-ferroics: The bismuth ferrite story."Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 372 (2014). DOI

Heron, J.T., D.G. Schlom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Electric field control of magnetism using BiFeO3-based heterostructures."Applied Physics Reviews 1 (2014). DOI

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy."Electric field control of magnetism using multiferroic bismuth ferrite."Funtai Oyobi Fummatsu Yakin/Journal of the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy 61 (2014) S19-S24. DOI

Seidel, J., M. Trassin, Y. Zhang, P. Maksymovych, T. Uhlig, P. Milde, D. Köhler, A.P. Baddorf, S.V. Kalinin, L.M. Eng, X. Pan, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Electronic properties of isosymmetric phase boundaries in highly strained Ca-doped BiFeO3."Advanced Materials 26 (2014) 4376-4380. DOI

Martin, L.W., Y.-H. Chu, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Emerging multiferroic memories."Emerging Non-Volatile Memories 9781489975379 (2014) 103-166. DOI

Mercado, Andrea C., Robin Mitchell, Shankar Earni, Richard C. Diamond, and Elena Alschuler."Enabling Interoperability through a Common Language for Building Performance Data."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Mercado, Andrea C., Robin Mitchell, Shankar Earni, Richard C. Diamond, and Elena Alschuler."Enabling Interoperability through a Common Language for Building Performance Data."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Mills, Evan."EnergyIQ for Action-oriented Benchmarking: Final Report." (2014).

Hult, Erin L., and Max H. Sherman."Estimates of Uncertainty in multi-zoned air leakage measurements."International Journal of Ventilation (2014).

Gao, P., J. Britson, C.T. Nelson, J.R. Jokisaari, C. Duan, M. Trassin, S.-H. Baek, H. Guo, L. Li, Y. Wang, Y.-H. Chu, A.M. Minor, C.-B. Eom, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L.-Q. Chen, and X. Pan."Ferroelastic domain switching dynamics under electrical and mechanical excitations."Nature Communications 5 (2014). DOI

Schaab, J., M. Trassin, A. Scholl, A. Doran, Z. Yan, E. Bourret, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D. Meier, and Dalmas M.."Ferroelectric domains in the multiferroic phase of ErMnO3 imaged by low-temperature photoemission electron microscopy."Journal of Physics: Conference Series 592 (2014). DOI

Alstone, , P, K Radecsky, Arne Jacobson, and Evan Mills."Field Study Methods and Results from a Market Trial of Night Market Vendors in Rural Kenya."Light & Engineering 22.2 (2014).