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.
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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)

2013

Coles, Henry C., Steve E. Greenberg, and William F. Tschudi."Demonstration of Data Center Energy Use Prediction Software." (2013).

Zhu, Dandan, Tianzhen Hong, Da Yan, and Chuang Wang."A Detailed Loads Comparison of Three Building Energy Modeling Programs: EnergyPlus, DeST and DOE-2.1E."Building Simulation 6.3 (2013) 323-335. DOI

Iturrondobeitia, Amaia, Aintzane Goñi, Luis Lezama, Chunjoong Kim, Marca M. Doeff, Jordi Cabana, and Teófilo Rojo."Effect of Si (iv) substitution on electrochemical, magnetic and spectroscopic performance of nanosized LiMn_2-xSi_xO₄."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 1.36 (2013) 10857-10862. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S., Xiufeng Pang, Sabine Hoffmann, Howdy Goudey, and Anothai Thanachareonkit."An empirical study of a full-scale polymer thermochromic window and its implications on material science development objectives."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 116 (2013) 14-26. DOI

Letschert, Virginie E., Louis-Benoit Desroches, Jing Ke, and Michael A. McNeil."Energy Efficiency - How Far Can We Raise the Bar? Revealing the Potential of Best Available Technologies."Energy 59 (2013) 72-82. DOI

Lee, Eunseok, and Kristin A. Persson."First-principles study of the nano-scaling effect on the electrochemical behavior in LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄."Nanotechnology 24.42 (2013). DOI

McNeil, Andrew."The Five-Phase Method for Simulating Complex Fenestration with Radiance." (2013).

Jump, David A., Phillip N. Price, Jessica Granderson, and Michael D. Sohn."Functional Testing Protocols for Commercial Building Efficiency Baseline Modeling Software." (2013).

Olsen, Daniel, Nance Matson, Michael D. Sohn, Cody Rose, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Sila Kiliccote, Marissa Hummon, David Palchak, Paul Denholm, Jennie Jorgenson, and Ookie Ma."Grid Integration of Aggregated Demand Response, Part 1: Load Availability Profiles and Constraints for the Western Interconnection." (2013).

Dutton, Spencer M., David W. Banks, Samuel L. Brunswick, and William J. Fisk."Health and economic implications of natural ventilation in California offices."Building and Environment 67 (2013) 34-45. DOI

Xia, Ting, Wei Zhang, Wenjing Li, Nathan A. Oyler, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."Hydrogenated surface disorder enhances lithium ion battery performance."Nano Energy 2.5 (2013) 826-835. DOI

Fisk, William J., Sebastian Cohn, Hugo Destaillats, Victor Henzel, Meera A. Sidheswaran, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Integrated Technology Air Cleaners (ITAC): Design and Evaluation." (2013).

Norberg, Nick S., Simon F. Lux, and Robert Kostecki."Interfacial side-reactions at a LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ electrode in organic carbonate-based electrolytes."Electrochemistry Communications 34 (2013) 29-32. DOI

Gunawan, , Andrey, Chao-Han Lin, Daniel A Buttry, Vladimiro Mujica, Robert A. Taylor, Ravi S. Prasher, and Patrick E. Phelan."Liquid Thermoelectrics: Review of Recent And Limited New Data of Thermogalvanic Cell Experiments."Nanoscale Microscale Thermophys. Eng. 17 (2013) 304–323. DOI

Martinez, Carlos A.."NERC Frequency Response Standard, Current Status, Issues, and 2010 to 2013 Field Trial Results."NERC Frequency Response Standard (BAL-003-1) (2013).

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ted James, Samantha Weaver, Alan Goodrich, and Ryan H. Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections - 2013 Edition." (2013).

Nadimpalli, Siva P. V., Vijay A. Sethuraman, Giovanna Bucci, Venkat Srinivasan, Allan F. Bower, and Pradeep R. Guduru."On plastic deformation and fracture in Si films during electrochemical lithiation/delithiation cycling."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160.10 (2013) A1885-A1893. DOI

Park, Byoung-Chul, An-Seop Choi, Jae-Weon Jeong, and Eleanor S. Lee."A preliminary study on the performance of daylight responsive dimming systems with improved closed-loop control algorithm."LEUKOS - Journal of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America 8.1 (2013) 41–59. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Hongyou Lu, and Jing Ke."Retrospective and prospective decomposition analysis of Chinese manufacturing energy use and policy implications."Energy Policy (2013). DOI

Wei, Max, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Sally M. Donovan, James H. Nelson, Ana Meliva, Josiah Johnston, and Daniel M. Kammen."Scenarios For Meeting California's 2050 Climate Goals." (2013).

McNeil, Andrew, and Eleanor S. Lee."Simulated daylight performance of a new prototype prismatic window film in deep open plan offices." (2013).

Lorenzetti, David M., W. Stuart Dols, Andrew K. Persily, and Michael D. Sohn."A stiff, variable time step transport solver for CONTAM."Building and Environment 67 (2013) 260 - 264. DOI

Bolinger, Mark, and Samantha Weaver."Utility-Scale Solar 2012: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2013).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2012 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2013).

Scown, Corinne D., Michael Taptich, Arpad Horvath, Thomas E. McKone, and William W. Nazaroff."Achieving Deep Cuts in the Carbon Intensity of U.S. Automobile Transportation by 2050: Complementary Roles for Electricity and Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 47.16 (2013) 9044 - 9052. DOI