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)

2013

Hong, Tianzhen, Hung-Wen Lin, Wen-Kuei Chang, Liping Wang, William J. N. Turner, Da Yan, Dandan Zhu, Xin Zhou, Chuang Wang, Chen Peng, and Xiaoxin Ren."Building Performance Simulation." (2013).

Masanet, Eric R., Arman Shehabi, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Characteristics of low-carbon data centres."Nature Climate Change 3 (2013) 627-630. DOI

Xun, Shidi, Bin Xiang, Andrew M. Minor, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer and Silicon Composite Secondary Particles for a High Area-Loading Negative Electrode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160.9 (2013) A1380-A1383. DOI

Pendleton, Linwood, Thomas R. Karl, and Evan Mills."Economic Growth in the Face of Weather and Climate Extremes: A Call for Better Data."Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 94 (2013). DOI

Duncan, Hugues, Nuha Salem, and Yaser Abu-Lebdeh."Electrolyte Formulations Based on Dinitrile Solvents for High Voltage Li-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160.6 (2013) A838-A848. DOI

He, Gang, Nan Zhou, Christopher J. Williams, and David Fridley."ELITE Cities: A low-carbon Eco-city Evaluation Tool for China."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study (2013).

Letschert, Virginie E., Stephane de la Rue du Can, Michael A. McNeil, Puneeth Kalavase, Allison Hua Fan, and Gabrielle Dreyfus."Energy Efficiency Appliance Standards: Where do we stand, how far can we go and how do we get there? An analysis across several economies." (2013).

Masanet, Eric R., Jiaqi Liang, XiaoHui Ma, Benjamin Walker, Arman Shehabi, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Valerie Hendrix, and Pradeep Mantha."The Energy Efficiency Potential of Cloud-Based Software: A U.S. Case Study." (2013).

Hu, Xin, Jingjing Qian, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Bo Shen, and Kuixin Liu."Energy Service Companies in the Building Sector — A Review of International and Chinese Experience." (2013).

Ke, Jing, Michael A. McNeil, Lynn K. Price, Nina Khanna, and Nan Zhou."Estimation of CO₂ Emissions from China’s Cement Production: Methodologies and Uncertainties."Energy Policy 57 (2013) 172-181.

Sherman, Max H., and Erin L. Hult."Impacts of Contaminant Storage on Indoor Air Quality: Model Development."Atmospheric Environment 72 (2013) 41-49. DOI

Therkelsen, Peter L., and Aimee T. McKane."Implementation and Rejection of Industrial Steam System Energy Efficiency Measures."Energy Policy 57 (2013) 318-328. DOI

Fernandes, Luis L., Eleanor S. Lee, and Gregory J. Ward."Lighting energy savings potential of split-pane electrochromic windows controlled for daylighting with visual comfort."Energy and Buildings 61 (2013) 8-20. DOI

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Ana Barbosa-Póvoa, and Paulo Ferrão."Microgrid Reliability Modeling and Battery Scheduling Using Stochastic Linear Programming."Journal of Electric Power Systems Research 103 (2013) 61-69.

Schewel, Laura, Anand R. Gopal, and Amol A. Phadke."Mobility Towers: Improving transportation efficiency measures by persistent evaluation of city-wide travel behavior."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study (2013).

Noris, Federico, William W. Delp, Kimberly Vermeer, Gary Adamkiewicz, Brett C. Singer, and William J. Fisk."Protocol for maximizing energy savings and indoor environmental quality improvements when retrofitting apartments."Energy and Buildings 61 (2013) 378-386. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Relationships between Mass, Footprint, and Societal Risk in Recent Light-Duty Vehicles." (2013).

Todd, Annika, Peter Cappers, and Charles A. Goldman."Residential Customer Enrollment in Time-based Rate and Enabling Technology Programs: Smart Grid Investment Grant Consumer Behavior Study Analysis." (2013).

Wang, Lei, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."SBR–PVDF based binder for the application of SLMP in graphite anodes."RSC Advances 3.35 (2013) 15022-15027. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Kyu-Taek Cho, Rafael A. Prato, and Adam Z. Weber."Structural and transport properties of Nafion in hydrobromic-acid solutions."Solid State Ionics (2013). DOI

Cappers, Peter, Annika Todd, and Charles A. Goldman."Summary of Utility Studies: Smart Grid Investment Grant Consumer Behavior Study Analysis." (2013).

DeForest, Nicholas, Gonçalo Mendes, Michael Stadler, Wei Feng, Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay."Thermal Energy Storage for Electricity Peak-demand Mitigation: A Solution in Developing and Developed World Alike."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study 3–8 June 2013, Belambra Les Criques, France (2013).

Gopal, Anand R., Greg Leventis, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Nihar Shah, and Amol A. Phadke."Trading Appliance Efficiency for Electricity Subsidies: The Potential in Emerging Economies."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study (2013).

Sullivan, Michael J., Josh L. Bode, Bashar Kellow, Sarah Woehleke, and Joseph H Eto."Using Residential AC Load Control in Grid Operations: PG&E's Ancillary Service Pilot."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 4.2 (2013) 1162-1170. DOI