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

Feng, Wei, Nan Zhou, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."Building Distributed Energy Performance Optimization for China - a Regional Analysis of Building Energy Costs and CO₂ Emissions."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, William R. Morrow III, Lynn K. Price, and Nina Khanna."China Energy and Emissions Paths to 2030 (2nd Edition)." (2012).

Cabana, Jordi, Montserrat Casas-Cabanas, Fredrick O. Omenya, Natasha A. Chernova, Dongli Zeng, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Clare P. Grey."Composition-structure relationships in the Li-ion battery electrode material LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄."Chemistry of Materials 24 (2012) 2952-2964. DOI

Norberg, Nick S., and Robert Kostecki."The degradation mechanism of a composite LiMnPO₄ cathode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.9 (2012) A1431-A1434. DOI

Price, Lynn K., Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Stephanie Ohshita, and Nina Khanna."Development of an End-Use Sector- Based Low-Carbon Indicator System for Cities in China."ACEEE’s 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Kam, Kinson C., Apurva Mehta, John T. Heron, and Marca M. Doeff."Electrochemical and physical properties of Ti-substituted layered nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) cathode materials."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.8 (2012) A1383-A1392. DOI

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and John Breshears."The Energy Saving Potential of Membrane-Based Enthalpy Recovery in VAV System for Commercial Office Buildings."SimBuild 2012 (2012).

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N. Price."Evaluation of the Predictive Accuracy of Five Whole-Building Baseline Models." (2012).

Pang, Xiufeng, Michael Wetter, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Philip Haves."A framework for simulation-based real-time whole building performance assessment."Building and Environment 54 (2012) 100-108.

Regnier, Cynthia."Guide to Setting Thermal Comfort Criteria and Minimizing Energy Use in Delivering Thermal Comfort." (2012).

Wen, Sy-Bor, Chien-Fen Chen, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Guiding and focusing of a nanosecond infrared laser within transient hollow plasma femtosecond filament channels."Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 45.35 (2012). DOI

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and Walter F. Buhl."An Improved Simple Chilled Water Cooling Coil Model."SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference (2012).

Larsen, Peter H., Charles A. Goldman, Donald Gilligan, and Terry E. Singer."Incorporating Non-energy Benefits into Energy Savings Performance Contracts."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Lin, Hung-Wen, and Tianzhen Hong."An In-Depth Analysis of Space Heating Energy Use in Office Buildings."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study (2012).

Lee, Eunseok, and Kristin A. Persson."Li absorption and intercalation in single layer graphene and few layer graphene by first principles."Nano letters 12.9 (2012) 4624-4628. DOI

Borgeson, Merrian, Mark Zimring, and Charles A. Goldman."The Limits of Financing for Energy Efficiency."ACEEE Summer Study on Building and Energy Efficiency (2012).

DeForest, Nicholas, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee."Microgrid Dispatch for Macrogrid Peak-Demand Mitigation."2011 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Mendes, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, Paulo Ferrão, and Chistos Loakimidis."Modeling of Plug-in Electric Vehicles' Interactions with a Sustainable Community Grid in the Azores."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Zuo, Xiang, Xiao-Min Liu, Feng Cai, Hui Yang, Xiao-Dong Shen, and Gao Liu."A novel all-solid electrolyte based on a co-polymer of poly-(methoxy/hexadecal-poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate) for lithium-ion cell."Journal of Materials Chemistry 22.41 (2012) 22265-22271. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Peer Review of LBNL Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Vehicle Mass & Footprint Reduction on Safety (LBNL Phase 1 and 2 Reports)." (2012).

Liu, Xiaosong, Jun Liu, Ruimin Qiao, Yan Yu, Hong Li, Liumin Suo, Yong-sheng Hu, Yi-De Chuang, Guojiun Shu, Fangcheng Chou, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dennis Nordlund, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Yung J. Wang, Hsin Lin, Bernardo Barbiellini, Arun Bansil, Xiangyun Song, Zhi Liu, Shishen Yan, Gao Liu, Shan Qjao, Thomas J. Richardson, David G. Prendergast, Zahid Hussain, Frank M.F. de Groot, and Wanli Yang."Phase Transformation and Lithiation Effect on Electronic Structure of Li_xFePO₄: An In-Depth Study by Soft X-ray and Simulations."Journal of the American Chemical Society 134.33 (2012) 13708-13715. DOI

Greenblatt, Jeffery B., Mia Forbes Pirie, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Sally M. Donovan, Clancy Donnelly, Craig Billingsley, and Chris Calwell."Pilot Study: Measurement of Room Illuminance to Assess Automatic Brightness Control in Televisions." (2012) 13.

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Responsive and Intelligent Building Information and Control for Low-Energy and Optimized Grid Integration."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Levine, Mark D., Wei Feng, Jing Ke, Tianzhen Hong, and Nan Zhou."A Retrofit Tool for Improving Energy Efficiency of Commercial Buildings."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study (2012).

Wang, Yungang, Philip K. Hopke, Xiaoyan Xia, Oliver V. Rattigan, David C. Chalupa, and Mark J. Utell."Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter using Inorganic and Organic Species as Tracers."Atmospheric Environment 55 (2012) 525-532. DOI