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

Jung, , Sokhee, Young-Ho Ahn, Sang-Eun Oh, Junho Lee, Kyu-Taek Cho, Youngjin Kim, Myeong Woon Kim, Joonmok Shim, and Moonsung Kang."Impedance and thermodynamic analysis of bioanode, abiotic anode, and riboflavin-amended anode in microbial fuel cells."Bulletin of Korean Chemical Society 33 (2012) 3349-3354. DOI

Same, Adam, Vincent S. Battaglia, Hong-Yue Tang, and Jae Wan Park."In situ neutron radiography analysis of graphite/NCA lithium-ion battery during overcharge."Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 42.1 (2012) 1-9. DOI

Holder, Amara L., Brietta J. Carter, Regine Goth-Goldstein, Donald Lucas, and Catherine P. Koshland."Increased Cytotoxicity of Oxidized Flame Soot."Atmospheric Pollution Research 3.1 (2012) 25-31. DOI

Dursch, Thomas J., Monica A. Ciontea, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Isothermal Ice Crystallization Kinetics in the Gas-Diffusion Layer of a Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cell."Langmuir 28.2 (2012) 1222 - 1234. DOI

Levine, Mark D., David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, and Cecilia Fino-Chen."Key China Energy Statistics 2011." (2012).

Marnay, Chris, Nan Zhou, Min Qin, and John Romankiewicz."Lessons Learned from Microgrid Demonstrations Worldwide." (2012).

Scown, Corinne D., William W. Nazaroff, Umakant Mishra, Bret Strogen, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Eric R. Masanet, Nicholas J Santero, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E. McKone."Lifecycle greenhouse gas implications of US national scenarios for cellulosic ethanol production."Environmental Research Letters 7.1 (2012) 014011. DOI

Williams, Alison A., Barbara A. Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, Erik Page, and Francis M. Rubinstein."Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings."Leukos: The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America 8.3 (2012) 19. DOI

Coughlin, Katie."A Mathematical Analysis of Full Fuel Cycle Energy Use."Energy 37 (2012). DOI

Bode, Josh L., Michael J. Sullivan, and Joseph H Eto."Measuring Short-term Air Conditioner Demand Reductions for Operations and Settlement." (2012) 120.

Lux, Simon F., Ivan T. Lucas, Elad Pollak, Stefano Passerini, Martin Winter, and Robert Kostecki."The mechanism of HF formation in LiPF₆ based organic carbonate electrolytes."Electrochemistry Communications 14.1 (2012) 47-50. DOI

Liu, Gao, Honghe Zheng, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Particles and polymer binder interaction: a controlling factor in lithium-ion electrode performance."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.3 (2012) A214-A221. DOI

Anders, André, Jiří Čapek, Matêj Hála, and Ludvik Martinu."The ‘recycling trap’: a generalized explanation of discharge runaway in high-power impulse magnetron sputtering."Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 45.1 (2012) 012003. DOI

van Genuchten, Case M., Susan E. Addy, Jasquelin Peña, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Removing Arsenic from Synthetic Groundwater with Iron Electrocoagulation: An Fe and As K-Edge EXAFS Study."Environmental Science & Technology 46.2 (2012) 986 - 994. DOI

Lee, Eunseok, and Kristin A. Persson."Revealing the coupled cation interactions behind the electrochemical profile of Li_xNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄."Energy & Environmental Science 5.3 (2012) 6047-6051. DOI

Payne, Christopher T.."The Role of Business Systems in Achieving Market Transformation."Procurement, Innovation and Green Growth: The story continues... (2012).

Sathre, Roger, Hanna Breunig, Peter H. Larsen, Eric R. Masanet, Thomas E. McKone, Nigel Quinn, and Corinne D. Scown."Spatially-explicit impacts of carbon capture and sequestration on water supply and demand."Eleventh Annual Carbon Capture, Utilization & Sequestration Conference (2012).

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Miguel A. Modestino, Alexander Hexemer, Rachel A Segalman, and Adam Z. Weber."Subsecond Morphological Changes in Nafion during Water Uptake Detected by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering."ACS Macro Letters 1.1 (2012) 33 - 36. DOI

Williams, James H., Andrew DeBenedictis, Rebecca Ghanadan, Amber Mahone, Jack Moore, William R. Morrow III, Snuller Price, and Margaret S. Torn."The Technology Path to Deep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts by 2050: The Pivotal Role of Electricity."Science 335.6064 (2012) 53-59. DOI

Fisher, Emily, Joseph H Eto, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Understanding Bulk Power Reliability: The Importance of Good Data and A Critical Review of Existing Sources."IEEE 45th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) (2012). DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Anthony Kwong, Kyle Clark, Haluna P. Gunterman, and Adam Z. Weber."Water Uptake of Fuel-Cell Catalyst Layers."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 159.9 (2012) F530 - F535. DOI

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Joseph H Eto, Gonçalo Cardoso, Andrea A. Mammoli, Hans Barsun, Richard Burnett, David Klapp, and Judy Lai."Web-Based Economic and Environmental Optimization of Microgrids."2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (2012). DOI

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Analysis of the Energy Intensity of Industries in California."2011 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2012).

Zhu, Dandan, Tianzhen Hong, Da Yan, and Chuang Wang."Comparative research in building energy modeling programs."China Annual HVACR Conference (2012).

Long, Jane C.S., and Jeffery B. Greenblatt."The 80% Solution: Radical Carbon Emission Cuts for California."Issues in Science and Technology (2012) 61-66.