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)

2022

Khandekar, Aditya, Shruti M. Deorah, and Nikit Abhyankar."Feasibility and Impact of Biomass and Renewable Energy Hybrid Systems." (2022).

Fujita, K. Sydny, Hung-Chia Yang, Margaret Taylor, and Dana Jackman."Green Light on Buying a Car: How Consumer Decision-Making Interacts with Environmental Attributes in the New Vehicle Purchase Process."Transportation Research Record (2022). DOI

Zhang, Tianyu, Justin C. Bui, Zhengyuan Li, Alexis T. Bell, Adam Z. Weber, and Jingjie Wu."Highly selective and productive reduction of carbon dioxide to multicarbon products via in situ CO management using segmented tandem electrodes."Nature Catalysis (2022). DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C.."Integrated distribution planning overview." (2022).

Deason, Jeff, Greg Leventis, and Sean Murphy."Long-Term Performance of Energy Efficiency Loan Portfolios." (2022).

Romiluyi, Oyinkansola, Nemanja Danilovic, Alexis T. Bell, and Adam Z. Weber."Membrane‐electrode assembly design parameters for optimal CO2 reduction."Electrochemical Science Advances (2022). DOI

Welander, Martha M., Boxun Hu, and Michael C. Tucker."Metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells operating with reformed natural gas and sulfur."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 47.21 (2022) 11261 - 11269. DOI

Ge, Jing, Sumedha Bhat, Jingjing Zhang, and Nan Zhou."Mobilizing Key Stakeholders to Accelerate Climate-Tech Innovation and Investment." (2022).

Deorah, Shruti M., Aditya Khandekar, Deepak Rajagopal, and Nikit Abhyankar."Pathways for Electrification of South Asia’s Transportation Sector." (2022).

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, and Dirk C. Jordan."Plant-level performance and degradation of 31 GW-DC of utility-scale PV in the United States." (2022).

Chen, Yimin, Guanjing Lin, Zhelun Chen, Jin Wen, and Jessica Granderson."A simulation-based evaluation of fan coil unit fault effects."Energy and Buildings 263 (2022). DOI

Lu, Yanying, Tianyu Zhu, Eric J. McShane, Bryan D. McCloskey, and Guoying Chen."Single‐Crystal LiNixMnyCo1−x−yO2 Cathodes for Extreme Fast Charging."Small 18.12 (2022) 2105833. DOI

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Charles A. Goldman."Tracking the PACE of household energy usage: Energy usage impacts of projects financed through Property Assessed Clean Energy programs in California." (2022).

McLaren, Joyce, Sherin Abraham, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Technical and Economic Analysis." (2022).

Gill, Carrie, Shauna Beland, Ryan Constable, Tim Roughan, Caitlin Broderick, Stephen Lasher, Joyce McLaren, Sherin Abraham, Anthony Teixeria, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Sydney Forrester."Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs: Conceptual Framework." (2022).

Medina, Adán, Juana Isabel Méndez, Pedro Ponce, Therese Peffer, Alan K. Meier, and Arturo Molina."Using Deep Learning in Real-Time for Clothing Classification with Connected Thermostats."Energies 15.5 (2022) 1811. DOI

Chen, Yimin, Jin Wen, and James Lo."Using Weather and Schedule based Pattern Matching and Feature based PCA for Whole Building Fault Detection — Part II Field Evaluation."Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities (2022). DOI

Karali, Nihan, and Nihar Shah."Bolstering supplies of critical raw materials for low-carbon technologies through circular economy strategies."Energy Research & Social Science 88 (2022). DOI

Darghouth, Naïm R., Eric O'Shaughnessy, Sydney Forrester, and Galen L. Barbose."Characterizing local rooftop solar adoption inequity in the US."Environmental Research Letters 17.3 (2022). DOI

Lees, Eric W., Justin C. Bui, Datong Song, Adam Z. Weber, and Curtis P. Berlinguette."Continuum Model to Define the Chemistry and Mass Transfer in a Bicarbonate Electrolyzer."ACS Energy Letters 7.2 (2022) 834 - 842. DOI

McDermott, Thomas E., Killian McKenna, Miguel Heleno, Bilal Ahmad Bhatti, Michael Emmanuel, and Sydney Forrester."Distribution System Research Roadmap." (2022). DOI

Karali, Nihan, Nikit Abhyankar, and Shruti M. Deorah."Electricity demand in South Asia – data gaps and pathways for research and modeling." (2022).

Bui, Justin C., Chanyeon Kim, Alex J. King, Oyinkansola Romiluyi, Ahmet Kusoglu, Adam Z. Weber, and Alexis T. Bell."Engineering Catalyst–Electrolyte Microenvironments to Optimize the Activity and Selectivity for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 on Cu and Ag."Accounts of Chemical Research 55.4 (2022) 484 - 494. DOI

Pritoni, Marco, Guanjing Lin, Yimin Chen, Raphael Vitti, Christopher Weyandt, and Jessica Granderson."From fault-detection to automated fault correction: a field study."Building and Environment 214 (2022).

Meyers, Stephen, Rongxin Yin, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Cynthia Regnier, and Purabi Thakre."Innovative Technologies for a Low Carbon Electricity System." (2022).