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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)

2009

Apte, Michael G., Deborah H. Bennett, David Faulkner, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, Michael Spears, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Amber L. Trout."Indoor Air Quality Assessment of the San Francisco Federal Building." (2009).

Sohn, Michael D., and David M. Lorenzetti."Indoor Sampler Siting."11th International Conference on Air Distribution in Rooms (2009).

Mendell, Mark J., and Anna G. Mirer."Indoor Thermal Factors and Symptoms in Office Workers: Findings from the U.S. EPA BASE Study."Indoor Air 19.4 (2009) 291-302.

Miller, L.M., C.C. Ho, P.C. Shafer, P.K. Wright, J.W. Evans, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Integration of a low frequency, tunable MEMS piezoelectric energy harvester and a thick film micro capacitor as a power supply system for wireless sensor nodes."2009 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2009 (2009) 2627-2634. DOI

Chang, H.J., A.Y. Borisevich, N. Balke, S.V. Kalinin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M. Huijben, and S.J. Pennycook."Interfacial structure in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films."Microscopy and Microanalysis 15 (2009) 1028-1029. DOI

Maksymovych, P., S. Jesse, M. Huijben, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A. Morozovska, S. Choudhury, L.-Q. Chen, A.P. Baddorf, and S.V. Kalinin."Intrinsic nucleation mechanism and disorder effects in polarization switching on ferroelectric surfaces."Physical Review Letters 102 (2009). DOI

Costa, Andrea, Marcus Keane, Paul Raferty, and James O'Donnell."Key Factors - Methodology for Enhancement and Support of Building Energy Performance."Building Simulation 2009 (2009).

Cheng, Robert K., David Littlejohn, Peter A. Strakey, and Todd Sidwell."Laboratory Investigations of a Low-swirl Injector with H₂ and CH₄ at Gas Turbine Conditions."Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 32.2 (2009) 3001-3009. DOI

Ramirez, M.O., A. Kumar, S.A. Denev, N.J. Podraza, X.S. Xu, R.C. Rai, Y.H. Chu, J. Seidel, L.W. Martin, S.-Y. Yang, E. Saiz, J.F. Ihlefeld, S. Lee, J. Klug, S.W. Cheong, M.J. Bedzyk, O. Auciello, D.G. Schlom, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J. Orenstein, J.L. Musfeldt, and V. Gopalan."Magnon sidebands and spin-charge coupling in bismuth ferrite probed by nonlinear optical spectroscopy."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 79 (2009). DOI

McKone, Thomas E., Louis J. Thibodeaux, and Donald Mackay."Mass Transport within Soils."Environmental Mass Transfer Handbook (2009).

Letschert, Virginie E., and Michael A. McNeil."Material world: forecasting household appliance ownership in a growing global economy."ECEEE 2009 SUMMER STUDY (2009).

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy."Materials science: Emerging routes to multiferroics."Nature 461 (2009) 1218-1219. DOI

Sherman, Max H., and Iain S. Walker."Measured Air Distribution Effectiveness for Residential Mechanical Ventilation Systems."ASHRAE HVAC&R Research Journal 15.2 (2009) 211-230.

Marcinek, Marek, James D. Wilcox, Marca M. Doeff, and Robert Kostecki."Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Carbon Coatings on LiNi_1/3Co_1/3Mn_1/3O₂ for Li-ion Battery Composite Cathodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 156.1 (2009) A48-A51. DOI

Wetter, Michael."Modelica Library for Building Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems."7th International Modelica Conference (2009).

Wetter, Michael."Modelica-based Modeling and Simulation to Support Research and Development in Building Energy and Control Systems."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 2.2 (2009) 143-161. DOI

Mills, Evan, and Paul A. Mathew."Monitoring Based Commissioning: Benchmarking Analysis of 24 UC/CSU/IOU Projects." (2009).

Torrens, , J. Ignacio, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and Andrea Costa."Multi-criteria optimisation using past, historical, real time and predictive performance benchmarks."SEEP 2009: 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection (2009).

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, and N.A. Spaldin."Multiferroics: Progress and prospects in thin films."Nanoscience and Technology: A Collection of Reviews from Nature Journals (2009) 20-28. DOI

Chu, Y.-H., Q. He, C.-H. Yang, P. Yu, L.W. Martin, P. Shafer, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Nanoscale control of domain architectures in BiFeO 3 thin films."Nano Letters 9 (2009) 1726-1730. DOI

Singer, Brett C., Michael G. Apte, Douglas R. Black, Toshifumi Hotchi, Donald Lucas, Melissa M. Lunden, Anna G. Mirer, Michael Spears, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Natural Gas Variability in California: Environmental Impacts and Device Performance - Experimental Evaluation of Pollutant Emissions from Residential Appliances." (2009).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Klaus Sedlbauer, Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, and Kurt Kießl."Neue objektorientierte hygrothermische Modell-Bibliothek zur Ermittlung des hygrothermischen und hygienischen Komforts in Räumen."Bauphysik 31 (2009) 271-278. DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, and Junqiao Han Dudley."Northwest Open Automated Demand Response Technology Demonstration." (2009).

Langner, M.C., C.L.S. Kantner, Y.H. Chu, L.M. Martin, P. Yu, J. Seidel, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J. Orenstein."Observation of ferromagnetic resonance in SrRuO3 by the time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect."Physical Review Letters 102 (2009). DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, Girish Ghatikar, Edward Koch, Dan Hennage, John Hernandez, Albert K. Chiu, Osman Sezgen, and John Goodin."Open Automated Demand Response Communications in Demand Response for Wholesale Ancillary Services."Grid-Interop Forum 2009 (2009).