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.
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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)

2007

Martinez, Carlos A.."NERC Frequency Monitoring and Analysis (FMA) Application." (2007).

Salminen, Justin, Nicolas Papaiconomou, R. Anand Kumar, Jong-Min Lee, John B. Kerr, John S. Newman, and John M. Prausnitz."Physicochemical properties and toxicities of hydrophobic piperidinium and pyrrolidinium ionic liquids."Fluid Phase Equilibria 261.1-2 (2007) 421-426. DOI

Kerlau, Marie, Marek Marcinek, Venkat Srinivasan, and Robert Kostecki."Reprint of "Studies of local degradation phenomena in composite cathodes for lithium-ion batteries"."Electrochimica Acta 53.3 (2007) 1385-1392. DOI

Richardson, Thomas J., and Guoying Chen."Solid solution lithium alloy cermet anodes."Journal of Power Sources 174 (2007) 810-812. DOI

Sanchez, Marla C., Carrie A. Webber, Richard E. Brown, and Gregory K. Homan."2008 Status Report - Savings Estimates for the ENERGY STAR Voluntary Labeling Program." (2007).

Prasher, Ravi S., Tao Tong, and Arun Majumdar."An acoustic and dimensional mismatch model for thermal boundary conductance between a vertical mesoscopic nanowire/nanotube and a bulk substrate."J. Appl. Phys. 102 (2007) 104312. DOI

Synnefa, Afroditi, Mat Santamouris, and Hashem Akbari."Estimating the effect of using cool coatings on energy loads and thermal comfort in residential buildings in various climatic conditions."Energy and Buildings 39.11 (2007) 1167-1174. DOI

Russias, , Julie M., Eduardo Saiz, Sylvain Deville, Karol A. Gryn, Gao Liu, Ravi K. Nalla, and Antoni P. Tomsia."Fabrication and in vitro characterization of three-dimensional organic/inorganic scaffolds by robocasting."Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A 83A (2007) 434-445. DOI

Tong, , Tao, Ravi S. Prasher, and Arun Majumdar."Heat Capacity and Thermal Conductance Calculations for Non-Metallic Crystalline Nanowires Based on Elastic Dispersion Relations."ASME 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2007) 631–637. DOI

Tong, , Tao, Je-Young Chang, Shankar Devasenathipathy, John Dirner, Suzana Prstic, and Ravi S. Prasher."High-Speed Visualization of Phase-Change Processes in Silicon Microchannels With Water and HFE-7100 as Working Fluids."ASME 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and ExpositionVolume 5: Electronics and Photonics (2007). DOI

Park, Moon Jeong, Kenneth H. Downing, Andrew Jackson, Enrique D. Gomez, Andrew M. Minor, David Cookson, Adam Z. Weber, and Nitash P. Balsara."Increased water retention in polymer electrolyte membranes at elevated temperatures assisted by capillary condensation."Nano Letters 7.11 (2007) 3547-3552. DOI

Marcinek, Marek, Laurence J. Hardwick, Thomas J. Richardson, Xiangyun Song, and Robert Kostecki."Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition of Nano-Structured Sn/C Composite Thin-Film anodes for Li-ion Batteries."Journal of Power Sources 173.2 (2007) 965-971. DOI

Tong, , Tao, Je-Young Chang, Shankar Devasenathipathy, John Dirner, Suzana Prstic, and Ravi S. Prasher."Performances of Silicon Micro-Flow-Passage Cold Plates From Single-Phase to Two-Phase With Water and HFE-7100 as Working Fluids."ASME 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2007) 95–110. DOI

Group, Glen Lewis."Strategies to Increase California Food Processing Industry Demand Response Participation: A Scoping Study." (2007).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, and Galen L. Barbose."Using the Federal Production Tax Credit to Build a Durable Market for Wind Power in the United States."The Electricity Journal 20.9 (2007) 77-88. DOI

Fridley, David, Nathaniel T. Aden, Nan Zhou, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."China’s Building Energy Use." (2007).

Shindell, Drew T., Gregory S. Faluvegi, Susanne E. Bauer, Dorothy M. Koch, Nadine Unger, Surabi Menon, Ronald L. Miller, Gavin A. Schmidt, and David G. Streets."Climate response to projected changes in short-lived species under an A1B scenario from 2000–2050 in the GISS climate model."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 112.D20 (2007). DOI

Gallardo-Amores, Jose M., Neven Biskup, Ulises Amador, Kristin A. Persson, Gerbrand Ceder, and M. Elena Arroyo y de Dompablo."Computational and Experimental Investigation of the Transformation of V₂O₅ Under Pressure."Chemistry of Materials 19 (2007) 5262-5271. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Ryan M. Firestone, Judy Lai, and Giri Venkataramanan."Microgrids for Commercial Building Combined Heat and Power and Power and Heterogeneous Power Quality and Reliability."IEEC 2007 Conference on Active Networks and Sustainable Energy Consumption, Nov. 14-15, 2007 (2007).

Fischer, Marc L., David P. Billesbach, Joseph A. Berry, William J. Riley, and Margaret S. Torn."Spatiotemporal Variations in Growing Season Exchanges of CO₂, H₂O, and Sensible Heat in Agricultural Fields of the Southern Great Plains."Earth Interact 11.17 (2007) 1-21. DOI

Saint, Juliette A., Marca M. Doeff, and John S. Reed."Synthesis and electrochemistry of Li₃MnO₄: Mn in the +5 oxidation state."Journal of Power Sources 172 (2007) 189-197. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S.."Thermal radiation in dense nano- and microparticulate media."J. Appl. Phys. 102 (2007) 074316. DOI

Pedersen, Curtis O.."Advanced Zone Simulation in EnergyPlus: Incorporation of Variable Properties and Phase Change Material (PCM) Capability."Proc. Building Simulation 2007 (2007).

Gu, Lixing."Airflow Network Modeling in EnergyPlus."Proc. Building Simulation 2007 (2007).

Trcka, Marija, Michael Wetter, and Jan Hensen."Comparison of co-simulation approaches for building and HVAC/R system simulation. ."Proc. of the 10th IBPSA Conference (2007) 1418-1425.