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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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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

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H. Wiser, and Edwin Ing."Exploring the Economic Value of EPAct 2005’s PV Tax Credits."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2007) 10.

Brackhage, Anselm, Lukas Kranzl, Mario Ragwitz, and Michael Stadler."Invert Simulationen von budgetunabhängigen Instrumenten zur Marktdurchdringung von erneuerbaren Energien im deutschen Wärmemarkt."Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien (2007).

McKone, Thomas E., Rosemary Castorina, Martha E. Harnly, Yu Kuwabara, Brenda Eskenazi, and Asa Bradman."Merging Models and Biomonitoring Data to Characterize Sources and Pathways of Human Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides in the Salinas Valley of California."Environmental Science and Technology 41.9 (2007) 3233-3240. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M., Paul H. Berdahl, Hashem Akbari, William A. Miller, Ingo Joedicke, Joseph C. Reilly, Yoshi Suzuki, and Michelle Vondran."Methods of creating solar-reflective nonwhite surfaces and their application to residential roofing materials."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 91.4 (2007) 304-314. DOI

Sezgen, Osman, Charles A. Goldman, and P. Krishnarao."Option Value of Electricity Demand Response."Energy 32.2 (2007) 108-119. DOI

Ma, Zhixun, Todd Holden, Zhiming M. Wang, Gregory J. Salamo, Lyudmila Malikova, and Samuel S. Mao."Strain-induced electronic energy changes in multilayered InGaAs/GaAs quantum wire structures."Journal of Applied Physics 101.4 (2007) 044305. DOI

Nakahara, Kentaro, Jiro Iriyama, Shigeyuki Iwasa, Masahiro Suguro, Masaharu Satoh, and Elton J. Cairns."Al-laminated film packaged organic radical battery for high-power applications."Journal of Power Sources 163.2 (2007) 1110-1113. DOI

Choi, , Sung Won, Jeong Rae Kim, Young Rack Ahn, Seong Mu Jo, and Elton J. Cairns."Characterization of electrospun PVDF fiber-based polymer electrolytes."Chemistry of Materials 19 (2007) 104-115. DOI

Turner, William J. N., and Hazim B. Awbi."Computer modeling of hybrid ventilation for cooling application."Proceedings of IAQVEC 2007 (2007).

Letschert, Virginie E., and Michael A. McNeil."Coping with residential electricity demand in India’s future – How much can efficiency achieve?."ECEEE 2007 SUMMER STUDY (2007).

Stadler, Michael, Timothy E. Lipman, and Chris Marnay."Current trends of decentralized CHP integration – The Californian investment subsidy system and its implication for the energy efficiency directive." (2007) 16.

Boisvert, Richard, Peter Cappers, Charles A. Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Customer Response to RTP in Competitive Markets: A Study of Niagara Mohawk's Standard Offer Tariff."The Energy Journal (2007) 53-74.

Prasher, Ravi S., Tao Tong, and Arun Majumdar."Diffraction-limited phonon thermal conductance of nanoconstrictions."Applied Physics Letters 91.14 (2007) 143119. DOI

Feng, Jingjuan, Mingsheng Liu, and Xiufeng Pang."Economizer Control Using Mixed Air Enthalpy."the 7th International Conference of Enhanced Building Operations (2007).

Bauman, Fred S., Thomas L. Webster, Hui Jin, Wolfgang Lukaschek, Corinne Benedek, Edward A. Arens, Paul F. Linden, Anna Lui, Walter F. Buhl, and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Energy Performance of Underfloor Air Distribution Systems."California Energy Commission, PIER Building End-Use Energy Efficiency Program (2007).

Zhou, Nan, Michael A. McNeil, David Fridley, Jiang Lin, Lynn K. Price, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Jayant A. Sathaye, and Mark D. Levine."Energy Use in China: Sectoral Trends and Future Outlook." (2007).

Goldman, Charles A., Nicole C. Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, and Peter Cappers."Estimating Demand Response Market Potential among Large Commercial and Industrial Customers: A Scoping Study." (2007) 89.

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Expansion of the laser ablation vapor plume in to a background gas: Part I: Analysis."Journal of Applied Physics 101.2 (2007). DOI

Sauciuc, Ioan, and Ravi S. Prasher."High pressure pump for cooling electronics." (2007).

Turner, William J. N., and Hazim B. Awbi."Hybrid Ventilation for Cooling Application."Proceedings of Roomvent 2007 (2007).

Wu, Lixia, Mingsheng Liu, Gang Wang, and Xiufeng Pang."Integrated Static Pressure Reset with Fan Air Flow Station in Dual-duct VAV System Control."ASME Energy Sustainability (2007).

Wang, Liping, and Nyuk Hien Wong."Investigation of the possibility of applying natural ventilation for thermal comfort in residential buildings in Singapore."Architectural Science Review 50 (2007) 190-199.

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Laser ablation induced vapor plume expansion into a background gas. II. Experimental analysis."Journal of Applied Physics 101.2 (2007). DOI

Marnay, Chris."Microgrids and Heterogeneous Security, Quality, Reliability, and Availability."2007 Power Conversion Conference, April 4, 2007 (2007).

Bell, John B., Robert K. Cheng, Marcus S. Day, and Ian G. Shepherd."Numerical simulation of Lewis number effects on lean premixed turbulent flames."Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 31.1 (2007) 1309-1317. DOI