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)

2014

Walker, Iain S., Max H. Sherman, and Brennan Less."Houses are Dumb without Smart Ventilation." (2014).

Schaab, J., I.P. Krug, F. Nickel, D.M. Gottlob, Doǧ Anay, A. Cano, M. Hentschel, Z. Yan, E. Bourret, C.M. Schneider, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and D. Meier."Imaging and characterization of conducting ferroelectric domain walls by photoemission electron microscopy."Applied Physics Letters 104 (2014). DOI

Phelan, Patrick E., Omar Abdelaziz, Todd P. Otanicar, Bernadette E. Phelan, Ravi S. Prasher, Robert A. Taylor, and Himanshu Tyagi."The impact of thermal engineering research on global climate change."Proceedings of the 15th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC 2014 (2014).

Less, Brennan, and Iain S. Walker."Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation in Residential Deep Energy Retrofits." (2014).

Singh, S., J.T. Haraldsen, J. Xiong, E.M. Choi, P. Lu, D. Yi, X.-D. Wen, J. F. Liu, H. Wang, Z. Bi, P. Yu, M.R. Fitzsimmons, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A.V. Balatsky, J.-X. Zhu, and Q.X. Jia."Induced magnetization in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/BiFeO3 superlattices."Physical Review Letters 113 (2014). DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, Cheng Li, Richard C. Diamond, Da Yan, Qi Zhang, Xin Zhou, Siyue Guo, Kaiyu Sun, and Jingyi Wang."Integrated Design for High Performance Buildings." (2014).

Kumar, M.H., S. Dharani, W.L. Leong, P.P. Boix, R.R. Prabhakar, T. Baikie, C. Shi, H. Ding, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M. Asta, M. Graetzel, S.G. Mhaisalkar, and N. Mathews."Lead-free halide perovskite solar cells with high photocurrents realized through vacancy modulation."Advanced Materials 26 (2014) 7122-7127. DOI

Mills, Evan."Light for Life: Identifying and Reducing the Health and Safety Impacts of Fuel-Based Lighting." (2014).

Less, Brennan, and Iain S. Walker."A Meta-Analysis of Single-Family Deep Energy Retrofit Performance in the U.S.." (2014).

Logue, Jennifer M., Max H. Sherman, and Brett C. Singer."A Method for Quantifying the Acute Health Impacts of Residential Non-Biological Exposure Via Inhalation." (2014).

Seidel, J., and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Nanoscale Characterization of Multiferroic Materials."Springer Series in Materials Science 198 (2014) 1-21. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, Xiufeng Pang, Oren Schetrit, Liping Wang, Shinichi Kasahara, Yoshinori Yura, and Ryohei Hinokuma."A New Model to Simulate Energy Performance of VRF Systems." (2014).

Chuang, Frank, Claus Danielson, and Francesco Borrelli."Optimality of certainty equivalence in expected value problems for uncertain linear systems."2014 IEEE 53rd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2014). DOI

Logue, Jennifer M., Neil E. Klepeis, Agnes B. Lobscheid, and Brett C. Singer."Pollutant Exposures from Natural Gas Cooking Burners: A Simulation-Based Assessment for Southern California." (2014). DOI

Henry, Asegun, and Ravi S. Prasher."The prospect of high temperature solid state energy conversion to reduce the cost of concentrated solar power."Energy Environ. Sci. 7 (2014) 1819–1828. DOI

Mendell, Mark J., Ekaterina Eliseeva, Michael Spears, Wanyu R. Chan, Sebastian Cohn, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."A Prospective Study of Ventilation Rates and Illness Absence in California Office Buildings." (2014).

Turner, William J. N., Jordan Roux, and Iain S. Walker."Reducing Residential Peak Electricity Demand with Mechanical Pre-Cooling of Building Thermal Mass." (2014).

Zhang, Shicong, Wei Xu, Yiqiang Jiang, Wei Feng, and Deyu Sun."Research on Demonstration Project Technology Roadmap of Zero Energy Buildings Abroad (in Chinese)."HV&AC 44.1 (2014).

Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Review of Existing Energy Retrofit Tools." (2014).

Marti, X., I. Fina, C. Frontera, J. F. Liu, P. Wadley, Q. He, R.J. Paull, J.D. Clarkson, J. Kudrnovský, I. Turek, J. Kuneš, D. Yi, J.-H. Chu, C.T. Nelson, L. You, E. Arenholz, S. Salahuddin, J. Fontcuberta, T. Jungwirth, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Room-temperature antiferromagnetic memory resistor."Nature Materials 13 (2014) 367-374. DOI

Gao, W., A. Khan, X. Marti, C. Nelson, C. Serrao, J. Ravichandran, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S. Salahuddin."Room-temperature negative capacitance in a ferroelectric-dielectric superlattice heterostructure."Nano Letters 14 (2014) 5814-5819. DOI

Liu, H.-J., W.-I. Liang, Y.-H. Chu, H. Zheng, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Self-assembled vertical heteroepitaxial nanostructures: From growth to functionalities."MRS Communications 4 (2014) 31-44. DOI

Unguris, J., S.R. Bowden, D.T. Pierce, M. Trassin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.-W. Cheong, S. Fackler, and I. Takeuchi."Simultaneous imaging of the ferromagnetic and ferroelectric structure in multiferroic heterostructures."APL Materials 2 (2014). DOI

Jeong, Seongeun, Dev Millstein, and Marc L. Fischer."Spatially Explicit Methane Emissions from Petroleum Production and the Natural Gas System in California."Environmental Science & Technology 48.10 (2014) 5982–5990. DOI

Sun, Kaiyu, Tianzhen Hong, and Siyue Guo."Stochastic Modeling of Overtime Occupancy and Its Application in Building Energy Simulation and Calibration." (2014).