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)

2008

Stadler, Michael."The Distributed Energy Resources Costumer Adoption Model (DER-CAM) for Building Energy Use Optimization." (2008).

Barmack, Matthew, Edward P Kahn, Susan Tierney, and Charles A. Goldman."Econometric models of power prices: An approach to market monitoring in the Western US."Utilities Policy 16.4 (2008) 307-320. DOI

Weber, Adam Z.."Effective diffusion-medium thickness for simplified polymer-electrolyte-fuel-cell modeling."Electrochimica Acta 54.2 (2008) 311 - 315. DOI

Weber, Adam Z., and Charles Delacourt."Mathematical Modelling of Cation Contamination in a Proton-exchange Membrane."Fuel Cells 8.6 (2008) 459 - 465. DOI

Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, , and Electric Power Group."NERC Frequency Monitoring and Analysis (FMA) Application Functional Specification." (2008).

Coughlin, Katie, and Charles A. Goldman."Physical Impacts of Climate Change on the Western US Electricity System: A Scoping Study." (2008) 29.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J. Lewis."Real-Time Grid Reliability Management (2008): PIER Final Project Report."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 62.

Shin, Joon Ho, Pratyay Basak, John B. Kerr, and Elton J. Cairns."Rechargeable LiFePO₄ Cells Using N-Methyl-N-butyl pyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethane sulfonyl)imide-LiTFSI Electrolyte Incorporating Polymer Additives."Electrochimica Acta 54.2 (2008) 410-414. DOI

Raustad, Richard, Mangesh Basarkar, and Robin K. Vieira."Reducing Energy Use In Florida Buildings."16th Symposium on Improving Building Systems in Hot and Humid Climates, December 15-17, 2008 (2008).

Bhattacharya, Prajesh."Unlocking Historical Data in Critical IT."Data Center Dynamics Focus (2008).

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Peter L. Bartlett, and Philip Haves."Fault Diagnostics and Supervised Testing: How Fault Diagnostic tools can be Proactive?."Eleventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Controls (2008).

Martinez, Carlos A.."NERC Frequency Monitoring and Analysis Application: Data Communications, Functionality, and Navigation Overview - Data Availability and Case Studies." (2008).

Phelan, Patrick E., Y Gupta, Himanshu Tyagi, Ravi S. Prasher, J Cattano, G Michna, R Zhou, J Wen, Michael K Jensen, and Y Peles."Optimization of Refrigeration Systems for High-Heat-Flux Microelectronics."ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2008). DOI

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Peter L. Bartlett, and Philip Haves."Overcoming the Complexity of Diagnostic Problems due to Sensor Network Architecture."Eleventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Controls (2008).

Bharvirkar, Ranjit, Charles A. Goldman, Donald Gilligan, Terry E. Singer, David Birr, Patricia Donahue, and Scott Serota."Performance Contracting and Energy Efficiency in the State Government Market." (2008).

Bharvirkar, Ranjit, Charles A. Goldman, Donald Gilligan, Terry E. Singer, David Birr, Patricia Donahue, and Scott Serota."Performance Contracting and Energy Efficiency in the State Government Market." (2008) 88.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Inês Lima Azevedo, Hirohisa Aki, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."Radical Rethinking in Building Energy Forecasting - The Open Source Stochastic Building Simulation Tool SLBM."2008 Behavior Energy and Climate Change Conference, November 16-19, 2008 (2008).

Coleman, Beverly K., Melissa M. Lunden, Hugo Destaillats, and William W. Nazaroff."Secondary organic aerosol from ozone-initiated reactions with terpene-rich household products."Atmospheric Environment 42.35 (2008) 8234–8245. DOI

Bolinger, Mark, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Shaking Up the Residential PV Market: Implications of Recent Changes to the ITC."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2008) 12.

Rosenbaum, Ralph K., Till M. Bachman, Lois S. Gold, Mark Huijbregts, Olivier Jolliet, Ronnie Juraske, Annette Koehler, Henrik F. Larsen, Matthew Macleod, Manuele D. Margni, Thomas E. McKone, Jérôme Payet, Marta Schuhmacher, Dik van de Meent, and Michael Z. Hauschild."USEtox - The UNEP-SETAC toxicity model: recommended characterisation factors for human toxicity and freshwater ecotoxicity in Life Cycle Impact Assessment."The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 13.7 (2008) 532-546. DOI

Akbari, Hashem, and Arthur H. Rosenfeld."White roofs cool the world, directly offset CO₂ and delay global warming."Research Highlights (2008).

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Peter L. Bartlett, and Philip Haves."Application of Machine Learning in Fault Diagnostics of Mechanical Systems."International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Control (2008).

Kiliccote, Sila, and Mary Ann Piette."Automation of Capacity Bidding with an Aggregator Using Open Automated Demand Response." (2008).

Sanchez, Marla C., Gregory K. Homan, and Richard E. Brown."Calendar Year 2007 Program Benefits for ENERGY STAR Labeled Products." (2008).

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J. Lewis."California ISO Phasor Application Summary Report (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix D)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 30.