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

Wetter, Michael, Philip Haves, Michael A. Moshier, and Edward F. Sowell."Using SPARK as a solver for Modelica."Proc. of the 3rd SimBuild Conference (2008).

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."2008 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2008) 68.

McGibney, Alan, Martin Klepal, and James O'Donnell."Design of Underlying Network Infrastructure of Smart Buildings."2008 IET 4th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (2008).

Doe, Robert E, Kristin A. Persson, Ying Shirley Meng, and Gerbrand Ceder."First-Principles Investigation of the Li-Fe-F Phase Diagram and Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Conversion Reactions of Iron Fluorides with Lithium."Chemistry of Materials 20.16 (2008) 5274-5283. DOI

Bazjanac, Vladimir."IFC BIM-based Methodology for Semi-Automated Building Energy Performance Simulation."CIB W78, Proc. 25th conf (2008).

Martinez, Carlos A.."Intelligent real-time tools and visualizations for wide-area electrical grid reliability management."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting - Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century (2008) 1 - 4. DOI

Marnay, Chris."Microgrids and Heterogeneous Power Quality and Reliability." (2008) 13.

Marnay, Chris, and Michael Stadler."Microgrids, CHP, Storage, Heterogenous Power Quality and Reliability, and Uncertainty." (2008).

Wetter, Michael."A Modelica-Based Model Library for Building Energy and Control Systems."Building Simulation '09 (2008).

Stewart, Sarah G., Venkat Srinivasan, and John S. Newman."Modeling the performance of lithium-ion batteries and capacitors during hybrid-electric-vehicle operation."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 155.9 (2008) A664-A671. DOI

Richardson, Thomas J.."Phase transitions in non-hydride switchable mirror thin films."Phase Transitions 81.7-8 (2008) 807 - 813. DOI

Akbari, Hashem, Ronnen M. Levinson, and Stephanie Stern."Procedure for measuring the solar reflectance of flat or curved roofing assemblies."Solar Energy 82.7 (2008) 648-655. DOI

O'Donnell, James, Marcus Keane, and Vladimir Bazjanac."Specification of an Information Delivery Tool to Support Optimal Holistic Environmental and Energy Management in Buildings."SimBuild 2008 (2008).

Norgaard, Richard B., and Ling Jin."Trade and the governance of ecosystem services."Ecological Economics 66.4 (2008) 638 - 652. DOI

Wetter, Michael, Philip Haves, Michael A. Moshier, and Edward F. Sowell."Using SPARK as a Solver for Modelica."SimBuild 2008 (2008).

Galitsky, Christina, Lynn K. Price, Nan Zhou, Zhou Fuqiu, Xiong Huawen, Zeng Xuemin, and Wang Lan."水泥工业能效对标和节能分析工具－BESTCement使用指南." (2008).

Price, Lynn K., Xuejun Wang, and Jiang Yun."China's Top-1000 Energy-Consuming Enterprises Program: Reducing Energy Consumption of the 1000 Largest Industrial Enterprises in China." (2008) 40.

Cheng, Robert K., and David Littlejohn."Effects of Combustor Geometry on the Flowfields and Flame Properties of A Low-Swirl Injector."ASME Turbo Expo 2008: Power for Land, Sea, and Air 3 (2008). DOI

Neelis, Maarten, Ernst Worrell, and Eric R. Masanet."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Petrochemical Industry An ENERGY STAR® Guide for Energy and Plant Managers." (2008).

Arasteh, Dariush K., Howdy Goudey, and Christian Kohler."Highly Insulating Glazing Systems using Non-Structural Center Glazing Layers."2008 Annual ASHRAE Meeting (2008).

Dale, Larry L., K. Sydny Fujita, Joseph O'Hagan, and Michael Hanemann."The Interaction of Water and Energy in California: Climate Change and Price Impacts." (2008) 37.

Venkataramanan, Giri, and Chris Marnay."A Larger Role for Microgrids: Are Microgrids a Viable Paradigm for Electricity Supply Expansion?."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine May/June (2008) 5.

Aki, Hirohisa, Yukinobu Taniguchi, Junji Kondoh, Itaru Tamura, Akeshi Kegasa, Yoshiro Ishikawa, Shigeo Yamamoto, and Ichiro Sugimoto."The Operation Result of the Demonstration of Energy Networks of Electricity, Heat, and Hydrogen at an Apartment Building in 2007." (2008) 11.

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryan M. Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Microgrids in Commercial Buildings."31st IAEE International Conference "Bridging Energy Supply and Demand: Logistics, Competition and Environment", June 18-20, 2008 (2008).

Parashar, Manu, Wei Zhou, Dan J. Trudnowski, Yuri V. Makarov, and Ian Dobson."Phasor Technology Applications Feasibility Assessment and Research Results Report." (2008) 66.