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)

2013

Belleri, Annamaria, Spencer M. Dutton, Ulrich Filippi Oberegger, and Roberto Lollini."A Sensitivity Analysis of Natural Ventilation Design Parameters for Non Residential Buildings."13th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association 25th - 28th August 2013 (2013).

Hoen, Ben, Jason P Brown, Thomas Jackson, Ryan H. Wiser, Mark A. Thayer, and Peter Cappers."A Spatial Hedonic Analysis of the Effects of Wind Energy Facilities on Surrounding Property Values in the United States." (2013).

Cabana, Jordi, Natasha A. Chernova, Jie Xiao, Megan Roppolo, Kellie A. Aldi, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Clare P. Grey."Study of the Transition Metal Ordering in Layered Na_xNi_x/2Mn_1–x/2O₂ (2/3≤x≤1) and Consequences of Na/Li Exchange."Inorganic Chemistry 52 (2013) 8540-8550. DOI

Wu, Mingyan, Xingcheng Xiao, Nenad Vukmirovic, Shidi Xun, Prodip K. Das, Xiangyun Song, Paul Olalde-Velasco, Dongdong Wang, Adam Z. Weber, Lin-Wang Wang, Vincent S. Battaglia, Wanli Yang, and Gao Liu."Toward an Ideal Polymer Binder Design for High-Capacity Battery Anodes."J Am Chem Soc 135.32 (2013) 12048-56. DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Samantha Weaver, and Ryan H. Wiser."Tracking the Sun VI: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2012." (2013).

Vine, Edward L.."Transforming the energy efficiency market in California: Key findings, lessons learned and future directions from California's market effects studies."Energy Policy 59 (2013). DOI

Zimring, Mark, Matthew Brown, and Dave Carey."Using Financing to Scale Up Energy Efficiency: Work Plan Recommendations for the SEE Action Financing Solutions Working Group." (2013).

Schiller, Steven R.."Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency 101: Presentation for South Dakota Public Utilities Commission." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J., and Steven Robles."2012 FIDVR Events Analysis: Valley Distribution Circuits." (2013).

Therkelsen, Peter L., Aimee T. McKane, Ridah Sabouni, and Tracy Evans."Assessing the Costs and Benefits of the Superior Energy Performance Program."American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2013).

Kantner, Colleen, Scott J. Young, Sally M. Donovan, Karina Garbesi, Stacy Pratt, Henry Willem, Bereket Beraki, and Sarah K. Price."Ceiling Fan and Ceiling Fan Light Kit use in the U.S.—Results of a Survey on Amazon Mechanical Turk." (2013).

Jain, Anubhav, Shyue P. Ong, Geoffroy Hautier, Wei Chen, William D. Richards, Stephen Dacek, Shreyas Cholia, Dan Gunter, David Skinner, Gerbrand Ceder, and Kristin A. Persson."Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation."APL Materials 1.1 (2013). DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, Mary Ann Piette, Janie Page, Sila Kiliccote, Charles McParland, and David S. Watson."Demonstration and Results of Grid Integrated Technologies at the Demand to Grid Laboratory (D2G Lab): Phase I Operations Report." (2013).

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N. Price."Development and Application of a Statistical Methodology to Evaluate the Predictive Accuracy of Building Energy Baseline Models." (2013).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."The effect of recent trends in vehicle design on U.S. societal fatality risk per vehicle mile traveled, and their projected future relationship with vehicle mass."Accident Analysis & Prevention 56 (2013) 71 - 81. DOI

Wang, Yungang, Jiaoyan Huang, Philip K. Hopke, Oliver V. Rattigan, David C. Chalupa, Mark J. Utell, and Thomas M. Holsen."Effect of the shutdown of a large coal-fired power plant on ambient mercury species."Chemosphere 92.4 (2013) 360-367. DOI

Patel, , Shrayesh N., Anna E. Javier, and Nitash P. Balsara."Electrochemically Oxidized Electronic and Ionic Conducting Nanostructured Block Copolymers for Lithium Battery Electrodes."ACS Nano 7 (2013) 6056-6068. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, and Chandrayee Basu."Expanding Buildings-to-Grid (B2G) Objectives in India." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J., Robert J Yinger, Steven Robles, and Joseph H Eto."FIDVR Events Analysis, Part I."Proceedings of the IEEE PES General Meeting (2013). DOI

Bravo, Richard J., Robert J Yinger, Steven Robles, and Joseph H Eto."FIDVR in Distribution Circuits."Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2013). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Galen L. Barbose, Charles A. Goldman, Ryan Hledik, and Ahmed Faruqui."Incorporating Demand Response into Western Interconnection Transmission Planning." (2013).

McKane, Aimee T., Miriam L. Goldberg, and Julia Vetromile."International Approaches to Measurement and Verification of Continual Improvement in Industrial Facilities."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2013).

McKane, Aimee T., Miriam L. Goldberg, and Julia Vetromile."International Approaches to Measurement and Verification of Continual Improvement in Industrial Facilities."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2013).

Russo, Richard E., Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Vassilia Zorba, and Jong-Hyun Yoo."Laser ablation in analytical chemistry."Analytical Chemistry 85.13 (2013) 6162-6177. DOI

Maddalena, Randy L., Na Li, Alfred T. Hodgson, Francis J. Offermann, and Brett C. Singer."Maximizing Information from Residential Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds."Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International Conference (2013).