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

Herter, Karen, and Seth Wayland."Technology Evaluation of Programmable Communicating Thermostats with Radio Broadcast Data System Communications." (2008).

Lu, Quanming, Samuel S. Mao, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Theory analysis of wavelength dependence of laser-induced phase explosion of silicon."Journal of Applied Physics 104.8 (2008) 083301-1-083301-7. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Tracking the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System: An Assessment of Publicly Available Information Reported to State Public Utility Commissions." (2008) 52.

Schenker, Urs, Martin Scheringer, Michael D. Sohn, Randy L. Maddalena, Thomas E. McKone, and Konrad Hungerbühler."Using Information on Uncertainty to Improve Environmental Fate Modeling: A Case Study on DDT."Environmental Science and Technology 43.1 (2008) 128-134.

Gadgil, Ashok J., Lara A. Gundel, Christina Galitsky, and Satinder Ahuja."Arsenic Remediation of Bangladesh Drinking Water using Iron-Oxide Coated Coal Ash."Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater: Mechanism, Analysis, and Remediation (2008) 269-286.

Albertus, Paul, Jeremy Couts, Venkat Srinivasan, and John S. Newman."A Combined Model for Determining Capacity Usage and Battery Size for Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles."Journal of Power Sources 183.2 (2008) 771-782. DOI

Hopper, Nicole C., Galen L. Barbose, Charles A. Goldman, and Jeff Schlegel."Energy Efficiency as a Preferred Resource: Evidence from Utility Resource Plans in the Western United States and Canada."Energy Efficiency Journal Volume 2, Number 1 (2008) 24. DOI

Chang, Je-Young, Ravi S. Prasher, Suzana Prstic, P Cheng, and H B Ma."Evaporative Thermal Performance of Vapor Chambers Under Nonuniform Heating Conditions."J. Heat Transfer 130 (2008) 121501. DOI

McNeil, Michael A., Virginie E. Letschert, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."Global Potential of Energy Efficiency Standards and Labeling Programs." (2008).

Albertus, Paul, Jeremy Couts, Venkat Srinivasan, and John S. Newman."II. A combined model for determining capacity usage and battery size for hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles."Journal of Power Sources 183.2 (2008) 771-782. DOI

Zhou, Nan, Nina Zheng, and Nina Khanna."International Experience in Standards and Labeling Programs for Rice Cookers." (2008).

Siddiqui, Afzal S., and Karl M. Maribu."Investment and Upgrade in Distributed Generation under Uncertainty." (2008) 33.

Delacourt, Charles, and John S. Newman."Mathematical Modeling of a Cation-Exchange Membrane Containing Two Cations."Electrochemical Society 155 (2008) B1210-B2328. DOI

Verce, Matthew F., Buvaneswari Jayaraman, Timothy D. Ford, Scott E. Fisher, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Tina M. Carlsen."Minimizing Decomposition of Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide for Biological Decontamination of Galvanized Steel Ducting."Environmental Science & Technology 42.15 (2008) 5765 - 5771. DOI

McNeil, Michael A., Maithili Iyer, Stephen Meyers, Virginie E. Letschert, and James E. McMahon."Potential benefits from improved energy efficiency of key electrical products: The case of India."Energy Policy 36.9 (2008) 3467–3476. DOI

McGrath, Patrick, Aurora Marie Fojas, Jeffrey A. Reimer, and Elton J. Cairns."Site-dependent C chemical shifts of CO adsorbed on Pt electrocatalysts."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112 (2008) 14702-14705. DOI

Thomas, Edward V., Ira Bloom, Jon P. Christophersen, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Statistical methodology for predicting the life of lithium-ion cells via accelerated degradation testing."Journal of Power Sources 184.1 (2008) 312-317. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Inês Lima Azevedo, Hirohisa Aki, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."The Stochastic Building Simulation Tool SLBM and its New Energy Forecasting Approach."Fifth Annual California Climate Change Conference, September 8-10, 2008 (2008).

Bi, Lei, Alexander R. Taussig, Hyun-Suk Kim, Lei Wang, Gerald F. Dionne, D. Bono, Kristin A. Persson, Gerbrand Ceder, and Caroline A. Ross."Structural, magnetic, and optical properties of BiFeO₃ and Bi₂FeMnO₆ epitaxial thin films: An experimental and first-principles study."Physical Review B 78 (2008) 104106. DOI

Brown, Richard E., Sam Borgeson, Jonathan G. Koomey, and Peter J. Biermayer."U.S. Building-Sector Energy Efficiency Potential." (2008).

Rubinstein, Francis M., Dmitriy Bolotov, Mark S. Levi, Kevin Powell, and Peter Schwartz."The Advantage of Highly Controlled Lighting for Offices and Commercial Buildings."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 17-22, 2008 (2008) 063901(1-5).

Bauman, Fred S., Thomas L. Webster, and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Air Leakage Test Report EPA Region 8 Headquarters, Denver, Colorado. CBE Summary Report."Center for the Built Environment (2008).

Prasher, Ravi S., Tao Tong, and Arun Majumdar."Approximate analytical models for phonon specific heat and ballistic thermal conductance of nanowires."Nano Lett. 8 (2008) 99–103. DOI

Hodgson, Alfred T., Hugo Destaillats, Toshifumi Hotchi, and William J. Fisk."Benefits and technological challenges in the implementation of TiO₂-based ultraviolet photocatalytic oxidation (UVPCO) air cleaners."Indoor Air 2008 (2008) 17-22.

Letschert, Virginie E., and Michael A. McNeil."The Boom of Electricity Demand in the Residential Sector in the Developing World and the Potential for Energy Efficiency."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 9 (2008).