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.
Publications
News +
For media inquiries,
please contact ETA
Interim Communications Manager
Kiran Julin

[email protected]
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)

2012

Parrish, Kristen, and Cynthia Regnier."Achieving Energy Savings in Municipal Construction in Long Beach, CA." (2012).

Oztoprak, Belgin G., Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Turgay Gulecen, Nazim Mutlu, Richard E. Russo, Ozcan Gundogdu, and Arif Demir."Analysis and Classification of Heterogeneous Kidney Stones Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)."Applied spectroscopy 66.11 (2012) 1353-1361. DOI

Zhai, Pei, Peter H. Larsen, Dev Millstein, Surabi Menon, and Eric R. Masanet."Avoided emissions from high penetration of photovoltaic electricity in the United States."Energy 47.1 (2012). DOI

Ardani, Kristen, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H. Wiser, David Feldman, and Sean Ong."Benchmarking Non-Hardware Balance of System (Soft) Costs for U.S. Photovoltaic Systems Using a Data-Driven Analysis from PV Installer Survey Results." (2012).

Blum, Helcio, and Luiz F.L. Legey."The Challenging Economics of Energy Security: Ensuring Energy Benefits in Support to Sustainable Development."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012) 1982-1989. DOI

Ke, Jing, Lynn K. Price, Stephanie Ohshita, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, and Mark D. Levine."China’s Industrial Energy Consumption Trends and Impacts of the Top-1000 Enterprises Energy-Saving Program and the Ten Key Energy-Saving Projects."Energy Policy 50 (2012) 562-569. DOI

Gunter, Dan, Shreyas Cholia, Anubhav Jain, Michael Kocher, Kristin A. Persson, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Shyue P. Ong, and Gerbrand Ceder."Community Accessible Datastore of High-Throughput Calculations: Experiences from the Materials Project."High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SCC) 2012 (2012) 1244-1251. DOI

Zheng, Honghe, Li Zhang, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Correlationship between electrode mechanics and long-term cycling performance for graphite anode in lithium ion cells."Journal of Power Sources 217 (2012) 530-537. DOI

Zhang, Liang, Elad Pollak, Wei-Cheng Wang, Peng Jiang, Per-Anders Glans, Yuegang Zhang, Jordi Cabana, Robert Kostecki, Chinglin Chang, Miquel Salmeron, Junfa Zhu, and Jinghua Guo."Electronic structure study of ordering and interfacial interaction in graphene/Cu composites."Carbon 50.14 (2012) 5316-5322. DOI

Larsen, Peter H., Charles A. Goldman, and Andrew Satchwell."Evolution of the U.S. Energy Service Company Industry: Market Size and Project Performance from 1990-2008."Energy Policy 50 (2012). DOI

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."Ex Post Analysis of Economic Impacts from Wind Power Development in U.S. Counties."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012). DOI

Hautier, Geoffroy, Anubhav Jain, and Shyue P. Ong."From the computer to the laboratory: materials discovery and design using first-principles calculations."Journal of Materials Science 47.21 (2012) 7317-7340. DOI

Williams, Christopher J., Ali Hasanbeigi, Lynn K. Price, and Grace Wu."International Experience with Quantifying the Co-Benefits of Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Programs and Policies." (2012).

Parrish, Kristen, Andrea C. Mercado, and Cynthia Regnier."Keeping Energy Savings in the LOOP." (2012).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, James D. Fine, Oren Schetrit, Junqiao Han Dudley, and Heather Langford."LEED Demand Response Credit: A Plan for Research towards Implementation."2012 Greenbuild Conference & Expo (2012).

Stratton, J. Chris, William J. N. Turner, Craig P. Wray, and Iain S. Walker."Measuring Residential Ventilation System Airflows: Part 1 – Laboratory Evaluation of Airflow Meter Devices." (2012).

Li, Lei, Case M. van Genuchten, Susan E. Addy, Juanjuan Yao, Naiyun Gao, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Modeling As(III) Oxidation and Removal with Iron Electrocoagulation in Groundwater."Environmental Science & Technology 46.21 (2012) 12038 - 12045. DOI

Holmberg, , David G., Girish Ghatikar, Edward Koch, and Jim Boch."OpenADR Advances."ASHRAE Journal 54.11 (2012).

Lin, , Chao-Han, Andrey Gunawan, Patrick E. Phelan, Daniel A Buttry, Vladimiro Mujica, Robert A. Taylor, and Ravi S. Prasher."Optimization of Cell Configuration for Maximizing Performance of a Cu/Cu2+ Aqueous Thermogalvanic Cell."ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2012) 541–547. DOI

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Alan Goodrich."Photovoltaic (PV) Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections." (2012).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."The Potential Impact of Increased Renewable Energy Penetration Levels on Electricity Bill Savings From Residential Photovoltaic Systems."31st USAEE/IAEE North American Conference (2012).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Yue Dai, Hongyou Lu, and Lynn K. Price."Quantifying the Co-benefits of Energy-Efficiency Programs: A Case Study of the Cement Industry in Shandong Province, China." (2012).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Relationships between Vehicle Mass, Footprint, and Societal Risk." (2012).

Borgeson, Merrian."Review of Self-direct Demand Side Management (DSM) Programs." (2012).

Zhou, Nan, Lynn K. Price, David Fridley, Stephanie Ohshita, Hu Min, Nina Khanna, and Hu Xiulian."Strategies for Local Low-Carbon Development." (2012).