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

Wenzel, Thomas P., and Marc Ross."Safer Vehicles for People and the Planet: Response to a Letter to the Editor of American Scientist." (2008).

Jin, Ling, Shaheen R. Tonse, Daniel S. Cohan, Xianglei Mao, Robert A. Harley, and Nancy J. Brown."Sensitivity Analysis of Ozone Formation and Transport for a Central California Air Pollution Episode."Environmental Science & Technology 42.10 (2008) 3683-3689. DOI

Levine, Mark D., and Nathaniel T. Aden."Sustainable and Unsustainable Developments in the U.S.Energy System." (2008).

Lutz, James D.."Water Heaters and Hot Water Distribution Systems." (2008) 83.

."2008 US DOE Workshop on the Role of Residential AC in Contributing to Fault-Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery (FIDVR)." (2008).

Predith, A., Gerbrand Ceder, Chris Wolverton, Kristin A. Persson, and Tim Mueller."Ab initio prediction of ordered ground-state structures in ZrO₂-Y₂O₃."Physical Review B 77 (2008). DOI

Anders, André."Deposition Rates of High Power Impulse Magneton Sputtering."51st Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Vacuum Coaters (2008).

Martinez, Carlos A.."Frequency Data Sources, Pre-Calculations, Normal and Intelligent Alarm Summaries and Definitions."NERC Wide-Area Resources Adequacy Monitoring System (ACE Frequency) (2008).

Weber, Adam Z.."Gas-Crossover and Membrane-Pinhole Effects in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 155.6 (2008) B521-B531. DOI

Tyagi, Himanshu, Patrick E. Phelan, Ravi S. Prasher, Robert Peck, Taewoo Lee, Jose R Pacheco, and Paul Arentzen."Increased hot-plate ignition probability for nanoparticle-laden diesel fuel."Nano Lett. 8 (2008) 1410–1416. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S.."Micropin heat exchanger." (2008).

Wiser, Ryan H., and Galen L. Barbose."Renewable Portfolio Standards in the United States: A Status Report with Data Through 2007." (2008) 40.

Field, Matthew R., Dougal G. McCulloch, Sunnie H.N. Lim, André Anders, Vicki J. Keast, and R.W. Burgess."The structure and electron energy loss near edge structure of tungsten oxide thin films prepared by pulsed cathodic arc deposition and plasma-assisted pulsed magnetron sputtering."Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 20 (2008) 175216. DOI

Berdahl, Paul H., Hashem Akbari, Jeffry Jacobs, and Frank Klink."Surface roughness effects on the solar reflectance of cool asphalt shingles."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 92.4 (2008) 482-489. DOI

Berdahl, Paul H., Hashem Akbari, Ronnen M. Levinson, and William A. Miller."Weathering of roofing materials – An overview."Construction and Building Materials 22.4 (2008) 423-433. DOI

Shin, Joon Ho, and Elton J. Cairns."Characterization of N-methyl-N-butylpyrrolidinium bis (trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide-LiTFSI-tetra (ethylene glycol) dimethyl ether mixtures as a Li metal cell electrolyte."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 155 (2008) A368-A373. DOI

Zhou, Nan, Nina Zheng, David Fridley, Ruohong Wang, Christine Egan, and Nina Khanna."Check-Testing of Manufacturer Self Reported Labeling Data & Compliance with MEPS." (2008).

Amrose, Susan, G. Theodore Kisch, Charles Kirubi, Jesse Woo, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Development and Testing of the Berkeley Darfur Stove." (2008).

Evans, , W, Ravi S. Prasher, J Fish, P Meakin, Patrick E. Phelan, and others."Effect of aggregation and interfacial thermal resistance on thermal conductivity of nanocomposites and colloidal nanofluids."International Journal of (2008). DOI

Worrell, Ernst, Christina Galitsky, Eric R. Masanet, and Wina Graus."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Glass Industry." (2008).

Worrell, Ernst, and Christina Galitsky."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for Cement Making." (2008).

Galitsky, Christina, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Ernst Worrell, and Eric R. Masanet."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Pharmaceutical Industry." (2008).

Masanet, Eric R., Ernst Worrell, Wina Graus, and Christina Galitsky."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Fruit and Vegetable Processing Industry. An ENERGY STAR Guide for Energy and Plant Managers." (2008).

Levinson, Ronnen M., Hashem Akbari, Melvin Pomerantz, and Smita Gupta."Estimating the solar access of typical residential rooftops: A case study in San Jose, CA."Solar 2008 (2008).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, and Nina Khanna."Estimating Total Energy Consumption and Emissions of China’s Commercial and Office Buildings." (2008).