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)

2006

Barbose, Galen L., Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Designing PV Incentive Programs to Promote Performance: A Review of Current Practice." (2006) 39.

Barbose, Galen L., Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Designing PV Incentive Programs to Promote Performance: A Review of Current Practice."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2006) 39.

Prasher, Ravi S., W Evans, P Meakin, J Fish, and others."Effect of aggregation on thermal conduction in colloidal nanofluids."Applied Physics Letters 89 (2006) 143119. DOI

Holalkere, Ven R., Ravi S. Prasher, and Stephen Montgomery."Integrated stacked microchannel heat exchanger and heat spreader." (2006).

Lee, Eleanor S., Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, Joseph H. Klems, Mehry Yazdanian, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Monitored Energy Performance of Electrochromic Windows Controlled for Daylight and Visual Comfort."2006 ASHRAE Annual Meeting 112 Issue 2 (2006).

Barmack, Matthew, Edward P Kahn, Susan Tierney, and Charles A. Goldman."A Regional Approach to Market Monitoring in the West." (2006) 85.

Walker, Iain S.."Residential Furnace Blower Performance." (2006).

Pokharna, , Himanshu, Rajiv K Mongia, Ravi S. Prasher, Sridhar V Machiroutu, Je-Young Chang, and John W Horigan."Apparatus for using fluid laden with nanoparticles for application in electronic cooling." (2006).

Sanstad, Alan H., Joyashree Roy, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Estimating energy-augmenting technological change in developing country industries." (2006).

Walker, Iain S., and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Evaluation of a new ramping technique for duct leakage testing." (2006).

Prasher, Ravi S.."Far field thermal radiation through nanoholes and apertures."Nano Letters 6 (2006) 2135–2139. DOI

Wang, Liping, and Nyuk Hien Wong."The impacts of facade designs: orientations, window to wall ratios and shading devices on indoor environment for naturally ventilated residential buildings in Singapore."the 23st International conference on Passive and Low energy architecture, Geneva (2006).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Increasing the Fuel Economy and Safety of New Light-Duty Vehicles." (2006).

Prasher, Ravi S., David W. Song, Jinlin Wang, and Patrick E. Phelan."Measurements of nanofluid viscosity and its implications for thermal applications."Appl. Phys. Lett. 89.13 (2006). DOI

Prasher, Ravi S., and Patrick E. Phelan."Microscopic and macroscopic thermal contact resistances of pressed mechanical contacts."J. Appl. Phys. 100 (2006) 063538. DOI

Wetter, Michael."Multizone Airflow Model in Modelica."Proc. of the 5th International Modelica Conference (2006) 431-440.

Wetter, Michael."Multizone Building Model for Thermal Building Simulation in Modelica."Proc. of the 5th International Modelica Conference (2006) 517-526.

Wang, Liping, and Nyuk Hien Wong."Natural ventilation simulation by using coupling building simulation and CFD simulation program for accurate prediction of indoor thermal environment."the 23st International conference on Passive and Low energy architecture , Geneva (2006).

Wang, Liping, and Angui Li."A numerical study of Trombe wall for enhancing stack ventilation in buildings."The 23rd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Geneva (2006).

Stadler, Michael, Timothy E. Lipman, Chris Marnay, and Vince McDonell."Pacific Region CHP Application Center for California, Nevada, and Hawaii - Task 1.3 Case Studies." (2006).

Hodgson, Alfred T., Hugo Destaillats, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."Photocatalytic Reactor System with Tungsten Oxide-Modified Titanium Dioxide for Indoor Air Applications."The 11th International Conference on Ti02 Photocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications (Ti02-11), September 25-28, 2006 (2006).

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Radiative cooling of laser ablated vapor plumes: experimental and theoretical analyses."Journal of Applied Physics 100.5 (2006). DOI

Prasher, Ravi S.."Transverse thermal conductivity of porous materials made from aligned nano- and microcylindrical pores."J. Appl. Phys. 100 (2006) 064302. DOI

Persson, Kristin A., Amelia Bengtson, Gerbrand Ceder, and Dane Morgan."Ab initio study of the composition dependence of the pressure-induced spin transition in the (Mg_1-x,Fe_x)O system."Geophysical Research Letters 33 (2006).

Malhotra, Mini, and Jeff S. Haberl."An Analysis of Building Envelope Upgrades for Residential Energy Efficiency in Hot and Humid Climates."SimBuild 2006 (2006).