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)

2010

Gadgil, Ashok J., and Irena Salina."Two Noble Truths."Written in Water: Message of Hope for the Earth's Most Precious Resource (2010) 258-267.

Mullen, Nasim A., Cong Liu, Yinping Zhang, Shuxiao Wang, and William W. Nazaroff."Ultrafine Particle Concentrations and Exposures in Four High-Rise Beijing Apartments."Atmospheric Environment 45.40 (2010) 7574-7582. DOI

Ruzer, Lev S., and Michael G. Apte."Unattached radon progeny as an experimental tool for dosimetry of nanoaerosols: Proposed method and research strategy."Inhalation Toxicology 22 (2010) 760-766.

Tracy, Jennifer, Arne Jacobson, and Evan Mills."Use Patterns of LED Flashlights in Kenya and a One-Year Cost Analysis of Flashlight Ownership." (2010).

Rubinstein, Francis M., Li Xiaolei, and David S. Watson."Using Dimmable Lighting for Regulation Capacity and Non-Spinning Reserves in the Ancillary Services Market. A Feasibility Study." (2010).

Benatmane, N., S.P. Crane, F. Zavaliche, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and T.W. Clinton."Voltage-dependent ferromagnetic resonance in epitaxial multiferroic nanocomposites."Applied Physics Letters 96 (2010). DOI

Dutton, Spencer M., and Li Shao."Window opening behaviour in a naturally ventilated school."SimBuild 2010, 4th National Conference of IBPSA-USA, August 11-13, 2010 (2010).

Rajkovich, Nicholas B., Richard C. Diamond, and Bill Burke."Zero Net Energy Myths and Modes of Thought." (2010).

2009

Koch, Dorothy M., Surabi Menon, Anthony Del Genio, Stephen G. Warren, Reto Ruedy, Igor Alienov, and Gavin A. Schmidt."Distinguishing aerosol impacts on climate over the past century."Journal of Climate 22 (2009) 2659-2677.

Sullivan, Michael J., Matthew G. Mercurio, and Josh A. Schellenberg."Estimated Value of Service Reliability for Electric Utility Customers in the United States." (2009) 130.

Stadler, Michael, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, Hirohisa Aki, and Judy Lai."Control of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Optimal DER Technology Investment and Energy Management in Zero-Net-Energy Buildings."European Transactions on Electrical Power Vol. 21.Issue 2 (2009) 27.

Strawa, Anthony W., Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Anna G. Hallar, George A. Ban-Weiss, John P. McLaughlin, Robert A. Harley, and Melissa M. Lunden."Optical and Physical Properties from Primary On-Road Vehicle Particle Emissions and Their Implications for Climate Change."Journal of Aerosol Science 41.1 (2009) 36-50. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S.."Cooling an integrated circuit die with coolant flow in a microchannel and a thin film thermoelectric cooling device in the microchannel." (2009).

Tang, Lei, Byungchan Han, Kristin A. Persson, Cody Friesen, Ting He, Karl Sieradzki, and Gerbrand Ceder."Electrochemical stability of nanometer-scale Pt particles in acidic environments."Journal of the American Chemical Society 132.2 (2009) 596-600. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S., Stephen E. Selkowitz, Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, Joseph H. Klems, Robert D. Clear, Kyle S. Konis, Robert J. Hitchcock, Mehry Yazdanian, Robin Mitchell, and Maria Konstantoglou."High Performance Building Facade Solutions: PIER Final Project Report." (2009).

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H. Wiser, Peter Cappers, Mark A. Thayer, and Gautam Sethi."The Impact of Wind Power Projects on Residential Property Values in the United States: A Multi-Site Hedonic Analysis."Journal of Real Estate Research Vol. 33.Isssue 3 (2009) 167.

Gadgil, Ashok J., Sharachchandra Lélé, Stephen H. Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, Michael D. Mastrandrea, and Kristin Kuntz-Duriseti."India: Special Role and Responses."Climate Change Science and Policy (2009) 323-331.

Zhang, , Tiejun, Tao Tong, Je-Young Chang, Yoav Peles, Ravi S. Prasher, Michael K Jensen, John T Wen, and Patrick E. Phelan."Ledinegg instability in microchannels."Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 52 (2009) 5661–5674. DOI

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2009)." (2009).

Fisk, William J., and Douglas P. Sullivan."Optical People Counting for Demand Controlled Ventilation: A Pilot Study of Counter Performance." (2009).

Papadopoulou, Evie L., Vassilia Zorba, Alexios Pagkozidis, Marios Barberoglou, Emmanuel Stratakis, and Costas Fotakis."Reversible wettability of ZnO nanostructured thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition."Thin Solid Films 518.4 (2009) 1267-1270. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M., Hashem Akbari, Melvin Pomerantz, and Smita Gupta."Solar access of residential rooftops in four California cities."Solar Energy 83.12 (2009) 2120-2135. DOI

Budhraja, Vikram S., John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Transmission Benefit Quantification, Cost Allocation and Cost Recovery."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009) 216.

Hoff, Tom, Carl Lenox, Nicholas Miller, Yih-huei Wan, Ray George, Joshua Stein, Benjamin Kroposki, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Ahlstrom, Michael Brower, and Abraham Ellis."Understanding Variability and Uncertainty of Photovoltaics for Integration with the Electric Power System." (2009) 18.

Hoen, Ben, Ryan H. Wiser, Peter Cappers, Mark A. Thayer, and Gautam Sethi."Wind Energy Facilities and Residential Properties: The Effect of Proximity and View on Sales Prices."Journal of Real Estate Research 33.3 (2009).