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)

2011

Martinez, Carlos A.."NERC Control and Reserves Planning Standards Integrated Overview."NERC Balancing Control and Reserves Planning Standards (2011).

Hautier, Geoffroy, Anubhav Jain, Hailong Chen, Charles J. Moore, Shyue P. Ong, and Gerbrand Ceder."Novel mixed polyanions lithium-ion battery cathode materials predicted by high-throughput ab initio computations."Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 (2011) 17147-17153. DOI

Anders, André, and Jeff Brown."A Plasma Lens for Magnetron Sputtering."IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 39.11 (2011) 2528 - 2529. DOI

Pang, Xiufeng, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Zheng O'Neill, Philip Haves, Michael Wetter, and Trevor Bailey."Real-time Building Energy Simulation using EnergyPlus and the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed."Proc. of the 12th IBPSA Conference (2011) p. 2890-2896.

Maile, Tobias, Vladimir Bazjanac, James O'Donnell, and Matthew Garr."A software tool to compare measured and simulated building energy performance data."IBPSA Building Simulation 2011 (2011).

Zhou, Nan, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, David Fridley, Cao Ning, and Nina Khanna."Status of the Local Enforcement of Energy Efficiency Standards and Labeling Program in China." (2011).

Corry, Edward, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and Andrea Costa."Systematic Development of an Operational BIM Utilising Simulation and Performance Data in Building Operation."IBPSA Building Simulation 2011 (2011).

Otanicar, Todd P., Ihtesham Chowdhury, Ravi S. Prasher, and Patrick E. Phelan."Band-Gap Tuned Direct Absorption for a Hybrid Concentrating Solar Photovoltaic/Thermal System."J. Sol. Energy Eng. 133 (2011) 041014. DOI

Garbesi, Karina, Vagelis Vossos, and Hongxia Shen."Catalog of DC Appliances and Power Systems." (2011).

Garcia, Guillermo, Raffaella Buonsanti, Evan L. Runnerstrom, Rueben J. Mendelsberg, Anna Llordes, André Anders, Thomas J. Richardson, and Delia J. Milliron."Dynamically Modulating the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals."Nano Letters 11.10 (2011) 4415 - 4420. DOI

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, and Michael G. Apte."Effect of Temperature and Humidity on Formaldehyde Emissions in Temporary Housing Units."Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 61 (2011). DOI

Dallmann, Timothy R., Robert A. Harley, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Effects of diesel particle filter retrofits and accelerated fleet turnover on drayage truck emissions at the port of Oakland."Environmental Science & Technology 45.24 (2011) 10773–10779. DOI

Brush, Adrian, Eric R. Masanet, and Ernst Worrell."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Dairy Processing Industry." (2011).

Norberg, Nick S., and Robert Kostecki."FTIR spectroscopy of a LiMnPO₄ composite cathode."Electrochimica Acta 56.25 (2011) 9168-9171. DOI

Tucker, Michael C., Lei Cheng, and Lutgard C. De Jonghe."Glass-containing composite cathode contact materials for solid oxide fuel cells."Journal of Power Sources 196.20 (2011) 8435 - 8443. DOI

Ji, Liwen, Mumin Rao, Haimei Zheng, Liang Zhang, Yuanchang Li, Wenhui Duan, Jinghua Guo, Elton J. Cairns, and Yuegang Zhang."Graphene oxide as a sulfur immobilizer in high performance lithium/sulfur cells."Journal of the American Chemical Society 133.46 (2011) 18522-18525. DOI

Zhou, Nan, Lynn K. Price, Stephanie Ohshita, Nina Zheng, Hu Min, and Nina Khanna."A Guidebook for Low-Carbon Development at the Local Level." (2011).

Gustavsen, Arlid, Steinar Grynning, Dariush K. Arasteh, Bjørn Petter Jelle, and Howdy Goudey."Key Elements of and Materials Performance Targets for Highly Insulating Window Frames."Energy and Buildings 43.10 (2011) 2583-2594. DOI

Cappers, Peter, Andrew D. Mills, Charles A. Goldman, Ryan H. Wiser, and Joseph H Eto."Mass Market Demand Response and Variable Generation Integration Issues: A Scoping Study." (2011) 76.

Coffey, Brian E., and Eleanor S. Lee."Model-based controls for integrated shading and UFAD control: Report on initial studies." (2011).

Zhou, Nan, Lynn K. Price, Nina Zheng, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Nina Khanna."National Level Co-Control Study of the Targets for Energy Intensity and Sulfur Dioxide in China." (2011).

Garbesi, Karina, Vagelis Vossos, Alan H. Sanstad, and Gabriel Burch."Optimizing Energy Savings from Direct-DC in U.S. Residential Buildings." (2011) 59.

Liu, Gao, Shidi Xun, Nenad Vukmirovic, Xiangyun Song, Paul Olalde-Velasco, Honghe Zheng, Vincent S. Battaglia, Linwang Wang, and Wanli Yang."Polymers with tailored electronic structure for high capacity lithium battery electrodes."Advanced Materials 23.40 (2011) 4679-4683. DOI

Ji, Liwen, Mumin Rao, Shaul Aloni, Lei Wang, Elton J. Cairns, and Yuegang Zhang."Porous carbon nanofiber–sulfur composite electrodes for lithium/sulfur cells."Energy & Environmental Science 4.12 (2011) 5053-5059. DOI

Chan, Wanyu R., and Max H. Sherman."Preliminary Analysis of U.S. Residential Air Leakage Database v.2011."2011 32nd AIVC Conference and 1st TightVent Conference: Towards Optimal Airtightness Performance (2011).