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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2011

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).

Phadke, Amol A., Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Jagmeet Khangura."Reassessing Wind Potential Estimates for India: Economic and Policy Implications." (2011).

Weber, Adam Z., Matthew M Mench, Jeremy P. Meyers, Philip N. Ross, Jeffrey T. Gostick, and Qinghua Liu."Redox Flow Batteries: a Review."J. Appl. Electrochem 41.10 (2011) 1137-1164. DOI

Tucker, Michael C., Lei Cheng, and Lutgard C. De Jonghe."Selection of cathode contact materials for solid oxide fuel cells."Journal of Power Sources 196.20 (2011) 8313 - 8322. DOI

O'Donnell, James, Richard See, Cody Rose, Tobias Maile, Vladimir Bazjanac, and Philip Haves."SimModel: A domain data model for whole building energy simulation."IBPSA Building Simulation 2011 (2011).

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Understanding Trends in Wind Turbine Prices Over the Past Decade." (2011) 46.

Meier, Alan K., Cecilia Aragon, Therese Peffer, Daniel Perry, and Marco Pritoni."Usability of Residential Thermostats: Preliminary Investigations."Building and Environment 46.10 (2011) 1891-1898. DOI

Gunterman, Haluna P., Anthony Kwong, Jeffrey T. Gostick, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Adam Z. Weber."Water Uptake in PEMFC Catalyst Layers."220th ECS Meeting 41 (2011) 647. DOI

Logue, Jennifer M., Phillip N. Price, Max H. Sherman, and Brett C. Singer."Why We Ventilate."2011 32nd AIVC Conference and 1st Tightvent Conference (2011).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Assessment of NHTSA’s Report “Relationships Between Fatality Risk, Mass, and Footprint in Model Year 2000-2007 Passenger Cars and LTVs” - Preliminary Report." (2011).

Raferty, Paul, Marcus Keane, and James O'Donnell."Calibrating whole building energy models: An evidence-based methodology."Energy and Buildings 43.9 (2011) 2356-2364. DOI

Chong, Jin, Shidi Xun, Honghe Zheng, Xiangyun Song, Gao Liu, Paul L. Ridgway, Ji Q. Wang, and Vincent S. Battaglia."A comparative study of polyacrylic acid and poly (vinylidene difluoride) binders for spherical natural graphite/LiFePO₄ electrodes and cells."Journal of Power Sources 196.18 (2011) 7707-7714. DOI

Mueller, Tim, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and Gerbrand Ceder."Evaluation of tavorite-structured cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries using high-throughput computing."Chemistry of Materials 23.17 (2011) 3854-3862. DOI

Morris, Greg Young, Chad Abbey, Geza Joos, and Chris Marnay."A Framework for the Evaluation of the Cost and Benefits of Microgrids."CIGRÉ International Symposium, The electric power system of the future - Integrating supergrids and microgrids (2011).

Marnay, Chris, Bruce Nordman, and Judy Lai."Future Roles of Milli-, Micro-, and Nano- Grids."CIGRÉ International Symposium The electric power system of the future - Integrating supergrids and microgrids (2011).

Darghouth, Naïm R., Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."The impact of rate design and net metering on the bill savings from distributed PV for residential customers in California."Energy Policy 39.9 (2011) 5243 - 5253. DOI

Desroches, Louis-Benoit, Karina Garbesi, Colleen Kantner, Robert D Van Buskirk, and Hung-Chia Yang."Incorporating Experience Curves in Appliance Standards Analysis." (2011).

Kasem, Mohamed A., Richard E. Russo, and Mohamed A. Harith."Influence of biological degradation and environmental effects on the interpretation of archeological bone samples with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 26.9 (2011) 1733-1739. DOI

Martinez, Carlos A.."Interconnections Abnormal Frequency Events Selection Methodology for Supporting Definition of NERC Control Standards."CERTS Research Supporting Reliability Performance Standards (2011).

Williams, Alison A., Barbara A. Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, Francis M. Rubinstein, and Erik Page."A Meta-Analysis of Energy Savings from Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings." (2011) 25.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Ratnesh Sharma, Gonçalo Mendes, Maximillian Kloess, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Modeling Electric Vehicle Benefits Connected to Smart Grids."7th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (2011).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Andrew McNeil, Christian Kohler, Brian E. Coffey, and Eleanor S. Lee."Modeling solar heat gains of complex fenestration systems using bidirectional scattering distribution functions." (2011).

Lorenzetti, David M., and Michael D. Sohn."Numerical Solution of the Polanyi-DR Isotherm in Linear Driving Force Models."Environmental Science & Technology 45.23 (2011) 10091 - 10095. DOI

Mathieu, Johanna L., Phillip N. Price, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Quantifying Changes in Building Electricity Use, with Application to Demand Response."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2.3 (2011) 507-518. DOI

da Rosa, M. A., Miguel Heleno, V. Miranda, M. A. Matos, and R. Ferreira."Reliability impact on bulk generation system considering high penetration of electric vehicles."2011 IEEE PES PowerTech - Trondheim2011 IEEE Trondheim PowerTech (2011). DOI