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)

2020

Zheng, Qiye, Sumanjeet Kaur, Chris Dames, and Ravi S. Prasher."Analysis and improvement of the hot disk transient plane source method for low thermal conductivity materials."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 151 (2020) 119331. DOI

Attia, Peter M., Aditya Grover, Norman Jin, Kristen A. Severson, Todor M. Markov, Yang-Hung Liao, Michael H. Chen, Bryan Cheong, Nicholas Perkins, Zi Yang, Patrick K. Herring, Muratahan Aykol, Stephen J. Harris, Richard D. Braatz, Stefano Ermon, and William C. Chueh."Closed-loop optimization of fast-charging protocols for batteries with machine learning."Nature 578.7795 (2020) 397 - 402. DOI

Letschert, Virginie E.."Cooling Efficiency in Indonesia: Recent Achievements and Future Outlook." (2020).

Wu, Jinpeng, Zengqing Zhuo, Xiaohui Rong, Kehua Dai, Zachary Lebens-Higgins, Shawn Sallis, Feng Pan, Louis F. J. Piper, Gao Liu, Yi-De Chuang, Zahid Hussain, Qinghao Li, Rong Zeng, Zhi-xun Shen, and Wanli Yang."Dissociate lattice oxygen redox reactions from capacity and voltage drops of battery electrodes."Science Advances 6.6 (2020) eaaw3871. DOI

Tian, Chixia, Yahong Xu, Wang Hay Kan, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Hao Shen, Kai Chen, Yijin Liu, and Marca M. Doeff."Distinct Surface and Bulk Thermal Behaviors of LiNi_0.6Mn_0.2Co_0.2O₂ Cathode Materials as a Function of State of Charge."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.10 (2020) 11643 - 11656. DOI

Darghouth, Naïm R., James McCall, David Keyser, and Alexandra Aznar."Distributed Photovoltaic Economic Impact Analysis in Indonesia." (2020).

Wu, Ding, Xianglei Mao, George C.-Y. Chan, Richard E. Russo, Vassilia Zorba, and Hongbin Ding."Dynamic characteristics of multi-charged ions emitted from nanosecond laser produced molybdenum plasmas."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 35.4 (2020) 767 - 775. DOI

Paolini, Riccardo, Giancarlo Terraneo, Chiara Ferrari, Mohamad Sleiman, Alberto Muscio, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Tiziana Poli, Hugo Destaillats, Michele Zinzi, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Effects of soiling and weathering on the albedo of building envelope materials: Lessons learned from natural exposure in two European cities and tuning of a laboratory simulation practice."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 205 (2020). DOI

Purohit, Pallav, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, John Dulac, Nihar Shah, Max Wei, Peter Rafaj, and Wolfgang Schöpp."Electricity savings and greenhouse gas emission reductions from global phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20.19 (2020) 11305 - 11327. DOI

Karali, Nihan, Nikit Abhyankar, and Aditya Khandekar."EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLIANCE-LEVEL LOAD SHAPE AND DEMAND RESPONSE POTENTIAL IN INDIA."Energy Innovation for a Sustainable Economy 11th-13th February 2020 The Park, Hyderabad, India (2020) 363-370.

Earni, Shankar, Philip Coleman, Elizabeth Stuart, and Peter H. Larsen."eProject Builder: Promoting wider adoption of energy savings performance contracts through standardization and transparency."energise 2020 ENERGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY (2020) 300-308.

Baudette, Maxime, Daniel Arnold, Craig Breaden, Michael D. Sankur, Duncan S. Callaway, and Jason S. MacDonald."HIL-validation of an Extremum Seeking-based Controller for Advanced DER Management."2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT)2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT) (2020). DOI

Lebens-Higgins, Zachary W., Hyeseung Chung, Mateusz J. Zuba, Jatinkumar Rana, Yixuan Li, Nicholas V. Faenza, Nathalie Pereira, Bryan D. McCloskey, Fanny Rodolakis, Wanli Yang, M. Stanley Whittingham, Glenn G. Amatucci, Ying Shirley Meng, Tien-Lin Lee, and Louis F. J. Piper."How Bulk Sensitive is Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Accounting for the Cathode–Electrolyte Interface when Addressing Oxygen Redox."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11.6 (2020) 2106 - 2112. DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Sydney Forrester, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Ben Hoen."Income Trends among U.S. Residential Rooftop Solar Adopters." (2020).

Zimmermann, Nils E. R., and Anubhav Jain."Local structure order parameters and site fingerprints for quantification of coordination environment and crystal structure similarity."RSC Advances 10.10 (2020) 6063 - 6081. DOI

Regmi, Yagya N., Xiong Peng, Julie C. Fornaciari, Max Wei, Deborah J. Myers, Adam Z. Weber, and Nemanja Danilovic."A low temperature unitized regenerative fuel cell realizing 60% round trip efficiency and 10 000 cycles of durability for energy storage applications."Energy & Environmental Science (2020). DOI

Huntington, Tyler, Xinguang Cui, Umakant Mishra, and Corinne D. Scown."Machine learning to predict biomass sorghum yields under future climate scenarios."Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 14.3 (2020) 566 - 577. DOI

Lindberg, Julia, Miguel Heleno, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Alan Valenzuela."A Multi- Period Investment Model for Behind-the-Meter PV and Storage."2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT) (2020). DOI

Coleman, Philip, Shankar Earni, Bob Slattery, and Christine Walker."M&V in ESPC: The U.S. Federal Experience and Implications for Developing ESPC Markets."energise 2020 ENERGY INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY (2020) 216-221.

Soniat, Marielle, Meron Tesfaye, Amirhossein Mafi, Daniel J. Brooks, Nicholas D. Humphrey, Lien‐Chun Weng, Boris Merinov, William A. Goddard, Adam Z. Weber, and Frances A. Houle."Permeation of CO₂ and N₂ through glassy poly(dimethyl phenylene) oxide under steady‐ and presteady‐state conditions."Journal of Polymer Science 58.9 (2020) 1207 - 1228. DOI

Mrdjenovich, David, Matthew K. Horton, Joseph H. Montoya, Christian M. Legaspi, Shyam Dwaraknath, Vahe Tshitoyan, Anubhav Jain, and Kristin A. Persson."propnet: A Knowledge Graph for Materials Science."Matter 2.2 (2020) 464 - 480. DOI

Perera, A. T. D., Vahid M. Nik, Deliang Chen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, and Tianzhen Hong."Quantifying the impacts of climate change and extreme climate events on energy systems."Nature Energy 5.2 (2020) 150 - 159. DOI

Masanet, Eric R., Arman Shehabi, Nuoa Lei, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates."Science 367.6481 (2020) 984 - 986. DOI

Kushner, Douglas I., Andrew R. Crothers, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Adam Z. Weber."Transport phenomena in flow battery ion-conducting membranes."Current Opinion in Electrochemistry (2020). DOI

Lin, Shuren, Zixuan Fang, Tingzheng Hou, Ting Wan Hsu, Chi H. So, Cher Yeoh, Roger Li, Yin Liu, Emory M. Chan, Yu-Lun Chueh, Bin Tang, Kristin A. Persson, and Jie Yao."Tunable valleytronics with symmetry-retaining high polarization degree in SnS _x Se _1−x model system."Applied Physics Letters 116.6 (2020) 061105. DOI