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)

2019

Frick, Natalie Mims, Ian M. Hoffman, Charles A. Goldman, Greg Leventis, Sean Murphy, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Peak Demand Impacts From Electricity Efficiency Programs." (2019).

Szinai, Julia, Colin Sheppard, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R. Gopal."Reduced grid operating costs and renewable energy curtailment with electric vehicle charge management."Energy Policy (2019) 111051. DOI

Kushner, Douglas I., Ahmet Kusoglu, Nikolas J. Podraza, and Michael A. Hickner."Substrate‐Dependent Molecular and Nanostructural Orientation of Nafion Thin Films."Advanced Functional Materials (2019) 1902699. DOI

Rosenberg, Daniel J., Selim Alayoglu, Robert Kostecki, and Musahid Ahmed."Synthesis of microporous silica nanoparticles to study water phase transitions by vibrational spectroscopy."Nanoscale Advances 1.12 (2019) 4878 - 4887. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Time-Sensitive Value of Efficiency: Use Cases in Electricity Sector Planning and Programs." (2019).

Barbose, Galen L., and Naïm R. Darghouth."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2019 Edition." (2019).

Self, Julian, Kara D. Fong, and Kristin A. Persson."Transport in Superconcentrated LiPF 6 and LiBF 4 Propylene Carbonate Electrolytes."ACS Energy Letters 4.12 (2019) 2843 - 2849. DOI

Li, , Ning, Sooyeon Hwang, Meiling Sun, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S. Battaglia, Dong Su, and Wei Tong."Unraveling the Voltage Decay Phenomenon in Li‐Rich Layered Oxide Cathode of No Oxygen Activity."Advanced Energy Materials 9.47 (2019) 1902258. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, Yujie Xu, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, and Xuan Luo."Visualizing Urban Microclimate and Quantifying its Impact on Building Energy Use in San Francisco."the 1st ACM International WorkshopProceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization - UrbSys'19 (2019). DOI

Covary, Theo, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."When the Party’s Over, Don’t Turn off the Lights! - Making Donor Funded S&L Programs Sustainable."10th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL’19) (2019).

Mayer, Morgan A., Tyler Huntington, Ana Comesana, Vi H. Rapp, and Kyle Niemeyer."Can machine learning predict fuel properties accurately?."2019 WSSCI Fall Technical Meeting (2019).

Woods-Robinson, Rachel, Yanbing Han, John S. Mangum, Celeste L. Melamed, Brian P. Gorman, Apurva Mehta, Kristin A. Persson, and Andriy Zakutayev."Combinatorial Tuning of Structural and Optoelectronic Properties in Cu Zn1−S."Matter 1.4 (2019) 862 - 880. DOI

Hoen, Ben, Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah."Commercial PV Property Characterization: An Analysis of Solar Deployment Trends in Commercial Real Estate." (2019).

Miranda, Andrea, Xiaoyi Li, Atetegeb Meazah Haregewoin, Kasturi Sarang, Jodie Lutkenhaus, Robert Kostecki, and Rafael Verduzco."A Comprehensive Study of Hydrolyzed Polyacrylamide as a Binder for Silicon AnodesA Comprehensive Study of Hydrolyzed Polyacrylamide as a Binder for Silicon Anodes."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11.47 (2019) 44090 - 44100. DOI

Mills, Andrew D., and Pía Rodriguez."Drivers of the Resource Adequacy Contribution of Solar and Storage for Florida Municipal Utilities." (2019).

Patel, Anjli M., Jens K. Nørskov, Kristin A. Persson, and Joseph H. Montoya."Efficient Pourbaix diagrams of many-element compounds."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21.45 (2019) 25323 - 25327. DOI

Taylor, Margaret, K. Sydny Fujita, Jingjing Zhang, Mustapha Harb, James Tamerius, Michelle Jones, and Sarah K. Price."Explaining jurisdictional compliance with California’s top-down streamlined solar permitting law (AB 2188)." (2019). DOI

Gilbert, Haley E., Tom Jacobs, Seongeun Jeong, Melvin Pomerantz, Dev Millstein, Doug Norsby, Andrea Repinsky, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Heat Island Mitigation Assessment and Policy Development for the Kansas City Region." (2019). DOI

Gorman, Will, Andrew D. Mills, and Ryan H. Wiser."Improving estimates of transmission capital costs for utility-scale wind and solar projects to inform renewable energy policy."Energy Policy (2019). DOI

Kistler, , Tobias A., David Larson, Karl Walczak, Peter Agbo, Ian D. Sharp, Adam Z. Weber, and Nemanja Danilovic."Integrated Membrane-Electrode-Assembly Photoelectrochemical Cell under Various Feed Conditions for Solar Water Splitting."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.5 (2019) H3020 - H3028. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, and Giulia Gallo."Interregional Transmission Coordination: A review of practices following FERC Order Nos. 890 and 1000." (2019).

Self, Julian, Kara D. Fong, E. R. Logan, and Kristin A. Persson."Ion Association Constants for Lithium Ion Battery Electrolytes from First-Principles Quantum Chemistry."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.15 (2019) A3554 - A3558. DOI

Ma, Fuduo, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Ravi S. Prasher."Microrheological modeling of lithium ion battery anode slurry."Journal of Power Sources 438 (2019) 226994. DOI