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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.
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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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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)

2017

Wu, Fanglin, Yizhi Yan, Rui Wang, Haopeng Cai, Wei Tong, and Haolin Tang."Synthesis of LiNi1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2@graphene for lithium-ion batteries via self-assembled polyelectrolyte layers."Ceramics International 43.10 (2017) 7668 - 7673. DOI

Yan, Da, Tianzhen Hong, Cheng Li, Qi Zhang, Jingjing An, and shan Hu."A Thorough Assessment of China’s Standard for Energy Consumption of Buildings."Energy and Buildings (2017). DOI

Singla, Rupam, and Jessica Granderson."Using EMIS to Identify Top Opportunities for Commercial Building Efficiency." (2017).

Bolinger, Mark."Using Probability of Exceedance to Compare the Resource Risk of Renewable and Gas-Fired Generation." (2017).

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Samuel Fernandes, and Cody Taylor."Application of Automated Measurement and Verification to Utility Energy Efficiency Program Data."Energy and Buildings (2017) 191-199. DOI

Bagley, Justin, Seongeun Jeong, Xinguang Cui, Sally Newman, Jingsong Zhang, Chad Priest, Mixtli Campos-Pineda, Arlyn E. Andrews, Laura Bianco, Matthew Lloyd, Neil Lareau, Craig B. Clements, and Marc L. Fischer."Assessment of an atmospheric transport model for annual inverse estimates of California greenhouse gas emissions."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122.2 (2017) 1901 - 1918. DOI

Mao, Xianglei, George C.-Y. Chan, Inhee Choi, Vassilia Zorba, and Richard E. Russo."Combination of atomic lines and molecular bands for uranium optical isotopic analysis in laser induced plasma spectrometry."Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 312.1 (2017) 121 - 131. DOI

Faghaninia, Alireza, Guodong Yu, Umut Aydemir, Max Wood, Wei Chen, Gian-Marco Rignanese, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Geoffroy Hautier, and Anubhav Jain."A computational assessment of the electronic, thermoelectric, and defect properties of bournonite (CuPbSbS ₃) and related substitutions."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19.9 (2017) 6743 - 6756. DOI

McNeil, Andrew, Eleanor S. Lee, and Jacob C. Jonsson."Daylight performance of a microstructured prismatic window film in deep open plan offices."Building and Environment 113 (2017) 280–297. DOI

Hang, Bo, Antoine M. Snijders, Yurong Huang, Suzaynn F. Schick, Pin Wang, Yankai Xia, Christopher Havel, Peyton Jacob III, Neal L. Benowitz, Hugo Destaillats, Lara A. Gundel, and Jian-Hua Mao."Early exposure to thirdhand cigarette smoke affects body mass and the development of immunity in mice."Scientific Reports 7 (2017) 41915. DOI

Zhuo, , Zengqing, Paul Olalde-Velasco, Timothy Chin, Vincent S. Battaglia, Stephen J. Harris, Feng Pan, and Wanli Yang."Effect of excess lithium in LiMn ₂O ₄and Li _1.15Mn _1.85O ₄electrodes revealed by quantitative analysis of soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy."Applied Physics Letters 110.9 (2017) 093902. DOI

Gibbs, Zachary M., Francesco Ricci, Guodong Li, Hong Zhu, Kristin A. Persson, Gerbrand Ceder, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and G. Jeffrey Snyder."Effective mass and Fermi surface complexity factor from ab initio band structure calculations."npj Computational Materials 3.1 (2017). DOI

Kong, Lingbo, Ali Hasanbeigi, Lynn K. Price, and Huanbin Liu."Energy conservation and CO₂ mitigation potentials in the Chinese pulp and paper industry."Resource, Conservation and Recycling 117.Part A (2017) 74-84. DOI

Haves, Philip, Xiufeng Pang, and Hongyuan Jia."Experimentally-Determined Characteristics of Radiant Systems for Commercial Buildings." (2017).

Xu, Jing, Min Ling, Lydia Terborg, Hui Zhao, Fen Qiu, Jeffrey J Urban, Robert Kostecki, Gao Liu, and Wei Tong."Facile Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Si-Sn-C Nanocomposites for High-Energy Li-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164.7 (2017) A1378 - A1383. DOI

Hoffman, Ian M.."Gauging the Impact of Various Definitions of Low- and Moderate-Income Communities on Possible Electricity Savings From Weatherization." (2017).

Mashayekh, Salman, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Miguel Heleno."A Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach for Optimal DER Portfolio, Sizing, and Placement in Multi-Energy Microgrids."Applied Energy 187 (2017) 154-168. DOI

Ma, Yulin, Yan Zhou, Chunyu Du, Pengjian Zuo, Xinqun Cheng, Lili Han, Dennis Nordlund, Yunzhi Gao, Geping Yin, Huolin L. Xin, Marca M. Doeff, Feng Lin, and Guoying Chen."A New Anion Receptor for Improving the Interface between Lithium- and Manganese-Rich Layered Oxide Cathode and the Electrolyte."Chemistry of Materials 29.5 (2017) 2141 - 2149. DOI

Canepa, Pieremanuele, Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan, Daniel C. Hannah, Rahul Malik, Miao Liu, Kevin G. Gallagher, Kristin A. Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Odyssey of Multivalent Cathode Materials: Open Questions and Future Challenges."Chemical Reviews 117.5 (2017) 4287 - 4341. DOI

Lask, Kathleen M., and Ashok J. Gadgil."Performance and emissions characteristics of a lighting cone for charcoal stoves."Energy for Sustainable Development 36 (2017) 64 - 67. DOI

Kuppan, Saravanan, Yahong Xu, Yijin Liu, and Guoying Chen."Phase transformation mechanism in lithium manganese nickel oxide revealed by single-crystal hard X-ray microscopy."Nature Communications 8.1 (2017). DOI

Papp, Joseph K., Jason D. Forster, Colin M. Burke, Hyo Won Kim, Alan C. Luntz, Robert M. Shelby, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Bryan D. McCloskey."Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) Binder Degradation in Li–O ₂ Batteries: A Consideration for the Characterization of Lithium Superoxide."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8.6 (2017) 1169 - 1174. DOI

Deason, Jeff, Lisa C. Schwartz, Natalie Mims Frick, and Jennifer Potter."Regulatory Issues and Approaches to Municipal LED Street Lighting Conversions." (2017).

Franconi, Ellen M., Matt Gee, Miriam L. Goldberg, Jessica Granderson, Tim Guiterman, Michael Li, and Brian Arthur Smith."The Status and Promise of Advanced M&V: An Overview of “M&V 2.0” Methods, Tools, and Applications." (2017).

Xiong, Ling, Bo Shen, Shaozhou Qi, Lynn K. Price, and Bin Ye."The Allowance Mechanism of China’s Carbon Trading Pilots: A Comparative Analysis with Schemes in EU and California." (2017).