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)

2022

To, Thanh, Miguel Heleno, and Alan Valenzuela."Risk-constrained multi-period investment model for Distributed Energy Resources considering technology costs and regulatory uncertainties."Applied Energy 319 (2022) 119210. DOI

Singh, Reshma, Samuel Fernandes, Anand Prakash, Paul A. Mathew, Jessica Granderson, Colman Snaith, Rahul Pusapati, Prakash Jadhav, Avideh Zakhor, Rishi Upadhyay, Ozgur Gonen, and Harry Bergmann."Scaling Building Energy Audits through Machine Learning Methods on Novel Drone Image Data."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Paul, Lazlo, Anand Prakash, Kun Zhang, Marco Pritoni, and Richard E. Brown."SolarPlus Optimizer: Integrated Control of Solar, Batteries, and Flexible Loads for Small Commercial Buildings."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Comesana, Ana, Tyler Huntington, Corinne D. Scown, Kyle Niemeyer, and Vi H. Rapp."A systematic method for selecting molecular descriptors as features when training models for predicting physiochemical properties."Fuel 321 (2022) 123836. DOI

Lee, ChungHyuk, Xiaohua Wang, Jui-Kun Peng, Adlai Katzenberg, Rajesh K. Ahluwalia, Ahmet Kusoglu, Siddharth Komini Babu, Jacob S. Spendelow, Rangachary Mukundan, and Rod L. Borup."Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Cation Effects in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14.31 (2022) 35555 - 35568. DOI

Roa, Carlos Duarte, Paul Raftery, Ruiji Sun, Lazlo Paul, Anand Krishnan Prakash, Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro, and Therese Peffer."Towards a Stronger Foundation: Digitizing Commercial Buildings with Brick to Enable Portable Advanced Applications."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Roth, Amir, Michael Wetter, Kyle Benne, Yan Chen, Gabriel Fierro, Marco Pritoni, Avijit Saha, and Draguna Vrabie."Towards Digital and Performance-Based Supervisory HVAC Control Delivery."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Crowe, Eliot, Yimin Chen, Jessica Granderson, Hayden Reeve, LucasTroup, David Yuill, and Yuxuan Chen."What We Learned From Analyzing 18 Million Rows of Commercial Buildings’ HVAC Fault Data."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Yu, Lili, Jingjing Liu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."When Do Efficiency and Demand Flexibility Go Hand-in-hand?."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Abhyankar, Nikit, Jiang Lin, Fredrich Kahrl, Shengfei Yin, Umed Paliwal, Xu Liu, Nina Khanna, Amol A. Phadke, Qian Luo, David Wooley, Mike O’Boyle, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, and Michelle Solomon."Achieving an 80% Carbon Free Electricity System in China by 2035." (2022).

Elmallah, Salma, and Joseph Rand."“After the leases are signed, it's a done deal”: Exploring procedural injustices for utility-scale wind energy planning in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 89 (2022). DOI

Lin, Guanjing, Eliot Crowe, Valerie Nibler, and Jessica Granderson."Assessing EMIS Benefits: A new field evaluation protocol offers rigor and flexibility."The 7th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue (2022).

Lin, Guanjing, Hannah Kramer, Valerie Nibler, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Building Analytics Tool Deployment at Scale: Benefits, Costs, and Deployment Practices."Energies Vol.15 (2022). DOI

Demarteau, Jérémy, Alexander R. Epstein, Peter R. Christensen, Mark Abubekerov, Hai Wang, Simon J. Teat, Trevor J. Seguin, Christopher W. Chan, Corinne D. Scown, Thomas P. Russell, Jay D. Keasling, Kristin A. Persson, and Brett A. Helms."Circularity in mixed-plastic chemical recycling enabled by variable rates of polydiketoenamine hydrolysis."Science Advances 8.29 (2022). DOI

Yang, Minliang, Di Liu, Nawa Raj Baral, Chien-Yuan Lin, Blake A. Simmons, John M. Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, and Corinne D. Scown."Comparing planta accumulation with microbial routes to set targets for a cost-competitive bioeconomy."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.30 (2022). DOI

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Ryan H. Wiser, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah."Drivers and energy justice implications of renewable energy project siting in the United States."Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (2022). DOI

King, Alex J., Justin C. Bui, Alexis T. Bell, and Adam Z. Weber."Establishing the Role of Operating Potential and Mass Transfer in Multicarbon Product Generation for Photoelectrochemical CO2."ACS Energy Letters (2022) 2694 - 2700. DOI

Cappers, Peter, and Andrew Satchwell."EV Retail Rate Design 101." (2022).

Clark, Ruby-Jean, Gohar Gholamibozanjani, Jason Woods, Sumanjeet Kaur, Adewale Odukomaiya, Said Al-Hallaj, and Mohammed Farid."Experimental screening of salt hydrates for thermochemical energy storage for building heating application."Journal of Energy Storage 51 (2022) 104415. DOI

Clark, Ruby-Jean, Gohar Gholamibozanjani, Jason Woods, Sumanjeet Kaur, Adewale Odukomaiya, Said Al-Hallaj, and Mohammed Farid."Experimental screening of salt hydrates for thermochemical energy storage for building heating application."Journal of Energy Storage 51 (2022) 104415. DOI

Clark, Ruby-Jean, Gohar Gholamibozanjani, Jason Woods, Sumanjeet Kaur, Adewale Odukomaiya, Said Al-Hallaj, and Mohammed Farid."Experimental screening of salt hydrates for thermochemical energy storage for building heating application."Journal of Energy Storage 51 (2022) 104415. DOI

Sun, Kaiyu, Patricia Kusumah, Wanni Zhang, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Exploring Decarbonization and Clean Energy Pathways for Disadvantaged Communities in California."5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (2022).

Luo, Na, Gabe Fierro, Yapan Liu, Bing Dong, and Tianzhen Hong."Extending the Brick schema to represent metadata of occupants."Automation in Construction 139 (2022) 104307. DOI

Blum, David, Zhe Wang, Chris Weyandt, Donghun Kim, Michael Wetter, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Field demonstration and implementation analysis of model predictive control in an office HVAC system."Applied Energy 318 (2022) 119104. DOI