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)

2014

Manard, Benjamin T., Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Arnab Sarkar, Meirong Dong, José R. Chirinos, Xianglei Mao, Richard E. Russo, and R. K. Marcus."Liquid sampling-atmospheric pressure glow discharge as a secondary excitation source: Assessment of plasma characteristics."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 94 (2014) 39-47. DOI

Wang, Zhihui, Yuliang Zhang, Ting Xia, James Murowchick, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."Lithium-Ion Battery Performance of (001)-Faceted TiO₂ Nanosheets vs. Spherical TiO₂ Nanoparticles."Energy Technology 2.4 (2014) 376-382. DOI

Worton, David R., Gabriel Isaacman, Drew R. Gentner, Timothy R. Dallmann, Arthur W. H. Chan, Christopher R Ruehl, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Kevin R. Wilson, Robert A. Harley, and Allen H. Goldstein."Lubricating Oil Dominates Primary Organic Aerosol Emissions from Motor Vehicles."Environmental Science & Technology 48.7 (2014) 3698-3706. DOI

Rosado, Pablo J., David Faulkner, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Measured temperature reductions and energy savings from a cool tile roof on a central California home."Energy and Buildings 80 (2014). DOI

Chan, Wanyu R., and Brett C. Singer."Measurement-Based Evaluation of Installed Filtration System Performance in Single-Family Homes." (2014).

DeForest, Nicholas, Gonçalo Mendes, Michael Stadler, Wei Feng, Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay."Optimal Deployment of Thermal Energy Storage Under Diverse Economic and Climate Conditions."Applied Energy 119 (2014) 488-496. DOI

Lundmark, Tomas, Johan Bergh, Peter Hofer, Anders Lundström, Annika Nordin, Bishnu Poudel, Roger Sathre, Ruedi Taverna, and Frank Werner."Potential Roles of Swedish Forestry in the Context of Climate Change Mitigation."Forests 5.4 (2014) 557 - 578. DOI

Su, Mei, Cuixia Gao, and Bo Shen."Quantifying China's Oil Import Risks and the Impact on the National Economy."Energy Policy 67 (2014) 605-611. DOI

Mai, Trieu, M Maureen Hand, Samuel F. Baldwin, Ryan H. Wiser, Greg L. Brinkman, Paul Denholm, Douglas J. Arent, Gian Porro, Debra Sandor, Donna J. Hostick, Michael Milligan, Edgar A. DeMeo, and Morgan Bazilian."Renewable Electricity Futures for the United States."IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 5.2 (2014) 372 - 378. DOI

Gopal, Anand R., Greg Leventis, Amol A. Phadke, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."Self-financed efficiency incentives: case study of Mexico."Energy Efficiency (2014). DOI

Gonzalez, Amanda, Heidi Hauenstein, Girish Ghatikar, and Patrick Eilert."Unlocking the Smart Grid through Building Codes and Communication Standards: Code Opportunities to Increase DR Transactions."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Kueck, John D., Dmitry Kosterev, John Undrill, and Joseph H Eto."Voltage sag and recovery influence for modeling motor loads."2014 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Transmission & Distribution Conference & Exposition (2014) 1 - 5. DOI

Rawal, Rajan, Keyur Vadodaria, Mona Galsar, Girish Ghatikar, Reshma Singh, and Diane Douglas."Collaborative research to promote energy efficiency innovation towards significant reduction in buildings energy use in the United States and India." (2014).

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Robert J. Hitchcock, Robin Mitchell, Maurya McClintock, and Kevin Settlemyre."COMFEN – Early Design Tool for Commercial Facades and Fenestration Systems." (2014).

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N. Price."Development and Application of a Statistical Methodology to Evaluate the Predictive Accuracy of Building Energy Baseline Models."Energy 66 (2014) 981-990. DOI

Coles, Henry C., and Steve E. Greenberg."Direct Liquid Cooling for Electronic Equipment." (2014).

Nan, Caiyun, Zhan Lin, Honggang Liao, Min-Kyu Song, Yadong Li, and Elton J. Cairns."Durable Carbon-Coated Li₂S Core–Shell Spheres for High Performance Lithium/Sulfur Cells."Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (2014) 4659-4663. DOI

Sproul, Julian, Man-Pun Wan, Benjamin H. Mandel, and Arthur H. Rosenfeld."Economic Comparison of White, Green, and Black Flat Roofs in the United States."Energy and Buildings 71 (2014) 20-27. DOI

Park, Won Young, Amol A. Phadke, and Nihar Shah."Efficiency improvement opportunities for televisions in India: Implications for market transformation programs."Energy Efficiency (2014). DOI

Basu, Chandrayee, Girish Ghatikar, and Prateek Bansal."Enabling Efficient, Responsive, and Resilient Buildings: Collaboration Between the United States and India."IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on Smart Grid and the New Energy Economy (2014).

Lee, Eleanor S., Brian E. Coffey, Luis L. Fernandes, Sabine Hoffmann, Andrew McNeil, Anothai Thanachareonkit, and Gregory J. Ward."High Performance Building Façade Solutions-Phase II." (2014).

Todd, Annika, Michael Perry, Brian Smith, Michael J. Sullivan, Peter Cappers, and Charles A. Goldman."Insights from Smart Meters: The Potential for Peak-Hour Savings from Behavior-Based Programs." (2014).

Mills, Andrew D., Audun Botterud, Jing Wu, Zhi Zhou, Bri-Mathias Hodge, and Mike Heaney."Integrating Solar PV in Utility System Operations." (2014).

Iturrondobeitia, Amaia, Aintzane Goñi, Luis Lezama, Chunjoong Kim, Marca M. Doeff, Jordi Cabana, and Teófilo Rojo."Modification of the electrochemical activity of LiMn_1.95Si_0.05O₄ spinel via addition of phases with different physico-chemical properties."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2.9 (2014) 3216-3222. DOI

Wong, Dominica H. C., Jacob L. Thelen, Yanbao Fu, Didier H. Devaux, Ashish A. Pandya, Vincent S. Battaglia, Nitash P. Balsara, and Joseph M. DeSimone."Nonflammable perfluoropolyether-based electrolytes for lithium batteries."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.9 (2014) 3327 - 3331. DOI