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)

2010

Cairns, Elton J., and Paul Albertus."Batteries for electric and hybrid-electric vehicles."Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 1 (2010) 299-320. DOI

Braun, Artur, Bongjin S. Mun, Yun Sun, Zhi Liu, Oliver Gröning, R. Mäder, Selma Erat, Xueyuan Zhang, Samuel S. Mao, Ekaterina Pomjakushina, Kazimierz Conder, and Thomas Graule."Correlation of conductivity and angle integrated valence band photoemission characteristics in single crystal iron perovskites for 300 K < T < 800 K: Comparison of surface and bulk sensitive methods."Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 181.1 (2010) 56-62. DOI

Shen, Shaohua, Liejin Guo, Xiaobo Chen, Feng Ren, and Samuel S. Mao."Effect of Ag₂S on solar-driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution of nanostructured CdS."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 35.13 (2010) 7110-7115. DOI

Sullivan, Michael J., Matthew G. Mercurio, Josh A. Schellenberg, and Joseph H Eto."How to Estimate the Value of Service Reliability Improvements."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2010) 5. DOI

Siddiqui, Afzal S., and Stein-Erik Fleten."How to proceed with competing alternative energy technologies: A real options analysis."Energy Economics Vol. 32.Issue 4 (2010) 14. DOI

Blum, Helcio, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Quantitative Analysis of the Principal-Agent Problem in Commercial Buildings in the U.S.: Focus on Central Space Heating and Cooling." (2010) 20.

Yin, Rongxin, Peng Xu, Mary Ann Piette, and Sila Kiliccote."Study on Auto-DR and Pre-cooling of Commercial Buildings with Thermal Mass in California."Energy and Buildings 42.7 (2010) 967-975.

Arneth, Almut, Sandy P. Harrison, Sönke Zaehle, Konstantinos Tsigaridis, Surabi Menon, Patrick J. Bartlein, Johann Feichter, Atte Korhola, Markku Kulmala, Declan O'Donnell, Guy Schurgers, Sanna Sorvari, and Timo Vesala."Terrestrial biogeochemical feedbacks in the climate system: from past to future."Nature Geoscience 3 (2010) 525-532. DOI

Kircher, Kevin, Girish Ghatikar, Steve E. Greenberg, David S. Watson, Richard C. Diamond, Dale A. Sartor, Clifford C. Federspiel, Alex McEachern, and Tom Owen."Toward the Holy Grail of Perfect Information: Lessons Learned Implementing an Energy Information System in a Commercial Building."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Zheng, Virginie E. Letschert, Jing Ke, and Nina Khanna."Analysis of Potential Energy Saving and CO₂ Emission Reduction of Home Appliances and Commercial Equipments in China."The 2010 American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy's Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Hoen, Ben, Haftan Eckholdt, and Ryan H. Wiser."Assessing the Impacts of Reduced Noise Operations of Wind Turbines on Neighbor Annoyance: A Preliminary Analysis in Vinalhaven, Maine." (2010) 17.

Norwood, Zack, Timothy E. Lipman, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Assessment of Combined Heat and Power System "Premium Power" Applications in California."International Journal of Distributed Energy Resources 6.2 (2010) 131-147.

Hong, Tianzhen, and William J. Fisk."Assessment of Energy Savings Potential from the Use of Demand Control Ventilation Systems in General Office Spaces in California."Building Simulation 3.2 (2010) 117-124. DOI

Norwood, Zack, Timothy E. Lipman, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Assessment of the Combined Heat and Power System "Premium Power" Applications in California." (2010) 23.

Norwood, Zack, Timothy E. Lipman, Chris Marnay, and Daniel M. Kammen."Assessment of the Combined Heat and Power System "Premium Power" Applications in California FINAL REPORT." (2010) 36.

Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, ."CERTS Microgrid Phase Two Test Report." (2010).

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Nina Zheng, André Pierrot, and Nina Khanna."China Energy Efficiency Round Robin Testing Results for Room Air Conditioners." (2010).

Castorina, Rosemary, Asa Bradman, Laura Fenster, Dana B. Barr, Roberto Bravo, Michelle G. Vedar, Martha E. Harnly, Thomas E. McKone, Ellen A. Eisen, and Brenda Eskenazi."Comparison of Current-Use Pesticide and Other Toxicant Urinary Metabolite Levels among Pregnant Women in the CHAMACOS Cohort and NHANES."Environmental Health Perspectives 118.6 (2010) 856-863. DOI

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, and Nina Khanna."Comparison of Test Procedures and Energy Efficiency Criteria in Selected International Standards &Labeling Programs for Clothes Washers, Water Dispensers, Vending Machines and CFLs." (2010).

Hautier, Geoffroy, Christopher C. Fischer, Anubhav Jain, Tim Mueller, and Gerbrand Ceder."Finding Nature’s Missing Ternary Oxide Compounds Using Machine Learning and Density Functional Theory."Chemistry of Materials 22 (2010) 3762-3767. DOI

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."The Influence of a CO₂ Pricing Scheme on Distributed Energy Resources in California's Commercial Buildings." (2010) 26.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."The Influence of a CO₂ Pricing Scheme on Distributed Energy Resources in California's Commercial Buildings."23rd Annual Western Conference, Advanced Workship in Regulation and Competition (2010).

Ma, Yudong, Francesco Borrelli, Brandon Hencey, Brian E. Coffey, Sorin Bengea, and Philip Haves."Model Predictive Control of Thermal Energy Storage in Building Cooling Systems."American Control Conference (2010).

McNeil, Michael A., and Virginie E. Letschert."Modeling diffusion of electrical appliances in the residential sector."Energy and Buildings 42.6 (2010) 783-790. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M., Hashem Akbari, Paul H. Berdahl, Kurt Wood, Wayne Skilton, and Jerry Petersheim."A novel technique for the production of cool colored concrete tile and asphalt shingle roofing products."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 94.6 (2010) 946-954. DOI