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

Chen, , Chien-fei, Thomas Dietz, Nina H. Fefferman, Jamie Greig, Kristen Cetin, Caitlin Robinson, Laura Arpan, Marcel Schweiker, Bing Dong, Wenbo Wu, Yue Li, Hongyu Zhou, Jianzhong Wu, Jin Wen, Joshua S. Fu, Tianzhen Hong, Da Yan, Hannah Nelson, Yimin Zhu, Xueping Li, Le Xie, and Rachel Fu."Extreme events, energy security and equality through micro- and macro-levels: Concepts, challenges and methods."Energy Research & Social Science 85 (2022) 102401. DOI

Chen, Yimin, Guanjing Lin, Zhelun Chen, Jin Wen, and Jessica Granderson."A simulation-based evaluation of fan coil unit fault effects."Energy and Buildings 263 (2022). DOI

Chen, Yimin, Jin Wen, and James Lo."Using Weather and Schedule based Pattern Matching and Feature based PCA for Whole Building Fault Detection — Part II Field Evaluation."Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities (2022). DOI

Chen, Yimin, Jin Wen, and James Lo."Using Weather and Schedule based Pattern Matching and Feature based PCA for Whole Building Fault Detection — Part I Development of the Method."ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities 3 (2022).

Chen, Yimin, Zhelun Chen, Guanjing Lin, Jin Wen, and Jessica Granderson."A simulation-based method to analyze fan coil unit fault impacts."2022 ASHRAE Summer Conference (2022).

2019

Schwartz, Peter, Brian F. Gerke, Jennifer Potter, Alastair Robinson, David Jagger, Kelly Sanders, Yao-Yung Wen, Jasmine Shepard, and Teddy Kisch."The Value Proposition for Cost-Effective, Demand Responsive-Enabling, Nonresidential Lighting System Retrofits in California Buildings." (2019).

2014

Singh, S., J.T. Haraldsen, J. Xiong, E.M. Choi, P. Lu, D. Yi, X.-D. Wen, J. F. Liu, H. Wang, Z. Bi, P. Yu, M.R. Fitzsimmons, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A.V. Balatsky, J.-X. Zhu, and Q.X. Jia."Induced magnetization in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/BiFeO3 superlattices."Physical Review Letters 113 (2014). DOI

2010

Phelan, Patrick E., Y Gupta, Himanshu Tyagi, Ravi S. Prasher, J Catano, G Michna, R Zhou, J Wen, Michael K Jensen, and Y Peles."Energy Efficiency of Refrigeration Systems for High-Heat-Flux Microelectronics."J. Thermal Sci. Eng. Appl 2 (2010) 031004. DOI

Zhang, , T, J T Wen, Y Peles, T Tong, J Chang, Ravi S. Prasher, and Michael K Jensen."Micro-thermal-fluid transient analysis and active control for two-phase microelectronics cooling."2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (2010). DOI

Zhang, , Tiejun, Yoav Peles, John T Wen, Tao Tong, Je-Young Chang, Ravi S. Prasher, and Michael K Jensen."Analysis and active control of pressure-drop flow instabilities in boiling microchannel systems."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 53 (2010) 2347–2360. DOI

2009

Zhang, , Tiejun, Tao Tong, Je-Young Chang, Yoav Peles, Ravi S. Prasher, Michael K Jensen, John T Wen, and Patrick E. Phelan."Ledinegg instability in microchannels."Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 52 (2009) 5661–5674. DOI

2008

Phelan, Patrick E., Y Gupta, Himanshu Tyagi, Ravi S. Prasher, J Cattano, G Michna, R Zhou, J Wen, Michael K Jensen, and Y Peles."Optimization of Refrigeration Systems for High-Heat-Flux Microelectronics."ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2008). DOI

1996

Wen, Shi-Jie, John B. Kerr, Michael D. Rubin, Jonathan L. Slack, and Klaus von Rottkay."Analysis of Durability in Lithium Nickel Oxide Electrochromic Materials and Devices."2nd International Meeting on Electrochromism (1996).

1992

Loewen, , J.M., Mark D. Levine, and John F. Busch."ASEAN-USAID Buildings Energy Conservation Project FINAL REPORT Volume III: Audits." Vol. III: Audits (1992).