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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2012

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Analysis and Decomposition of the Energy Intensity of Industries in California."Energy Policy 46 (2012) 234-245.

Meier, D., J. Seidel, A. Cano, K. Delaney, Y. Kumagai, M. Mostovoy, N.A. Spaldin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and M. Fiebig."Anisotropic conductance at improper ferroelectric domain walls."Nature Materials 11 (2012) 284-288. DOI

Sudderth, Erika A., Samuel B St. Clair, Sarah A. Placella, Stéphanie M. Swarbreck, Cristina Castanha, Donald J. Herman, Marc L. Fischer, Markus Kleber, Erik B. Sudderth, Margaret S. Torn, Mary K. Firestone, Gary L. Andersen, and David D. Ackerly."Annual grassland resource pools and fluxes: sensitivity to precipitation and dry periods on two contrasting soils."Ecosphere 3.8 (2012). DOI

Rossell, M.D., R. Erni, M.P. Prange, J.-C. Idrobo, W. Luo, R.J. Zeches, S.T. Pantelides, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Atomic structure of highly strained BiFeO 3 thin films."Physical Review Letters 108 (2012). DOI

Hadley, Odelle L., and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Black carbon snow albedo reduction."Nature Climate Change 2 (2012) 437-440. DOI

Xu, Tengfang T., Jayant A. Sathaye, and Klaas Jan Kramer."Bottom-up Representation of Industrial Energy Efficiency Technologies in Integrated Assessment Models for the U.S. Pulp and Paper Sector." (2012).

Wei, Max, James H. Nelson, Michael K. Ting, and Christopher Yang."California’s Carbon Challenge: Scenarios for Achieving 80% Emissions Reduction in 2050." (2012).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B., Max Wei, and James E. McMahon."California's Energy Future: Buildings and Industrial Efficiency, California Council on Science and Technology." (2012).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B., Jane C.S. Long, and B. Hannegan."California's Energy Future: Electricity from Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuels with Carbon Capture and Sequestration." (2012).

Weber, Adam Z., Sivagaminathan Balasubramanian, Prodip K. Das, and Sundmacher Kai."Chapter 2 - Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells."Advances in Chemical EngineeringFuel Cell EngineeringProton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells 41 (2012) 65 - 144. DOI

Shen, Bo, Lynn K. Price, Jian Wang, Michelle Li, and Lei Zeng."China’s Approaches to Financing Sustainable Development: Policies, Practices, and Issues." (2012).

Hu, Tianchao, Brett C. Singer, and Jennifer M. Logue."Compilation of Published PM2.5 Emission Rates for Cooking, Candles and Incense for Use in Modeling of Exposures in Residences." (2012).

Kirchstetter, Thomas W., and Tracy L. Thatcher."Contribution of organic carbon to wood smoke particulate matter absorption of solar radiation."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12.14 (2012) 6067-6072. DOI

Diamond, A.M., L. Corbellini, K.R. Balasubramaniam, S. Chen, S. Wang, T.S. Matthews, L.-W. Wang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J.W. Ager."Copper-alloyed ZnS as a p-type transparent conducting material."Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science 209 (2012) 2101-2107. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, Nance Matson, and Mary Ann Piette."Demand Response Opportunities and Enabling Technologies for Data Centers: Findings From Field Studies." (2012).

Walker, Iain S., Max H. Sherman, and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Development of a Residential Integrated Ventilation Controller." (2012).

Kim, Y.-M., P. Yu, Y.-H. Chu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.J. Pennycook, S.V. Kalinin, and A.Y. Borisevich."Direct Mapping of Octahedral Tilts in Perovskite Oxide Materials Using Bright Field Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy."Microscopy and Microanalysis 18 (2012) 420-421. DOI

Mills, Evan."Doing well by doing good: a scientist frames climate solutions in business terms."Environmental Research Web (2012).

Catalan, G., J. Seidel, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J.F. Scott."Domain wall nanoelectronics."Reviews of Modern Physics 84 (2012) 119-156. DOI

Morrow, William R. III, Anand R. Gopal, Gary A. Fitts, Sarah M. Lewis, Larry L. Dale, Eric R. Masanet, and Thomas E. McKone."Drought-tolerant Biofuel Crops could be a Critical Hedge for Biorefineries." (2012).

Wang, Yungang, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Effect of Change in Cookstove Types on Visibility - Case Study of the Berkeley-Darfur Stove and Three-Stone Fire." (2012).

Zhang, S., Y.G. Zhao, P.S. Li, J.J. Yang, S. Rizwan, J.X. Zhang, J. Seidel, T.L. Qu, Y.J. Yang, Z.L. Luo, Q. He, T. Zou, Q.P. Chen, J.W. Wang, L.F. Yang, Y. Sun, Y.Z. Wu, X. Xiao, X.F. Jin, J. Huang, C. Gao, X.F. Han, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Electric-field control of nonvolatile magnetization in Co 40Fe 40B 20/Pb(Mg 1/3Nb 2/3) 0.7Ti 0.3O 3 structure at room temperature."Physical Review Letters 108 (2012). DOI

Kam, Kinson C., and Marca M. Doeff."Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries."Material Matters 7.4 (2012) 56-60.

Yu, P., Y.H. Chu, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Emergent phenomena at multiferroic heterointerfaces."Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 370 (2012) 4856-4871. DOI

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and John Breshears."The Energy Saving Potential of Membrane-Based Enthalpy Recovery in Vav Systems for Commercial Office Buildings."SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference (2012).