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)

2015

Zhou, Nan, Gang He, John Romankiewicz, David Fridley, and Cecilia Fino-Chen."A Review of Commercially Available Technologies for Developing Low-Carbon Eco-cities." (2015).

Hostettler, Silvia, Eileen Hazboun, Jean-Claude Bolay, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Temina Madon."Tools to Measure the Development Impact of Innovations." Technologies for Development: What is Essential? (2015) 167-171. DOI

Canepa, Pieremanuele, Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam, Rahul Malik, Saivenkataraman Jayaraman, Ziqin Rong, Kevin R. Zavadil, Kristin A. Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Understanding the Initial Stages of Reversible Mg Deposition and Stripping in Inorganic Nonaqueous Electrolytes."Chemistry of Materials 27.9 (2015) 3317 - 3325. DOI

Shen, Bo, Hongyou Lu, and Lynn K. Price."U.S. Experiences in Tackling Energy and Environmental Challenges of Boiler System." (2015).

Granderson, Jessica, Phillip N. Price, David A. Jump, Nathan J. Addy, and Michael D. Sohn."Automated Measurement and Verification: Performance of Public Domain Whole-Building Electric Baseline Models."Applied Energy 144 (2015) 106-113. DOI

Canagaratna, Manjula R., Paola Massoli, Eleanor C. Browne, Jonathan P. Franklin, Kevin R. Wilson, Timothy B. Onasch, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Edward C. Fortner, Charles E. Kolb, John T. Jayne, Jesse H. Kroll, and Douglas R. Worsnop."Chemical Compositions of Black Carbon Particle Cores and Coatings via Soot Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometry with Photoionization and Electron Ionization."The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 119.19 (2015) 4589-4599. DOI

Bravo, Richard J.."Distribution FIDVR Events Analysis."2015 Seventh Annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech)2015 Seventh Annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference (2015) 1 - 8. DOI

Bates, Natalie, Girish Ghatikar, Ghaleb Abdulla, Gregory A. Koenig, Sridutt Bhalachandra, Mehdi Sheikhalishahi, Tapasya Patki, Barry Roundtree, and Stephen Poole."The Electrical Grid and Supercomputing Centers: An Investigative Analysis of Emerging Opportunities and Challenges."Informatik-Spektrum 28.2 (2015) 111-127. DOI

Zhao, Hui, Wen Yuan, and Gao Liu."Hierarchical electrode design of high-capacity alloy nanomaterials for lithium-ion batteries."Nano Today 10 (2015) 193-212. DOI

Addy, Nathan J., Sila Kiliccote, Duncan S. Callaway, and Johanna L. Mathieu."How Baseline Model Implementation Choices Affect Demand Response Assessments."Journal of Solar Energy 137.2 (2015) 021008-021008-6. DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Gregory K. Homan, Robert W. Anderson, and John Herdandez."Intermittent Renewable Management Pilot – Phase 2." (2015).

Yan, , Qimin, Guo Li, Paul F. Newhouse, Jie Yu, Kristin A. Persson, John M. Gregoire, and Jeffrey B. Neaton."MnM₂V₂O₇: An Earth Abundant Light Absorber for Solar Water Splitting."Advanced Energy Materials 5 (2015). DOI

Balakrishnan, Madhesan, Eric R. Sacia, Sanil Sreekumar, Gorkam Gunbas, Amit A. Gokhale, Corinne D. Scown, F. Dean Toste, and Alexis T. Bell."Novel pathways for fuels and lubricants from biomass optimized using life-cycle greenhouse gas assessment."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) 201508274. DOI

Hoffmann, Sabine, and Eleanor S. Lee."Potential energy savings with exterior shades in large office buildings and the impact of discomfort glare."Fourth BEST Conference Building Enclosure Science & Technology (BEST4) (2015).

Phadke, Amol A., Arne Jacobson, Won Young Park, Ga Rick Lee, Peter Alstone, and Amit Khare."Powering a Home with Just 25Watts of Solar PV: Super-Efficient Appliances Can Enable Expanded Off-Grid Energy Service Using Small Solar Power Systems." (2015).

Zenyuk, Iryna V., Dilworth Y. Parkinson, Gisuk Hwang, and Adam Z. Weber."Probing water distribution in compressed fuel-cell gas-diffusion layers using X-ray computed tomography."Electrochemistry Communications 53 (2015) 24 - 28. DOI

Price, Phillip N.."Review of Prior Commercial Building Energy Efficiency Retrofit Evaluation: A Report to Snohomish Public Utility District." (2015) 25.

Hoffman, Ian M., Gregory M. Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A. Goldman, Lisa C. Schwartz, Megan A. Billingsley, and Steven R. Schiller."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs: Estimates at the National, State, Sector and Program Level." (2015).

Bravo, Richard J., Chase Sun, and Thomas Bialek."Voltage Ride-Through (VRT) Recommendations for Distributed Electronic-Coupled Generation."2015 Seventh Annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech)2015 Seventh Annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference (2015) 9 - 12. DOI

Wei, Joy, Francis M. Rubinstein, Jordan Shackelford, and Alastair Robinson."Wireless Advanced Lighting Controls Retrofit Demonstration." (2015).

Yang, Hung-Chia, Sally M. Donovan, Scott J. Young, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, and Louis-Benoit Desroches."Assessment of household appliance surveys collected with Amazon Mechanical Turk."Energy Efficiency (2015). DOI

Heleno, Miguel, Manuel A. Matos, and J. A.Pecas Lopes."Availability and Flexibility of Loads for the Provision of Reserve."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 6.2 (2015) 667 - 674. DOI

Shi, Feifei, Philip N. Ross, Hui Zhao, Gao Liu, Gabor A. Somorjai, and Kyriakos Komvopoulos."A Catalytic Path for Electrolyte Reduction in Lithium-Ion Cells Revealed by in Situ Attenuated Total Reflection-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy."Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (2015) 3181-3184. DOI

de Jong, Maarten, Wei Chen, Thomas Angsten, Anubhav Jain, Randy Notestine, Anthony C. Gamst, Marcel Sluiter, Chaitanya Krishna Ande, Sybrand van der Zwaag, Jose J. Plata, Cormac Toher, Stefano Curtarolo, Gerbrand Ceder, Kristin A. Persson, and Mark D. Asta."Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline compounds."Scientific Data 2 (2015). DOI

Hou, Jing, Yisheng Liu, Yong Wu, Wei Feng, and Nan Zhou."Comparative Study of Commercial Building Energy-Efficiency Retrofit Policies in Four Pilot Cities in China."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, June 1-6, 2015 (2015).