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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.
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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.

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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

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Na_0.44MnO₂ with very fast sodium diffusion and stable cycling synthesized via polyvinylpyrrolidone-combustion method."Journal of Power Sources 285 (2015) 161 - 168. DOI

Raj, , Tilak, Preeti Saluja, and Narinder Singh."A new class of pyrene based multifunctional chemosensors for differential sensing of metals in different media: Selective recognition of Zn2+ in organic and Fe3+ in aqueous medium."Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 206 (2015) 98 - 106. DOI

Tucker, Michael C., Kyu-Taek Cho, Adam Z. Weber, Guangyu Lin, and Trung V. Nguyen."Optimization of electrode characteristics for the Br₂/H₂ redox flow cell."Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 45.1 (2015) 11 - 19. DOI

Wong, Dominica H. C., Alessandra Vitale, Didier H. Devaux, Austria Taylor, Ashish A. Pandya, Daniel T. Hallinan, Jacob L. Thelen, Sue J. Mecham, Simon F. Lux, Alexander M. Lapides, Paul R. Resnick, Thomas J. Meyer, Robert Kostecki, Nitash P. Balsara, and Joseph M. DeSimone."Phase Behavior and Electrochemical Characterization of Blends of Perfluoropolyether, Poly (ethylene glycol), and a Lithium Salt."Chemistry of Materials 27 (2015) 597-603. DOI

Dubrawski, Kristian L., Case M. van Genuchten, Caroline Delaire, Susan Amrose, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Madjid Mohseni."Production and Transformation of Mixed-Valent Nanoparticles Generated by Fe(0) Electrocoagulation."Environmental Science & Technology 49.4 (2015) 2171 - 2179. DOI

Xiao, Xingcheng, Weidong Zhou, Youngnam Kim, Ill Ryu, Meng Gu, Chongmin Wang, Gao Liu, Zhongyi Liu, and Huajian Gao."Regulated Breathing Effect of Silicon Negative Electrode for Dramatically Enhanced Performance of Li-Ion Battery."Advanced Functional Materials 25.9 (2015) 1426 - 1433. DOI

Liu, Qibo, and Wei Feng."Research on the Efficiency and Economic Impact of Energy-Saving Transformation of Residential Buildings in Different Climatic Regions of China."Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 2015 (2015) 1 - 9. DOI

Qiao, Ruimin, Kehua Dai, Jing Mao, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Dennis Nordlund, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S. Battaglia, Zahid Hussain, Gao Liu, and Wanli Yang."Revealing and suppressing surface Mn(II) formation of Na_0.44MnO₂ electrodes for Na-ion batteries."Nano Energy 16 (2015) 186 - 195. DOI

Fisk, William J.."Review of Some Effects of Climate Change on Indoor Environmental Quality and Health and Associated No-Regrets Mitigation Measures."Building and Environment 86 (2015) 70-80. DOI

Logue, Jennifer M., William J. N. Turner, Iain S. Walker, and Brett C. Singer."A simplified model for estimating population-scale energy impacts of building envelope air-tightening and mechanical ventilation retrofits."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 9.1 (2015). DOI

Feng, Xiaohang, Da Yan, and Tianzhen Hong."Simulation of Occupancy in Buildings."Energy and Buildings 87 (2015) 348-359. DOI

Aetukuri, , Nagaphani B., Bryan D. McCloskey, Jeannette M. García, Leslie E. Krupp, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, and Alan C. Luntz."Solvating additives drive solution-mediated electrochemistry and enhance toroid growth in non-aqueous Li–O_2."Nature Chemistry 7 (2015) 50-56. DOI

Niu, , Kai-Yang, Feng Lin, Liang Fang, Dennis Nordlund, Runzhe Tao, Tsu-Chien Weng, Marca M. Doeff, and Haimei Zheng."Structural and Chemical Evolution of Amorphous Nickel Iron Complex Hydroxide upon Lithiation/Delithiation."Chemistry of Materials 27 (2015) 1583-1589. DOI

Kuppan, Saravanan, Angelique Jarry, Robert Kostecki, and Guoying Chen."A study of room-temperature Li_xMn_1.5Ni_0.5O₄ solid solutions."Scientific Reports 5.1 (2015). DOI

Yan, Xiaodong, ZhihuiWang, Min He, Zhaohui Hou, Ting Xia, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."TiO₂ Nanomaterials as Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Batteries."Energy Technology 3.8 (2015) 801 - 814. DOI

Dai, Kehua, Zhihui Wang, Guo Ai, Hui Zhao, Wen Yuan, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S. Battaglia, Chengdong Sun, Kai Wu, and Gao Liu."The transformation of graphite electrode materials in lithium-ion batteries after cycling."Journal of Power Sources 298 (2015) 349 - 354. DOI

Bai, Ying, Xingzhen Zhou, Zhe Jia, Chuan Wu, Liwei Yang, Mizi Chen, Hui Zhao, Feng Wu, and Gao Liu."Understanding the combined effects of microcrystal growth and band gap reduction for Fe_(1−x)Ti_xF₃ nanocomposites as cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries."Nano Energy 17 (2015) 140 - 151. DOI

Sullivan, Michael J., Josh A. Schellenberg, and Marshall Blundell."Updated Value of Service Reliability Estimates for Electric Utility Customers in the United States." (2015).

Hu, Lei, Stephen A. Montzka, John B. Miller, Arlyn E. Andrews, Scott J. Lehman, Benjamin R. Miller, Kirk Thoning, Colm Sweeney, Huilin Chen, David S. Godwin, Kenneth A. Masarie, Lori Bruhwiler, Marc L. Fischer, Sebastien C. Biraud, Margaret S. Torn, Marikate Mountain, Thomas Nehrkorn, Janusz Eluszkiewicz, Scott Miller, Roland R. Draxler, Ariel F. Stein, Bradley D. Hall, James W. Elkins, and Pieter P. Tans."U.S. emissions of HFC-134a derived for 2008–2012 from an extensive flask-air sampling network."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120.2 (2015) 801-825. DOI

Shen, Bo, Lynn K. Price, Manzhi Liu, Lu Meng, Pei Miao, and Fan Dai."White Paper: Unleashing Energy Efficiency Retrofits Through Energy Performance Contracts in China and the United States." (2015).

Moreira, Alexandre, Alexandre Street, and José M. Arroyo."An Adjustable Robust Optimization Approach for Contingency-Constrained Transmission Expansion Planning."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 30.4 (2015) 2013 - 2022. DOI

Rapp, Vi H., Brett C. Singer, J. Chris Stratton, Craig P. Wray, and Brennan Less."Assessment of Literature Related to Combustion Appliance Venting Systems." (2015).

Alessandro, Pensini, Matthew Robinson, Nicholas Heine, Michael Stadler, and Andrea A. Mammoli."Assessment of Grid-friendly Collective Optimization Framework for Distributed Energy Resources."IEEE Power and Energy Society ISGT Asia 2015, 4-6 November 2015 (2015).

Mills, Evan."Can Technology Free Developing Countries from Light Poverty?." (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Rongxin Yin, Ranjit Deshmukh, and G. Ganesh Das."Characterization and Effectiveness of Technologies for India’s Electric Grid Reliability and Energy Security."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).