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

Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Geof Sawaya, Yixing Chen, and Mary Ann Piette."DEEP: A Database of Energy Efficiency Performance to Accelerate Energy Retrofitting of Commercial Buildings." (2015).

Wetter, Michael, Marcus Fuchs, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Design choices for thermofluid flow components and systems that are exported as Functional Mockup Units." (2015).

Chan, Wanyu R., Iain S. Walker, and Max H. Sherman."Durable Airtightness in Single-Family Dwellings: Field Measurements and Analysis." (2015).

Chuang, Frank, and Francesco Borrelli."Dynamic state and input aggregation."2015 American Control Conference (ACC)2015 American Control Conference (ACC) (2015). DOI

Zhao, Y., S. Zhang, P. Li, A. Chen, D. Li, S. Rizwan, J. Zhang, J. Seidel, T. Qu, Z. Luo, Q. He, L. Yang, Y. Wu, X. Jin, C. Gao, X. Han, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Electric-field control of magnetism in multiferroic heterostructures."2015 IEEE International Magnetics Conference, INTERMAG 2015 (2015). DOI

Meyers, Stephen, Alison A. Williams, Peter T. Chan, and Sarah K. Price."Energy and Economic Impacts of U.S. Federal Energy and Water Conservation Standards Adopted From 1987 Through 2014." (2015).

Dutton, Spencer M., and William J. Fisk."Energy and IAQ Implications of Alternative Minimum Ventilation Rates in California Retail and School Buildings." (2015).

Schiller, Steven R.."Energy Efficiency EM&V in EPA’s Clean Power Plan." (2015).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Girish Ghatikar, Rongxin Yin, G. Ganesh Das, and Sujay Kumar Saha."Estimation of Potential and Value of Demand Response for Industrial and Commercial Consumers in Delhi."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Girish Ghatikar, Ranjit Deshmukh, and Aamir Hussain Khan."Findings from an Advanced Demand Response Smart Grid Project to Improve Electricity Reliability in India."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Domingo, N., L. López-Mir, M. Paradinas, V. Holy, J. Železný, D. Yi, S.J. Suresha, J. F. Liu, Rayan Serrao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, C. Ocal, X. Marti, and G. Catalan."Giant reversible nanoscale piezoresistance at room temperature in Sr2IrO4 thin films."Nanoscale 7 (2015) 3453-3459. DOI

Yan, Z., D. Meier, J. Schaab, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, E. Samulon, and E. Bourret."Growth of high-quality hexagonal ErMnO3 single crystals by the pressurized floating-zone method."Journal of Crystal Growth 409 (2015) 75-79. DOI

Giovanni, D., H. Ma, J. Chua, M. Grätzel, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S. Mhaisalkar, N. Mathews, and T.C. Sum."Highly spin-polarized carrier dynamics and ultralarge photoinduced magnetization in CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite thin films."Nano Letters 15 (2015) 1553-1558. DOI

Donovan, Sally M., Scott J. Young, and Jeffery B. Greenblatt."Ice-Making in the U.S.: Results from an Amazon Mechanical Turk Survey." (2015).

McNeil, Michael A., and Ana Maria Carreno."Impacts Evaluation of Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards in Mexico since 2000."International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2015).

Less, Brennan, Nasim A. Mullen, Brett C. Singer, and Iain S. Walker."Indoor Air Quality in 24 California Residences Designed as High-Performance Homes." (2015). DOI

Li, Cheng, Tianzhen Hong, and Da Yan."An Insight into Actual Energy Use and Its Drivers in High-Performance Buildings." (2015).

Gerke, Brian F., Michael A. McNeil, and Thomas Tu."International Database of Efficient Appliances (IDEA): A Novel Tool for Efficiency Program Development and Evaluation." (2015).

Walker, Iain S., and J. Chris Stratton."Laboratory Evaluation Of Air Flow Measurement Methods For Residential HVAC Returns."ASHRAE Transactions 21, Part 2 (2015).

Lee, Y., Z.Q. Liu, J.T. Heron, J.D. Clarkson, J. Hong, C. Ko, M.D. Biegalski, U. Aschauer, S.L. Hsu, M.E. Nowakowski, J. Wu, H.M. Christen, S. Salahuddin, J.B. Bokor, N.A. Spaldin, D.G. Schlom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Large resistivity modulation in mixed-phase metallic systems."Nature Communications 6 (2015). DOI

Mills, Evan."Looking For Value in All The Wrong Places: Toward Expanded Consideration of Green and High Performance Attributes in Non-residential Property Appraisals in the United States." (2015).

Ohshita, Stephanie, Nan Zhou, Lynn K. Price, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Lixuan Hong, Hongyou Lu, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Gang He, and Jinyue Yan."Low Carbon Development for Cities: Methods and Measures."Handbook of Clean Energy Systems 6 (2015) 1-23. DOI

Khanna, Nina, and David Fridley."Mind the Gap: New Developments and Outlook for China’s Transport Sector to 2030."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, June 1-6, 2015 (2015).

Wetter, Michael, Wangda Zuo, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Xiufeng Pang."Modelica Buildings Library." (2015).

Zhang, W., Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, and H. Wang."Multifunctional, self-assembled oxide nanocomposite thin films and devices."MRS Bulletin 40 (2015) 736-745. DOI