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)

2013

Martinez, Carlos A.."NERC Interconnections Candidate Frequency Events Report." (2013).

Dursch, Thomas J., Gregory J Trigub, J. F. Liu, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Non-isothermal melting of ice in the gas-diffusion layer of a proton-exchange-membrane fuel cell."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 67 (2013) 896-901. DOI

Bravo, Richard J., and Steven Robles."Paralleled Residential Solar PV Inverter Test Report." (2013).

Xu, Tengfang T., Tjebbe Galama, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Reducing Carbon Footprint in Cement Material Making: Characterizing Costs of Conserved Energy and Reduced Carbon Emissions."Sustainable Cities and Society 9 (2013) 54-61. DOI

Bravo, Richard J.."Residential Air Conditioner with VFD Test Procedures." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J., and Steven Robles."Residential German Solar PV Inverter Test Report." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J., and Steven Robles."Residential Solar PV Inverter Test Report." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J., and Steven Robles."Residential U.S. Solar PV Inverter with Advanced Features Test Report." (2013).

Haussener, Sophia, Shu Hu, Chengxiang Xiang, Adam Z. Weber, and Nathan S. Lewis."Simulations of the irradiation and temperature dependence of the efficiency of tandem photoelectrochemical water-splitting systems."Energy & Environmental Science 6.12 (2013) 3605. DOI

Bravo, Richard J., and Steven Robles."Solar PV Inverter Test Procedures." (2013).

Ceder, Gerbrand, and Kristin A. Persson."The Stuff of Dreams."Scientific American 309.6 (2013) 36-40. DOI

Bravo, Richard J.."Three-Phase German Solar PV Inverter Test Report." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J.."Transformerless Solar PV Inverters Test Report." (2013).

McNeil, Andrew, Jacob C. Jonsson, David Appelfeld, Gregory J. Ward, and Eleanor S. Lee."A validation of a ray-tracing tool used to generate bi-directional scattering distribution functions for complex fenestration systems."Solar Energy 98.C (2013) 404-414. DOI

Hong, Lixuan, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, and Chris Raczkowski."Assessment of China's Renewable Energy Contribution During the 12th Five Year Plan."Energy Policy 62 (2013) 1533-1543. DOI

Cappers, Peter, Jason S. MacDonald, Charles A. Goldman, and Ookie Ma."An assessment of market and policy barriers for demand response providing ancillary services in U.S. electricity markets."Energy Policy 62 (2013) 1031-1039. DOI

Heleno, Miguel, Manuel A. Matos, and J. A.Pecas Lopes."Availability of thermal loads to provide reserve services."2013 IEEE Grenoble PowerTech2013 IEEE Grenoble Conference (2013). DOI

Doeff, Marca M., Guoying Chen, Jordi Cabana, Thomas J. Richardson, Apurva Mehta, Mona Shirpour, Hugues Duncan, Chunjoong Kim, Kinson C. Kam, and Thomas E. Conry."Characterization of Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion and Sodium Ion Batteries using Synchrotron Radiation Techniques."Journal of Visualized Experiments (2013). DOI

Saxena, Samveg, Anand R. Gopal, and Amol A. Phadke."Electrical consumption of two-, three- and four-wheel light-duty electric vehicles in India."Applied Energy 115 (2013) 582-590. DOI

Teh, Pei Fen, Stevin S. Pramana, Chunjoong Kim, Chieh-Ming Chen, Cheng-Hao Chuang, Yogesh Sharma, Jordi Cabana, and Srinivasan Madhavi."Electrochemical Reactivity with Lithium of Spinel-type ZnFe_2–yCr_yO₄ (0≤ y≤ 2)."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117.46 (2013) 24213-24223. DOI

Li, , Hechao, Andrey Gunawan, Patrick E. Phelan, Daniel A Buttry, Vladimiro Mujica, Robert A. Taylor, and Ravi S. Prasher."Electrode Separation and Operating Orientation: Mechanisms for Maximizing Performance of Cu/Cu2+ Aqueous Thermogalvanic Cells."ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2013) V06AT07A074–V06AT07A074. DOI

Fisk, William J., Federico Noris, and Brett C. Singer."Energy impacts of energy and indoor environmental quality retrofits of apartments." (2013).

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, and Mary Ann Piette."Energy information systems (EIS): Technology costs, benefit, and best practice uses." (2013).

Lowenthal-Savy, Danielle, Michael A. McNeil, and Lloyd Harrington."Evidence of Progress – Measurement of Impacts of Australia’s S&L Program from 1990-2010."7th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2013).

Hoen, Ben, Geoffrey T. Klise, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Mark A. Thayer, Joachim Seel, and Ryan H. Wiser."Exploring California PV Home Premiums." (2013).