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

Lee, Eleanor S., Luis L. Fernandes, Howdy Goudey, Jacob C. Jonsson, Dragan C. Curcija, Xiufeng Pang, Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, and Sabine Hoffmann."A Pilot Demonstration of Electrochromic and Thermochromic Windows in the Denver Federal Center, Building 41, Denver, Colorado." (2013).

Cappers, Peter, Annika Todd, Michael Perry, Bernard Neenan, and Richard Boisvert."Quantifying the Impacts of Time-based Rates, Enabling Technology, and Other Treatments in Consumer Behavior Studies: Protocols and Guidelines." (2013).

Jin, Ling, Aurore Loisy, and Nancy J. Brown."Role of meteorological processes in ozone responses to emission controls in California's San Joaquin Valley."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118.14 (2013) 8010 - 8022. DOI

Lee, Eunseok, and Kristin A. Persson."Solid-Solution Li Intercalation as a Function of Cation Order/Disorder in the High-Voltage Li_xNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ Spinel."Chemistry of Materials 25.14 (2013) 2885-2889. DOI

Andersson, Joakim, Pavel A. Ni, and André Anders."Spectroscopic imaging of self-organization in high power impulse magnetron sputtering plasmas."Applied Physics Letters 103.5 (2013) 054104. DOI

Diamond, Richard C., Qing Ye, Wei Feng, Tao Yan, Hongwei Mao, Yutong Li, Yongcong Guo, and Jialang Wang."Sustainable Building in China—A Green Leap Forward?."Buildings 3.3 (2013) 639-658. DOI

Hang, Bo, Altaf H. Sarker, Christopher Havel, Saikat Saha, Tapas K. Hazra, Suzaynn F. Schick, Peyton Jacob III, Virender Rehan, Ahmed Chenna, Divya Sharan, Mohamad Sleiman, Hugo Destaillats, and Lara A. Gundel."Thirdhand smoke causes DNA damage in human cells."Mutagenesis 28.4 (2013) 381-391. DOI

Ryerson, Thomas B., Arlyn E. Andrews, Wayne M. Angevine, Timothy S. Bates, Charles A. Brock, Brian Cairns, Ronald C. Cohen, Owen R. Cooper, Joost A de Gouw, Fred C. Fehsenfeld, Rich A. Ferrare, Marc L. Fischer, Richard C. Flagan, Allen H. Goldstein, John W. Hair, R. Michael Hardesty, Chris A. Hostetler, Jose L Jimenez, Andrew O. Langford, Eileen McCauley, Stuart A. McKeen, Luisa T. Molina, Athanasios Nenes, Samuel J Oltmans, David D. Parrish, James R. Pederson, R. Bradley Pierce, Kimberly A. Prather, John H. Seinfeld, Christoph J. Senff, Armin Sorooshian, Jochen Stutz, Jason D Surratt, Michael K. Trainer, Rainer Volkamer, Eric J. Williams, and Steven C. Wofsy."The 2010 California Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change (CalNex) field study."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118.11 (2013) 5830-5866. DOI

Hu, Xin, Zhiming Pan, Jingjing Qian, Xiang Liu, John Romankiewicz, Wei Feng, and Rui Fan."Advanced Building Technologies and the Role of Energy Efficiency Policies in Promoting Their Development and Application." (2013).

Ke, Jing, Lynn K. Price, Michael A. McNeil, Nina Khanna, and Nan Zhou."Analysis and Practices of Energy Benchmarking for Industry from the Perspective of Systems Engineering."Energy 54 (2013) 32-44. DOI

Seel, Joachim, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."An Analysis of Residential PV System Price Differences Between the United States and Germany."39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (2013). DOI

Morrow, William R. III, John Marano, Jayant A. Sathaye, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Tengfang T. Xu."Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement in the United States Petroleum Refining Industry." (2013).

Hong, Tianzhen, Wei Feng, Alison Lu, Jianjun Xia, Le Yang, Qi Shen, Piljae Im, and Mahabir Bhandari."Building Energy Monitoring and Analysis." (2013).

Hong, Tianzhen, Hung-Wen Lin, Wen-Kuei Chang, Liping Wang, William J. N. Turner, Da Yan, Dandan Zhu, Xin Zhou, Chuang Wang, Chen Peng, and Xiaoxin Ren."Building Performance Simulation." (2013).

Masanet, Eric R., Arman Shehabi, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Characteristics of low-carbon data centres."Nature Climate Change 3 (2013) 627-630. DOI

Xun, Shidi, Bin Xiang, Andrew M. Minor, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer and Silicon Composite Secondary Particles for a High Area-Loading Negative Electrode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160.9 (2013) A1380-A1383. DOI

Pendleton, Linwood, Thomas R. Karl, and Evan Mills."Economic Growth in the Face of Weather and Climate Extremes: A Call for Better Data."Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 94 (2013). DOI

Duncan, Hugues, Nuha Salem, and Yaser Abu-Lebdeh."Electrolyte Formulations Based on Dinitrile Solvents for High Voltage Li-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160.6 (2013) A838-A848. DOI

He, Gang, Nan Zhou, Christopher J. Williams, and David Fridley."ELITE Cities: A low-carbon Eco-city Evaluation Tool for China."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study (2013).

Letschert, Virginie E., Stephane de la Rue du Can, Michael A. McNeil, Puneeth Kalavase, Allison Hua Fan, and Gabrielle Dreyfus."Energy Efficiency Appliance Standards: Where do we stand, how far can we go and how do we get there? An analysis across several economies." (2013).

Masanet, Eric R., Jiaqi Liang, XiaoHui Ma, Benjamin Walker, Arman Shehabi, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Valerie Hendrix, and Pradeep Mantha."The Energy Efficiency Potential of Cloud-Based Software: A U.S. Case Study." (2013).

Hu, Xin, Jingjing Qian, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Bo Shen, and Kuixin Liu."Energy Service Companies in the Building Sector — A Review of International and Chinese Experience." (2013).

Ke, Jing, Michael A. McNeil, Lynn K. Price, Nina Khanna, and Nan Zhou."Estimation of CO₂ Emissions from China’s Cement Production: Methodologies and Uncertainties."Energy Policy 57 (2013) 172-181.

Sherman, Max H., and Erin L. Hult."Impacts of Contaminant Storage on Indoor Air Quality: Model Development."Atmospheric Environment 72 (2013) 41-49. DOI