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.
Publications
News +
For media inquiries,
please contact ETA
Interim Communications Manager
Kiran Julin

[email protected]
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)

2012

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, and Junqiao Han Dudley."Field Demonstration of Automated Demand Response for Both Winter and Summer Events in Large Buildings in the Pacific Northwest."Energy Efficiency (2012). DOI

Mills, Evan."The Greening of Insurance."Science 338.6113 (2012) 1424-1425. DOI

Turner, William J. N., and Max H. Sherman."Infiltration as ventilation: Weather-induced dilution."HVAC&R Research 18.6 (2012) 1122-1135. DOI

Zhou, Nan, John Romankiewicz, Edward L. Vine, Nina Khanna, and David Fridley."International Review of Frameworks for Impact Evaluation of Appliance Standards, Labeling, and Incentives." (2012).

Cai, Kunpeng, Min-Kyu Song, Elton J. Cairns, and Yuegang Zhang."Nanostructured Li₂S–C composites as cathode material for high-energy lithium/sulfur batteries."Nano Letters 12 (2012) 6474-6479. DOI

Olsen, Daniel, Sasank Goli, David Faulkner, and Aimee T. McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in Wastewater Treatment Facilities in California - Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant Case Study." (2012).

Dworkin, Michael, Katie Johnson, Donald Kreis, Carey Rosser, Jonathan Voegele, Steve Weissman, Megan A. Billingsley, and Charles A. Goldman."A Regulator's Privacy Guide to Third Party Data Access for Energy Efficiency." (2012).

Walter, Travis, David M. Lorenzetti, and Michael D. Sohn."Siting Samplers to Minimize Expected Time to Detection."Risk Analysis 32.12 (2012) 2032 - 2042. DOI

Ganti, Venkata, and Girish Ghatikar."Smart Grid as a Driver for Energy-Intensive Industries: A Data Center Case Study."Grid-Interop 2012 (2012).

Taylor, Robert A., Patrick E. Phelan, Todd P. Otanicar, Ravi S. Prasher, and Bernadette E. Phelan."Socioeconomic impacts of heat transfer research."Int. Commun. Heat Mass Transfer 39 (2012) 1467–1473. DOI

Williams, Alison A., Hung-Chia Yang, Bereket Beraki, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Scott J. Young, Chun Chun Ni, Henry Willem, Jeffery B. Greenblatt, Camilla Dunham, and Sally M. Donovan."Surveys of Microwave Ovens in U.S. Homes." (2012).

Salamanca, Francisco, Shaheen R. Tonse, Surabi Menon, Vishal Garg, Krishna P. Singh, Manish Naja, and Marc L. Fischer."Top-of-atmosphere radiative cooling with white roofs: experimental verification and model-based evaluation."Environmental Research Letters 7.4 (2012). DOI

Hussey, Daniel S., Dusan Spernjak, Adam Z. Weber, Rangachary Mukundan, Joseph Fairweather, Eric L. Brosha, John Davey, Jacob S. Spendelow, David L. Jacobson, and Rodney L. Borup."Accurate measurement of the through-plane water content of proton-exchange membranes using neutron radiography."Journal of Applied Physics 112.10 (2012) 104906. DOI

Fujita, K. Sydny, and Margaret Taylor."Achieved and Potential Energy Savings through Energy Efficient Procurement." (2012).

Parrish, Kristen, and Cynthia Regnier."Achieving Energy Savings in Municipal Construction in Long Beach, CA." (2012).

Oztoprak, Belgin G., Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Turgay Gulecen, Nazim Mutlu, Richard E. Russo, Ozcan Gundogdu, and Arif Demir."Analysis and Classification of Heterogeneous Kidney Stones Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)."Applied spectroscopy 66.11 (2012) 1353-1361. DOI

Zhai, Pei, Peter H. Larsen, Dev Millstein, Surabi Menon, and Eric R. Masanet."Avoided emissions from high penetration of photovoltaic electricity in the United States."Energy 47.1 (2012). DOI

Ardani, Kristen, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ryan H. Wiser, David Feldman, and Sean Ong."Benchmarking Non-Hardware Balance of System (Soft) Costs for U.S. Photovoltaic Systems Using a Data-Driven Analysis from PV Installer Survey Results." (2012).

Blum, Helcio, and Luiz F.L. Legey."The Challenging Economics of Energy Security: Ensuring Energy Benefits in Support to Sustainable Development."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012) 1982-1989. DOI

Ke, Jing, Lynn K. Price, Stephanie Ohshita, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, and Mark D. Levine."China’s Industrial Energy Consumption Trends and Impacts of the Top-1000 Enterprises Energy-Saving Program and the Ten Key Energy-Saving Projects."Energy Policy 50 (2012) 562-569. DOI

Gunter, Dan, Shreyas Cholia, Anubhav Jain, Michael Kocher, Kristin A. Persson, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Shyue P. Ong, and Gerbrand Ceder."Community Accessible Datastore of High-Throughput Calculations: Experiences from the Materials Project."High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SCC) 2012 (2012) 1244-1251. DOI

Zheng, Honghe, Li Zhang, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Correlationship between electrode mechanics and long-term cycling performance for graphite anode in lithium ion cells."Journal of Power Sources 217 (2012) 530-537. DOI

Zhang, Liang, Elad Pollak, Wei-Cheng Wang, Peng Jiang, Per-Anders Glans, Yuegang Zhang, Jordi Cabana, Robert Kostecki, Chinglin Chang, Miquel Salmeron, Junfa Zhu, and Jinghua Guo."Electronic structure study of ordering and interfacial interaction in graphene/Cu composites."Carbon 50.14 (2012) 5316-5322. DOI

Larsen, Peter H., Charles A. Goldman, and Andrew Satchwell."Evolution of the U.S. Energy Service Company Industry: Market Size and Project Performance from 1990-2008."Energy Policy 50 (2012). DOI

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."Ex Post Analysis of Economic Impacts from Wind Power Development in U.S. Counties."Energy Economics 34.6 (2012). DOI