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)

2012

Brown, Jason P, John Pender, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, and Ben Hoen."The Impact of Wind Development on County-Level Income and Employment: A Review of Methods and an Empirical Analysis (Fact Sheet)." (2012).

Zhou, Nan, Nina Khanna, David Fridley, and John Romankiewicz."International Review of Framework for Standards & Labeling Setting and Development." (2012).

Sathre, Roger, and Eric R. Masanet."Long-Term Energy and Climate Implications of Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment Strategies in the US Coal-Fired Electricity Fleet."Environmental Science & Technology 46.17 (2012) 9768 - 9776. DOI

Hult, Erin L., Darryl J. Dickerhoff, and Phillip N. Price."Measurement Methods to Determine Air Leakage Between Adjacent Zones." (2012).

Haussener, Sophia, Chengxiang Xiang, Joshua M. Spurgeon, Shane Ardo, Nathan S. Lewis, and Adam Z. Weber."Modeling, simulation, and design criteria for photoelectrochemical water-splitting systems."Energy & Environmental Science 5.12 (2012) 9922-9935. DOI

Patel, , Shrayesh N., Anna E. Javier, Keith M. Beers, John A. Pople, Victor Ho, Rachel A Segalman, and Nitash P. Balsara."Morphology and Thermodynamic Properties of a Copolymer with an Electronically Conducting Block: Poly (3-ethylhexylthiophene)-block-poly (ethylene oxide)."Nano Letters 12 (2012) 4901-4906. DOI

Chen, Xiaobo, Can Li, Michael Grätzel, Robert Kostecki, and Samuel S. Mao."Nanomaterials for renewable energy production and storage."Chemical Society Reviews 41.23 (2012) 7909-7937. DOI

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."The Path to Savings: Understanding the Federal Purchase of Energy-Consuming Products." (2012).

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."Program Potential: Estimates of Federal Energy Cost Savings from Energy Efficient Procurement." (2012).

Gonzalez, Jhanis J., Dayana D. Oropeza, Henry Longerich, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Rapid bulk analysis using femtosecond laser ablation inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometry."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 27.9 (2012) 1405-1412. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Suchol Savagatrup, Kyle Clark, and Adam Z. Weber."Role of Mechanical Factors in Controlling the Structure–Function Relationship of PFSA Ionomers."Macromolecules 45.18 (2012) 7467 - 7476. DOI

Ravikumar, Krishnanjan Gubba."RTDS Testing Final Report." (2012).

Conry, Thomas E., Apurva Mehta, Jordi Cabana, and Marca M. Doeff."Structural Underpinnings of the Enhanced Cycling Stability upon Al-Substitution in LiNi_0.45Mn_0.45Co_0.1-yAl_yO₂ Positive Electrode Materials for Li-ion Batteries."Chemistry of Materials 24.17 (2012) 3307-3317. DOI

Nordman, Bruce, Ken Christensen, and Alan K. Meier."Think Globally, Distribute Power Locally: The Promise of Nanogrids."Computer 45.9 (2012). DOI

Saxena, Samveg, Iván Dario Bedoya, Nihar Shah, and Amol A. Phadke."Understanding Loss Mechanisms and Efficiency Improvement Options for HCCI Engines Using Detailed Exergy Analysis." (2012). DOI

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Kaustubh Phalak, Wangda Zuo, and Michael Wetter."Validation and Application of the Room Model of the Modelica Buildings Library."Proc. of the 9th International Modelica Conference (2012).

Conry, Thomas E., Apurva Mehta, Jordi Cabana, and Marca M. Doeff."XAFS Investigations of LiNi_0.45Mn_0.45Co_0.1-yAl_yO₂ Positive Electrode Materials."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.9 (2012) A1562-A1571. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Sari Fink, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2011 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2012).

Zimring, Mark, and Merrian Borgeson."Aggregating QECB Allocations and Using QECBs to Support the Private Sector: A Case Study on Massachusetts." (2012).

Chan, Wanyu R., Jeffrey Joh, and Max H. Sherman."Air Leakage of US Homes: Regression Analysis and Improvements from Retrofit." (2012).

Chan, Wanyu R., Jeffrey Joh, and Max H. Sherman."Analysis of Air Leakage Measurements from Residential Diagnostics Database." (2012).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."An Analysis of the Relationship between Casualty Risk Per Crash and Vehicle Mass and Footprint for Model Year 2000-2007 Light-Duty Vehicles - Final Report." (2012).

Dutton, Spencer M., Hui Zhang, Yongchao Zhai, Edward A. Arens, Youness Bennani Smires, Samuel L. Brunswick, Kyle S. Konis, and Philip Haves."Application of a stochastic window use model in EnergyPlus."SimBuild 2012, 5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA, August 1-3, 2012 (2012).

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Peter L. Bartlett, Philip Haves, and Michael D. Sohn."Application of machine learning in the fault diagnostics of air handling units."Applied Energy 96 (2012) 347 - 358. DOI

Aieta, Niccolo V., Prodip K. Das, Andrew Perdue, Guido Bender, Andrew M. Herring, Adam Z. Weber, and Michael J Ulsh."Applying infrared thermography as a quality-control tool for the rapid detection of polymer-electrolyte-membrane-fuel-cell catalyst-layer-thickness variations."Journal of Power Sources 211 (2012) 4 - 11. DOI