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)

2010

Levinson, Ronnen M., Hashem Akbari, Paul H. Berdahl, Kurt Wood, Wayne Skilton, and Jerry Petersheim."A novel technique for the production of cool colored concrete tile and asphalt shingle roofing products."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 94.6 (2010) 946-954. DOI

Sohn, Michael D., Douglas R. Black, Phillip N. Price, Yiqing Lin, Rohini Brahme, Amit Surana, Satish Narayanan, Alberto Cerpa, Varick Ericson, and Ankur Kamthe."Occupancy-Based Energy Management in Buildings: Final Report to Sponsors." (2010).

Ghatikar, Girish, Johanna L. Mathieu, Mary Ann Piette, Edward Koch, and Dan Hennage."Open Automated Demand Response Dynamic Pricing Technologies and Demonstration." (2010).

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, and Judy Lai."Optimal Control of Distributed Energy Resources and Demand Response under Uncertainty."IAEE’s Rio 2010 International Conference, June 6-9, 2010 (2010).

Momber, Ilan, Tomás Gómez, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Sebastian Beer, Judy Lai, Chris Marnay, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Plug-in Electric Vehicle Interactions with a Small Office Building: An Economic Analysis using DER-CAM." (2010) 12.

Martinez, Carlos A., Howard F. Illian, and L. Patterson."Research Results and Recommendations for Automatic Processes for Identifying Interconnections Frequency Events and Estimate Frequency Response."Frequency Events Identification and Frequency Response (2010).

Larsen, Peter H.."The Role of Scaling in Societal Applications: Public and Private Infrastructure Vulnerabilities."Scaling Studies in Arctic System Science and Policy Support (2010).

Ghatikar, Girish."Smart Grid Opportunities for Data Centers."Datacenter Dynamics North America (2010).

Sethuraman, Vijay A., Laurence J. Hardwick, Venkat Srinivasan, and Robert Kostecki."Surface structural disordering in graphite upon lithium intercalation/deintercalation."Journal of Power Sources 195.11 (2010) 3655-3660. DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Charles A. Goldman, Peter H. Larsen, Donald Gilligan, and Terry E. Singer."A Survey of the U.S. ESCO Industry: Market Growth and Development from 2008 to 2011." (2010) 31.

Jain, Anubhav, S.-A. Seyed-Reihani, Christopher C. Fischer, David J. Couling, Gerbrand Ceder, and William H. Green."Ab initio screening of metal sorbents for elemental mercury capture in syngas streams."Chemical Engineering Science 65.10 (2010) 3025-3033. DOI

Zimring, Mark, Merrian C. Fuller, and Merrian Borgeson."Accelerating the Payment of PACE Assessments."Clean Energy Financing Policy Brief (2010) 4.

Zhang, , Tiejun, Yoav Peles, John T Wen, Tao Tong, Je-Young Chang, Ravi S. Prasher, and Michael K Jensen."Analysis and active control of pressure-drop flow instabilities in boiling microchannel systems."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 53 (2010) 2347–2360. DOI

Erickson, John, K. Sydny Fujita, and Sarah Swanbeck."Conservation Strategies for the Sonoma County Water Agency." (2010) 44.

Sathaye, Jayant A., and Arjun Gupta."Eliminating Electricity Deficit through Energy Efficiency in India: An Evaluation of Aggregate Economic and Carbon Benefits." (2010).

Chowdhury, , Ihtesham, Todd P. Otanicar, Ravi S. Prasher, Jonathan A. Sherbeck, Patrick E. Phelan, and Marc Burrell."Enhanced Efficiency in a Coupled Photovoltaic/Thermal Concentrating Solar Collector."ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (2010) 529–536. DOI

Price, Lynn K., Stephane de la Rue du Can, Hongyou Lu, and Arpad Horvath."Evaluation of Efficiency Activities in the Industrial Sector Undertaken in Response to Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets." (2010).

Mortensen, Dorthe Kragsig, Max H. Sherman, and Iain S. Walker."IAQ Based Design of an Efficient DCV System."10th REHVA World Congress (2010).

Bol'shakov, Alexander A., Jong-Hyun Yoo, Chunyi Liu, John R. Plumer, and Richard E. Russo."Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in industrial and security applications."Applied Optics 49.13 (2010) C132-C142. DOI

Otanicar, Todd P., Patrick E. Phelan, Ravi S. Prasher, and others."Nanofluid-based direct absorption solar collector."J. Renewable Sustainable Energy (2010). DOI

Letschert, Virginie E., Louis-Benoit Desroches, Michael A. McNeil, and Yamina Saheb."Potential Impact of Adopting Maximum Technologies as Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards in the U.S. Residential Sector."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010) 13.

Walker, Iain S., Darryl J. Dickerhoff, and William W. Delp."Residential Forced Air System Cabinet Leakage and Blower Performance." (2010).

Jin, Ling, Nancy J. Brown, Robert A. Harley, Jian-Wen Bao, Sarah A. Michelson, and James M. Wilczak."Seasonal versus episodic performance evaluation for an Eulerian photochemical air quality model."Journal of Geophysical Research 115.D9 (2010). DOI

Jin, Ling, Nancy J. Brown, Robert A. Harley, Jian-Wen Bao, Sarah A. Michelson, and James M. Wilczak."Seasonal versus episodic performance evaluation for an Eulerian photochemical air quality model."Journal of Geophysical Research 115.D9 (2010). DOI

Owens, Travis, Samuel S. Mao, Erin K. Canfield, Costas P. Grigoropoulos, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Ultrafast thin-film laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of doped oxides."Applied Optics 49.13 (2010) C67-C69. DOI