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.
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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

Sherman, Max H., Jennifer M. Logue, and Brett C. Singer."Infiltration Effects on Residential Pollutant Concentrations for Continuous and Intermittent Mechanical Ventilation Approaches."HVAC&R Research 17.2 (2010) 159. DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Pamela Sporborg, Imran Sheikh, Erich Huffaker, and Mary Ann Piette."Integrating Renewable Resources in California and the Role of Automated Demand Response." (2010).

Yu, P., J.-S. Lee, S. Okamoto, M.D. Rossell, M. Huijben, C.-H. Yang, Q. He, J.X. Zhang, S.Y. Yang, M.J. Lee, Q.M. Ramasse, R. Erni, Y.-H. Chu, D.A. Arena, C.-C. Kao, L.W. Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Interface ferromagnetism and orbital reconstruction in BiFeO 3-La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 heterostructures."Physical Review Letters 105 (2010). DOI

Gray, A.X., C. Papp, B. Balke, S.-H. Yang, M. Huijben, E. Rotenberg, A. Bostwick, S. Ueda, Y. Yamashita, K. Kobayashi, E.M. Gullikson, J.B. Kortright, F.M.F. De Groot, G. Rijnders, D.H.A. Blank, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and C.S. Fadley."Interface properties of magnetic tunnel junction La0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO3 / SrTiO3 superlattices studied by standing-wave excited photoemission spectroscopy."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 82 (2010). DOI

Bastien, Lucas A.J., Phillip N. Price, and Nancy J. Brown."Intermolecular Potential Parameters and Combining Rules Determined from Viscosity Data."Journal of Chemical Kinetics 43 (2010) 713-723. DOI

Mills, Evan."Kermit was Right: It's NOT Easy Being Green." (2010).

Vaz, C.A.F., J. Hoffman, C.H. Ahn, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Magnetoelectric coupling effects in multiferroic complex oxide composite structures."Advanced Materials 22 (2010) 2900-2918. DOI

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy."Magnetoelectrics: Making metallic memories."Nature Nanotechnology 5 (2010) 761-762. DOI

Borisevich, A.Y., O.S. Ovchinnikov, H.J. Chang, M.P. Oxley, P. Yu, J. Seidel, E.A. Eliseev, A.N. Morozovska, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.J. Pennycook, and S.V. Kalinin."Mapping octahedral tilts and polarization across a domain wall in BiFeO3 from Z-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy image atomic column shape analysis."ACS Nano 4 (2010) 6071-6079. DOI

Tracy, Jennifer, Peter Alstone, Arne Jacobson, and Evan Mills."Market Trial: Selling Off-Grid Lighting Products in Rural Kenya." (2010).

Delacourt, Charles, and John S. Newman."Mathematical Modeling of CO₂ Reduction to CO in Aqueous Electrolytes, II Study of an Electrolysis Cell Making Synagas (CO + H₂) from CO₂ and H₂O Reduction at Room Temperature."Electrochemical Society 157 (2010) B1911-B1926.

Hadley, Odelle L., Craig E. Corrigan, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Steve S. Cliff, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan."Measured Black Carbon Deposition on the Sierra Nevada Snow Pack and Implication for Snow Pack Retreat."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 10 (2010) 7505-7513. DOI

Jin, Ling, Robert A. Harley, and Nancy J. Brown."Meteorology-induced Variations in the Spatial Behavior of Summer Ozone Pollution in Central California."Atmospheric Environment (2010). DOI

Price, Phillip N.."Methods for Analyzing Electric Load Shape and its Variability." (2010).

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Peter L. Bartlett, Philip Haves, and Michael D. Sohn."Modeling and Measurement Constraints in Fault Diagnostics for HVAC Systems."ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Controls (2010).

Sartor, Dale A., and Mark Wilson."Money for Research, Not for Energy Bills: Finding Energy and Cost Savings in High Performance Computer Facility Designs."Computing in Science and Engineering 12 (2010) 19-Nov.

Spaldin, N.A., S.-W. Cheong, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Multiferroics: Past, present, and future."Physics Today 63 (2010) 38-43. DOI

Valvidares, S.M., M. Huijben, P. Yu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J.B. Kortright."Native SrTiO3 (001) surface layer from resonant Ti L 2,3 reflectance spectroscopy."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 82 (2010). DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, and Junqiao Han Dudley."Northwest Open Automated Demand Response Technology Demonstration Project." (2010).

Ghatikar, Girish, Johanna L. Mathieu, Mary Ann Piette, and Sila Kiliccote."Open Automated Demand Response Technologies for Dynamic Pricing and Smart Grid."Grid-Interop Conference 2010 (2010).

Chen, P., N.J. Podraza, X.S. Xu, A. Melville, E. Vlahos, V. Gopalan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D.G. Schlom, and J.L. Musfeldt."Optical properties of quasi-tetragonal BiFeO3 thin films."Applied Physics Letters 96 (2010). DOI

Zheng, Honghe, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, Paul L. Ridgway, Shidi Xun, and Vincent S. Battaglia."An Optimization of Electrode Energy and Power Density through of Variations in Inactive Material and Electrode Porosity."J. Elec. Chem (2010).

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J. Richardson."Overcharge Protection for 4 V Lithium Batteries at High Rates and Low Temperatures."Journal of Electrochemical Society 157.6 (2010) A735-A740. DOI

Sherman, Max H., and Craig P. Wray."Parametric System Curves: Correlations Between Fan Pressure Rise and Flow for Large Commercial Buildings." (2010).

Apte, Michael G., and Joshua S. Apte."A Pilot Study of the Effectiveness of Indoor Plants for Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds in Indoor Air in a Seven-Story Office Building." (2010).