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)

2021

Lilley, Drew, Peiyuan Yu, Jason Ma, Anubhav Jain, and Ravi S. Prasher."Thermal Fluids with High Specific Heat Capacity through Reversible Diels–Alder Reactions."iScience (2021) 103540. DOI

Farley, Chandra, John Howat, Jenifer Bosco, Nidhi Thakar, Jake Wise, Jean Su, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Advancing Equity in Utility Regulation."Future Electric Utility Regulation Series FEUR Report No. 12 (2021).

Stuart, Elizabeth."An Ally in Your Corner: Benefits of Using Owner's Representatives." (2021).

Wang, Zhe, Bingqing Chen, Han Li, and Tianzhen Hong."AlphaBuilding ResCommunity: A multi-agent virtual testbed for community-level load coordination."Advances in Applied Energy 4 (2021) 100061. DOI

Bueno de Mesquita, P. Jacob, William W. Delp, Wanyu R. Chan, William P. Bahnfleth, and Brett C. Singer."Control of airborne infectious disease in buildings: evidence and research priorities."Indoor Air (2021). DOI

Pradhan, Ojas, Jin Wen, Yimin Chen, Xing Lu, Mengyuan Chu, Yangyang Fu, Zheng O'Neill, Teresa Wu, and Selcuk Candan."Dynamic Bayesian Network-Based Fault Diagnosis for ASHRAE Guideline 36: High Performance Sequence of Operation for HVAC Systems."The 1st ACM International Workshop on Big Data and Machine Learning for Smart Buildings and Cities (ACM BALANCES) (2021). DOI

Popovich, Natalie, Deepak Rajagopal, Elif Tasar, and Amol A. Phadke."Economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric."Nature Energy 6.11 (2021) 1017 - 1025. DOI

Zuberi, Jibran, Ali Hasanbeigi, and William R. Morrow III."Electrification of Boilers in U.S. Manufacturing." (2021).

Rainer, Leo, Alan K. Meier, and Robert Hosbach."Energy use of residential safety, security, and health devices."Energy and Buildings 250 (2021) 111217. DOI

Orner, Kevin D., Sarah Josephine Smith, Hanna Breunig, Corinne D. Scown, and Kara L. Nelson."Fertilizer demand and potential supply through nutrient recovery from organic waste digestate in California."Water Research 206 (2021) 117717. DOI

Putra, Handi Chandra, Clinton Andrews, and Tianzhen Hong."Generating synthetic occupants for use in building performance simulation."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 14.6 (2021) 712 - 729. DOI

Banerjee, Deepanwita, Thomas Eng, Yusuke Sasaki, Aparajitha Srinivasan, Asun M. Oka, Robin A. Herbert, Jessica Trinh, Vasanth R. Singan, Ning Sun, Daniel Putnam, Corinne D. Scown, Blake A. Simmons, and Aindrila Mukhopadhyay."Genomics Characterization of an Engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum in Bioreactor Cultivation Under Ionic Liquid Stress."Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 9 (2021). DOI

Seel, Joachim, and Andrew D. Mills."Integrating Cambium Marginal Costs into Electric Sector Decisions: Opportunities to Integrate Cambium Marginal Cost Data into Berkeley Lab Analysis and Technical Assistance." (2021).

Montañés, Cristina Crespo, Will Gorman, Andrew D. Mills, and James Hyungkwan Kim."Keep it short: Exploring the impacts of configuration choices on the recent economics of solar-plus-battery and wind-plus-battery hybrid energy plants." (2021). DOI

Giannelos, Spyros, Anjali Jain, Stefan Borozan, Paola Falugi, Alexandre Moreira, Rohit Bhakar, Jyotirmay Mathur, and Goran Strbac."Long-Term Expansion Planning of the Transmission Network in India under Multi-Dimensional Uncertainty."Energies 14.22 (2021) 7813. DOI

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Chao Ding, Brian Holuj, and Marco Duran."Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Commercial Refrigeration Equipment." (2021).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Tabeel A. Jacob, Chao Ding, Nihan Karali, Brian Holuj, and Marco Duran."Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Supporting Information." (2021).

Bui, Justin C., Kaitlin RaeM. Corpus, Alexis T. Bell, and Adam Z. Weber."On the Nature of Field-Enhanced Water Dissociation in Bipolar Membranes."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125.45 (2021) 24974 - 24987. DOI

Gao, Yuan, Qiye Zheng, Jacob C. Jonsson, Sean D. Lubner, Dragan C. Curcija, Luis L. Fernandes, Sumanjeet Kaur, and Christian Kohler."Parametric study of solid-solid translucent phase change materials in building windows."Applied Energy 301 (2021) 117467. DOI

Seel, Joachim, Dev Millstein, Andrew D. Mills, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H. Wiser."Plentiful electricity turns wholesale prices negative."Advances in Applied Energy 4 (2021). DOI

Meier, Alan K., and Dan Cautley."Practical limits to the use of non-intrusive load monitoring in commercial buildings."Energy and Buildings 251 (2021) 111308. DOI

Bennani, Imane Lahmam, Anand Prakash, Marina Zafiris, Lazlo Paul, Carlos Duarte Roa, Paul Raftery, Marco Pritoni, and Gabe Fierro."Query relaxation for portable brick-based applications."BuildSys '21: The 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (2021). DOI