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)

2005

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."An Optimization and Assessment on DG Adoption in Japanese Prototype Buildings."International Symposium on Sustainable Development of the Asian City Environment (SDACE) 2005 (2005).

Prasher, Ravi S.."Thermal boundary resistance of nanocomposites."Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 48 (2005) 4942–4952. DOI

Eto, Joseph H."The Value of Economic Dispatch: A Report to Congress Pursuant to Section 1234 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005." (2005).

Piette, Mary Ann, Osman Sezgen, David S. Watson, Naoya Motegi, Christine Shockman, and Laurie ten Hope."Development and Evaluation of Fully Automated Demand Response in Large Facilities." (2005).

Curtil, Dimitri, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Nan Zhou, Ryan M. Firestone, and Judy Lai."Distributed Energy Enabling Technologies: Site Energy Simulation." (2005).

Piette, Mary Ann, David S. Watson, Naoya Motegi, and Norman Bourassa."Findings from the 2004 Fully Automated Demand Response Tests in Large Facilities." (2005).

Stadler, Michael, Peter Palensky, Brigitte Lorenz, Manfred Weihs, and Charlotte Roesener."Integral Resource Optimization Networks and their Techno-Economic Constraints."International journal of distributed energy resources 1 (2005) 299-320.

Akbari, Hashem, Ronnen M. Levinson, and Leo I. Rainer."Monitoring the energy-use effects of cool roofs on California commercial buildings."Energy and Buildings 37.10 (2005) 1007-1016. DOI

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S. Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E. Russo."Particle-size dependent chemistry from laser ablation of brass."Analytical Chemistry 77.20 (2005) 6687-6691. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S.."Predicting the thermal resistance of nanosized constrictions."Nano Lett. 5 (2005) 2155–2159. DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, and Mary Ann Piette."Advanced Control Technologies and Strategies Linking Demand Response and Energy Efficiency."5th International Conference on Enhanced Building Operations (2005).

Sohn, Michael D., Richard G. Sextro, and David M. Lorenzetti."Assessing Sheltering-In-Place Responses to Outdoor Toxic Releases."10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate - Indoor Air 2005, Sept. 4-9, 2005 2(6) (2005) 1792-1796.

Firestone, Ryan M., and Chris Marnay."The Effects of Electricity Tariff Structure on Distributed Generation Adoption in New York State." (2005) 104.

Biermayer, Peter J.."Potential Water and Energy Savings from Showerheads." (2005).

Matson, Nance, and Mary Ann Piette."Review of California and National Methods for Energy Performance Benchmarking of Commercial Buildings." (2005).

Deb, Aniruddha, Uwe Bergmann, Stephen P. Cramer, and Elton J. Cairns."Structural investigations of LiFePO₄ electrodes and in situ studies by Fe X-ray absorption spectroscopy."Electrochimica Acta 50.25-26 (2005) 5200-5207. DOI

Price, Lynn K., Christina Galitsky, Jonathan E. Sinton, Ernst Worrell, and Wina Graus."Tax and Fiscal Policies for Promotion of Industrial Energy Efficiency: A Survey of International Experience." (2005).

Price, Lynn K., Christina Galitsky, Jonathan E. Sinton, Ernst Worrell, and Wina Graus."Tax and Fiscal Policies for Promotion of Industrial Energy Efficiency: A Survey of International Experience." (2005).

Akbari, Hashem, Asmeret A. Berhe, Ronnen M. Levinson, Stanley Graveline, Kevin Foley, Ana H. Delgado, and Ralph M. Paroli."Aging and Weathering of Cool Roofing Membranes." (2005).

Sathaye, Jayant A., Lynn K. Price, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and David Fridley."Assessment of Energy Use and Energy Savings Potential in Selected Industrial Sectors in India." (2005).

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Balancing Cost and Risk: The Treatment of Renewable Energy in Western Utility Resource Plans." (2005) 100.

Morrissey, Elmer, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and John F. McCarthy."Building Effectiveness Communication Ratios for Improved Building Life Cycle Management."IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2005 (2005).

Chen, Guoying, Karen E. Thomas-Alyea, John S. Newman, and Thomas J. Richardson."Characterization of an electroactive polymer for overcharge protection in secondary lithium batteries."Electrochimica Acta 50.24 (2005) 4666-4673. DOI

Crawley, Drury B., Jon W. Hand, Michael Kummert, and Brent T. Griffith."Contrasting the Capabilities of Building Energy Performance Simulation Programs."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Goldman, Charles A., Nicole C. Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, Richard Boisvert, Peter Cappers, Donna Pratt, and Kim Butkins."Customer Strategies for Responding to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Electricity Pricing." (2005) 107.