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)

2020

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Patience is a virtue: A data-driven analysis of rooftop solar PV permitting timelines in the United States."Energy Policy 144 (2020). DOI

Tucker, Michael C.."Progress in metal-supported solid oxide electrolysis cells: A review."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 45.46 (2020) 24203 - 24218. DOI

Baral, Nawa Raj, Jeff Dahlberg, Daniel Putnam, Jenny C. Mortimer, and Corinne D. Scown."Supply Cost and Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Dry and Ensiled Biomass Sorghum for Biofuel Production."ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (2020).

Weng, , Lien-Chun, Alexis T. Bell, and Adam Z. Weber."A systematic analysis of Cu-based membrane-electrode assemblies for CO ₂ reduction through multiphysics simulation."Energy & Environmental Science 13.10 (2020) 3592-3606. DOI

Huang, Zhi, Sumanjeet Kaur, Musahid Ahmed, and Ravi S. Prasher."Water Freezes at Near-Zero Temperatures Using Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrodes under Static Electric Fields."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.40 (2020) 45525 - 45532. DOI

Pritoni, Marco, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Kun Zhang, Rui Tang, and Jessica Granderson."Advanced control sequences and FDD technology. Just shiny objects, or ready for scale?."ACEEE Summer Study 2020 (2020). DOI

Crafton, Matthew J., Yuan Yue, Tzu‐Yang Huang, Wei Tong, and Bryan D. McCloskey."Anion Reactivity in Cation‐Disordered Rocksalt Cathode Materials: The Influence of Fluorine Substitution."Advanced Energy Materials 10.35 (2020) 2001500. DOI

Langevin, Jared, Aven Satre-Meloy, and Lyla Fadali."Attaching public health benefits to building efficiency measures at the national and regional scales."2020 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

Barbose, Galen L., and Andrew Satchwell."Benefits and costs of a utility-ownership business model for residential rooftop solar photovoltaics."Nature Energy (2020). DOI

Sanguinetti, Angela, Claire McIlvennie, Marco Pritoni, and Susan Schneider."Beyond Curtailment and Efficiency: Identifying Household Energy- and Water-Saving Measure Classes."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Carbonnier, Kevin, Cathy Higgins, Katie Wilson, Michael Mutmansky, John Rossi, and Paul A. Mathew."Blind to Blinds: Opening Our Eyes to Savings from New Automated Shading Systems."ACEEE Summer Study in Buildings 2020 (2020). DOI

Lin, Guanjing, Marco Pritoni, Yimin Chen, Jessica Granderson, Ricardo Moromisato, and Stephen Kozlen."Can We Fix It Automatically? Development of Fault Auto-Correction Algorithms for HVAC and Lighting Systems."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Martin, Eric, Tanvir Khan, David Chasar, Jeff Sonne, Samuel Rosenberg, Chrissi Antonopoulos, Cheryn Metzger, Wanyu R. Chan, Brett C. Singer, and Michael Lubliner."Characterization of Mechanical Ventilation Systems in New US Homes: What types of systems are out there and are they functioning as intended?."Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

Spurlock, C. Anna, Annika Todd-Blick, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, and Victor Walker."Children, Income, and the Impact of Home- Delivery on Household Shopping Trips."Transportation Research Record (2020). DOI

Singh, Reshma, Anand Prakash, Mary Ann Piette, and Shreya Agarwal."A Community Energy Operations and Planning System: Concept, Use cases, Metrics, and Benefits."The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (2020).

Grahovac, Milica, Katie Coughlin, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Robert Hosbach, and Vagelis Vossos."Costs and Benefits of Community Scale Solar Water Heating."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

Casillas, Armando, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."Curation of Ground-Truth Validated Benchmarking Datasets for Fault Detection & Diagnostics Tools."2020 ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Todd, Paul K., Allison Wustrow, Rebecca D. McAuliffe, Matthew J. McDermott, Gia Thinh Tran, Brennan C. McBride, Ethan D. Boeding, Daniel O’Nolan, Chia-Hao Liu, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Karena W. Chapman, Simon J.L. Billinge, Kristin A. Persson, Ashfia Huq, Gabriel M. Veith, and James R. Neilson."Defect-Accommodating Intermediates Yield Selective Low-Temperature Synthesis of YMnO ₃Polymorphs."Inorganic Chemistry 59.18 (2020) 13639 - 13650. DOI

Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Marco Pritoni, Mary Ann Piette, and Monica Neukomm."Developing and Evaluating Metrics for Demand Flexibility in Buildings: Comparing Simulations and Field Data."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Vossos, Vagelis, Melanie Gaillet-Tournier, Daniel L. Gerber, Bruce Nordman, Richard E. Brown, Willy Bernal, Omkar Ghatpande, Avijit Saha, Michael Deru, and Stephen Frank."Direct-DC Power in Buildings: Identifying the Best Applications Today for Tomorrow’s Building Sector."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

Yoon, Nari, Leslie K. Norford, Ali Malkawi, Holly Samuelson, and Mary Ann Piette."Dynamic metrics of natural ventilation cooling effectiveness for interactive modeling."Building and Environment 180.106994 (2020). DOI

Luo, Xuan, Yu-Hang Tang, and Tianzhen Hong."Efficient Computation Of Surface Sunlit Fractions In Urban-Scale Building Modeling Using Ray-Tracing Techniques."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2020). DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C.."Energy System Planning for a Modern Electric Grid." (2020).

Zhang, Wanni, Tianzhen Hong, and Xuan Luo."Extract useful information from building permits data to profile a city’s building retrofit history."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2020). DOI