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)

2016

Jeong, Seongeun, Sally Newman, Jingsong Zhang, Arlyn E. Andrews, Laura Bianco, Justin Bagley, Xinguang Cui, Heather Graven, Jooil Kim, Peter Salameh, Brian W. LaFranchi, Chad Priest, Mixtli Campos-Pineda, Elena Novakovskaia, Christopher D. Sloop, Hope A. Michelsen, Ray P. Bambha, Ray F. Weiss, Ralph Keeling, and Marc L. Fischer."Estimating methane emissions in California's urban and rural regions using multitower observations."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 121 (2016). DOI

Pulcherio, Mariana, Ajit A. Renjit, Mahesh Illindala, Joseph H Eto, David Klapp, and Robert H. Lasseter."Evaluation of Control Methods to Prevent Collapse of a Mixed Source Microgrid."IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 52.6 (2016). DOI

Lin, Jiang, Xu Liu, and Fredrich Kahrl."Excess Capacity in China's Power Systems: A Regional Analysis." (2016).

Vrettos, Evangelos, Emre C. Kara, Jason S. MacDonald, Goran Andersson, and Duncan S. Callaway."Experimental Demonstration of Frequency Regulation by Commercial Buildings—Part II: Results and Performance Evaluation."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 9.4 (2016) 3224 - 3234. DOI

Vrettos, Evangelos, Emre C. Kara, Jason S. MacDonald, Goran Andersson, and Duncan S. Callaway."Experimental Demonstration of Frequency Regulation by Commercial Buildings—Part I: Modeling and Hierarchical Control Design."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 9.4 (2016) 3213 - 3223. DOI

Maasakkers, Joannes D., Daniel J. Jacob, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Alexander J. Turner, Melissa Weitz, Tom Wirth, Cate Hight, Mark DeFigueiredo, Mausami Desai, Rachel Schmeltz, Leif Hockstad, Anthony A. Bloom, Kevin W. Bowman, Seongeun Jeong, and Marc L. Fischer."Gridded National Inventory of U.S. Methane Emissions."Environmental Science & Technology 50.23 (2016) 13123-13133. DOI

Tucker, Michael C., David Lambelet, Mohamed Oueslati, Benjamin Williams, Wu-Chieh Jerry Wang, and Adam Z. Weber."Improved low-cost, non-hazardous, all-iron cell for the developing world."Journal of Power Sources 332 (2016) 111 - 117. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M., Sharon S. Chen, George A. Ban-Weiss, Haley E. Gilbert, Paul H. Berdahl, Pablo J. Rosado, Hugo Destaillats, Mohamad Sleiman, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Next-Generation Factory-Produced Cool Asphalt Shingles: Phase 1 Final Report." (2016).

Han, Kee Sung, Nav Nidhi Rajput, M. Vijayakumar, Xiaoliang Wei, Wei Wang, Jianzhi Hu, Kristin A. Persson, and Karl T. Mueller."Preferential Solvation of an Asymmetric Redox Molecule."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120.49 (2016) 27834 - 27839. DOI

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Max Wei, and Michael D. Sohn."A retrospective analysis of compact fluorescent lamp experience curves and their correlations to deployment programs."Energy Policy 98 (2016) 505 - 512. DOI

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Max Wei, and Michael D. Sohn."A retrospective analysis of compact fluorescent lamp experience curves and their correlations to deployment programs."Energy Policy 98 (2016) 505 - 512. DOI

Sun, Wenhao, Stephen T. Dacek, Shyue Ping Ong, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, William D. Richards, Anthony C. Gamst, Kristin A. Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."The thermodynamic scale of inorganic crystalline metastability."Science Advances 2.11 (2016) e1600225. DOI

Delaire, Caroline, Case M. van Genuchten, Susan Amrose, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Bacteria attenuation by iron electrocoagulation governed by interactions between bacterial phosphate groups and Fe(III) precipitates."Water Research 103 (2016) 74 - 82. DOI

Karali, Nihan, Brendan Shaffer, Kevin Clampitt, Robert J Yinger, Chris Marnay, and Limingming Zhu."Benefit Analyses of Irvine Smart Grid Projects."CIGRE US National Committee 2016 Grid of the Future Symposium (2016).

Khalsa, Amrit S., and Surya Baktiono."CERTS Microgrid Test Bed Battery Energy Storage System Report: Phase 1." (2016).

Lin, Jiang, Ryan H. Wiser, Wei Feng, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation: Trends and Solutions in US." (2016).

Nordman, Bruce, and Alan K. Meier."Energy Aware Devices: Study of Policy Opportunities." (2016).

McNeil, Michael A., Wei Feng, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Nina Khanna, Jing Ke, and Nan Zhou."Energy efficiency outlook in China’s urban buildings sector through 2030."Energy Policy 97 (2016) 532 - 539. DOI

Iyer, Maithili, Satish Kumar, Sangeeta Mathew, Hannah Stratton, Paul A. Mathew, and Mohini Singh."Establishing a Commercial Buildings Energy Data Framework for India: A Comprehensive Look at Data Collection Approaches, Use Cases and Institutions." (2016).

Liu, Miao, Anubhav Jain, Ziqin Rong, Xiaohui Qu, Pieremanuele Canepa, Rahul Malik, Gerbrand Ceder, and Kristin A. Persson."Evaluation of sulfur spinel compounds for multivalent battery cathode applications."Energy & Environmental Science 9.10 (2016) 3201 - 3209. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Karen Jenni, Joachim Seel, Erin Baker, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, and Aaron Smith."Expert elicitation survey on future wind energy costs."Nature Energy 1.10 (2016) 16135. DOI

Mills, Evan, and Richard B Jones."An Insurance Perspective on U.S. Electric Grid Disruption Costs."The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 41.4 (2016) 555 - 586. DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H. Larsen, Alan H. Sanstad, and Charles A. Goldman."Load Forecasting in Electric Utility Integrated Resource Planning." (2016).

Xiang, Chengxiang, Adam Z. Weber, Shane Ardo, Alan Berger, YiKai Chen, Robert Coridan, Katherine T. Fountaine, Sophia Haussener, Shu Hu, Riu Liu, Nathan S. Lewis, Miguel A. Modestino, Matthew M. Shaner, Meenesh R. Singh, John C. Stevens, Ke Sun, and Karl Walczak."Modeling, Simulation, and Implementation of Solar-Driven Water-Splitting Devices."Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55.42 (2016) 12974 - 12988. DOI

Stewart, Emma M., Anna Liao, and Ciaran Roberts."Open μPMU: A Real World Reference Distribution Micro-phasor Measurement Unit Data Set for Research and Application Development." (2016).