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)

2015

Morrow, William R. III, Arman Shehabi, and Sarah Josephine Smith."Manufacturing Cost Levelization Model – A User’s Guide." (2015).

Rong, Ziqin, Rahul Malik, Pieremanuele Canepa, Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan, Miao Liu, Anubhav Jain, Kristin A. Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Materials Design Rules for Multivalent Ion Mobility in Intercalation Structures."Chemistry of Materials 27.17 (2015) 6016 - 6021. DOI

Tang, Nicholas W., Joshua S. Apte, Philip T. Martien, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Measurement of black carbon emissions from in-use diesel-electric passenger locomotives in California."Atmospheric Environment 115 (2015) 295 - 303. DOI

Ling, Min, Jingxia Qiu, Sheng Li, Cheng Yan, Milton J Kiefel, Gao Liu, and Shanqing Zhang."Multifunctional SA-PProDOT Binder for Lithium Ion Batteries."Nano Letters 15.7 (2015) 4440 - 4447. DOI

Ayache, Maurice, Dongyoun Jang, Jaroslaw S. Syzdek, and Robert Kostecki."Near-Field IR Nanoscale Imaging of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase on a HOPG Electrode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 162.13 (2015) A7078 - A7082. DOI

Harding, Ari, Andrea C. Mercado, and Cynthia Regnier."A New Campus Built on Efficiency." (2015).

Hong, Tianzhen, Simona D'Oca, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, William J. N. Turner, Yixing Chen, and Stefano P. Corgnati."An Ontology to Represent Energy-Related Occupant Behavior in Buildings. Part II: Implementation of the DNAS framework using an XML schema."Building and Environment 94.1 (2015) 196-205. DOI

Olsen, Daniel, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T. McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California Agricultural Irrigation." (2015).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Craig P. Wray, and Aimee T. McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California Wastewater Treatment Facilities." (2015).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Craig P. Wray, and Aimee T. McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California Wastewater Treatment Facilities." (2015).

Homan, Gregory K., Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T. McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California's Dairy Processing Industry." (2015).

Siciliano, Graziella, Aimee T. McKane, and Pamela de los Reyes."Promoting Strong ISO 50001 Outcomes with Supportive National Infrastructure."2015 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Dev Millstein, Michael Spears, Ryan H. Wiser, Michael Buckley, Rebecca Widiss, and Nick Grue."Tracking the Sun VIII: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States." (2015).

Qi, Wei, Roger Sathre, William R. Morrow III, and Arman Shehabi."Unit price scaling trends for chemical products." (2015).

Sreekumar, Sanil, Madhesan Balakrishnan, Konstantinos Goulas, Gorkam Gunbas, Amit A. Gokhale, Lin Louie, Adam Grippo, Corinne D. Scown, Alexis T. Bell, and F. Dean Toste."Upgrading Lignocellulosic Products to Drop-In Biofuels via Dehydrogenative Cross-Coupling and Hydrodeoxygenation Sequence."ChemSusChem 8.16 (2015) 2609 - 2614. DOI

Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, Geof Sawaya, Yixing Chen, and Sarah C. Taylor-Lange."Accelerating the energy retrofit of commercial buildings using a database of energy efficiency performance."Energy (2015). DOI

Stewart, Emma M., Sila Kiliccote, Daniel Arnold, Alexandra von Meier, and Reza Arghandeh."Accuracy and Validation of Measured and Modeled Data for Distributed PV Interconnection and Control."2015 IEEE PES GM (2015).

Regnier, Cynthia, Ari Harding, and Alastair Robinson."Achieving a Net Zero Energy Retrofit – in a humid, temperate climate – lessons from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa." (2015).

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Claudine Y. Custodio, Michael D. Sohn, Samuel Fernandes, and David A. Jump."Assessment of Automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) Methods." (2015).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B., and Samveg Saxena."Autonomous taxis could greatly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions of US light-duty vehicles."Nature Climate Change 5.9 (2015) 860 - 863. DOI

Taylor, Margaret, C. Anna Spurlock, and Hung-Chia Yang."Confronting Regulatory Cost and Quality Expectations: An Exploration of Technical Change in Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards." (2015).

Ren, Xiaoxin, Da Yan, and Tianzhen Hong."Data Mining of Space Heating System Performance in Affordable Housing."Building and Environment 89 (2015) 1-13. DOI

García-Salaberri, Pablo A., Gisuk Hwang, Marcos Vera, Adam Z. Weber, and Jeffrey T. Gostick."Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of through-plane saturation distribution."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 86 (2015) 319 - 333. DOI

Preble, Chelsea V., Timothy R. Dallmann, Nathan M. Kreisberg, Susanne V. Hering, Robert A. Harley, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Effects of Particle Filters and Selective Catalytic Reduction on Heavy-Duty Diesel Drayage Truck Emissions at the Port of Oakland."Environmental Science & Technology 49.14 (2015) 8864 - 8871. DOI