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)

2014

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Greg Leventis, Amol A. Phadke, and Anand R. Gopal."Design of incentive programs for accelerating penetration of energy-efficient appliances."Energy Policy 72 (2014) 56-66. DOI

Haves, Philip, Craig P. Wray, David A. Jump, Daniel Veronica, and Christopher Farley."Development of Diagnostic and Measurement and Verification Tools for Commercial Buildings." (2014).

Han, Kee Sung, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Xiaoliang Wei, Wei Wang, Jian Z. Hu, Kristin A. Persson, and Karl T. Mueller."Diffusional motion of redox centers in carbonate electrolytes."The Journal of Chemical Physics 141.10 (2014). DOI

Lux, Simon F., Elad Pollak, Ulrike Boesenberg, Thomas J. Richardson, and Robert Kostecki."Electrochemical reactivity of pyrolytic carbon film electrodes in organic carbonate electrolytes."Electrochemistry Communications (2014). DOI

Ban-Weiss, George A., Ling Jin, Susanne E. Bauer, Ralf Bennartz, Xiaohong Liu, Kai Zhang, Yi Ming, Huan Guo, and Jonathan H. Jiang."Evaluating clouds, aerosols, and their interactions in three global climate models using satellite simulators and observations."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119.18 (2014) 10,876-10,901. DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Andrew D. Mills, Galen L. Barbose, Ryan H. Wiser, Peter Cappers, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Financial Impacts of Net-Metered PV on Utilities and Ratepayers: A Scoping Study of Two Prototypical U.S. Utilities." (2014).

Burkhardt, Jesse, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Changgui Dong, and Joshua Huneycutt."How Much Do Local Regulations Matter? Exploring the Impact of Permitting and Local Regulatory Processes on PV Prices in the United States." (2014).

Arghandeh, Reza, Merwin Brown, Alberto Del Rosso, Girish Ghatikar, Emma M. Stewart, Ali Vojdani, and Alexandra von Meier."The Local Team Leveraging Distributed Resources to Improve Resilience."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine 12.5 (2014) 76-83. DOI

Kreysa, Gerhard, Ken-ichiro Ota, Robert F. Savinell, and Adam Z. Weber."Macroscopic Modeling of Porous Electrodes."Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry (2014) 1203-1210. DOI

Sanstad, Alan H., Stuart McMenamin, Andy Sukenik, Galen L. Barbose, and Charles A. Goldman."Modeling an aggressive energy-efficiency scenario in long-range load forecasting for electric power transmission planning."Applied Energy 128 (2014) 265-275. DOI

Mondal, , A., David Klapp, Mahesh Illindala, and Joseph H Eto."Modeling, Analysis and Evaluation of Smart Load Functionality in the CERTS Microgrid."2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) (2014). DOI

Thatcher, Tracy L., Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Stella H. Tan, Christopher J. Malejan, and Courtney E. Ward."Near-Field Variability of Residential Woodsmoke Concentrations."Atmospheric and Climate Sciences 04.04 (2014) 622 - 635. DOI

Cheng, Lei, Ethan J. Crumlin, Chen Wei, Ruimin Qiao, Hou Huaming, Simon F. Lux, Vassilia Zorba, Richard E. Russo, Robert Kostecki, Zhi Liu, Kristin A. Persson, Wanli Yang, Jordi Cabana, Thomas J. Richardson, Guoying Chen, and Marca M. Doeff."The origin of high electrolyte–electrode interfacial resistances in lithium cells containing garnet type solid electrolytes."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 16.34 (2014) 18294-18300. DOI

Feldman, David, Galen L. Barbose, Robert Margolis, Ted James, Samantha Weaver, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ran Fu, Carolyn Davidson, Sam Booth, and Ryan H. Wiser."Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections - 2014 Edition." (2014).

Lin, Feng, Dennis Nordlund, Isaac M. Markus, Tsu-Chien Weng, Huolin L. Xin, and Marca M. Doeff."Profiling the nanoscale gradient in stoichiometric layered cathode particles for lithium-ion batteries."Energy & Environmental Science 7.9 (2014) 3077-3085. DOI

Das, Prodip K., Adam Z. Weber, Guido Bender, Austin Manak, Daniel Bittinat, Andrew M. Herring, and Michael J Ulsh."Rapid detection of defects in fuel-cell electrodes using infrared reactive-flow-through technique."Journal of Power Sources 261 (2014) 401 - 411. DOI

Duncan, Hugues, Bin Hai, Michal Leskes, Clare P. Grey, and Guoying Chen."Relationships between Mn³⁺ Content, Structural Ordering, Phase Transformation and Kinetic Properties in LiNi_xMn_2-xO₄ Cathode Materials."Chemistry of Materials (2014). DOI

Lapidus, Saul H., Nav Nidhi Rajput, Xiaohui Qu, Karena W. Chapman, Kristin A. Persson, and Peter J. Chupas."Solvation structure and energetics of electrolytes for multivalent energy storage."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2014). DOI

Weber, Adam Z.."Thermal Effects in Electrochemical Systems."Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry (2014) 2069-2073. DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Samantha Weaver, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Tracking the Sun VII: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998-2013." (2014).

Bolinger, Mark, and Samantha Weaver."Utility-Scale Solar 2013: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2014).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2013 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2014).

Earni, Shankar."Advanced Metering Implementations - A Perspective from Federal Sector."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Wang, Zhihui, Yanbao Fu, Zhengcheng Zhang, Shengwen Yuan, Khalil Amine, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Application of Stabilized Lithium Metal Powder (SLMP®) in graphite anode – A high efficient prelithiation method for lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 260 (2014) 57 - 61. DOI

Meier, Alan K., and Hans-Paul Siderius."Assembling Appliances Standards from a Basket of Functions."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).