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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.
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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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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.

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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)

2011

Bedoya, Iván Dario, Samveg Saxena, Francisco J. Cadavid, and Robert W. Dibble."Exploring Strategies for Reducing High Inlet Temperature Requirements and Allowing Optimal Operating Conditions in a Biogas Fueled HCCI Engine for Power Generation."ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 7.134 (2011).

DeFilippo, A., Samveg Saxena, Vi H. Rapp, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W. Dibble."Extending the lean flammability limit of gasoline using a microwave assisted sparkplug." (2011).

Meier, Alan K., Therese Peffer, Marco Pritoni, Cecilia Aragon, and Daniel Perry."Facilitating energy savings through enhanced usability of thermostats."ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2011).

Zhou, S.Y., Y. Zhu, M.C. Langner, Y.-D. Chuang, P. Yu, W.L. Yang, A.G. Gonzalez, N. Tahir, M. Rini, Y.-H. Chu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D.-H. Lee, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, Z. Hussain, and R.W. Schoenlein."Ferromagnetic enhancement of CE-type spin ordering in (Pr,Ca)MnO 3."Physical Review Letters 106 (2011). DOI

Apte, Michael G., Mark J. Mendell, Michael D. Sohn, Spencer M. Dutton, Pam M. Berkeley, and Michael Spears."Final Report: Balancing energy conservation and occupant needs in ventilation rate standards for “Big Box” stores in California: predicted indoor air quality and energy consumption using a matrix of ventilation scenarios." (2011).

Mills, Evan, and Arne Jacobson."From Carbon to Light: A New Framework for Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reducitons from Replacing Fuel-Based Lighting with LED Systems.."Energy Efficiency (2011). DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, David S. Watson, and Girish Ghatikar."Future of DR." (2011).

Baek, S.H., J. Park, D.M. Kim, V.A. Aksyuk, R.R. Das, S.D. Bu, D.A. Felker, J. Lettieri, V. Vaithyanathan, S.S.N. Bharadwaja, N. Bassiri-Gharb, Y.B. Chen, H.P. Sun, C.M. Folkman, H.W. Jang, D.J. Kreft, S.K. Streiffer, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, X.Q. Pan, S. Trolier-McKinstry, D.G. Schlom, M.S. Rzchowski, R.H. Blick, and C.B. Eom."Giant piezoelectricity on Si for hyperactive MEMS."Science 334 (2011) 958-961. DOI

Boovaragavan, , Vijayasekaran, and Venkat Srinivasan."On the High Rate Capability of LiFePO₄."ECS Transactions 33.29 (2011) 17-29. DOI

Saxena, Samveg, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W. Dibble."Increasing the signal-to-noise ratio of sparkplug ion sensors through addition of a potassium acetate fuel additive."Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 33.2 (2011) 3081-3088. DOI

Kienitz, Brian L., Haruhiko Yamada, Nobuaki Nonoyama, and Adam Z. Weber."Interfacial Water Transport Effects in Proton-Exchange Membranes."J. Fuel Cell Science Technology 8 (2011).

Hermelink, Andreas, and Alan K. Meier."Introduction to Panel 6 Innovations in buildings and appliances."ECEEE 2011 SUMMER STUDY (2011).

Boovaragavan, , Vijayasekaran, and Venkat Srinivasan."Investigations on Silicon Composite Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries."ECS Transactions 33.29 (2011) 75-90. DOI

Zhang, J.X., B. Xiang, Q. He, J. Seidel, R.J. Zeches, P. Yu, S.Y. Yang, C.H. Wang, Y.-H. Chu, L.W. Martin, A.M. Minor, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Large field-induced strains in a lead-free piezoelectric material."Nature Nanotechnology 6 (2011) 98-102. DOI

Fan, W., J. Cao, J. Seidel, Y. Gu, J.W. Yim, C. Barrett, K.M. Yu, J. Ji, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L.Q. Chen, and J. Wu."Large kinetic asymmetry in the metal-insulator transition nucleated at localized and extended defects."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 83 (2011). DOI

Das, Prodip K., Haluna P. Gunterman, Anthony Kwong, and Adam Z. Weber."Liquid-Water Uptake and Removal in PEM Fuel-Cell Components."2011 Fuel Cell Seminar (2011).

Saxena, Samveg, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W. Dibble."Maximizing power output in an automotive scale multi-cylinder HCCI engine."SAE World Congress (2011). DOI

Zhang, J.X., Q. He, M. Trassin, W. Luo, D. Yi, M.D. Rossell, P. Yu, L. You, C.H. Wang, C.Y. Kuo, J.T. Heron, Z. Hu, R.J. Zeches, H.J. Lin, A. Tanaka, C.T. Chen, L.H. Tjeng, Y.-H. Chu, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Microscopic origin of the giant ferroelectric polarization in tetragonal-like BiFeO3."Physical Review Letters 107 (2011). DOI

Kehr, S.C., P. Yu, Y. Liu, M. Parzefall, A.I. Khan, R. Jacob, M.T. Wenzel, H.-G. von Ribbeck, M. Helm, X. Zhang, L.M. Eng, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Microspectroscopy on perovskite-based superlenses [Invited]."Optical Materials Express 1 (2011) 1051-1060. DOI

Tonse, Shaheen R., and Brett C. Singer."Modeling of Pollutant Emissions From a Residential Cooking Range." (2011).

Singer, Brett C., William W. Delp, and Michael G. Apte."Natural Gas Variability In California: Environmental Impacts And Device Performance - Experimental Evaluation Of Installed Cooking Exhaust Fan Performance." (2011).

Kehr, S.C., Y.M. Liu, L.W. Martin, P. Yu, M. Gajek, S.-Y. Yang, C.-H. Yang, M.T. Wenzel, R. Jacob, H.-G. von Ribbeck, M. Helm, X. Zhang, L.M. Eng, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Near-field examination of perovskite-based superlenses and superlens-enhanced probe-object coupling."Nature Communications 2 (2011). DOI

Sidheswaran, Meera A., Hugo Destaillats, Sebastian Cohn, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."New Air Cleaning Strategies for Reduced Commercial Building Ventilation Energy – FY11 Final Report." (2011).

Lask, Kathleen M., Jennifer L. Jones, Kayje Booker, Cristina Ceballos, Nina Yang, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Performance of Charcoal Cookstoves for Haiti, Part 2: Results from the Controlled Cooking Test." (2011).

Kibanova, Daria, Martin Trejo, Hugo Destaillats, and Javiera Cervini-Silva."Photocatalytic activity of kaolinite."Catalysis Communications 12.8 (2011) 698-702. DOI