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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.

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)

2013

Huang, Jijun, Elena Ten, Gao Liu, Matthew Finzen, Wenli Yu, Janice S. Lee, Eduardo Saiz, and Antoni P. Tomsia."Biocomposites of pHEMA with HA/β-TCP (60/40) for bone tissue engineering: Swelling, hydrolytic degradation, and in vitro behavior."Polymer 54.3 (2013) 1197-1207. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, William R. Morrow III, Jayant A. Sathaye, Eric R. Masanet, and Tengfang T. Xu."A bottom-up model to estimate the energy efficiency improvement and CO₂ emission reduction potentials in the Chinese iron and steel industry."Energy 50 (2013) 315-325. DOI

Bhangar, Seema, Brett C. Singer, and William W. Nazaroff."Calibration of the Ogawa Ozone Passive Sampler for Aircraft Cabins."Atmospheric Environment 65 (2013) 21-24. DOI

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Jing Ke, Michael A. McNeil, and Mark D. Levine."China's Energy and Emissions Outlook to 2050: Perspectives from Bottom-Up Energy End-Use Model."Energy Policy 53 (2013) 51-62. DOI

Parrish, Kristen, Alastair Robinson, and Cynthia Regnier."Commercial Buildings Partnerships – Overview of Higher Education Projects." (2013).

Delurey, Dan, and Judith Schwartz."Demand Response Program Design and Implementation Case Study Interviews." (2013).

Zhang, Liying, Lei Cheng, Jordi Cabana, Guoying Chen, Marca M. Doeff, and Thomas J. Richardson."Effect of lithium borate addition on the physical and electrochemical properties of the lithium ion conductor Li_3.4Si_0.4P_0.6O₄."Solid State Ionics 231 (2013) 109-115. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, and Marlene Arens."Emerging Energy-efficiency and Carbon Dioxide Emissions-reduction Technologies for the Iron and Steel Industry." (2013).

Woolf, Tim, Erin Malone, Lisa C. Schwartz, and John Shenot."A Framework for Evaluating the Cost-effectiveness of Demand Response." (2013).

Tucker, Michael C., Lei Cheng, and Lutgard C. De Jonghe."Inorganic binder-containing composite cathode contact materials for solid oxide fuel cells."Journal of Power Sources 224 (2013) 174 - 179. DOI

Goldberg, Miriam L., and G. Kennedy Agnew."Measurement and Verification for Demand Response." (2013).

Coughlin, Katie, Hongxia Shen, Peter T. Chan, Brian McDevitt, and Andrew Sturges."Modeling the Capacity and Emissions Impacts of Reduced Electricity Demand." (2013).

Kong, Lingbo, Lynn K. Price, Ali Hasanbeigi, Huanbin Liu, and Jigeng Li."Potential for reducing paper mill energy use and carbon dioxide emissions through plant-wide energy audits: A case study in China."Applied Energy 102 (2013).

Ong, Shyue P., William D. Richards, Anubhav Jain, Geoffroy Hautier, Michael Kocher, Shreyas Cholia, Dan Gunter, Vincent L. Chevrier, Kristin A. Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Python Materials Genomics (pymatgen): A robust, open-source python library for materials analysis."Computational Materials Science 68 (2013) 314-319. DOI

Modestino, Miguel A., Devproshad K Paul, Shudipto Dishari, Stephanie A. Petrina, Frances I. Allen, Michael A. Hickner, Kunal Karan, Rachel A Segalman, and Adam Z. Weber."Self-Assembly and Transport Limitations in Confined Nafion Films."Macromolecules 46.3 (2013) 867 - 873. DOI

Therkelsen, Peter L., J. Enrique Portillo, David Littlejohn, Scott M. Martin, and Robert K. Cheng."Self-induced unstable behaviors of CH₄ and H₂/CH₄ flames in a model combustor with a low-swirl injector."Combustion and Flame 160.2 (2013) 307 - 321. DOI

Slater, , Michael D., Donghan Kim, Eungje Lee, Christopher S. Johnson, and Marca M. Doeff."Sodium-Ion Batteries."Advanced Functional Materials 23 (2013) 947-958. DOI

Karim, Altaf, Sonia Fosse, and Kristin A. Persson."Surface structure and equilibrium particle shape of the LiMn₂O₄ spinel from first-principles calculations."Physical Review B 87.7 (2013). DOI

Seel, Joachim, Galen L. Barbose, and Ryan H. Wiser."Why Are Residential PV Prices in Germany So Much Lower Than in the United States? A Scoping Analysis." (2013).

Kong, Lingbo, Ali Hasanbeigi, Lynn K. Price, and Huanbin Liu."Analysis of Energy-Efficiency Opportunities for the Pulp and Paper Industry in China." (2013).

Leibowicz, Benjamin, Maria Roumpani, and Peter H. Larsen."Carbon Emissions Caps and the Impact of a Radical Change in Nuclear Electricity Costs."International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 3.1 (2013).

Rosseler, Olivier, Mohamad Sleiman, V. Nahuel Montesinos, Andrey Shavorskiy, Valerie Keller, Nicolas Keller, Marta I. Litter, Hendrik Bluhm, Miquel Salmeron, and Hugo Destaillats."Chemistry of NOx on TiO2 surfaces studied by ambient pressure XPS: products, effect of UV irradiation, water and coadsorbed K+."J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4.3 (2013) 536-541. DOI

Huang, Jijun, Dacheng Zhao, Smit J. Dangaria, Xianghong Luan, Thomas G.H. Diekwisch, Guoqing Jiang, Eduardo Saiz, Gao Liu, and Antoni P. Tomsia."Combinatorial design of hydrolytically degradable, bone-like biocomposites based on PHEMA and hydroxyapatite."Polymer 54.2 (2013) 909-919. DOI

Xun, Shidi, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Conductive Polymer Binder-Enabled Cycling of Pure Tin Nanoparticle Composite Anode Electrodes for a Lithium-Ion Battery."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 160.6 (2013) A849 - A855. DOI