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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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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)

2010

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Peter L. Bartlett, Philip Haves, and Michael D. Sohn."Modeling and Measurement Constraints in Fault Diagnostics for HVAC Systems."ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Controls (2010).

Sartor, Dale A., and Mark Wilson."Money for Research, Not for Energy Bills: Finding Energy and Cost Savings in High Performance Computer Facility Designs."Computing in Science and Engineering 12 (2010) 19-Nov.

Spaldin, N.A., S.-W. Cheong, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Multiferroics: Past, present, and future."Physics Today 63 (2010) 38-43. DOI

Valvidares, S.M., M. Huijben, P. Yu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J.B. Kortright."Native SrTiO3 (001) surface layer from resonant Ti L 2,3 reflectance spectroscopy."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 82 (2010). DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, and Junqiao Han Dudley."Northwest Open Automated Demand Response Technology Demonstration Project." (2010).

Ghatikar, Girish, Johanna L. Mathieu, Mary Ann Piette, and Sila Kiliccote."Open Automated Demand Response Technologies for Dynamic Pricing and Smart Grid."Grid-Interop Conference 2010 (2010).

Chen, P., N.J. Podraza, X.S. Xu, A. Melville, E. Vlahos, V. Gopalan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D.G. Schlom, and J.L. Musfeldt."Optical properties of quasi-tetragonal BiFeO3 thin films."Applied Physics Letters 96 (2010). DOI

Zheng, Honghe, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, Paul L. Ridgway, Shidi Xun, and Vincent S. Battaglia."An Optimization of Electrode Energy and Power Density through of Variations in Inactive Material and Electrode Porosity."J. Elec. Chem (2010).

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J. Richardson."Overcharge Protection for 4 V Lithium Batteries at High Rates and Low Temperatures."Journal of Electrochemical Society 157.6 (2010) A735-A740. DOI

Sherman, Max H., and Craig P. Wray."Parametric System Curves: Correlations Between Fan Pressure Rise and Flow for Large Commercial Buildings." (2010).

Apte, Michael G., and Joshua S. Apte."A Pilot Study of the Effectiveness of Indoor Plants for Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds in Indoor Air in a Seven-Story Office Building." (2010).

Momber, Ilan, Tomás Gómez, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Sebastian Beer, Judy Lai, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Plug in Electric Vehicle Interactions with a small office Building: An Economic Analysis Using DER-CAM."IEEE 2010 Power And Energy General Meeting (2010).

Arenholz, E., G. Van Der Laan, A. Fraile-Rodríguez, P. Yu, Q. He, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Probing ferroelectricity in PbZr0.2 Ti0.8 O 3 with polarized soft x rays."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 82 (2010). DOI

Kumar, A., S. Denev, R.J. Zeches, E. Vlahos, N.J. Podraza, A. Melville, D.G. Schlom, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and V. Gopalan."Probing mixed tetragonal/rhombohedral-like monoclinic phases in strained bismuth ferrite films by optical second harmonic generation."Applied Physics Letters 97 (2010). DOI

Holcomb, M.B., L.W. Martin, A. Scholl, Q. He, P. Yu, C.-H. Yang, S.Y. Yang, P.-A. Glans, M. Valvidares, M. Huijben, J.B. Kortright, J. Guo, Y.-H. Chu, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Probing the evolution of antiferromagnetism in multiferroics."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 81 (2010). DOI

Scullin, M.L., J. Ravichandran, C. Yu, M. Huijben, J. Seidel, A. Majumdar, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Pulsed laser deposition-induced reduction of SrTiO3 crystals."Acta Materialia 58 (2010) 457-463. DOI

Kirchstetter, Thomas W., Chelsea V. Preble, Odelle L. Hadley, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Quantification of Black Carbon and Other Pollutant Emissions from a Traditional and an Improved Cookstove." (2010).

Oh, Y.S., S. Crane, H. Zheng, Y.H. Chu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and K.H. Kim."Quantitative determination of anisotropic magnetoelectric coupling in BiFeO3-CoFe2O4 nanostructures."Applied Physics Letters 97 (2010). DOI

Menon, Surabi, Hashem Akbari, Sarith Mahanama, Igor Sednev, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Radiative forcing and temperature response to changes in urban albedo and associated CO₂ offsets."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

Fisk, William J., Douglas P. Sullivan, and David Faulkner."Recommended Changes to Specifications for Demand Controlled Ventilation in California’s Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards." (2010).

Wu, S.M., S.A. Cybart, P. Yu, M.D. Rossell, J.X. Zhang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and R.C. Dynes."Reversible electric control of exchange bias in a multiferroic field-effect device."Nature Materials 9 (2010) 756-761. DOI

Yin, Rongxin, Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, and Kristen Parrish."Scenario Analysis of Peak Demand Savings for Commercial Buildings with Thermal Mass in California."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Simulations of air distribution in buildings by FFD on GPU."HVAC&R Research 16.6 (2010) 783-796.

Maddalena, Randy L., Marion L. Russell, Moya Melody, and Michael G. Apte."Small‐Chamber Measurements of Chemical‐Specific Emission Factors for Drywall." (2010).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Lynn K. Price, and Aimee T. McKane."The State–of-the-Art Clean Technologies (SOACT) for Steelmaking Handbook (2nd Edition)." (2010).