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)

2010

Guo, Zeng-Shan, Lihua Zhao, Jian Pei, Zhang-Lin Zhou, Gary Gibson, James Brug, Sity Lam, and Samuel S. Mao."CdSe/ZnS Nanoparticle Composites with Amine-Functionalized Polyfluorene Derivatives for Polymeric Light-Emitting Diodes: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and the Electroluminescent Performance."Macromolecules 43.4 (2010) 1860-1866. DOI

Gifford, William, Shawn Bodmann, Paul Young, Joseph H Eto, and Jeremy Laundergan."Customer Impact Evaluation for the 2009 Southern California Edison Participating Load Pilot." (2010) 34.

Mills, Andrew D., Amol A. Phadke, and Ryan H. Wiser."Exploration of Resource and Transmission Expansion Decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative." (2010) 88.

Cabana, Jordi, Costana M. Ionica-Bousquet, Clare P. Grey, and M. Rosa Palacín."High rate performance of lithium manganese nitride and oxynitride as negative electrodes in lithium batteries."Electrochemistry Communications 12 (2010) 315-318. DOI

Martinez, Carlos A.."Intelligent Alarms Criteria and Thresholds Summary." (2010).

Destaillats, Hugo, and William J. Fisk."Investigation of IAQ-Relevant Surface Chemistry and Emissions on HVAC Filter Materials." (2010).

Zeng, , Dongli, Jordi Cabana, Won-Sub Yoon, and Clare P. Grey."Investigation of the Structural Changes in Li[Ni_yMn_yCo_{(1- 2y)}]O₂ (y=0.05) upon Electrochemical Lithium Deintercalation."Chemistry of Materials 22 (2010) 1209-1219. DOI

Cabana, Jordi, Junichi Shirakawa, Guoying Chen, Thomas J. Richardson, and Clare P. Grey."MAS NMR Study of the Metastable Solid Solution Found in the LiFePO₄/FePO₄ System."Chemistry of Materials 22.3 (2010) 1249-1262. DOI

Pollak, Elad, Ivan T. Lucas, and Robert Kostecki."A study of lithium transport in aluminum membranes."Electrochemistry Communications 12.2 (2010) 198-201. DOI

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J. Richardson."Thermal instability of Olivine-type LiMnPO₄ cathodes."Journal of Power Sources 195.4 (2010) 1221-1224. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Assessment of Energy Impact of Window Technologies for Commercial Buildings."2010 ACEEE Summer Study (2010).

Goldman, Charles A., Michael Reid, Roger Levy, and Alison Silverstein."Coordination of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response." (2010) 74.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Gonçalo Cardoso, Timothy E. Lipman, Olivier Mégel, Srirupa Ganguly, Afzal S. Siddiqui, and Judy Lai."The CO₂ Abatement Potential of California’s Mid-Sized Commercial Buildings." (2010) 71.

Tucker, Michael C., Grace Y. Lau, Craig P. Jacobson, Steven J. Visco, and Lutgard C. De Jonghe."Cu–YSZ cermet solid oxide fuel cell anode prepared by high-temperature sintering."Journal of Power Sources 195.10 (2010) 3119 - 3123. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Mary Ann Piette, K. Sydny Fujita, Aimee T. McKane, Junqiao Han Dudley, Anthony Radspieler Jr., KC Mares, and Dave Shroyer."Demand Response and Open Automated Demand Response Opportunities for Data Centers." (2010) 56.

Persson, Kristin A., Vijay A. Sethuraman, Laurence J. Hardwick, Yoyo Hinuma, Ying Shirley Meng, Anton Van der Ven, Venkat Srinivasan, Robert Kostecki, and Gerbrand Ceder."Lithium diffusion in graphitic carbon."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 1.8 (2010) 1176-1180. DOI

Delacourt, Charles, Paul L. Ridgway, and John S. Newman."Mathematical Modeling of CO₂ Reduction to CO in Aqueous Electrolytes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 157.12 (2010) B1902. DOI

Fisk, William J., Douglas P. Sullivan, Sebastian Cohn, and Hwataik Han."Measuring Outdoor Air Intake Rates into Existing Building-Final Report." (2010).

Spanakis, Emmanuel, Marios Barberoglou, Vassilia Zorba, Panagiotis Tzanetakis, and Costas Fotakis."Metal coated silicon spike cold-electron emitters show improvement of performance with operation."Applied Physics Letters 96.3 (2010). DOI

McMillan, W. Wallace, R. Bradley Pierce, Lynn C. Sparling, Gregory Osterman, Kevin McCann, Marc L. Fischer, Bernhard Rappenglueck, Rob K. Newsom, David D. Turner, Chieko Kittaka, Keith Evans, Sebastien C. Biraud, Barry Lefer, Arlyn E. Andrews, and Samuel J Oltmans."An observational and modeling strategy to investigate the impact of remote sources on local air quality: A Houston, Texas, case study from the Second Texas Air Quality Study (TexAQS II)."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 115.D1 (2010). DOI

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

Bolinger, Mark."Revealing the Hidden Value that the Federal Investment Tax Credit and Treasury Cash Grant Provide To Community Wind Projects." (2010) 36.

Strawa, Anthony W., Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Hans Puxbaum."Special Issue for the 9th International Conference on Carbonaceous Particles in the Atmosphere."Journal of Aerosol Science 41.1 (2010) 1-4. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Christoph Menke, and Apichit Therdyothin."The use of conservation supply curves in energy policy and economic analysis：The case study of Thai cement industry."Energy Policy 38.1 (2010) 392-405. DOI

Yang, S.Y., J. Seidel, S.J. Byrnes, P. Shafer, C.-H. Yang, M.D. Rossell, P. Yu, Y.-H. Chu, J.F. Scott, J.W. Ager, L.W. Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Above-bandgap voltages from ferroelectric photovoltaic devices."Nature Nanotechnology 5 (2010) 143-147. DOI