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

Henry, Asegun, and Ravi S. Prasher."The prospect of high temperature solid state energy conversion to reduce the cost of concentrated solar power."Energy Environ. Sci. 7 (2014) 1819–1828. DOI

Mendell, Mark J., Ekaterina Eliseeva, Michael Spears, Wanyu R. Chan, Sebastian Cohn, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."A Prospective Study of Ventilation Rates and Illness Absence in California Office Buildings." (2014).

Turner, William J. N., Jordan Roux, and Iain S. Walker."Reducing Residential Peak Electricity Demand with Mechanical Pre-Cooling of Building Thermal Mass." (2014).

Zhang, Shicong, Wei Xu, Yiqiang Jiang, Wei Feng, and Deyu Sun."Research on Demonstration Project Technology Roadmap of Zero Energy Buildings Abroad (in Chinese)."HV&AC 44.1 (2014).

Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Review of Existing Energy Retrofit Tools." (2014).

Marti, X., I. Fina, C. Frontera, J. F. Liu, P. Wadley, Q. He, R.J. Paull, J.D. Clarkson, J. Kudrnovský, I. Turek, J. Kuneš, D. Yi, J.-H. Chu, C.T. Nelson, L. You, E. Arenholz, S. Salahuddin, J. Fontcuberta, T. Jungwirth, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Room-temperature antiferromagnetic memory resistor."Nature Materials 13 (2014) 367-374. DOI

Gao, W., A. Khan, X. Marti, C. Nelson, C. Serrao, J. Ravichandran, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S. Salahuddin."Room-temperature negative capacitance in a ferroelectric-dielectric superlattice heterostructure."Nano Letters 14 (2014) 5814-5819. DOI

Liu, H.-J., W.-I. Liang, Y.-H. Chu, H. Zheng, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Self-assembled vertical heteroepitaxial nanostructures: From growth to functionalities."MRS Communications 4 (2014) 31-44. DOI

Unguris, J., S.R. Bowden, D.T. Pierce, M. Trassin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.-W. Cheong, S. Fackler, and I. Takeuchi."Simultaneous imaging of the ferromagnetic and ferroelectric structure in multiferroic heterostructures."APL Materials 2 (2014). DOI

Jeong, Seongeun, Dev Millstein, and Marc L. Fischer."Spatially Explicit Methane Emissions from Petroleum Production and the Natural Gas System in California."Environmental Science & Technology 48.10 (2014) 5982–5990. DOI

Sun, Kaiyu, Tianzhen Hong, and Siyue Guo."Stochastic Modeling of Overtime Occupancy and Its Application in Building Energy Simulation and Calibration." (2014).

Turner, William J. N., and Tianzhen Hong."A Technical Framework to Describe Occupant Behavior for Building Energy Simulations." (2014).

Hoffman, Ian M., Gregory M. Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A. Goldman, and Lisa C. Schwartz."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2014).

Gonzalez, Amanda, Heidi Hauenstein, Girish Ghatikar, and Patrick Eilert."Unlocking the Smart Grid through Building Codes and Communication Standards: Code Opportunities to Increase DR Transactions."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Turner, William J. N., and Iain S. Walker."Using a Ventilation Controller to Optimize Residential Passive Ventilation For Energy and Indoor Air Quality." (2014).

Stewart, Emma M., Sila Kiliccote, Charles McParland, and Ciaran Roberts."Using Micro-Synchrophasor Data for Advanced Distribution Grid Planning and Operations Analysis." (2014).

Coughlin, Katie."Utility Sector Impacts of Reduced Electricity Demand." (2014).

Lee, J.C.T., A.R. Damodaran, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L.W. Martin, and P. Abbamonte."X-ray diffraction studies of stripelike ferroelectric domains in thin films of BiFeO3."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 89 (2014). DOI

2013

Khanna, Nina, and David Fridley."Extreme Energy in China." (2013) 117.

Mills, Andrew D., and Ryan H. Wiser."Changes in the economic value of wind energy and flexible resources at increasing penetration levels in the Rocky Mountain Power Area."Wind Energy 17.11 (2013) 1711 - 1726. DOI

Billesbach, David P., Joseph A. Berry, Ulli Seibt, Kadmiel Maseyk, Margaret S. Torn, Marc L. Fischer, Mohammad Abu-Naser, and John E. Campbell."Growing season eddy covariance measurements of carbonyl sulfide and CO₂ fluxes: COS and CO₂ relationships in Southern Great Plains winter wheat."Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 184 (2013) 48-55. DOI

Bravo, Richard J., and Steven Robles."2013 FIDVR Events Analysis on Valley Distribution Circuits." (2013).

Hasanbeigi, Ali."Alternative and Emerging Technologies for an Energy-Efficient, Water-Efficient, and Low-Pollution Textile Industry." (2013).

Mendell, Mark J., Ekaterina Eliseeva, Morris G. Davies, Michael Spears, Agnes B. Lobscheid, William J. Fisk, and Michael G. Apte."Association of Classroom Ventilation with Reduced Illness Absence: A Prospective Study in California Elementary Schools."Indoor Air 23.6 (2013) 515-528. DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard E. Brown, Phillip N. Price, Janie Page, Jessica Granderson, David Riess, Stephen Czarnecki, Girish Ghatikar, and Steven Lanzisera."Automated Measurement and Signaling Systems for the Transactional Network." (2013).