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)

2012

Mills, Evan, and Paul A. Mathew."EnergyIQ: Action-oriented Benchmarking." (2012).

Booker, Kayje, Ashok J. Gadgil, and David Winickoff."Engineering for the Global Poor: The Role of Intellectual Property."Science and Public Policy 39.6 (2012) 775-786. DOI

Balke, N., B. Winchester, W. Ren, Y.H. Chu, A.N. Morozovska, E.A. Eliseev, M. Huijben, R.K. Vasudevan, P. Maksymovych, J. Britson, S. Jesse, I. Kornev, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L. Bellaiche, L.Q. Chen, and S.V. Kalinin."Enhanced electric conductivity at ferroelectric vortex cores in BiFeO 3."Nature Physics 8 (2012) 81-88. DOI

Khan, Islam, D. Bhowmik, P. Yu, Joo Kim, X. Pan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S. Salahuddin."Erratum: Experimental evidence of ferroelectric negative capacitance in nanoscale heterostructures (Applied Physics Letters (2011) 99 (113501))."Applied Physics Letters 100 (2012). DOI

Lubk, A., M.D. Rossell, J. Seidel, Q. He, S.Y. Yang, Y.H. Chu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M.J. Hÿtch, and E. Snoeck."Evidence of sharp and diffuse domain walls in BiFeO 3 by means of unit-cell-wise strain and polarization maps obtained with high resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy."Physical Review Letters 109 (2012). DOI

Sims, Michelle, and Alan K. Meier."An Examination of the Recertification Processes of Building Certification Systems."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Watson, David S., Nance Matson, Janie Page, Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, Karin Corfee, Betty Seto, Ralph Masiello, John Masiello, Lorin Molander, Samuel Golding, Kevin Sullivan, Walt Johnson, and David Hawkins."Fast Automated Demand Response to Enable the Integration of Renewable Resources." (2012).

Polking, M.J., M.-G. Han, A. Yourdkhani, V. Petkov, C.F. Kisielowski, V.V. Volkov, Y. Zhu, G. Caruntu, Paul Alivisatos, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Ferroelectric order in individual nanometre-scale crystals."Nature Materials 11 (2012) 700-709. DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Phillip N. Price, Mary Ann Piette, Geoffrey C. Bell, Steve Pierson, Edward Koch, Jeremy Carnam, Hugo Pedro, John Hernandez, and Albert K. Chiu."Field Testing of Automated Demand Response for Integration of Renewable Resources in California’s Ancillary Services Market for Regulation Products." (2012).

Pritoni, Marco, Therese Peffer, Jessica Granderson, Margarita Kloss, Alan K. Meier, and Cecilia Aragon."Folk Labeling: Insights on Improving Usability and Saving Energy Gleaned from After-Market Graffiti on Common Appliances."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Bailey, A.G., Q.M. Bui, J.D. Farmer, R.M. Margolis, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Forecasting technological innovation."ARCS Workshops, ARCS 2012 (2012).

Brunswick, Samuel L., Spencer M. Dutton, David W. Banks, K. Adams, and Philip Haves."A Framework for Estimating the Technical Potential of Natural Ventilation Renovations of Existing Commercial Buildings in California."SimBuild 2012, 5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA, August 1-3, 2012 (2012).

Liu, K., C. Cheng, Z. Cheng, K. Wang, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J. Wu."Giant-amplitude, high-work density microactuators with phase transition activated nanolayer bimorphs."Nano Letters 12 (2012) 6302-6308. DOI

Ke, Jing, and Nan Zhou."GREAT Tool User Manual (in Chinese)." (2012).

Searle, , Justin, and Charles McParland."HAN Attack Surface and the Open Smart Energy Gateway Project." (2012).

Mills, Evan."Health Impacts of Fuel-based Lighting." (2012).

Chan, Wanyu R., Meera A. Sidheswaran, Douglas P. Sullivan, Sebastian Cohn, and William J. Fisk."Healthy Zero Energy Buildings (HZEB) Program– Interim Report on Cross‐Sectional Study of Contaminant Levels, Source Strengths, and Ventilation Rates in Retail Stores." (2012).

Appelfeld, , David, Andrew McNeil, and Svend Svendsen."An Hourly-Based Performance Comparison of an Integrated Micro-Structural Perforated Shading Screen with Standard Shading Systems."Energy and Buildings 50.July 2012 (2012). DOI

Mullen, Nasim A., Jina Li, and Brett C. Singer."Impact of Natural Gas Appliances on Pollutant Levels in California Homes." (2012).

Karali, Nihan, Tengfang T. Xu, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Industrial Sector Energy Efficiency Modeling (ISEEM) Framework Documentation." (2012).

Yu, P., W. Luo, D. Yi, J.X. Zhang, M.D. Rossell, C.-H. Yang, L. You, G. Singh-Bhalla, S.Y. Yang, Q. He, Q.M. Ramasse, R. Erni, L.W. Martin, Y.H. Chu, S.T. Pantelides, S.J. Pennycook, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Interface control of bulk ferroelectric polarization."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (2012) 9710-9715. DOI

Borisevich, A.Y., A.R. Lupini, J. He, E.A. Eliseev, A.N. Morozovska, G.S. Svechnikov, P. Yu, Y.-H. Chu, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.T. Pantelides, S.V. Kalinin, and S.J. Pennycook."Interface dipole between two metallic oxides caused by localized oxygen vacancies."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 86 (2012). DOI

Ertekin, E., V. Srinivasan, J. Ravichandran, P.B. Rossen, W. Siemons, A. Majumdar, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J.C. Grossman."Interplay between intrinsic defects, doping, and free carrier concentration in SrTiO 3 thin films."Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 85 (2012). DOI

Holcomb, M.B., S. Polisetty, A.F. RodrÍguez, V. Gopalan, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Investigating electric field control of magnetism with neutron scattering, nonlinear optics and synchrotron X-ray spectromicroscopy."International Journal of Modern Physics B 26 (2012). DOI

Destaillats, Hugo, Mohamad Sleiman, Douglas P. Sullivan, Catherine Jacquiod, Jean Sablayrolles, and Laurent Molins."Key parameters influencing the performance of photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) air purification under realistic indoor conditions."Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 128 (2012) 159-170. DOI