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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2019

Alvarado, Judith, Chenxi Wei, Dennis Nordlund, Thomas Kroll, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Yangchao Tian, Yijin Liu, and Marca M. Doeff."Thermal stress-induced charge and structure heterogeneity in emerging cathode materials."Materials Today (2019). DOI

Weng, , Lien-Chun, Alexis T. Bell, and Adam Z. Weber."Towards membrane-electrode assembly systems for CO₂ reduction: a modeling study."Energy & Environmental Science 12.6 (2019) 1950 - 1968. DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Sean Murphy, Alan H. Sanstad, and Peter H. Larsen."The use of wholesale market purchases by Western U.S. electric utilities." (2019).

Meier, Alan K., Tsuyoshi Ueno, and Marco Pritoni."Using data from connected thermostats to track large power outages in the United States."Applied Energy 256 (2019) 113940. DOI

Coughlin, Katie."Utility Sector Impacts of Reduced Electricity Demand: Updates to Methodology and Results." (2019).

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, and Dana Robson."Utility-Scale Solar: Empirical Trends in Project Technology, Cost, Performance, and PPA Pricing in the United States –2019 Edition." (2019).

Han, Hyun Joo, Muhammad Uzair Mehmood, Rahate Ahmed, Yeongmin Kim, Spencer M. Dutton, Sang Hoon Lim, and Wongee Chunb."An advanced lighting system combining solar and an artificial light source for constant illumination and energy saving in buildings."Energy and Buildings 203 (2019). DOI

Agbo, , Peter, and Nemanja Danilovic."An Algorithm for the Extraction of Tafel Slopes."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123.50 (2019) 30252 - 30264. DOI

Hoen, Ben, Jeremy Firestone, Joseph Rand, Debi Elliott, Gundula Hübner, Johannes Pohl, Ryan H. Wiser, Eric Lantz, Ryan Haac, and Ken Kaliski."Attitudes of U.S. Wind Turbine Neighbors: Analysis of a Nationwide Survey."Energy Policy 134 (2019). DOI

Preble, Chelsea V., Robert A. Harley, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Control Technology-Driven Changes to In-Use Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck Emissions of Nitrogenous Species and Related Environmental Impacts."Environmental Science & Technology (2019). DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C., Ian M. Hoffman, Steven R. Schiller, Sean Murphy, and Greg Leventis."Cost of Saving Electricity Through Efficiency Programs Funded by Customers of Publicly Owned Utilities: 2012–2017." (2019).

Bechtel, , Simon, Antonio Sorrentino, Tanja Vidaković-Koch, Adam Z. Weber, and Kai Sundmacher."Electrochemical gas phase oxidation of hydrogen chloride to chlorine: Model-based analysis of transport and reaction mechanisms."Electrochimica Acta 324 (2019) 134780. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Eric Wilson, Janet Reyna, Andrew Parker, Elaina Present, Janghyun Kim, Tianzhen Hong, Han Li, and Tom Eckman."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Market Needs, Use Cases, and Data Gaps." (2019).

Piette, Mary Ann, Reshma Singh, and Anand Prakash."Evaluation of the Need for and Design of a City Energy Operations System."Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization - UrbSys'19 (2019). DOI

Higgins, , Drew, Christopher Hahn, Chengxiang Xiang, Thomas F. Jaramillo, and Adam Z. Weber."Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: A New Paradigm."ACS Energy Letters 4.1 (2019) 317 - 324. DOI

Mills, Andrew D., Dev Millstein, Ryan H. Wiser, Joachim Seel, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Seongeun Jeong, and Will Gorman."Impact of Wind, Solar, and Other Factors on Wholesale Power Prices: An Historical Analysis—2008 through 2017." (2019).

Gerke, Brian F.."Light-emitting diode lighting products."Technological Learning in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Energy System (2019) 233-254.

Hübner, Gundula, Johannes Pohl, Ben Hoen, Jeremy Firestone, Debi Elliott, Joseph Rand, and Ryan Haac."Monitoring annoyance and stress effects of wind turbines on nearby residents: A comparison of U.S. and European samples."Environment International 132 (2019). DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Ian M. Hoffman, Charles A. Goldman, Greg Leventis, Sean Murphy, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Peak Demand Impacts From Electricity Efficiency Programs." (2019).

Szinai, Julia, Colin Sheppard, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R. Gopal."Reduced grid operating costs and renewable energy curtailment with electric vehicle charge management."Energy Policy (2019) 111051. DOI

Kushner, Douglas I., Ahmet Kusoglu, Nikolas J. Podraza, and Michael A. Hickner."Substrate‐Dependent Molecular and Nanostructural Orientation of Nafion Thin Films."Advanced Functional Materials (2019) 1902699. DOI

Rosenberg, Daniel J., Selim Alayoglu, Robert Kostecki, and Musahid Ahmed."Synthesis of microporous silica nanoparticles to study water phase transitions by vibrational spectroscopy."Nanoscale Advances 1.12 (2019) 4878 - 4887. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Time-Sensitive Value of Efficiency: Use Cases in Electricity Sector Planning and Programs." (2019).

Barbose, Galen L., and Naïm R. Darghouth."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2019 Edition." (2019).

Self, Julian, Kara D. Fong, and Kristin A. Persson."Transport in Superconcentrated LiPF 6 and LiBF 4 Propylene Carbonate Electrolytes."ACS Energy Letters 4.12 (2019) 2843 - 2849. DOI