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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 scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2017

Grevatt, Jim, Ian M Hoffman, and Dale Hoffmeyer."Keys to the House: Unlocking Residential Savings With Program Models for Home Energy Upgrades." (2017).

Barai, Pallab, Kenneth Higa, and Venkat Srinivasan."Lithium dendrite growth mechanisms in polymer electrolytes and prevention strategies."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19.31 (2017) 20493 - 20505. DOI

Garrick, Taylor R, Kenneth Higa, Shao-Ling Wu, Yiling Dai, Xinyu Huang, Venkat Srinivasan, and John W Weidner."Modeling Battery Performance Due to Intercalation Driven Volume Change in Porous Electrodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164.11 (2017) E3592 - E3597. DOI

Mohegh, Arash, Pablo J Rosado, Ling Jin, Dev Millstein, Ronnen M Levinson, and George A Ban-Weiss."Modeling the climate impacts of deploying solar reflective cool pavements in California cities."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122.13 (2017) 6798 - 6817. DOI

Shah, Nihar, Nina Khanna, Nihan Karali, Won Young Park, Yi Qu, and Nan Zhou."Opportunities for Simultaneous Efficiency Improvement and Refrigerant Transition in Air Conditioning." (2017).

Lowry, Mark Newton, Matthew Makos, Jeff Deason, and Lisa C Schwartz."State Performance-Based Regulation Using Multiyear Rate Plans for U.S. Electric Utilities." (2017).

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Salman Mashayekh, and Elias Hartvigsson."The impact of Ancillary Services in optimal DER investment decisions."Energy 130 (2017) 99-112. DOI

Barbose, Galen L."U.S. Renewables Portfolio Standards: 2017 Annual Status Report." (2017).

Satchwell, Andrew."What will Electric Utility Regulation and Business Models Look Like in 2030?." (2017).

Yang, Li, Min Hu, Jingjing Zhang, Stephanie A Siehr, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, Shuang Li, Lingyan Chen, Ang Li, Miao Sun, and Yanhui Wang."2015 China Green Low-Carbon City scorecard."ECEEE Summer Study 2017 (2017).

Gerber, Daniel L, Vagelis Vossos, Wei Feng, Aditya Khandekar, Chris Marnay, and Bruce Nordman."A simulation-based efficiency comparison of AC and DC power distribution networks in commercial buildings."Second International Conference on DC Microgrids (2017).

McNeil, Michael A, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Philipp Munzinger, Noah Horowitz, Marie Baton, Jeremy Tait, and et al."Accelerating the Global Adoption of Climate-Friendly and Energy-Efficient Refrigerators."U4E Policy Guide Series (2017).

Shah, Nihar, Dietram Oppelt, Ana Maria Carreno, and Nicole Kearney."Accelerating the Global Adoption of Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Air Conditioners."U4E Policy Guide Series (2017).

Mills, Evan, Norman Bourassa, Leo I Rainer, Jimmy Mai, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Arman Shehabi, Ted Pollak, and Nathaniel Mills."An Energy-focused Profile of the Video Gaming Marketplace." (2017).

Schiller, Steven R, Snuller Price, Tom Eckman, Deborah Reynolds, and Jamie Barber."Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Portfolios." (2017).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Aimee T McKane, Paul Sheaffer, Peter L Therkelsen, and Prakash Rao."AUTOMATED REGISTER V1.0.3: User Manual for Using the Automated Register of Implemented Actions." (2017).

Bolinger, Mark."Bookending the Opportunity to Lower Wind’s LCOE by Reducing the Uncertainty Surrounding Annual Energy Production." (2017).

Higa, Kenneth, Shao-Ling Wu, Dilworth Y Parkinson, Yanbao Fu, Steven Ferreira, Vincent S Battaglia, and Venkat Srinivasan."Comparing Macroscale and Microscale Simulations of Porous Battery Electrodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164.11 (2017) E3473 - E3488. DOI

Cui, Ying, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, Chan Xiao, Xuan Luo, and Qi Zhang."Comparison of typical year and multiyear building simulations using a 55-year actual weather data set from China."Applied Energy 195 (2017) 890-904. DOI

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, David Pudleiner, David Jones, and Aleisha Khan."Energy Efficiency Roadmap for Uganda, Making Energy Efficiency Count." (2017).

Leventis, Greg, Steven R Schiller, Chris Kramer, and Lisa C Schwartz."Energy Upgrades at City-Owned Facilities: Understanding Accounting for Energy Efficiency Financing Options." (2017).

Cheng, Lei, Huaming Hou, Simon F Lux, Robert Kostecki, Ryan Davis, Vassilia Zorba, Apurva Mehta, and Marca M Doeff."Enhanced lithium ion transport in garnet-type solid state electrolytes."Journal of Electroceramics 38.2-4 (2017) 168 - 175. DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Alan H Sanstad, and Peter H Larsen."Exploring the relationship between planning and procurement in Western U.S. electric utilities." (2017).

Rong, Ziqin, Penghao Xiao, Miao Liu, Wenxuan Huang, Daniel C Hannah, William Scullin, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Fast Mg ²⁺ diffusion in Mo ₃ (PO ₄ ) ₃ O for Mg batteries."Chemical Communications 53.57 (2017) 7998 - 8001. DOI

Palchak, David, Jaquelin Cochran, Ranjit Deshmukh, Ali Ehlen, Sushil Kumar Soonee, S.R Narasimhan, Mohit Joshi, Brendan McBennett, Michael Milligan, Priya Sreedharan, Ilya Chernyakhovskiy, and Nikit Abhyankar."GREENING THE GRID: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India’s Electric Grid, Vol. I—National Study."Greening the Grid 1 (2017).