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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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Publications by Research Area

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)

2021

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Charles A Goldman."Empirical Estimation of the Energy Impacts of Projects Installed through Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing Programs in California."Energies 14.23 (2021). DOI

Deng, Hang, Peter Nico, Stephanie Huang, Markus Kleber, Hanna Breunig, Isabelle Sauter, Maegen Simmonds, and Alan Di Vittorio."Enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands for carbon removal: a reactive transport modeling perspective."AGU Fall Meeting 2021 (2021).

Jacob, Tabeel A, Nihar Shah, and Won Young Park."Evaluation of hybrid evaporative-vapor compression air conditioners for different global climates."Energy Conversion and Management 249 (2021). DOI

Saeidi, Sanaz, Girish Rentala, Tracey Rizzuto, Tianzhen Hong, Neil Johannsen, and Yimin Zhu."Exploring thermal state in mixed immersive virtual environments."Journal of Building Engineering 44 (2021) 102918. DOI

Wells, Emily McAuliffe, Mitchell J Small, C Anna Spurlock, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi."Factors associated with emerging multimodal transportation behavior in the San Francisco Bay Area."Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability 1 (2021).

Yang, Lin, Ravi S Prasher, and Deyu Li."From nanowires to super heat conductors."Journal of Applied Physics 130.22 (2021) 220901. DOI

Kantner, Colleen, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Robert Hosbach, and Liat Zavodivker."Impact of the EISA 2007 backstop requirement on general service lamps." (2021).

Li, Ning, Meiling Sun, Wang Hay Kan, Zengqing Zhuo, Sooyeon Hwang, Sara E Renfrew, Maxim Avdeev, Ashfia Huq, Bryan D McCloskey, Dong Su, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Layered-rocksalt intergrown cathode for high-capacity zero-strain battery operation."Nature Communications 12.1 (2021). DOI

Abhyankar, Nikit, Shruti M Deorah, and Amol A Phadke."Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power System Investments through 2030." (2021).

Forrester, Sydney, and Peter Cappers."Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing Distributed Battery Value via Retail Utility Rates and Programs." (2021).

Sun, Kaiyu, Wanni Zhang, Zhaoyun Zeng, Ronnen M Levinson, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Passive cooling designs to improve heat resilience of homes in underserved and vulnerable communities."Energy and Buildings 252 (2021) 111383. DOI

Quon, Hunter, Joshua Sperling, Katie Coughlin, David L Greene, Ariel Miara, Sertac Akar, Michael Talmadge, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Jordan Macknick, and Sunny Jiang."Pipe Parity Analysis of Seawater Desalination in the United States: Exploring Costs, Energy, and Reliability via Case Studies and Scenarios of Emerging Technology."ACS ES&T Engineering (2021). DOI

Kahrl, Fredrich, Shruti M Deorah, Lakshmi Alagappan, Paul M Sotkiewicz, and Nikit Abhyankar."Policy and Regulatory Recommendations to Support a Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power Sector." (2021).

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Andrew D Mills, Ryan H Wiser, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Eric O'Shaughnessy."Project developer options to enhance the value of solar electricity as solar and storage penetrations increase."Applied Energy 304 (2021). DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Lisa C Schwartz."Quantifying grid reliability and resilience impacts of energy efficiency: Examples and opportunities." (2021).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Cesca Miller, Sean Murphy, and Natalie Mims Frick."State Indicators for Advancing Demand Flexibility and Energy Efficiency in Buildings." (2021).

Lilley, Drew, Peiyuan Yu, Jason Ma, Anubhav Jain, and Ravi S Prasher."Thermal Fluids with High Specific Heat Capacity through Reversible Diels–Alder Reactions."iScience (2021) 103540. DOI

Farley, Chandra, John Howat, Jenifer Bosco, Nidhi Thakar, Jake Wise, Jean Su, and Lisa C Schwartz."Advancing Equity in Utility Regulation."Future Electric Utility Regulation Series FEUR Report No. 12 (2021).

Wang, Zhe, Bingqing Chen, Han Li, and Tianzhen Hong."AlphaBuilding ResCommunity: A multi-agent virtual testbed for community-level load coordination."Advances in Applied Energy 4 (2021) 100061. DOI

Stuart, Elizabeth."An Ally in Your Corner: Benefits of Using Owner's Representatives." (2021).

de Mesquita, P. Jacob Bueno, William W Delp, Wanyu R Chan, William P Bahnfleth, and Brett C Singer."Control of airborne infectious disease in buildings: evidence and research priorities."Indoor Air (2021). DOI