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

Lapidus, Saul H., Nav Nidhi Rajput, Xiaohui Qu, Karena W. Chapman, Kristin A. Persson, and Peter J. Chupas."Solvation structure and energetics of electrolytes for multivalent energy storage."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2014). DOI

Weber, Adam Z.."Thermal Effects in Electrochemical Systems."Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry (2014) 2069-2073. DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Samantha Weaver, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Tracking the Sun VII: An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998-2013." (2014).

Bolinger, Mark, and Samantha Weaver."Utility-Scale Solar 2013: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2014).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Samantha Weaver, Kevin Porter, Michael Buckley, Frank Oteri, and Suzanne Tegen."2013 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2014).

Earni, Shankar."Advanced Metering Implementations - A Perspective from Federal Sector."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Wang, Zhihui, Yanbao Fu, Zhengcheng Zhang, Shengwen Yuan, Khalil Amine, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Application of Stabilized Lithium Metal Powder (SLMP®) in graphite anode – A high efficient prelithiation method for lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Power Sources 260 (2014) 57 - 61. DOI

Meier, Alan K., and Hans-Paul Siderius."Assembling Appliances Standards from a Basket of Functions."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

MacDonald, Jason S., Sila Kiliccote, Jim Boch, Jonathan Chen, and Robert Nawy."Commercial Building Loads Providing Ancillary Services in PJM."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2014 (2014).

Xia, Jianjun, Tianzhen Hong, Qi Shen, Wei Feng, Le Yang, Piljae Im, Alison Lu, and Mahabir Bhandari."Comparison of Building Energy Use Data Between the United States and China."Energy and Buildings 78 (2014) 165-175. DOI

Zhou, Nan, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, Lixuan Hong, David Fridley, Jon Creyts, Ellen M. Franconi, Roy Torbert, and Yi Ke."Cost-effective Options for Transforming China's Buildings Sector."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Coleman, Philip, Shankar Earni, and Charles H. Williams."Could what that ESCO sales rep said really be true? Savings realization rates in ESPC versus bid-to-spec projects."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Larsen, Peter H., Elizabeth Stuart, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Current Policies and Practices Related to the Incorporation of Non-energy Benefits in Energy Saving Performance Contract Projects."ACEEE 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Larsen, Peter H., Elizabeth Stuart, Charles A. Goldman, and Donald Gilligan."Current Policies and Practices Related to the Incorporation of Non-energy Benefits in Energy Saving Performance Contract Projects."ACEEE 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Hong, Tianzhen, Le Yang, David Hill, and Wei Feng."Data and Analytics to Inform Energy Retrofit of High Performance Buildings."Applied Energy 126 (2014) 90-106. DOI

Yang, Hung-Chia, Chun Chun Ni, Stacy Pratt, Sarah K. Price, Hannah Stratton, Henry Willem, and Camilla Dunham."Dehumidifier Use in the U.S. Residential Sector: Results from an Amazon Mechanical Turk Survey." (2014).

Wu, Shao-Ling, Anna E. Javier, Didier H. Devaux, Nitash P. Balsara, and Venkat Srinivasan."Discharge Characteristics of Lithium Battery Electrodes with a Semiconducting Polymer Studied by Continuum Modeling and Experiment."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 161.12 (2014) A1836-A1843. DOI

Amrose, Susan, Siva R.S. Bandaru, Caroline Delaire, Case M. van Genuchten, Amit Dutta, Anupam DebSarkar, Christopher Orr, Joyashree Roy, Abhijit Das, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Electro-chemical arsenic remediation: Field trials in West Bengal."Science of The Total Environment 488-489 (2014) 539 - 546. DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Tobias Brandt, and Sankar Narayanan."Enabling Broad Adoption of Distributed PV-Storage Systems Via Supervisory Planning and Control."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2014 (2014).

Turner, William J. N., and Iain S. Walker."Energy and IAQ Implications of Residential Ventilation Cooling." (2014).

Cheung, H.Y. Iris, Steve E. Greenberg, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Richard E. Brown, and William Tscudi."Energy Efficiency in Small Server Rooms: FIeld Surveys and Findings."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Price, Lynn K., Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Lixuan Hong, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Jing Ke, Stephanie Ohshita, Hu Min, Yong Zhou, Stephen Hammer, and Hu Xulian."Energy-Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policy Options: Assisting Chinese Cities in Prioritizing and Choosing Strategies to Implement to Become a Sustainable Community." American Council for An Energy-Efficient Economy 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

Feng, Wei, Ke Huang, Mark D. Levine, Nan Zhou, and Shicong Zhang."Evaluation of Energy Savings of the New Chinese Commercial Building Energy Standard."The American Council for An Energy-Efficient Economy 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

Payne, Christopher T., H.Y. Iris Cheung, and Emily Fisher."Evolution of Energy Efficiency Programs Over Time: The Case of Standby Power."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Kiliccote, Sila, Steven Lanzisera, Anna Liao, Oren Schetrit, and Mary Ann Piette."Fast DR: Controlling Small Loads over the Internet."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).