Energy Technologies Area

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 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)

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2022

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Virginie E. Letschert, Shreya Agarwal, Won Young Park, and Usamah Kaggwa."Energy efficiency improves energy access affordability."Energy for Sustainable Development 70 (2022). DOI

Tian, Yang, Minliang Yang, Chien-Yuan Lin, Joon-Hyun Park, Chuan-Yin Wu, Ramu Kakumanu, Christopher M. De Ben, Jutta Dalton, Khanh M. Vuu, Patrick M. Shih, Edward E.K. Baidoo, Stephen Temple, Daniel Putnam, Henrik V. Scheller, Corinne D. Scown, and Aymerick Eudes."Expression of Dehydroshikimate Dehydratase in Sorghum Improves Biomass Yield, Accumulation of Protocatechuate, and Biorefinery Economics."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 10.38 (2022) 12520 - 12528. DOI

Achinivu, Ezinne C., Mica Cabrera, Athiyya Umar, Minliang Yang, Nawa Raj Baral, Corinne D. Scown, Blake A. Simmons, and John M. Gladden."In Situ Synthesis of Protic Ionic Liquids for Biomass Pretreatment."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 10.37 (2022) 12090 - 12098. DOI

Tang, Xiaochen, Neal Benowitz, Lara A. Gundel, Bo Hang, Christopher Havel, Eunha Hoh, Peyton Jacob III, Jian-Hua Mao, Manuela Martins-Green, Georg E. Matt, Penelope J. E. Quintana, Marion L. Russell, Altaf H. Sarker, Suzaynn F. Schick, Antoine M. Snijders, and Hugo Destaillats."Thirdhand Exposures to Tobacco-Specific Nitrosamines through Inhalation, Dust Ingestion, Dermal Uptake, and Epidermal Chemistry."Environmental Science & Technology 56 (2022). DOI

Gerke, Brian F., Sarah J. Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Jingjing Liu, Richard E. Brown, Mary Ann Piette, and Peter Alstone."Overview of Phase 4 of the California Demand Response Potential Study." (2022).

Comesana, Ana, Tyler Huntington, Corinne D. Scown, Kyle Niemeyer, and Vi H. Rapp."A systematic method for selecting molecular descriptors as features when training models for predicting physiochemical properties."Fuel 321 (2022) 123836. DOI

Demarteau, Jérémy, Alexander R. Epstein, Peter R. Christensen, Mark Abubekerov, Hai Wang, Simon J. Teat, Trevor J. Seguin, Christopher W. Chan, Corinne D. Scown, Thomas P. Russell, Jay D. Keasling, Kristin A. Persson, and Brett A. Helms."Circularity in mixed-plastic chemical recycling enabled by variable rates of polydiketoenamine hydrolysis."Science Advances 8.29 (2022). DOI

Yang, Minliang, Di Liu, Nawa Raj Baral, Chien-Yuan Lin, Blake A. Simmons, John M. Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, and Corinne D. Scown."Comparing planta accumulation with microbial routes to set targets for a cost-competitive bioeconomy."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.30 (2022). DOI

Kersey, Jessica, Natalie Popovich, and Amol A. Phadke."Rapid battery cost declines accelerate the prospects of all-electric interregional container shipping."Nature Energy 7.7 (2022) 664 - 674. DOI

Park, Won Young, and Nihar Shah."Assessment of Seasonal Energy Performance for Room Air Conditioners in Multiple Climates." (2022).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Kenji Shiraishi, and Edward L. Vine."Improving energy performance metrics to maximize the benefits of disruptive technologies."Energy Research & Social Science 89 (2022). DOI

Sugrue, Rebecca, Chelsea V. Preble, Anna G. Tarplin, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."In-Use Passenger Vessel Emission Rates of Black Carbon and Nitrogen Oxides."Environmental Science & Technology 56.12 (2022) 7679 - 7686. DOI

Wang, Yuhan, Lucas A.J. Bastien, Ling Jin, and Robert A. Harley."Responses of Photochemical Air Pollution in California’s San Joaquin Valley to Spatially and Temporally Resolved Changes in Precursor Emissions."Environmental Science & Technology 56.11 (2022) 7074 - 7082. DOI

Delp, William W., Brennan Less, Haoran Zhao, Spencer M. Dutton, Wanyu R. Chan, and Brett C. Singer."Simulation-Based Analysis of Impacts of Reduced Envelope and Duct Air Leakage on Indoor Air Pollutant Concentrations in Occupied Manufactured Homes." (2022).

Jin, Ling, Alina Azar, Caitlin Brown, Bingrong Sun, Venu Garikapati, Srinath Ravulaparthy, Qianmiao Chen, Alex Sim, Kesheng Wu, Tin Ho, Thomas P. Wenzel, and C. Anna Spurlock."What Makes You Hold on to That Old Car? Joint Insights from Machine Learning and Multinomial Logit on Vehicle-level Transaction Decisions."Frontiers in Future Transportation - Connected Mobility and Automation (2022). DOI

Letschert, Virginie E., Shreya Agarwal, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Won Young Park, and Usamah Kaggwa."Cost-Benefit Analysis for Energy Efficient Refrigerators and Freezers in Uganda." (2022).

Breunig, Hanna, Sarah Josephine Smith, Laxmi Rao, Alastair Robinson, Jacky Kinson, Robert Thornton, Corinne D. Scown, and Vi H. Rapp."Economic and greenhouse gas analysis of regional bioenergy-powered district energy systems in California."Resources, Conservation and Recycling 180 (2022) 106187. DOI

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Shreya Agarwal, Virginie E. Letschert, and Usamah Kaggwa."Implementation Strategy - Efficiency Standards and Labeling Programs in Uganda." (2022).

Wai, Travis Hee, Joshua S. Apte, Maria H. Harris, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Christopher J. Portier, Chelsea V. Preble, Ananya Roy, and Adam A. Szpiro."Insights from application of a hierarchical spatio-temporal model to an intensive urban black carbon monitoring dataset."Atmospheric Environment 277 (2022) 119069. DOI

Shah, Nihar, and UNEP TEAP."Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel, Vol. 3, Decision XXXIII/5." 3 (2022).

Jeong, Seongeun, Marc L. Fischer, Hanna Breunig, Alison R. Marklein, Francesca M. Hopkins, and Sebastien C. Biraud."Artificial Intelligence Approach for Estimating Dairy Methane Emissions."Environmental Science & Technology 56.8 (2022) 4849 - 4858. DOI

Bashmakov, I.A., L.J. Nilsson, A. Acquaye, C. Bataille, J.M. Cullen, Stephane de la Rue du Can, M. Fischedick, Y. Geng, K. Tanaka, and Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Chapter 11." (2022).

Peng, , Aikaterini Anastasopoulou, Kriston Brooks, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Mark E. Bowden, Jeffrey R. Long, Tom Autrey, and Hanna Breunig."Cost and potential of metal–organic frameworks for hydrogen back-up power supply."Nature Energy (2022). DOI

Khourdajie, Alaa Al, Renee van Diemen, William F. Lamb, Minal Pathak, Andy Reisinger, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Jim Skea, Raphael Slade, Shreya Some, and Linda Steg."IPCC, 2022: Annex II: Definitions, Units and Conventions." (2022).