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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 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.
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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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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)

2023

Perera, A.T.D., Kenichi Soga, Yujie Xu, Peter Nico, and Tianzhen Hong."Enhancing flexibility for climate change using seasonal energy storage (aquifer thermal energy storage) in distributed energy systems."Applied Energy 340 (2023) 120957. DOI

Lin, Ziqi, Tianzhen Hong, Xiaodong Xu, Jiayu Chen, and Wei Wang."Evaluating energy retrofits of historic buildings in a university campus using an urban building energy model that considers uncertainties."Sustainable Cities and Society 95 (2023) 104602. DOI

Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H. Wiser, Ari Weissfeld, Nicholas DiSanti, and Kevin Porter."Generator Interconnection Cost Analysis in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Territory." (2023).

Haddad, Andrew Z., Lukas Hackl, Bilen Akuzum, Garrett Pohlman, Jean-François Magnan, and Robert Kostecki."How to make lithium extraction cleaner, faster and cheaper — in six steps."Nature 616.7956 (2023) 245 - 248. DOI

Park, Won Young, Nina Khanna, James Hyungkwan Kim, Kenji Shiraishi, Nikit Abhyankar, Umed Paliwal, Jiang Lin, Amol A. Phadke, Hee Seung Moon, Yong Hyun Song, Eunsung Kim, Sanghyun Hong, Yunsik Chung, and Seung Wan Kim."Korean Power System Challenges and Opportunities, Priorities for Swift and Successful Clean Energy Deployment at Scale." (2023).

Poliziani, Cristian, Gary Hsueh, David Czerwinski, Thomas P. Wenzel, Zachary Needell, Haitam Laarabi, Joerg Schweizer, and Federico Rupi."Micro Transit Simulation of On-Demand Shuttles Based on Transit Data for First- and Last-Mile Connection."ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 12.4 (2023) 177. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, Sang Hoon Lee, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Barry Hooper, and Janghyun Kim."Nexus of electrification and energy efficiency retrofit of commercial buildings at the district scale."Sustainable Cities and Society 95 (2023) 104608. DOI

Woolf, Tim."Performance Indices." (2023).

Rand, Joseph, Rose Strauss, Will Gorman, Joachim Seel, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Seongeun Jeong, Dana Robson, and Ryan H. Wiser."Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2022." (2023).

Moreira, Alexandre, Miguel Heleno, Alan Valenzuela, Joseph H. Eto, Jaime Ortega, and Cristina Botero."A Scalable Approach to Large Scale Risk-Averse Distribution Grid Expansion Planning."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2023) 1 - 14. DOI

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Cameron Brooks, and Sam Kozel."A Snapshot of EV-Specific Rate Designs Among U.S. Investor-Owned Electric Utilities." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C.."State Approaches for Distribution System Planning, including Grid Modernization." (2023).

Rosner, Fabian, Alexander Schamberger, and Hanna Breunig."Techno-economic analysis of a CO2 direct air capture-cooling tower hybrid process at a geothermal facility."ChemRxiv (2023).

Crafton, Matthew J., Tzu-Yang Huang, Yuan Yue, Raynald Giovine, Vincent C. Wu, Chaochao Dun, Jeffrey J. Urban, Raphaële J. Clément, Wei Tong, and Bryan D. McCloskey."Tuning Bulk Redox and Altering Interfacial Reactivity in Highly Fluorinated Cation-Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15.15 (2023) 18747 - 18762. DOI

Sun, Qingyi, Jing Ke, Camilla Dunham, Joong Hoon Sim, and Yuting Chen."Using Field-Metered Data to Characterize Consumer Usage Patterns of Residential Dishwashers." (2023).

Wang, Wenjun, Nina Khanna, Jiang Lin, and Xu Liu."Black carbon emissions and reduction potential in China: 2015–2050."Journal of Environmental Management 329 (2023). DOI

Walker, Iain S., Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Brennan Less."Challenges and Opportunities for Home Decarbonization." (2023).

Rosner, Fabian, Dionissios Papadias, Kriston Brooks, Kelvin Yoro, Rajesh K. Ahluwalia, Tom Autrey, and Hanna Breunig."Green steel: design and cost analysis of hydrogen-based direct iron reduction."ChemRxiv (2023).

Regnier, Cynthia, Luis L. Fernandes, Kaiyu Sun, Pia Engel-Moss, Tom Abram, Luke McGuire, and Ruju Rathod."Integrated Whole-Building Zero Net Energy Retrofits for Small Commercial Offices." (2023).

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Joachim Seel, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Fredrich Kahrl, Will Gorman, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Cotton, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in the NYISO Territory." (2023).

O'Brien, William, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Tianzhen Hong."International review of occupant aspects of building energy codes and standards."ASHRAE 65 (2023).

Bolinger, Mark, Dev Millstein, Will Gorman, Patrick Dobson, and Seongeun Jeong."Mind the gap: Comparing the net value of geothermal, wind, solar, and solar+storage in the Western United States."Renewable Energy 205 (2023) 999-1009. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Hongyou Lu, and Nan Zhou."Net-Zero Roadmap for China's Steel Industry." (2023).

Utterback, James K., Alex J. King, Livia Belman-Wells, David M. Larson, Leo M. Hamerlynck, Adam Z. Weber, and Naomi S. Ginsberg."Operando Label-free Optical Imaging of Solution-Phase Ion Transport and Electrochemistry."ACS Energy Letters (2023) 1785 - 1792. DOI

Tucker, Michael C., Fengyu Shen, and Martha Welander."Oxidation of Porous Stainless Steel Supports for Metal-Supported Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2023).