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)

2024

Kahrl, Fritz, and Jiang Lin."Changing economics of China’s power system suggest that batteries and renewables may be a lower cost way to meet peak demand growth than coal."iScience 27.2 (2024). DOI

Peng, Liqun, Gang He, and Jiang Lin."Role of Pumped Hydro Storage in China’s Power System Transition." (2024).

2023

Wang, Wenjun, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, and Jiang Lin."Measurement, reporting and Verification (MRV) of non-CO2 greenhouse gases: International Best Practices and Suggestions for China." (2023).

Luo, Qian, Fernando Garcia-Menendez, Jiang Lin, Gang He, and Jeremiah X. Johnson."Accelerating China's power sector decarbonization can save lives: integrating public health goals into power sector planning decisions."Environmental Research Letters 18.10 (2023). DOI

Wang, Zhaohua, Hao Li, Bin Zhang, Bo Wang, Hao Li, Xin Tian, Jiang Lin, and Wei Feng."Unequal residential heating burden caused by combined heat and power phase-out under climate goals."Nature Energy (2023). DOI

Xiang, Chenxi, Xinye Zheng, Feng Song, Jiang Lin, and Zhigao Jiang."Assessing the roles of efficient market versus regulatory capture in China’s power market reform."Nature Energy (2023). DOI

Park, Won Young, Nikit Abhyankar, Umed Paliwal, James Hyungkwan Kim, Nina Khanna, Kenji Shiraishi, Jiang Lin, Amol A. Phadke, Yong Hyun Song, Hee Seung Moon, Eunsung Kim, Sanghyun Hong, and Seung Wan Kim."A Clean Energy Korea by 2035, Transitioning to 80% Carbon-Free Electricity Generation." (2023).

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).

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

Shiraishi, Kenji, Won Young Park, Nikit Abhyankar, Umed Paliwal, Nina Khanna, Toru Morotomi, Jiang Lin, and Amol A. Phadke."The 2035 Japan Report: Plummeting Costs of Solar, Wind, and Batteries Can Accelerate Japan’s Clean and Independent Electricity Future." (2023).

Luo, Qian, Fernando Garcia-Menendez, Haozhe Yang, Ranjit Deshmukh, Gang He, Jiang Lin, and Jeremiah X. Johnson."The Health and Climate Benefits of Economic Dispatch in China’s Power System."Environmental Science & Technology 57.7 (2023) 2898–2906. DOI

Chen, Yidan, Jiang Lin, David Roland-Holst, Xu Liu, and Can Wang."Declining Renewable Costs, Emissions Trading, and Economic Growth: China’s Power System at the Crossroads."Energies (2023). DOI

2022

Abhyankar, Nikit, Jiang Lin, Fritz Kahrl, Shengfei Yin, Umed Paliwal, Xu Liu, Nina Khanna, Qian Luo, David Wooley, Mike O'Boyle, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, Michelle Solomon, and Amol A. Phadke."Achieving an 80% carbon-free electricity system in China by 2035."iScience 25.10 (2022). DOI

Lin, Jiang, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, Wenjun Wang, Jessica Gordon, and Fan Dai."Opportunities to tackle short-lived climate pollutants and other greenhouse gases for China."Science of The Total Environment 842 (2022). DOI

Ding, Tao, Yuge Sun, Can Huang, Chenlu Mu, Yuqi Fan, Jiang Lin, and Yining Qin."Pathways of clean energy heating electrification programs for reducing carbon emissions in Northwest China."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 166 (2022). DOI

Abhyankar, Nikit, Jiang Lin, Fredrich Kahrl, Shengfei Yin, Umed Paliwal, Xu Liu, Nina Khanna, Amol A. Phadke, Qian Luo, David Wooley, Mike O’Boyle, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, and Michelle Solomon."Achieving an 80% Carbon Free Electricity System in China by 2035." (2022).

Zhou, Nan, Nina Khanna, Jingjing Zhang, Hongyou Lu, Lynn K. Price, David Fridley, Jing Ke, Wei Feng, Bo Shen, Jiang Lin, and Mark D. Levine."China Energy Outlook 2022." (2022).

Lin, Jiang, Nikit Abhyankar, Gang He, Xu Liu, and Shengfei Yin."Large balancing areas and dispersed renewable investment enhance grid flexibility in a renewable-dominant power system in China."iScience 25.2 (2022). DOI

2021

Liu, , Zhu, Zhu Deng, Gang He, Hailin Wang, Xiang Zhang, Jiang Lin, Ye Qi, and Xi Liang."Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China."Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3 (2021) 141-155.

Saunders, Harry D., Joyashree Roy, Inês M.L. Azevedo, Debalina Chakravarty, Shyamasree Dasgupta, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Angela Druckman, Roger Fouquet, Michael Grubb, Boqiang Lin, Robert Lowe, Reinhard Madlener, Daire M. McCoy, Luis Mundaca, Tadj Oreszczyn, Steven Sorrell, David Stern, Kanako Tanaka, and Taoyuan Wei."Energy Efficiency: What Has Research Delivered in the Last 40 Years?."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 46 (2021). DOI

Lin, Jiang, Nikit Abhyankar, Gang He, Xu Liu, and Shengfei Yin."Enhancing grid flexibility under scenarios of a renewable-dominant power system in China." (2021).

Hu, , Junfeng, Qingyou Yan, Fredrich Kahrl, Xu Liu, Peng Wang, and Jiang Lin."Evaluating the ancillary services market for large-scale renewable energy integration in China's northeastern power grid."Utilities Policy 69 (2021) 101179. DOI

Hopkins, Emma J., Sarah Frisco, Ryan T. Pekarek, Caleb Stetson, Zoey Huey, Steven Harvey, Xiang Li, Baris Key, Chen Fang, Gao Liu, Guang Yang, Glenn Teeter, Nathan R. Neale, and Gabriel M. Veith."Examining CO₂ as an Additive for Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation on Silicon Anodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 168.3 (2021) 030534. DOI

Kahrl, , Fredrich, Jiang Lin, Xu Liu, and Junfeng Hu."Sunsetting coal power in China."iScience 24.9 (2021) 102939. DOI