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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

Publications by Division

Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2025

Collins, Stephanie, Yaset Acevedo, Daniel Esposito V, Rohini Bala Chandran, Shane Ardo, Brian D James, and Hanna Breunig."Levelized cost and carbon intensity of solar hydrogen production from water electrolysis using a scalable and intrinsically safe photocatalytic Z-scheme electrochemical raceway system."Energy & Environmental Science (2025). DOI

2018

Chandran, Rohini Bala, Sasuke Breen, Yuanxun Shao, Shane Ardo, and Adam Z Weber."Evaluating particle-suspension reactor designs for Z-scheme solar water splitting via transport and kinetic modeling."Energy & Environmental Science 11.1 (2018) 115 - 135. DOI

2008

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Ryan M Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Commercial-Building Microgrids."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 23.3 (2008) 975-982. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Ryan M Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Microgrids in Commercial Buildings."31st IAEE International Conference "Bridging Energy Supply and Demand: Logistics, Competition and Environment", June 18-20, 2008 (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Ryan M Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Commercial- Building Microgrids." (2008) 10. DOI

2007

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Ryan M Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Microgrids in Commerical Buildings."IEEE 2007 Power Engineering Society General Meeting, June 24-28, 2007 (2007).