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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

Xu, Xiaodan, Hung-Chia Yang, Haitam Laarabi, Cristian Poliziani, Alicia Birky, Kyungsoo Jeong, Hongyu Lu, Randall Guensler, and C Anna Spurlock."Improving commercial truck fleet composition in emission modeling using 2021 US VIUS data."International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (2025) 1-19. DOI

2020

Zhang, Y, C W Wang, H Huang, J Lu, R Liang, J F Liu, R Peng, Q Zhang, Q Zhang, J Wang, L Gu, X.-F Han, L.-Q Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, C.-W Nan, and J Zhang."Deterministic reversal of single magnetic vortex circulation by an electric field."Science Bulletin (2020). DOI

2016

Olabarriaga, Silvia Delgado, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Waleed W Smari, Mohamed Bakhouya, Sandro Fiore, Giovanni Aloisio, Patrick Huck, Daniel Gunter, Shreyas Cholia, Donald Winston, Alpha T N'Diaye, and Kristin A Persson."User applications driven by the community contribution framework MPContribs in the Materials Project."Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 28.7 (2016) 1982 - 1993. DOI

2015

Jain, Anubhav, Shyue Ping Ong, Wei Chen, Bharat Medasan, Xiaohui Qu, Michael Kocher, Miriam Brafman, Guido Petretto, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Geoffroy Hautier, Daniel Gunter, and Kristin A Persson."FireWorks: a dynamic workflow system designed for high-throughput applications."Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 27.17 (2015) 5037 - 5059. DOI

2003

Walker, Iain S, Craig P Wray, Cyril Guillot, and Sylvain Masson."Evaluation of Commercially Available Techniques and Development of Simplified Methods for Measuring Grille Airflows in HVAC Systems." (2003).

Walker, Iain S, and Cyril Guillot."Experimental Evaluation of Gas Filled Plenum Duct Insulation." (2003).