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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

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2024

Breunig, Hanna, Patricia Fox, Jeremy Domen, R Kumar, Ricardo Jorge Eloy Alves, Kateryna Zhalnina, Anne Voigtländer, Hang Deng, Bhavna Arora, and Peter Nico."Life cycle impact and cost analysis of quarry materials for land-based enhanced weathering in Northern California."Journal of Cleaner Production (2024) 143757. DOI

2023

Deng, Hang, Eric Sonnenthal, Bhavna Arora, Hanna Breunig, Eoin Brodie, Markus Kleber, Nicolas Spycher, and Peter Nico."The environmental controls on efficiency of enhanced rock weathering in soils."Scientific Reports 13.1 (2023). DOI

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

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

2021

Deng, Hang, Peter Nico, Stephanie Huang, Markus Kleber, Hanna Breunig, Isabelle Sauter, Maegen Simmonds, and Alan Di Vittorio."Enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands for carbon removal: a reactive transport modeling perspective."AGU Fall Meeting 2021 (2021).

Doughtry, Christine, Jianjun Hu, Patrick Dobson, Peter Nico, and Michael Wetter."Coupling subsurface and above-surface models for optimizing the design of borefields and district heating and cooling systems in the presence of varying water-table depth."46th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering (2021).