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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)

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

2024

Lucas, Éowyn, Justin C Bui, Timothy Nathan Stovall, Monica Hwang, Kaiwen Wang, Emily R Dunn, Ellis Spickermann, Lily Shiau, Ahmet Kusoglu, Adam Z Weber, Alexis T Bell, Shane Ardo, Harry A Atwater, and Chengxiang Xiang."Asymmetric Bipolar Membrane for High Current Density Electrodialysis Operation with Exceptional Stability."ACS Energy Letters (2024) 5596-5605. DOI

2023

Böhme, Annette, Justin C Bui, Aidan Q Fenwick, Rohit Bhide, Cassidy N Feltenberger, Alexandra J Welch, Alex J King, Alexis T Bell, Adam Z Weber, Shane Ardo, and Harry A Atwater."Direct observation of the local microenvironment in inhomogeneous CO ₂ reduction gas diffusion electrodes via versatile pOH imaging."Energy & Environmental Science (2023). 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

2016

Xiang, Chengxiang, Adam Z Weber, Shane Ardo, Alan Berger, YiKai Chen, Robert Coridan, Katherine T Fountaine, Sophia Haussener, Shu Hu, Riu Liu, Nathan S Lewis, Miguel A Modestino, Matthew M Shaner, Meenesh R Singh, John C Stevens, Ke Sun, and Karl Walczak."Modeling, Simulation, and Implementation of Solar-Driven Water-Splitting Devices."Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55.42 (2016) 12974 - 12988. DOI

2012

Haussener, Sophia, Chengxiang Xiang, Joshua M Spurgeon, Shane Ardo, Nathan S Lewis, and Adam Z Weber."Modeling, simulation, and design criteria for photoelectrochemical water-splitting systems."Energy & Environmental Science 5.12 (2012) 9922-9935. DOI