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)

2023

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Hongyou Lu, and Nan Zhou."Net-Zero Roadmap for China's Steel Industry." (2023).

Utterback, James K., Alex J. King, Livia Belman-Wells, David M. Larson, Leo M. Hamerlynck, Adam Z. Weber, and Naomi S. Ginsberg."Operando Label-free Optical Imaging of Solution-Phase Ion Transport and Electrochemistry."ACS Energy Letters (2023) 1785 - 1792. DOI

Tucker, Michael C., Fengyu Shen, and Martha Welander."Oxidation of Porous Stainless Steel Supports for Metal-Supported Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2023).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Priyanka Mohanty, Shruti M. Deorah, Nihan Karali, Umed Paliwal, Jessica Kersey, and Amol A. Phadke."Pathways to Atmanirbhar Bharat: Harnessing India's Renewable Edge for Cost-Effective Energy Independence by 2047." (2023).

Porzio, Jason, Derek Wolfson, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Corinne D. Scown."Private and External Costs and Benefits of Replacing High-Emitting Peaker Plants with Batteries."Environmental Science & Technology 57.12 (2023) 4992 - 5002. DOI

Coleman, Philip, and Christine Walker."Recommended vs. Actual Escalation Rates For ESPCs: Is the Guidance Good?."International Journal of Energy Management 5.1 (2023).

Chen, Zhelun, Zheng O'Neill, Jin Wen, Ojas Pradhan, Tao Yang, Xing Lu, Guanjing Lin, Shohei Miyata, Seungjae Lee, Chou Shen, Roberto Chiosa, Marco Savino Piscitelli, Alfonso Capozzoli, Franz Hengel, Alexander Kuhrer, Marco Pritonic, Wei Liu, John Claub, Yimin Chen, and Terry Herr."A review of data-driven fault detection and diagnostics for building HVAC systems."Applied Energy Vol.339 No..121030 (2023). DOI

Elmallah, Salma, Ben Hoen, K. Sydny Fujita, Dana Robson, and Eric Brunner."Shedding light on large-scale solar impacts: An analysis of property values and proximity to photovoltaics across six U.S. states."Energy Policy (2023). DOI

Zuberi, Jibran, Ali Hasanbeigi, and William R. Morrow III."Techno-economic evaluation of industrial heat pump applications in US pulp and paper, textile, and automotive industries."Energy Efficiency 16.3 (2023). DOI

Lee, Jason K., Grace Y. Lau, Mayank Sabharwal, Adam Z. Weber, Xiong Peng, and Michael C. Tucker."Titanium porous-transport layers for PEM water electrolysis prepared by tape casting."Journal of Power Sources 559 (2023) 232606. 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).

Hanus, Nichole L, Jay Barlow, Andrew Satchwell, and Peter Cappers."Assessing the Current State of U.S. Energy Equity Regulation and Legislation." (2023).

Sheng, Maggie, Michael Reiner, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Assessing thermal resilience of an assisted living facility during heat waves and cold snaps with power outages."Building and Environment 230 (2023) 110001. DOI

Goyal, Priyamvada, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Adam Z. Weber."Coalescing Cation Selectivity Approaches in Ionomers."ACS Energy Letters 8.3 (2023) 1551 - 1566. DOI

Haites, Erik, Paolo Bertoldi, Michael Konig, Christopher Bataille, Felix Creutzig, Dipak Dasgupta, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Smail Khennas, Yong- Gun Kim, Lars J. Nilsson, Joyashree Roy, and Agus Sari."Contribution of carbon pricing to meeting a mid-century net zero target."Climate Policy (2023). DOI

Wang, Yan, Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, and Corinne D. Scown."Co-Processing Agricultural Residues and Wet Organic Waste Can Produce Lower-Cost Carbon-Negative Fuels and Bioplastics."Environmental Science & Technology (2023). DOI

Letschert, Virginie E., Shreya Agarwal, Stephane de la Rue du Can, and Won Young Park."Cost-Benefit Analysis for Air Conditioner in Tunisia." (2023).

Menon, Akanksha K., Mingxin Jia, Sumanjeet Kaur, Chris Dames, and Ravi S. Prasher."Distributed desalination using solar energy: A technoeconomic framework to decarbonize nontraditional water treatment."iScience 26.2 (2023) 105966. DOI

Mata, Omar, Juana Isabel Méndez, Pedro Ponce, Therese Peffer, Alan K. Meier, and Arturo Molina."Energy Savings in Buildings Based on Image Depth Sensors for Human Activity Recognition."Energies 16.3 (2023) 1078. DOI

Murphy, Sean, and Natalie Mims Frick."Estimating the Drivers of the Cost of Saved Electricity in Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs."Energies 16.5 (2023). DOI

Kramer, Hannah, Nora Hart, Jessica Granderson, and Tom Abram."Framework for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Planning: Building Portfolios." (2023).

Nordahl, Sarah L., Chelsea V. Preble, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Corinne D. Scown."Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions from Composting."Environmental Science & Technology 57.6 (2023) 2235 - 2247. DOI

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

Lee, Jason K., Tobias Schuler, Guido Bender, Mayank Sabharwal, Xiong Peng, Adam Z. Weber, and Nemanja Danilovic."Interfacial engineering via laser ablation for high-performing PEM water electrolysis."Applied Energy 336 (2023) 120853. DOI

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, and Julie Mulvaney Kemp."The Latest Market Data Show that the Potential Savings of New Electric Transmission was Higher Last Year than at Any Point in the Last Decade." (2023).