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

Crowe, Eliot, Yimin Chen, Hayden Reeve, David Yuill, Amir Ebrahimifakhar, Yuxuan Chen, Lucas Troup, Amanda Smith, and Jessica Granderson."Empirical Analysis of the Prevalence of HVAC Faults in Commercial Buildings." (2023). DOI

Wei, Max, Kaiyu Sun, Henry Willem, Patricia Kusumah, Lino Sanchez, Sang Hoon Lee, Miguel Heleno, and Tianzhen Hong."Final Project Report: Building Healthier and More Energy-Efficient Communities in Fresno and the Central Valley." (2023).

Nelson, Ron, Bradley Cebulko, Thomas Van Hentenryck, Erin Mettler, and Natalie Mims Frick."A Framework for Non-Pipeline Alternatives Analysis and Review of Existing Approaches." (2023).

Fujita, K. Sydny, Zach Ancona, Louisa Kramer, James Diffendorfer, Mary Straka, Tandie E. Gautreau, Dana Robson, Ben Hoen, and Chris Garrity."Georectified polygon database of ground-mounted large-scale solar photovoltaic sites in the United States."Scientific Data (2023). DOI

Shackelford, Jordan, Alastair Robinson, Cynthia Regnier, and Sang Hoon Lee."Getting Beyond Widgets: Performance of Efficient Indoor Air Quality System Retrofit Packages for Schools." (2023). DOI

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Galen L. Barbose, Alexandra Grayson, Isa Ferrall-Wolf, and Deborah Sunter."Impacts of non-residential solar on residential adoption decisions."Frontiers in Sustainable Energy Policy 2 (2023). DOI

Grahovac, Milica, Paul Ehrlich, Jianjun Hu, and Michael Wetter."Model-based data center cooling controls comparative co-design."Science and Technology for the Built Environment (2023). DOI

Sartor, Dale A., Bo Shen, and Arman Shehabi."Repurposing coal assets for a decarbonized digital economy." (2023).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Alexandra Grayson, and Galen L. Barbose."The role of peer influence in rooftop solar adoption inequity in the United States."Energy Economics 127 (2023). DOI

Gorman, Will, Galen L. Barbose, Cesca Miller, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, and Philip White."Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions." (2023).

Murphy, Sean, Lisa C. Schwartz, Catherine Reed, Marion Gold, and Kirsten Verclas."State Energy Offices’ Engagement in Electric Distribution Planning to Meet State Policy Goals." (2023).

Fujita, K. Sydny, Zach Ancona, Louisa Kramer, James Diffendorfer, Mary Straka, Tandie E. Gautreau, Dana Robson, Ben Hoen, and Chris Garrity."US Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database Files." (2023).

Hoen, Ben, James Diffendorfer, Joseph Rand, Louisa Kramer, Chris Garrity, and Hannah Hunt."US Wind Turbine Database Files." (2023). DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, and Lisa C. Schwartz."The use of price-based demand response as a resource in electricity system planning." (2023).

Dreyfus, Gabrielle, Max Wei, Nihar Shah, and Kristen Taddonio."Ambitious Replenishment of the Multilateral Fund for Implementation of the Montreal Protocol Delivers High Impact Climate Benefits at Low Cost." (2023).

Baik, Sunhee, Galen L. Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Will Gorman, and Michael Spears."Backup Power Performance of Solar-plus-Storage Systems during Routine Power Interruptions: A Case Study Application of Berkeley Lab’s PRESTO Model." (2023).

Maier, Laura, Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, Lucas Westermann, Kushagra Mathur, Michael Wetter, and Dirk Muller."Comparative Study and Validation of Photovoltaic Model Formulations for the IBPSA Modelica Library based on Rooftop Measurement Data." (2023).

Frick, Natalie Mims."Considering the time and locational value of efficiency in electricity planning." (2023).

Zanetti, Ettore, David Blum, and Michael Wetter."Control development and sizing analysis for a 5th generation district heating and cooling network using Modelica."15th International Modelica Conference (2023).

Hu, Boxun, Fabian Rosner, Hanna Breunig, Asia Sarycheva, Robert Kostecki, and Michael C. Tucker."Electrochemical conversion of methane to ethylene, olefins, and paraffins using metal-supported solid oxide cells."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 48.86 (2023) 33537 - 33547. DOI

Hu, Boxun, Grace Y. Lau, Kevin X. Lee, Seraphim Belko, Prabhakar Singh, and Michael C. Tucker."Ethanol-fueled metal supported solid oxide fuel cells with a high entropy alloy internal reforming catalyst."Journal of Power Sources 582 (2023) 233544. DOI

Ham, Sang woo, Donghun Kim, Tanya Barham, and Kent Ramseyer."The first field application of a low-cost MPC for grid-interactive K-12 schools: Lessons-learned and savings assessment."Energy and Buildings 296 (2023) 113351. DOI

Maasakkers, Joannes D., Erine E. McDuffie, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Candice Chen, Maggie Schultz, Lily Brunelle, Ryan Thrush, John Steller, Christopher Sherry, Daniel J. Jacob, Seongeun Jeong, Bill Irving, and Melissa Weitz."A Gridded Inventory of Annual 2012–2018 U.S. Anthropogenic Methane Emissions."Environmental Science & Technology 57.43 (2023) 16276 - 16288. DOI

Maccarini, Alessandro, Michael Wetter, Davide Varesano, Martin Bloemendal, Alireza Afshari, and Angelo Zarrella."Low-order aquifer thermal energy storage model for geothermal system simulation."15th International Modelica Conference (2023).