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)

2024

Laarabi, Haitam, Zachary Needell, Rashid Waraich, Cristian Poliziani, and Thomas P. Wenzel."A Modeling Framework for Behavior, Energy, Autonomy and Mobility (BEAM)." (2024).

Zhao, Haoran, Iain S. Walker, William W. Delp, and Brett C. Singer."Performance and usage of mechanical residential kitchen ventilation."ASHRAE Winter 2024 (2024).

Rongpipi, Sintu, Jonathan M. Chan, Ashley Bird, Guillaume Freychet, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Gregory M. Su."Revealing Mesoscale Ionomer Membrane Structure by Tender Resonant X-ray Scattering."ACS Applied Polymer Materials (2024). DOI

2023

Munankarmi, Prateek, Eric Wilson, Janet L. Reyna, Elaina Present, Stacey Rothgeb, and Aven Satre-Meloy."Modeled Results of Four Residential Energy Efficiency Measure Packages for Deriving Advanced Building Construction Research Targets." (2023). DOI

Brunner, Eric, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and David Schwegman."Commercial Wind Turbines and Residential Home Values: New Evidence from the Universe of Land-Based Wind Projects in the United States."Energy Policy (2023). DOI

Queiroz, Natália, Luis L. Fernandes, and Fernando OscarRutt Pereira."Comparison of Fast Daylighting Climate-Based Simulation Methods for Parametric Design: Two-Phase, Three-Phase Method and Path Tracing."Architectural Engineering and Design Management (2023) 1 - 19. DOI

Pastor, Angela Ortega, Ashley Books, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Dan Gaspar."COP28 Outcomes Report." (2023).

Millstein, Dev, Seongeun Jeong, Amos Ancell, and Ryan H. Wiser."A database of hourly wind speed and modeled generation for US wind plants based on three meteorological models."Scientific Data 10 (2023). DOI

Zeng, Yuqiang, Buyi Zhang, Yanbao Fu, Fengyu Shen, Qiye Zheng, Divya Chalise, Ruijiao Miao, Sumanjeet Kaur, Sean D. Lubner, Michael C. Tucker, Vincent S. Battaglia, Chris Dames, and Ravi S. Prasher."Extreme fast charging of commercial Li-ion batteries via combined thermal switching and self-heating approaches."Nature Communications 14.1 (2023). DOI

Liu, Jingjing, Lili Yu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, and Peter Schwartz."Factors Influencing Building Demand Flexibility." (2023). DOI

UNEP Cool Coalition, , and Nihar Shah."Keeping it chill: How to meet cooling demand, while cutting emissions." (2023). DOI

Jin, Ling, Xiaodan Xu, Yuhan Wang, Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi, Alina Lazar, Duleep Rathgamage Don, Zachary Needell, C. Anna Spurlock, Mahyar Amirgholy, and Mona Asudegi."Leveraging Probe Data and Machine Learning to Derive and Interpret Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams Across U.S. Cities."2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (2023). DOI

Wang, Wenjun, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, and Jiang Lin."Measurement, reporting and Verification (MRV) of non-CO2 greenhouse gases: International Best Practices and Suggestions for China." (2023).

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L. Barbose, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Cristina Crespo Montañés."Residential Solar-Adopter Income and Demographic Trends: 2023 Update." (2023).

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, and Theo Covary."SOUTH AFRICA: FRAMEWORK FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT." (2023).

Wei, Max, Catherine Foster, Tia Tyler, Julie Kim, Ryan Bodanyi, Kaiyu Sun, Henry Willem, Patricia Kusumah, Lino Sanchez, Sang Hoon Lee, Miguel Heleno, Tianzhen Hong, Daniel Dominguez, and Darren Kumar."An Action Plan for Greater Climate Equity for Disadvantaged Communities in Fresno." (2023).

Luo, , Xiaoyan, Douglas I. Kushner, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Anion exchange membranes: The effect of reinforcement in water and electrolyte."Journal of Membrane Science 685 (2023) 121945. DOI

Wetter, Michael, and Matthias Sulzer."A call to action for building energy system modelling in the age of decarbonization."Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2023) 1 - 11. DOI

De Martini, Paul, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Distribution System Evolution." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C., Natalie Mims Frick, Julieta Giraldez, Cody Davis, Samir Succar, Ronny Sandoval, Eliza Hotchkiss, Josh A. Schellenberg, Tom Wall, Peter H. Larsen, Nichole L Hanus, and Jane Frantz."Eastern Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience." (2023).

Ball, Jason, Sydney Forrester, Alexandra Grayson, and Andrew Satchwell."Electric Vehicle Program Designs and Strategies to Enhance Equitable Deployment." (2023).

Petrovick, John G., Douglas I. Kushner, Priyamvada Goyal, Ahmet Kusoglu, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Electrochemical Measurement of Water Transport Numbers in Anion-Exchange Membranes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 170.11 (2023) 114519. DOI

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).