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)

2016

Sa, Niya, Hao Wang, Danielle L. Proffit, Albert L. Lipson, Baris Key, Miao Liu, Zhenxing Feng, Timothy T. Fister, Yang Ren, Cheng-Jun Sun, John T. Vaughey, Paul A. Fenter, Kristin A. Persson, and Anthony K. Burrell."Is alpha-V2O5 a cathode material for Mg insertion batteries?."Journal of Power Sources 323 (2016) 44 - 50. DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Douglas R. Black, and Rongxin Yin."Comparison of Actual Costs to Integrate Commercial Buildings with the Grid."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Ding, Hong, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Lauren Garten, Paul Ndione, David Ginley, and Kristin A. Persson."Computational Approach for Epitaxial Polymorph Stabilization through Substrate Selection."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8.20 (2016) 13086 - 13093. DOI

Hledik, Ryan, Jim Lazar, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Distribution System Pricing with Distributed Energy Resources."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 4 (2016).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Effect of Accounting for Crash Severity on the Relationship between Mass Reduction and Crash Frequency and Risk per Crash." (2016).

Feldman, David, and Mark Bolinger."Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in Financing Solar."On the Path to SunShot (2016).

Wiser, Ryan H., Trieu Mai, Dev Millstein, Jordan Macknick, Alberta Carpenter, Stuart Cohen, Wesley Cole, Bethany Frew, and Garvin A. Heath."The Environmental and Public Health Benefits of Achieving High Penetrations of Solar Energy in the United States."On the Path to SunShot (2016).

Shylesh, Sankaranarayanapillai, Amit A. Gokhale, Corinne D. Scown, Daeyoup Kim, Christopher R. Ho, and Alexis T. Bell."From Sugars to Wheels: The Conversion of Ethanol to 1,3-Butadiene over Metal-Promoted Magnesia-Silicate Catalysts."ChemSusChem 9 (2016). DOI

Ghoshal, , Uttam, Ayan Guha, Key Kolle, Himanshu Pokharna, Ravi S. Prasher, and Ankita Ghoshal."Fuel-flexible thermal power generator for electric loads." (2016).

Sun, Xiaoqi, Patrick Bonnick, Victor Duffort, Miao Liu, Ziqin Rong, Kristin A. Persson, Gerbrand Ceder, and Linda F. Nazar."A high capacity thiospinel cathode for Mg batteries."Energy & Environmental Science 9.7 (2016) 2273 - 2277. DOI

Coles, Henry C., and Magnus Herrlin."Immersion Cooling of Electronics in DoD Installations." (2016).

Mathew, Paul A., Sangeeta Mathew, Satish Kumar, Mohini Singh, Hannah Stratton, and Maithili Iyer."India Commercial Buildings Data Framework: A Summary of Potential Use Cases." (2016).

Ray, Promit, Sebastian Dohm, Tamara Husch, Christoph Shutter, Kristin A. Persson, Andrea Balducci, Barbara Kirchner, and Martin Korth."Insights into Bulk Electrolyte Effects on the Operative Voltage of Electrochemical Double-Layer Capacitors."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120.23 (2016) 12325 - 12336. DOI

Hill, Joanne, Gregory Mulholland, Kristin A. Persson, Ram Seshadri, Chris Wolverton, and Bryce Meredig."Materials science with large-scale data and informatics: Unlocking new opportunitiesAbstract."MRS Bulletin 41.5 (2016) 399 - 409. DOI

Toma, Francesca M., Jason K. Cooper, Viktoria Kunzelmann, Matthew T. McDowell, Jie Yu, David M. Larson, Nicholas J. Borys, Christine Abelyan, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Kin Man Yu, Jinhui Yang, Le Chen, Matthew R. Shaner, Joshua Spurgeon, Frances A. Houle, Kristin A. Persson, and Ian D. Sharp."Mechanistic insights into chemical and photochemical transformations of bismuth vanadate photoanodes."Nature Communications 7.1 (2016). DOI

Williams, Alison A., Yuting Chen, Camilla Dunham, Heidi Fuchs, Sarah K. Price, and Hannah Stratton."Methodology for Outdoor Water Savings Model and Spreadsheet Tool for U.S. and Selected States." (2016).

Liao, Anna, Emma M. Stewart, and Emre C. Kara."Micro-Synchrophasor Data for Diagnosis of Transmission and Distribution Level Events."IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (2016).

Schiller, Steven R., Jennifer Meissner, Katie Rich, and Fred Gordon."Planning and Budgeting for the Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Programs."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Herring, Steven J., Simon Batchelor, Paul E. Bieringer, Bry Lingard, David M. Lorenzetti, Simon T. Parker, Luna Rodriguez, Michael D. Sohn, Dan Steinhoff, and Matthew Wolski."Providing pressure inputs to multizone building models."Building and Environment 101 (2016) 32 - 44. DOI

Herring, Steven J., Simon Batchelor, Paul E. Bieringer, Bry Lingard, David M. Lorenzetti, Simon T. Parker, Luna Rodriguez, Michael D. Sohn, Dan Steinhoff, and Matthew Wolski."Providing pressure inputs to multizone building models."Building and Environment 101 (2016) 32 - 44. DOI

Yin, Rongxin, Emre C. Kara, Yaping Li, Nicholas DeForest, Ke Wang, Taiyou Yong, and Michael Stadler."Quantifying Flexibility of Commercial and Residential Loads for Demand Response using Setpoint Changes." (2016).

Jain, Anubhav, Kristin A. Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Research Update: The materials genome initiative: Data sharing and the impact of collaborative ab initio databases."APL Materials 4.5 (2016). DOI

Iyer, Maithili, Hannah Stratton, Sangeeta Mathew, Satish Kumar, Paul A. Mathew, and Mohini Singh."Review of Building Data Frameworks Across Countries: Lessons for India." (2016).

Leventis, Greg."Scaling Energy Efficiency for Low and Middle Income Households through Financing: Opportunities, Issues and the Current State of the Market."Better Buildings Summit, May 11, 2016 (2016).

Chen, Wei, Jan-Hendrik Pöhls, Geoffroy Hautier, Danny Broberg, Saurabh Bajaj, Umut Aydemir, Zachary M. Gibbs, Hong Zhu, Mark Asta, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Bryce Meredig, Mary Anne White, Kristin A. Persson, and Anubhav Jain."Understanding thermoelectric properties from high-throughput calculations: trends, insights, and comparisons with experiment."Journal of Materials Chemistry C 4.20 (2016) 4414 - 4426. DOI