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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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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)

2014

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, and Poorvi Rao."Empirical Analysis of the Variability of Wind Generation in India: Implications for Grid Integration." (2014).

Meyers, Stephen, Alison A Williams, Peter T Chan, Gregory J Rosenquist, Helcio Blum, Barbara A Atkinson, Sanaee Iyama, Jie Gu, Maithili Iyer, and Sarah K Price."Energy and Economic Impacts of U.S. Federal Energy and Water Conservation Standards Adopted from 1987 through 2013." (2014).

Lu, Hongyou, Lynn K Price, Arvind Thekdi, Sachin Nimbalkar, Matthew DeGroot, and Shi Jun."Energy Assessments under the Top 10,000 Program – A Case Study for A Steel Mill in China."2014 ECEEE Industrial Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

Morrow III, William R, John Marano, Jayant A Sathaye, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Tengfang T Xu."Energy Efficiency Improvements Potential in the U.S. Petroleum Refining Industry."2014 ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2014).

Dutton, Spencer M, Mark J Mendell, Wanyu R Chan, Marcella Barrios, Meera A Sidheswaran, Douglas P Sullivan, Ekaterina Eliseeva, and William J Fisk."Evaluation of the Indoor Air Quality Minimum Ventilation Rate Procedure for Use in California Retail Buildings."Indoor Air 25 (2014) 93-104. DOI

Larsen, Peter H, James L Sweeney, Joseph H Eto, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Exploring the Reliability of U.S. Electric Utilities."37th IAEE International Conference (2014).

Wang, Yungang, Michael D Sohn, Yilun Wang, Kathleen M Lask, Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Ashok J Gadgil."How many replicate tests are needed to test cookstove performance and emissions? – Three is not adequate."Energy for Sustainable Development 20 (2014) 21-29. DOI

Arent, Douglas J, Jacquelyn Pless, Trieu Mai, Ryan H Wiser, M Maureen Hand, Samuel F Baldwin, Garvin A Heath, Jordan Macknick, Morgan Bazilian, Adam Schlosser, and Paul Denholm."Implications of high renewable electricity penetration in the U.S. for water use, greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, and materials supply."Applied Energy 123 (2014) 368 - 377. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Agnes B Lobscheid, Hongyou Lu, Lynn K Price, and Yue Dai."Including the Co-benefits of Energy-Efficiency Programs and Projects in Cost-Benefit Analysis - A Case Study for the Cement Industry."International Conference on Clean Energy (2014).

Morrow III, William R, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Andrew Sturges, Samveg Saxena, Anand R Gopal, Dev Millstein, Nihar Shah, and Elisabeth A Gilmore."Key Factors Influencing Autonomous Vehicles’ Energy and Environmental Outcome."Road Vehicle Automation (2014) 127-135. DOI

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Xianglei Mao, Dale L Perry, and Richard E Russo."Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry for Rare Isotopes of the Light Elements."Spectroscopy 29.6 (2014) 30-39.

Chong, Jin, Shidi Xun, Jingping Zhang, Xiangyun Song, Haiming Xie, Vincent S Battaglia, and Rongshun Wang."Li₃PO₄-Coated LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄: A Stable High-Voltage Cathode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries."Chemistry - A European Journal 20.24 (2014) 7479-7485. DOI

Sathre, Roger, Corinne D Scown, William R Morrow III, John C Stevens, Ian D Sharp, Joel W Ager, Karl Walczak, Frances A Houle, and Jeffery B Greenblatt."Life-cycle net energy assessment of large-scale hydrogen production via photoelectrochemical water splitting."Energy Environ. Sci. 7.10 (2014) 3264 - 3278. DOI

Inceoglu, Sebnem, Adriana A Rojas, Didier H Devaux, X. X Chelsea Chen, Greg M Stone, and Nitash P Balsara."Morphology–Conductivity Relationship of Single-Ion-Conducting Block Copolymer Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries."ACS Macro Letters 3 (2014) 510-514. DOI

Wei, Max, and Jeffery B Greenblatt."Refrigerated Beverage Vending Machine Outdoor Location and Elevated (90°F) Outdoor Temperature Analysis." (2014).

Rickerson, Wilson, Toby Couture, Galen L Barbose, David Jacobs, Giles Parkinson, Emily Chessin, Andy Belden, Holly Wilson, and Henry Barrett."Residential Prosumers: Drivers and Policy Options (Re-Prosumers)." (2014).

Li, Cheng, and Tianzhen Hong."Revisit of Energy Use and Technologies of High Performance Buildings."2014 ASHRAE Annual Conference (2014).

Thompson, Peter J, Merrian Borgeson, Mark Zimring, Charles A Goldman, and Chris Kramer."Selling an Energy Efficiency Loan Portfolio in Oregon: Resale of the Craft3 loan portfolio to Self-Help Credit Union." (2014).

Stewart, Emma M, and Sila Kiliccote."Software Based Barriers To Integration of Renewables To The Future Distribution Grid." (2014).

Stewart, Emma M, Sila Kiliccote, and Charles McParland."Software—Based Challenges of Developing the Future Distribution Grid." (2014).

Lee, Eunseok, and Kristin A Persson."Structural and Chemical Evolution of the Layered Li-Excess Li_xMnO₃ as a Function of Li Content from First-Principles Calculations."Advanced Energy Materials (2014). DOI

Meier, Alan K, and Sarah J Olexsak."The electricity impacts of Earth Hour: An international comparative analysis of energy-saving behavior."Energy Research & Social Science 2 (2014). DOI

Karali, Nihan, Tengfang T Xu, and Jayant A Sathaye."U.S Iron and Steel Sector and Potential Trading With China and India: Analysis with ISEEM Energy Model."37th IAEE International Conference Proceedings, International Association for Energy Economics (2014).

Xu, Tengfang T, Nihan Karali, and Jayant A Sathaye."Undertaking high impact strategies: The role of national efficiency measures in long-term energy and emission reduction in steel making."Applied Energy 122 (2014) 179-188. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Zeyi Jiang, and Lynn K Price."Why the Energy Use of Chinese Steel Industry May Peak As Early As 2015?."2014 ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2014).