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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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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

Publications by Division

Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2015

McNeil, Andrew, and Eleanor S Lee."April Burn-in Testing Report for Genentech B35, South San Francisco Campus." (2015).

Gopal, Anand R, Maggie Witt, Nikit Abhyankar, Colin Sheppard, and Andrew Harris."Battery electric vehicles can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make renewable energy cheaper in India." (2015).

Kiliccote, Sila, Daniel Olsen, Michael D Sohn, and Mary Ann Piette."Characterization of demand response in the commercial, industrial, and residential sectors in the United States."Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment 5.3 (2015) 288 - 304. DOI

Robles, Steven."Commercial 3-Phase Rooftop Air Conditioner Test Report." (2015).

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, Greg Leventis, Nihar Shah, and Michael A McNeil."Cooling the Growth of Air Conditioners Energy Consumption."ECEEE 2015 Summer Study on energy efficiency (2015).

Montesinos, V Nahuel, Mohamad Sleiman, Sebastian Cohn, Marta I Litter, and Hugo Destaillats."Detection and quantification of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in indoor air."Talanta 138 (2015) 20-27. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Mary Ann Piette, and Ella Hae Yeon Sung."Diffusion of Automated Grid Transactions Through Energy Efficiency Codes."ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, 2015 (2015).

Houde, Sebastien, and C Anna Spurlock."Do Energy Efficiency Standards Improve Quality? Evidence from a Revealed Preference Approach." (2015).

Coleman, Philip."Escalation Rates in Energy Savings Performance Contracts."Energy Engineering 112.5 (2015). DOI

Coleman, Philip."Guide to Promoting an Energy Efficient Public Sector (PePS)." (2015).

Vitina, Aisma, Silke Lüers, Anna-Kathrin Wallasch, Volker Berkhout, Aidan Duffy, Brendan Cleary, Lief I Husabø, David E Weir, Roberto Lacal-Arántegui, M Maureen Hand, Eric Lantz, Kathy Belyeu, Ryan H Wiser, Mark Bolinger, and Ben Hoen."IEA Wind Task 26: Wind Technology, Cost, and Performance Trends in Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, the European Union, and the United States: 2007–2012." (2015).

Tucker, Michael C, Kyu-Taek Cho, Franz B Spingler, Adam Z Weber, and Guangyu Lin."Impact of membrane characteristics on the performance and cycling of the Br2–H2 redox flow cell."Journal of Power Sources 284 (2015) 212 - 221. DOI

Todd-Blick, Annika, Michael Perry, Brian Smith, Michael J Sullivan, Peter Cappers, and Charles A Goldman."Insights from Smart Meters: Ramp-up, dependability, and short-term persistence of savings from Home Energy Reports." (2015).

Gilbert, Haley E, Benjamin H Mandel, and Ronnen M Levinson."Keeping California cool: Recent cool community developments."Energy and Buildings (2015). DOI

Spurlock, C Anna."Loss Aversion and Time-Differentiated Electricity Pricing." (2015).

Milan, Christian, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Salman Mashayekh."Modelling of Non-linear CHP Efficiency Curves in Distributed Energy Systems."Applied Energy 148 (2015) 334-347. DOI

Lask, Kathleen M, Kayje Booker, Taewon Han, Jessica Granderson, Nina Yang, Cristina Ceballos, and Ashok J Gadgil."Performance comparison of charcoal cookstoves for Haiti: Laboratory testing with Water Boiling and Controlled Cooking Tests."Energy for Sustainable Development 26 (2015) 79 - 86. DOI

Mao, Wenfeng, Yanbao Fu, Hui Zhao, Guo Ai, Yiling Dai, Dechao Meng, Xin-he Zhang, Deyang Qu, Gao Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, and Zhi-yuan Tang."Rational Design and Facial Synthesis of Li₃V₂(PO₄)₃@C Nanocomposites Using Carbon with Different Dimensions for Ultrahigh-Rate Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7 (2015) 12057-12066. DOI

Gerke, Brian F, Allison T Ngo, and Kibret S Fisseha."Recent price trends and learning curves for household LED lamps from a regression analysis of Internet retail data." (2015).

Robles, Steven."Residential Air Conditioner with VFD Test Report." (2015).

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser."Strategies to mitigate declines in the economic value of wind and solar at high penetration in California."Applied Energy 147 (2015) 269 - 278. DOI

Lee, Soochan, Robert A Taylor, Lenore Dai, Ravi S Prasher, and Patrick E Phelan."The effective latent heat of aqueous nanofluids."Mater. Res. Express 2 (2015) 065004. DOI

Qu, Xiaohui, Anubhav Jain, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Lei Cheng, Yong Zhang, Shyue P Ong, Miriam Brafman, Edward Maginn, Larry A Curtiss, and Kristin A Persson."The Electrolyte Genome project: A big data approach in battery materials discovery."Computational Materials Science 103 (2015) 56-67. DOI

Zhou, Nan, Wei Feng, Nina Khanna, Lixuan Hong, David Fridley, and Ellen M Franconi."Transformative Pathway for Chinese Buildings by 2050."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, June 1-6, 2015 (2015).

Willem, Henry, Sarah K Price, Hannah Stratton, Maithili Iyer, Bereket Beraki, Stacy Pratt, and Dana Hansen."Understanding Cooking Behavior in U.S. Households." (2015).