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)

2022

Agarwal, Shreya, and Douglas R. Black."Optimal sizing of microgrid DERs for specialized critical load resilience."2022 IEEE Green Energy and Smart Systems Conference (IGESSC)2022 IEEE Green Energy and Smart System Systems (IGESSC) (2022). DOI

Chen, Yimin, Zhelun Chen, Guanjing Lin, Jin Wen, and Jessica Granderson."A simulation-based method to analyze fan coil unit fault impacts."2022 ASHRAE Summer Conference (2022).

Peng, , Lin Yang, Akanksha K. Menon, Nathaniel Weger, Ravi S. Prasher, Hanna Breunig, and Sean D. Lubner."Techno-economic Analysis of High-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage for On-Demand Heat and Power."Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry (2022). DOI

2021

Porzio, Jason, and Corinne D. Scown."Life‐Cycle Assessment Considerations for Batteries and Battery Materials."Advanced Energy Materials (2021) 2100771. DOI

Yang, Lin, Madeleine P. Gordon, Akanksha K. Menon, Alexandra Bruefach, Kyle Haas, M. S. Scott, Ravi S. Prasher, and Jeffrey J Urban."Decoupling electron and phonon transport in single-nanowire hybrid materials for high-performance thermoelectrics."Science Advances 7.20 (2021) eabe6000. DOI

Lazar, Alina, Ling Jin, Caitlin Brown, C. Anna Spurlock, Alex Sim, and Kesheng Wu."Performance of the Gold Standard and Machine Learning in Predicting Vehicle Transactions."2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (2021). DOI

Deorah, Shruti M., Nikit Abhyankar, Siddharth Arora, Kanika Chawla, and Amol A. Phadke."Assessing the Key Requirements for 450 GW of Renewable Capacity in India by 2030." (2021).

Kusoglu, Ahmet."Chalkboard 1 - The Many Colors of Hydrogen."The Electrochemical Society Interface 30.4 (2021) 44 - 48. DOI

Liu, , Zhu, Zhu Deng, Gang He, Hailin Wang, Xiang Zhang, Jiang Lin, Ye Qi, and Xi Liang."Challenges and opportunities for carbon neutrality in China."Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3 (2021) 141-155.

Touzani, Samir, Anand Prakash, Zhe Wang, Shreya Agarwal, Marco Pritoni, Mariam Kiran, Richard E. Brown, and Jessica Granderson."Controlling distributed energy resources via deep reinforcement learning for load flexibility and energy efficiency."Applied Energy 304 (2021) 117733. DOI

Touzani, Samir, Anand Prakash, Zhe Wang, Shreya Agarwal, Marco Pritoni, Mariam Kiran, Richard E. Brown, and Jessica Granderson."Controlling distributed energy resources via deep reinforcement learning for load flexibility and energy efficiency."Applied Energy (2021). DOI

Giammar, Daniel, D.M. Greene, Anushka Mishrra, Nalini Rao, Joshua Sperling, Michael Talmadge, Ariel Miara, Kurban A. Sitterley, Alana Wilson, Sertac Akar, Parthiv Kurup, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, and Katie Coughlin."Cost and Energy Metrics for Municipal Water ReuseCost and Energy Metrics for Municipal Water Reuse."ACS ES&T Engineering (2021). DOI

Leventis, Greg, and Jeff Deason."Deferred Payment Loans for Energy Efficiency: Case Study of a Low- and Moderate-Income Home Improvement Financing Model and Potential Application to Energy Efficiency Projects." (2021).

Deason, Jeff, Sean Murphy, and Charles A. Goldman."Empirical Estimation of the Energy Impacts of Projects Installed through Residential Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing Programs in California."Energies 14.23 (2021). DOI

Deng, Hang, Peter Nico, Stephanie Huang, Markus Kleber, Hanna Breunig, Isabelle Sauter, Maegen Simmonds, and Alan Di Vittorio."Enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands for carbon removal: a reactive transport modeling perspective."AGU Fall Meeting 2021 (2021).

Jacob, Tabeel A., Nihar Shah, and Won Young Park."Evaluation of hybrid evaporative-vapor compression air conditioners for different global climates."Energy Conversion and Management 249 (2021). DOI

Saeidi, Sanaz, Girish Rentala, Tracey Rizzuto, Tianzhen Hong, Neil Johannsen, and Yimin Zhu."Exploring thermal state in mixed immersive virtual environments."Journal of Building Engineering 44 (2021) 102918. DOI

Wells, Emily McAuliffe, Mitchell J. Small, C. Anna Spurlock, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi."Factors associated with emerging multimodal transportation behavior in the San Francisco Bay Area."Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability 1 (2021).

Yang, Lin, Ravi S. Prasher, and Deyu Li."From nanowires to super heat conductors."Journal of Applied Physics 130.22 (2021) 220901. DOI

Kantner, Colleen, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Robert Hosbach, and Liat Zavodivker."Impact of the EISA 2007 backstop requirement on general service lamps." (2021).

Li, , Ning, Meiling Sun, Wang Hay Kan, Zengqing Zhuo, Sooyeon Hwang, Sara E. Renfrew, Maxim Avdeev, Ashfia Huq, Bryan D. McCloskey, Dong Su, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Layered-rocksalt intergrown cathode for high-capacity zero-strain battery operation."Nature Communications 12.1 (2021). DOI

Abhyankar, Nikit, Shruti M. Deorah, and Amol A. Phadke."Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power System Investments through 2030." (2021).

Forrester, Sydney, and Peter Cappers."Opportunities and Challenges to Capturing Distributed Battery Value via Retail Utility Rates and Programs." (2021).

Ke, Jing, and Helcio Blum."A panel analysis of groundwater use in California."Journal of Cleaner Production 326 (2021). DOI