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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)

2017

Freiberg, Anna T. S, Michael C Tucker, and Adam Z Weber."Polarization loss correction derived from hydrogen local-resistance measurement in low Pt-loaded polymer-electrolyte fuel cells."Electrochemistry Communications 79 (2017) 14 - 17. DOI

Kuppan, Saravanan, Alpesh Khushalcha Shukla, Daniel Membreno, Dennis Nordlund, and Guoying Chen."Revealing Anisotropic Spinel Formation on Pristine Li- and Mn-Rich Layered Oxide Surface and Its Impact on Cathode Performance."Advanced Energy Materials 7.11 (2017) 1602010. DOI

Schiller, Steven R, Greg Leventis, Tom Eckman, and Sean Murphy."SEE Action Guide for States: Guidance on Establishing and Maintaining Technical Reference Manuals for Energy Efficiency Measures." (2017).

Ganeshalingam, Mohan, Arman Shehabi, and Louis-Benoit Desroches."Shining a Light on Small Data Centers in the U.S.." (2017).

Meier, Alan K, and Hans-Paul Siderius."Should the next standby power target be 0-watt?." (2017).

Grate, Jay W, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Matthew J O'Hara, Cynthia M Kellogg, Samuel S Morrison, David W Koppenaal, George C.-Y Chan, Xianglei Mao, Vassilia Zorba, and Richard E Russo."Solid matrix transformation and tracer addition using molten ammonium bifluoride salt as a sample preparation method for laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry."The Analyst 142.18 (2017) 3333 - 3340. DOI

Siap, David, Henry Willem, Sarah K Price, Hung-Chia Yang, and Alexander B Lekov."Survey of Hearth Products in U.S. Homes." (2017).

Rand, Joseph, and Ben Hoen."Thirty years of North American wind energy acceptance research: What have we learned?."Energy Research & Social Science 29.July 2017 (2017) 135-148. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Tom Eckman, and Charles A Goldman."Time-varying value of electric energy efficiency." (2017).

Schiller, Steven R, Michael Li, Arlis Reynolds, Ellen Fraconi, and Tim Guiterman."Advances in Efficiency EM&V - DOE’s Uniform Methods Project and M&V 2.0." (2017).

Ohshita, Stephanie, Jingjing Zhang, Li Yang, Min Hu, Nina Khanna, David Fridley, Shuang Liu, Ang Li, Miao Sun, and Nan Zhou."China Green Low-Carbon City Index." (2017).

Khanna, Nina, David Fridley, Nan Zhou, Nihan Karali, Jingjing Zhang, and Wei Feng."China’s Trajectories beyond Efficiency: CO2 Implications of Maximizing Electrification and Renewable Resources through 2050."ECEEE Summer Study 2017. Presqu'ile Giens, Hyeres France, 2017 (2017).

Ludwig, Jennifer, Carlos Alarcón-Suesca, Stephan Geprägs, Dennis Nordlund, Marca M Doeff, Inés Puente Orench, and Tom Nilges."Direct synthesis and characterization of mixed-valent Li _0.5−δCoPO ₄, a Li-deficient derivative of the Cmcm polymorph of LiCoPO ₄."RSC Advances 7.45 (2017) 28069 - 28081. DOI

Ebin, Burçak, Marca M Doeff, and Vincent S Battaglia."Effects of the particle properties on electrochemical performance of nanocrystalline LiAl0.1Cu0.1Mn1.8O4 cathode materials prepared by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 792 (2017) 1 - 7. DOI

Ebin, Burçak, Marca M Doeff, and Vincent S Battaglia."Effects of the particle properties on electrochemical performance of nanocrystalline LiAl_0.1Cu_0.1Mn_1.8O₄ cathode materials prepared by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 792 (2017) 1 - 7. DOI

Gilbert, Haley E, Pablo J Rosado, George A Ban-Weiss, John T Harvey, Hui Li, Benjamin H Mandel, Dev Millstein, Arash Mohegh, Arash Saboori, and Ronnen M Levinson."Energy and environmental consequences of a cool pavement campaign." (2017).

Hoffman, Ian M, Charles A Goldman, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Lisa C Schwartz, Alan H Sanstad, and Steven R Schiller."Estimating the cost of saving electricity through U.S. utility customer-funded energy efficiency programs."Energy Policy 104 (2017) 1-12. DOI

Hart, Robert, Howdy Goudey, and D. D Charlie Curcija."Experimental validation and model development for thermal transmittances of porous window screens and horizontal louvred blind systems."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 11.2 (2017) 190 - 204. DOI

Feng, Wei, Xiwang Li, Carolyn Szum, Nan Zhou, Michael Bendewald, Zihe Meng, and Yani Zeng."From Prescriptive to Outcome-Based — The Evolution of Building Energy Codes and Standards in China."ECEEE Summer Study 2017 (2017).

Liu, Jingjing, and Aimee T McKane."Guide for Determining Energy Savings from Changes in Operations, Behavior, and Maintenance Procedures." (2017).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Tom Eckman, and Andrew Satchwell."Integrated Resource Planning: Technical Assistance to the Michigan Public Service Commission." (2017).

Xu, Jing, Sara E Renfrew, Matthew A Marcus, Meiling Sun, Bryan D McCloskey, and Wei Tong."Investigating Li ₂NiO ₂ –Li₂CuO ₂Solid Solutions as High-Capacity Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121.21 (2017) 11100 - 11107. DOI

Fridley, David, Hongyou Lu, and Xu Liu."Key China Energy Statistics 2016." (2017).

Schlein, Bruce, Carolyn Szum, Nan Zhou, Jing Ge, and Helen He."Lessons from Europe, North America, and Asia: Financing Models that are Facilitating Building Energy Efficiency at Scale."ECEEE 2017 (2017).

Szum, Carolyn, Nan Zhou, Sara Lisauskas, Madeline Frieze, Xi Chen, and Zhiming Pan."Lessons from the United States and China for Increasing Transparency and Harmonizing Measurement and Verification Practices in the Buildings Sector."ECEEE Summer Study 2017 (2017).