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)

2008

Franco, Victor H., James D. Lutz, Alexander B. Lekov, and Lixing Gu."Furnace Blower Electricity: National and Regional Savings Potential." (2008) 14.

Galitsky, Christina, Lynn K. Price, Nan Zhou, Zhou Fuqiu, Xiong Huawen, Zeng Xuemin, and Wang Lan."Guidebook for Using the Tool BEST Cement: Benchmarking and Energy Savings Tool for the Cement Industry." (2008).

Lee, , Tae-Woo, Himanshu Tyagi, David Sonenschein, Patrick E. Phelan, Ravi S. Prasher, Robert Peck, and Paul Arentzen."Ignition and Combustion Characteristics of Liquid Fuel Droplets Containing Metal Nanoparticles."ASME 2008 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the Fluids Engineering, Energy Sustainability, and 3rd Energy Nanotechnology ConferencesHeat Transfer: Volume 3 (2008). DOI

Doeff, Marca M., James D. Wilcox, Rong Yu, Albert Aumentado, Marek Marcinek, and Robert Kostecki."Impact of carbon structure and morphology on the electrochemical performance of LiFePO₄/C composites."Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 12.7-8 (2008) 995-1001. DOI

Chen, Guoying, James D. Wilcox, and Thomas J. Richardson."Improving the performance of lithium manganese phosphate through divalent cation substitution."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 11.11 (2008) A190-A194. DOI

Maddalena, Randy L., Hugo Destaillats, Marion L. Russell, Alfred T. Hodgson, and Thomas E. McKone."Indoor pollutants emitted by electronic office equipment."Indoor Air 2008 (2008).

Quici, Natalia, Daria Kibanova, María L. Vera, Hyeok Choi, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Marta I. Litter, Javiera Cervini-Silva, Alfred T. Hodgson, and Hugo Destaillats."Investigation of Key Parameters Influencing the Efficient Photocatalytic Oxidation of Indoor Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)."Indoor Air 2008 (2008).

Jonsson, Jacob C., Eleanor S. Lee, and Michael D. Rubin."Light-scattering properties of a woven shade-screen material used for daylighting and solar heat-gain control."SPIE Optics+Photonics (2008).

Barbose, Galen L., Ryan H. Wiser, Amol A. Phadke, and Charles A. Goldman."Managing Carbon Regulatory Risk in Utility Resource Planning: Current Practices in the Western United States."Energy Policy 36.9 (2008) 3300-3311. DOI

Wetter, Michael, and Philip Haves."A Modular Building Controls Virtual Test Bed for the Integration of Heterogeneous Systems."SimBuild 2008, July 30-August 1 (2008).

Andersson, Joakim, Arutiun P. Ehiasarian, and André Anders."Observation of Ti4+ ions in a high power impulse magnetron sputtering plasma."Applied Physics Letters 93.7 (2008) 71504. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryan M. Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Commercial-Building Microgrids."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 23.3 (2008) 975-982. DOI

Lu, Alison, James E. McMahon, Eric R. Masanet, and James D. Lutz."Our Environment in Hot Water: Comparing Water Heaters, A Life Cycle Approach Comparing Tank and Tankless Water Heaters in California." (2008) 25.

Shehabi, Arman, Arpad Horvath, William F. Tschudi, Ashok J. Gadgil, and William W. Nazaroff."Particle Concentrations in Data Centers."Atmospheric Environment 42.24 (2008) 5978 - 5990. DOI

Moore, , A L, S K Saha, Ravi S. Prasher, and L Shi."Phonon backscattering and thermal conductivity suppression in sawtooth nanowires."Appl. Phys. Lett. (2008). DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Ryan H. Wiser, Amol A. Phadke, and Charles A. Goldman."Pursuing Energy Efficiency as a Hedge Against Carbon Regulatory Risks Current Resource Planning Practices in the West." (2008) 12.

Cappers, Peter, Charles A. Goldman, Michele Chait, George Edgar, Jeff Schlegel, and Wayne Shirley."Quantitative Financial Analysis of Alternative Energy Efficiency Shareholder Incentive Mechanisms."ACEEE 2008 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008) 15.

Homan, Gregory K., Marla C. Sanchez, and Richard E. Brown."Savings Estimates for the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR Voluntary Product Labeling Program."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008).

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Jessica Granderson, Philip Haves, Paul A. Mathew, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Scale Matters: An Action Plan for Realizing Sector-Wide "Zero-Energy" Performance Goals in Commercial Buildings."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 17-22, 2008 (2008).

Harris, Jeffrey P., Richard C. Diamond, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T. Payne, Carl Blumstein, and Paul Siderius."Towards a sustainable energy balance: progressive efficiency and the return of energy conservation."Energy Efficiency 1.3 (2008) 175-188. DOI

Wetter, Michael, Philip Haves, Michael A. Moshier, and Edward F. Sowell."Using SPARK as a solver for Modelica."Proc. of the 3rd SimBuild Conference (2008).

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."2008 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2008) 68.

McGibney, Alan, Martin Klepal, and James O'Donnell."Design of Underlying Network Infrastructure of Smart Buildings."2008 IET 4th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (2008).

Doe, Robert E, Kristin A. Persson, Ying Shirley Meng, and Gerbrand Ceder."First-Principles Investigation of the Li-Fe-F Phase Diagram and Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Conversion Reactions of Iron Fluorides with Lithium."Chemistry of Materials 20.16 (2008) 5274-5283. DOI

Bazjanac, Vladimir."IFC BIM-based Methodology for Semi-Automated Building Energy Performance Simulation."CIB W78, Proc. 25th conf (2008).