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)

2004

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."A Comparative Analysis of Business Structures Suitable for Farmer-Owned Wind Power Projects in the United States." (2004) 31.

Wetter, Michael, and Elijah Polak."A convergent optimization method using pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision simulation."Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 25.4 (2004) 327-338. DOI

Liu, Gao, Craig L. Reeder, Xiao-Guang Sun, and John B. Kerr."Diffusion coefficients in trimethyleneoxide containing comb branch polymer electrolytes."Solid State Ionics 175.1-4 (2004) 781-783. DOI

Mao, Samuel S., Fabien Quéré, Stéphane Guizard, Xianglei Mao, Richard E. Russo, Guillaume Petite, and Philippe Martin."Dynamics of femtosecond laser interactions with dielectrics."Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing 79.7 (2004) 1695-1709. DOI

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, P. Vijayan, T. Tang, S. Nara, Patrick E. Phelan, Ravi S. Prasher, J. Wang, and David W. Song."Evaluation of the Temperature Oscillation Technique to Calculate Thermal Conductivity of Water and Systematic Measurement of the Thermal Conductivity of Aluminum Oxide – Water Nanofluiids."International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, (2004).

Payne, Christopher T., and Beverly Dyer."Federal participation in LEED."Greenbuild 2004 (2004).

Dolle, Mickaël, Joel Hollingsworth, Thomas J. Richardson, and Marca M. Doeff."Investigation of layered intergrowth Li_xM_yMn_1-yO_2+z (M= Ni, Co, Al) compounds as positive electrodes for Li-ion batteries."Solid State Ionics 175 (2004) 225-228. DOI

Fleten, Stein-Erik, and Karl M. Maribu."Investment Timing and Capacity Choice for Small-Scale Wind Power Under Uncertainty." (2004) 8.

Prasher, Ravi S.."Mie scattering theory for phonon transport in particulate media."J. Heat Transfer (2004). DOI

Xie, Jiangbing, Robert G. Duan, Yongbong Han, and John B. Kerr."Morphological, rheological and electrochemical studies of Poly(ethylene oxide) electrolytes containing fumed silica nanoparticles."Solid State Ionics 175.1-4 (2004) 755-758. DOI

Liu, Gao, Melanie T. Reinhout, and Gregory L. Baker."Nanoscale lithium ion conducting polyethylene oxide with self-attached insulating layers."Solid State Ionics 175 (2004) 721-724.

Sun, Xiao-Guang, Gao Liu, Jiangbing Xie, Yongbong Han, and John B. Kerr."New gel polyelectrolytes for rechargeable lithium batteries."Solid State Ionics 175.1-4 (2004) 713-716. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S.."Scattering of Phonons by Nano and Micro Particles."ASME 2004 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2004) 3–14. DOI

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto."Understanding the Cost of Power Interruptions to U.S. Electricity Consumers." (2004) 70.

Deb, Aniruddha, Uwe Bergmann, Elton J. Cairns, and Stephen P. Cramer."X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of the Li_xFePO₄ cathode during cycling using a novel electrochemical in situ reaction cell."Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 11 (2004) 497-504. DOI

Bailey, Owen C., and Chris Marnay."Distributed Energy Resources at Naval Base Ventura County Building 1512." (2004) 53.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Chris Marnay, Jennifer L. Edwards, Ryan M. Firestone, Srijay Ghosh, and Michael Stadler."Effects of a Carbon Tax on Microgrid Combined Heat and Power Adoption."Journal of Energy Engineering (2004) 24.

Kohler, Christian, Howdy Goudey, and Dariush K. Arasteh."A First-Generation Prototype Dynamic Residential Window." (2004) 11.

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."An Overview of Alternative Fossil Fuel Price and Carbon Regulation Scenarios." (2004) 37.

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."The Potential for Distributed Generation in Japanese Prototype Buildings: A DER-CAM Analysis of Policy, Tariff Design, Building Energy Use, and Technology Development." (2004) 75.

Lesieutre, Bernard, Emily S. Bartholomew, Joseph H Eto, Douglas R. Hale, and Thanh Luong."The Potential Impacts of a Competitive Wholesale Market in the Midwest: A Preliminary Examination of Centralized Dispatch." (2004) 75.

Fitzgerald, Garrett, Ryan H. Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."A Survey of State Clean Energy Fund Support for Research and Development Projects."Case Studies of State Support for Renewable Energy (2004) 14.

Foster, Dale, Ben Hough, Galen L. Barbose, William H. Golove, and Charles A. Goldman."Using Energy Information Systems (EIS): A Guidebook for the U.S. Postal Service." (2004) 40.

Wetter, Michael, and Elijah Polak."Building Design Optimization Using a Convergent Pattern Search Algorithm with Adaptive Precision Simulations."Energy and Buildings 37 (2004) 603-612.

Srinivasan, Venkat, and John S. Newman."Design and optimization of a natural graphite/iron phosphate lithium-ion cell."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 151.10 (2004) A1530-A1538. DOI