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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 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.
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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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2021

Chen, Yimin, Guanjing Lin, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Development of a Unified Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults."Energies 14 (2021).

Cappers, Peter, Sydney Forrester, and Andrew Satchwell."Disaggregating Future Retail Electricity Rate Growth." (2021).

Lobo, G.P., B. Kalyan, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Electrochemical deposition of amorphous aluminum oxides on lead pipes to prevent lead leaching into the drinking water."Journal of Hazardous Materials 423 (2021). DOI

Vora, Nemi, Peter R. Christensen, Jérémy Demarteau, Nawa Raj Baral, Jay D. Keasling, Brett A. Helms, and Corinne D. Scown."Leveling the cost and carbon footprint of circular polymers that are chemically recycled to monomer."Science Advances 7.15 (2021) eabf0187. DOI

Chowdhury, , Anamika, Ashley Bird, Jiangjin Liu, Iryna V. Zenyuk, Ahmet Kusoglu, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Linking Perfluorosulfonic Acid Ionomer Chemistry and High-Current Density Performance in Fuel-Cell Electrodes."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13.36 (2021) 42579 - 42589. DOI

Touzani, Samir, Marc Wudunn, Samuel Fernandes, Avideh Zakhor, Rohullah Najibi, and Jessica Granderson."A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO ESTIMATE WINDOWS-TO-WALL RATIO USING DRONE IMAGER." (2021).

Singer, Brett C., Haoran Zhao, Chelsea V. Preble, William W. Delp, Jovan Pantelic, Michael D. Sohn, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Measured Influence of Overhead HVAC on Exposure to Airborne Contaminants from Simulated Speaking in a Meeting and a Classroom."Indoor Air (2021). DOI

Wetter, Michael, Jianjun Hu, Anand Prakash, Paul Ehrlich, Gabe Fierro, Milica Grahovac, Marco Pritoni, Lisa Rivalin, and Dave Robin."Modelica-json: Transforming energy models to digitize the control delivery process."IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2021 (2021).

Luo, Na, Marco Pritoni, and Tianzhen Hong."An overview of data tools for representing and managing building information and performance data."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 147 (2021) 111224. DOI

Feng, Wei, Nan Zhou, Wenjun Wang, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, and Jing Hou."Pathways for Accelerating Maximum Electrification of Direct Fuel Use in China’s Building Sector." (2021).

Leventis, Greg, and Jeff Deason."Practices for Demonstrating Energy Savings from Commercial PACE Projects." (2021).

Luo, Na, Jared Langevin, and Handi Chandra Putra."Quantifying the effect of multiple demand response actions on electricity demand and building services via surrogate modeling."IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2021 (2021).

Zhang, Jingjing, Sumedha Bhat, Jing Ge, and Nan Zhou."Scaling up battery innovation for carbon neutrality: From Lab Bench to Marketplace." (2021).

Yan, Bing, Tian Liang, Xiaohui Yang, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Superior removal of As(III) and As(V) from water with Mn-doped β-FeOOH nanospindles on carbon foam."Journal of Hazardous Materials 418 (2021). DOI

Fuchs, Heidi, and Prakash Rao."Survey of Available Information on U.S. Manufacturing Wastewater and Energy Requirements for Reuse." (2021). DOI

Barbose, Galen L., Naïm R. Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2021 Edition." (2021).

Newkirk, Alexander, Prakash Rao, and Paul Sheaffer."U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 2: Advanced Motors and Drives Supply Chain Review." (2021). DOI

McCall, James, Prakash Rao, Susana Garcia Gonzalez, Sachin Nimbalkar, Sujit Das, Sarang Supekar, and Joe Cresko."U.S. Manufacturing Water Use Data and Estimates: Current State, Limitations, and Future Needs for Supporting Manufacturing Research and Development."ACS ES&T Water (2021). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Mrinalini Sharma, Eliot Crowe, David A. Jump, Samuel Fernandes, Samir Touzani, and Devan Johnson."Assessment of Model-Based Peak Electric Consumption Prediction for Commercial Buildings."Energy and Building 245 (2021). DOI

Iyer, Maithili, Satish Kumar, Paul A. Mathew, Sangeeta Mathew, Hannah Stratton, and Mohini Singh."Commercial buildings energy data framework for India: an exploratory study."Springer (2021). DOI

Iyer, Maithili, Satish Kumar, Paul A. Mathew, Sangeeta Mathew, Hannah Stratton, and Mohini Singh."Commercial buildings energy data framework for India: an exploratory study."Springer (2021). DOI

Schiller, Steven R.."Demand Side Energy Management." (2021).

Walker, Iain S., Brennan Less, David M. Lorenzetti, and Michael D. Sohn."Development of Advanced Smart Ventilation Controls for Residential Applications."Energies (2021). DOI

Li, , Han, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Energy flexibility of residential buildings: A systematic review of characterization and quantification methods and applications."Advances in Applied Energy 3 (2021) 100054. DOI

Lin, Jiang, Nikit Abhyankar, Gang He, Xu Liu, and Shengfei Yin."Enhancing grid flexibility under scenarios of a renewable-dominant power system in China." (2021).

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