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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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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)

2022

Lin, Guanjing, Eliot Crowe, Valerie Nibler, and Jessica Granderson."Assessing EMIS Benefits: A new field evaluation protocol offers rigor and flexibility."The 7th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue (2022).

Lin, Guanjing, Hannah Kramer, Valerie Nibler, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Building Analytics Tool Deployment at Scale: Benefits, Costs, and Deployment Practices."Energies Vol.15 (2022). DOI

Demarteau, Jérémy, Alexander R. Epstein, Peter R. Christensen, Mark Abubekerov, Hai Wang, Simon J. Teat, Trevor J. Seguin, Christopher W. Chan, Corinne D. Scown, Thomas P. Russell, Jay D. Keasling, Kristin A. Persson, and Brett A. Helms."Circularity in mixed-plastic chemical recycling enabled by variable rates of polydiketoenamine hydrolysis."Science Advances 8.29 (2022). DOI

Yang, Minliang, Di Liu, Nawa Raj Baral, Chien-Yuan Lin, Blake A. Simmons, John M. Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, and Corinne D. Scown."Comparing planta accumulation with microbial routes to set targets for a cost-competitive bioeconomy."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.30 (2022). DOI

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Ryan H. Wiser, Ben Hoen, Joseph Rand, and Salma Elmallah."Drivers and energy justice implications of renewable energy project siting in the United States."Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (2022). DOI

King, Alex J., Justin C. Bui, Alexis T. Bell, and Adam Z. Weber."Establishing the Role of Operating Potential and Mass Transfer in Multicarbon Product Generation for Photoelectrochemical CO2."ACS Energy Letters (2022) 2694 - 2700. DOI

Cappers, Peter, and Andrew Satchwell."EV Retail Rate Design 101." (2022).

Clark, Ruby-Jean, Gohar Gholamibozanjani, Jason Woods, Sumanjeet Kaur, Adewale Odukomaiya, Said Al-Hallaj, and Mohammed Farid."Experimental screening of salt hydrates for thermochemical energy storage for building heating application."Journal of Energy Storage 51 (2022) 104415. DOI

Clark, Ruby-Jean, Gohar Gholamibozanjani, Jason Woods, Sumanjeet Kaur, Adewale Odukomaiya, Said Al-Hallaj, and Mohammed Farid."Experimental screening of salt hydrates for thermochemical energy storage for building heating application."Journal of Energy Storage 51 (2022) 104415. DOI

Clark, Ruby-Jean, Gohar Gholamibozanjani, Jason Woods, Sumanjeet Kaur, Adewale Odukomaiya, Said Al-Hallaj, and Mohammed Farid."Experimental screening of salt hydrates for thermochemical energy storage for building heating application."Journal of Energy Storage 51 (2022) 104415. DOI

Sun, Kaiyu, Patricia Kusumah, Wanni Zhang, Max Wei, and Tianzhen Hong."Exploring Decarbonization and Clean Energy Pathways for Disadvantaged Communities in California."5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (2022).

Luo, Na, Gabe Fierro, Yapan Liu, Bing Dong, and Tianzhen Hong."Extending the Brick schema to represent metadata of occupants."Automation in Construction 139 (2022) 104307. DOI

Blum, David, Zhe Wang, Chris Weyandt, Donghun Kim, Michael Wetter, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Field demonstration and implementation analysis of model predictive control in an office HVAC system."Applied Energy 318 (2022) 119104. DOI

Less, Brennan, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Iain S. Walker."Home Energy Upgrades as a Pathway to Home Decarbonization in the US: A Literature Review."Energies (2022). DOI

Malik, Jeetika, Elie Azar, Ardeshir Mahdavi, and Tianzhen Hong."A level-of-details framework for representing occupant behavior in agent-based models."Automation in Construction 139 (2022) 104290. DOI

Casillas, Armando, Yimin Chen, Guanjing Lin, Jessica Granderson, Sen Huang, and Zhelun Chen."Modeling Air Handling Units to Create a Diverse Fault Dataset for FDD Innovation: Lessons Learned and Recommendations."7th International High Performance Buildings Conference (2022). DOI

Miao, Ruijiao, Ravi Kishore, Sumanjeet Kaur, Ravi S. Prasher, and Chris Dames."A non-volatile thermal switch for building energy savings."Cell Reports Physical Science 3.7 (2022) 100960. DOI

Dogdibegovic, , Emir, Sergio Ibanez, Anila Wallace, David Kopechek, Gene Arkenberg, Scott Swartz, John M. Funk, Michael Reisert, Muhammad Anisur Rahman, Ashish Aphale, Prabhakar Singh, Hanping Ding, Wei Tang, Michael V. Glazoff, Dong Ding, Theis L. Skafte, and Michael C. Tucker."Performance of stainless steel interconnects with (Mn,Co)3O4-Based coating for solid oxide electrolysis."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 47.58 (2022) 24279 - 24286. DOI

Forrester, Sydney, Galen L. Barbose, and Chandler Miller."Private vs. public value of U.S. residential battery storage operated for solar self-consumption."iScience 25.8 (2022). DOI

Kersey, Jessica, Natalie Popovich, and Amol A. Phadke."Rapid battery cost declines accelerate the prospects of all-electric interregional container shipping."Nature Energy 7.7 (2022) 664 - 674. DOI

Shen, Hao, Kai Chen, Jiawei Kou, Zhanhui Jia, Nobumichi Tamura, Weibo Hua, Wei Tang, Helmut Ehrenberg, and Marca Doeff."Spatiotemporal mapping of microscopic strains and defects to reveal Li-dendrite-induced failure in all-solid-state batteries."Materials Today 57 (2022) 180 - 191. DOI

Rao, Prakash, Paul Sheaffer, Yuting Chen, Unique Karki, and Patrick Fitzgerald."U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 3: Energy Saving Opportunity." (2022). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Ryan Hledik, Oleksandr Kuzura, Oluwatobi Adekanye, and Chioke B. Harris."Valuing Residential Energy Efficiency: Analysis for a Prototypical Southeastern Utility." (2022).

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