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)

2019

Cancelada, Lucia, Mohamad Sleiman, Xiaochen Tang, Marion L. Russell, V. Nahuel Montesinos, Marta I. Litter, Lara A. Gundel, and Hugo Destaillats."Heated Tobacco Products: Volatile Emissions and Their Predicted Impact on Indoor Air Quality."Environmental Science and Technology 53.13 (2019). DOI

Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, and Marco Pritoni."Inferring occupant counts from Wi-Fi data in buildings through machine learning."Building and Environment 158 (2019) 281 - 294. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, and Sang Hoon Lee."Integrating physics-based models with sensor data: An inverse modeling approach."Building and Environment 154 (2019) 23 - 31. DOI

Barai, Pallab, Kenneth Higa, Anh T. Ngo, Larry A. Curtiss, and Venkat Srinivasan."Mechanical Stress Induced Current Focusing and Fracture in Grain Boundaries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.10 (2019) A1752 - A1762. DOI

Kang, , Hyungmook, David E. Suich, James F. Davies, Aaron D. Wilson, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Robert Kostecki."Molecular insight into the lower critical solution temperature transition of aqueous alkyl phosphonium benzene sulfonates."Communications Chemistry 2.1 (2019). DOI

Shah, Nihar, EE Task Force, and UNEP TEAP."Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, Volume 4: Decision XXX/3 Task Force Report on Cost and Availability of Low-GWP Technologies/Equipment that Maintain/Enhance Energy Efficiency (Advance Copy)."UNEP Report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel 4 (2019).

Grahovac, Milica, Robert Hosbach, Katie Coughlin, Mohan Ganeshalingam, and Hannes Gerhart."Multiscale Solar Water Heating (MSWH) v1.0." (2019). DOI

Urban, Jeffrey J., Akanksha K. Menon, Zhiting Tian, Anubhav Jain, and Kedar Hippalgaonkar."New horizons in thermoelectric materials: Correlated electrons, organic transport, machine learning, and more."Journal of Applied Physics 125.18 (2019) 180902. DOI

Li, , Zeheng, Chen Fang, Chao Qian, Shudong Zhou, Xiangyun Song, Min Ling, Chengdu Liang, and Gao Liu."Polyisoprene Captured Sulfur Nanocomposite Materials for High-Areal-Capacity Lithium Sulfur Battery."ACS Applied Polymer Materials 1.8 (2019) 1965 - 1970. DOI

Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Predicting plug loads with occupant count data through a deep learning approach."Energy 181 (2019) 29 - 42. DOI

Lin, Ruoqian, Enyuan Hu, Mingjie Liu, Yi Wang, Hao Cheng, Jinpeng Wu, Jin-Cheng Zheng, Qin Wu, Seongmin Bak, Xiao Tong, Rui Zhang, Wanli Yang, Kristin A. Persson, Xiqian Yu, Xiao-Qing Yang, and Huolin L. Xin."Anomalous metal segregation in lithium-rich material provides design rules for stable cathode in lithium-ion battery."Nature Communications 10.1 (2019). DOI

Baral, Nawa Raj, Eric R. Sundstrom, Lalitendu Das, John M. Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, Jenny C. Mortimer, Steven W. Singer, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, and Corinne D. Scown."Approaches for More Efficient Biological Conversion of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels and Bioproducts."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 7.10 (2019) 9062 - 9079. DOI

Walter, Travis, and Paul A. Mathew."Is the BPD Nationally Representative? A Comparison of the Building Performance Database to the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey." (2019).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Chao Ding, and Yi Qu."Challenges and Recommended Policies for Simultaneous Global Implementation of Low-GWP Refrigerants and High Efficiency in Room Air Conditioners." (2019).

Hart, Nora, Tripp Shealy, Kristen Parrish, and Jessica Granderson."Cognitive barriers during monitoring-based commissioning of buildings."Sustainable Cities and Society 46 (2019) 101389. DOI

Yourey, William, Yanbao Fu, Ning Li, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Wei Tong."Determining Accelerated Charging Procedure from Half Cell Characterization."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.8 (2019) A1432 - A1438. DOI

Vossos, Vagelis, Karl Johnson, Margarita Kloss, Ruby Heard, Daniel L. Gerber, Bruce Nordman, Eric Mannarino, Mukesh Khuttar, and Richard E. Brown."Direct Current as an Integrating and Enabling Platform for Zero-Net Energy Buildings." (2019).

Creel, Erin B., Elizabeth R. Corson, Johanna Eichhorn, Robert Kostecki, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Bryan D. McCloskey."Directing Selectivity of Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction Using Plasmonics."ACS Energy Letters 4.5 (2019) 1098 - 1105. DOI

Browne, Eleanor C., Xiaolu Zhang, Jonathan P. Franklin, Kelsey J. Ridley, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Kevin R. Wilson, Christopher D. Cappa, and Jesse H. Kroll."Effect of heterogeneous oxidative aging on light absorption by biomass burning organic aerosol."Aerosol Science and Technology 53.6 (2019) 663 - 674. DOI

Chen, Yuting, and Peter L. Therkelsen."The effect of linear regression modeling approaches on determining facility wide energy savings." (2019).

Seguin, Trevor J., Nathan T. Hahn, Kevin R. Zavadil, and Kristin A. Persson."Elucidating Non-aqueous Solvent Stability and Associated Decomposition Mechanisms for Mg Energy Storage Applications From First-PrinciplesTable."Frontiers in Chemistry 7 (2019). DOI

Less, Brennan, Spencer M. Dutton, Iain S. Walker, Max H. Sherman, and Jordan D. Clark."Energy savings with outdoor temperature-based smart ventilation control strategies in advanced California homes."Energy and Buildings 194 (2019) 317 - 327. DOI

Wang, Wei, Tianzhen Hong, Xiaodong Xu, Jiayu Chen, Ziang Liu, and Ning Xu."Forecasting district-scale energy dynamics through integrating building network and long short-term memory learning algorithm."Applied Energy 248 (2019) 217 - 230. DOI

McNeil, Michael A., Nihan Karali, and Virginie E. Letschert."Forecasting Indonesia's electricity load through 2030 and peak demand reductions from appliance and lighting efficiency."Energy for Sustainable Development 49.April 2019 (2019). DOI