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)

2016

Ray, Promit, Sebastian Dohm, Tamara Husch, Christoph Shutter, Kristin A. Persson, Andrea Balducci, Barbara Kirchner, and Martin Korth."Insights into Bulk Electrolyte Effects on the Operative Voltage of Electrochemical Double-Layer Capacitors."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120.23 (2016) 12325 - 12336. DOI

Hill, Joanne, Gregory Mulholland, Kristin A. Persson, Ram Seshadri, Chris Wolverton, and Bryce Meredig."Materials science with large-scale data and informatics: Unlocking new opportunitiesAbstract."MRS Bulletin 41.5 (2016) 399 - 409. DOI

Toma, Francesca M., Jason K. Cooper, Viktoria Kunzelmann, Matthew T. McDowell, Jie Yu, David M. Larson, Nicholas J. Borys, Christine Abelyan, Jeffrey W. Beeman, Kin Man Yu, Jinhui Yang, Le Chen, Matthew R. Shaner, Joshua Spurgeon, Frances A. Houle, Kristin A. Persson, and Ian D. Sharp."Mechanistic insights into chemical and photochemical transformations of bismuth vanadate photoanodes."Nature Communications 7.1 (2016). DOI

Williams, Alison A., Yuting Chen, Camilla Dunham, Heidi Fuchs, Sarah K. Price, and Hannah Stratton."Methodology for Outdoor Water Savings Model and Spreadsheet Tool for U.S. and Selected States." (2016).

Liao, Anna, Emma M. Stewart, and Emre C. Kara."Micro-Synchrophasor Data for Diagnosis of Transmission and Distribution Level Events."IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (2016).

Schiller, Steven R., Jennifer Meissner, Katie Rich, and Fred Gordon."Planning and Budgeting for the Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Programs."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Herring, Steven J., Simon Batchelor, Paul E. Bieringer, Bry Lingard, David M. Lorenzetti, Simon T. Parker, Luna Rodriguez, Michael D. Sohn, Dan Steinhoff, and Matthew Wolski."Providing pressure inputs to multizone building models."Building and Environment 101 (2016) 32 - 44. DOI

Herring, Steven J., Simon Batchelor, Paul E. Bieringer, Bry Lingard, David M. Lorenzetti, Simon T. Parker, Luna Rodriguez, Michael D. Sohn, Dan Steinhoff, and Matthew Wolski."Providing pressure inputs to multizone building models."Building and Environment 101 (2016) 32 - 44. DOI

Yin, Rongxin, Emre C. Kara, Yaping Li, Nicholas DeForest, Ke Wang, Taiyou Yong, and Michael Stadler."Quantifying Flexibility of Commercial and Residential Loads for Demand Response using Setpoint Changes." (2016).

Jain, Anubhav, Kristin A. Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Research Update: The materials genome initiative: Data sharing and the impact of collaborative ab initio databases."APL Materials 4.5 (2016). DOI

Iyer, Maithili, Hannah Stratton, Sangeeta Mathew, Satish Kumar, Paul A. Mathew, and Mohini Singh."Review of Building Data Frameworks Across Countries: Lessons for India." (2016).

Leventis, Greg."Scaling Energy Efficiency for Low and Middle Income Households through Financing: Opportunities, Issues and the Current State of the Market."Better Buildings Summit, May 11, 2016 (2016).

Chen, Wei, Jan-Hendrik Pöhls, Geoffroy Hautier, Danny Broberg, Saurabh Bajaj, Umut Aydemir, Zachary M. Gibbs, Hong Zhu, Mark Asta, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Bryce Meredig, Mary Anne White, Kristin A. Persson, and Anubhav Jain."Understanding thermoelectric properties from high-throughput calculations: trends, insights, and comparisons with experiment."Journal of Materials Chemistry C 4.20 (2016) 4414 - 4426. DOI

Olabarriaga, Silvia Delgado, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Waleed W. Smari, Mohamed Bakhouya, Sandro Fiore, Giovanni Aloisio, Patrick Huck, Daniel Gunter, Shreyas Cholia, Donald Winston, Alpha T. N'Diaye, and Kristin A. Persson."User applications driven by the community contribution framework MPContribs in the Materials Project."Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 28.7 (2016) 1982 - 1993. DOI

Barbose, Galen L., John Miller, Ben Sigrin, Emerson Reiter, Karlynn Cory, Joyce McLaren, Joachim Seel, Andrew D. Mills, Naïm R. Darghouth, and Andrew Satchwell."Utility Regulatory and Business Model Reforms for Addressing the Financial Impacts of Distributed Solar on Utilities." On the Path to Sunshot (2016).

Stratton, Hannah, Heidi Fuchs, Yuting Chen, Camilla Dunham, and Alison A. Williams."Water and Wastewater Rate Hikes Outspace CPI." (2016).

Alstone, Peter, Jennifer Potter, Mary Ann Piette, Peter Schwartz, Michael A. Berger, Laurel N. Dunn, Sarah Josephine Smith, Michael D. Sohn, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Sofia Stensson, and Julia Szinai."2015 California Demand Response Potential Study - Charting California's Demand response Future: Interim Report on Phase 1 Results." (2016).

Mills, Evan."Action-Oriented Energy Benchmarking for Nonresidential Buildings."Proceedings of the IEEE 104.4 (2016) 697-712. DOI

Huang, Sen, Wangda Zuo, and Michael D. Sohn."Amelioration of the cooling load based chiller sequencing control."Applied Energy 168 (2016) 204 - 215. DOI

Adomatis, Sandra, and Ben Hoen."An Analysis of Solar Home Paired Sales across Six States."The Appraisal Journal 84.1 (2016) 27-42.

Fujita, K. Sydny."Commercial Discount Rate Estimation for Efficiency Standards Analysis." (2016).

Bunch, , Saralyn, and Christopher T. Payne."Contracting for Efficiency. A Best Practices Guide for Energy -Efficient Product Procurement." (2016). DOI

Lin, Jiang, Gang He, and Alexandria Yuan."Economic Rebalancing and Electricity Demand in China."The Electricity Journal 29.3 (2016) 48 - 54. DOI

Khanna, Nina, Jin Guo, and Xinyi Zheng."Effects of Demand Side Management on Chinese Household Electricity Consumption: Empirical Findings from Chinese Household Survey." (2016).

Zhang, Jingjing, Nan Zhou, Adam Hinge, Wei Feng, and Shicong Zhang."Governance strategies to achieve zero-energy buildings in China."Building Research & Information 44.5-6 (2016) 604-618. DOI