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

Therkelsen, Peter L., Robert K. Cheng, and Darren Sholes."Research and Development of Natural Draft Ultra-Low Emissions Burners for Gas Appliances." (2016).

Tran, Richard, Zihan Xu, Balachandran Radhakrishnan, Donald Winston, Wenhao Sun, Kristin A. Persson, and Shyue Ping Ong."Surface energies of elemental crystals."Scientific Data 3.1 (2016). DOI

Shin, Yongwoo, and Kristin A. Persson."Surface Morphology and Surface Stability against Oxygen Loss of the Lithium-Excess Li ₂ MnO ₃ Cathode Material as a Function of Lithium Concentration."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8.38 (2016) 25595 - 25602. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S., Anothai Thanachareonkit, Samir Touzani, Spencer M. Dutton, Jordan Shackelford, Darryl J. Dickerhoff, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Technology Assessments of High Performance Envelope with Optimized Lighting, Solar Control, and Daylighting." (2016).

O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Gregory Nemet, and Naïm R. Darghouth."Using the Spatial Distribution of Installers to Define Solar Photovoltaic Markets." (2016).

Nemet, Gregory, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Ryan H. Wiser, Naïm R. Darghouth, Galen L. Barbose, Kenneth Gillingham, and Varun Rai."What Factors Affect the Prices of Low-Priced U.S. Solar PV Systems?." (2016).

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Ben Hoen, Andrew D. Mills, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Kevin Porter, Rebecca Widiss, Frank Oteri, Suzanne Tegen, and Tian Tian."2015 Wind Technologies Market Report." (2016).

Karali, Nihan, Dong Zhang, GuoQi Ren, Brendan Shaffer, Kevin Clampitt, JianCheng Yu, Robert J Yinger, and Chris Marnay."Benefits Analysis of Smart Grid Demonstration Projects."2016 China International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CICED 2016) (2016).

Granderson, Jessica, Marco Bonvini, Mary Ann Piette, Janie Page, Guanjing Lin, and R. Lily Hu."Can We Practically Bring Physics-based Modeling Into Operational Analytics Tools?."Proceedings of the 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Pacific Grove, CA, August 2016 (2016).

Johnson, Karl, Vagelis Vossos, Margarita Kloss, Gerald Robinson, and Richard E. Brown."Direct Current as an Integrating Platform for ZNE Buildings with EVs and Storage: DC Direct Systems - A Bridge to a Low Carbon Future."ACEEE 2016 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Johnson, Karl, Vagelis Vossos, Margarita Kloss, Gerald Robinson, and Richard E. Brown."Direct Current as an Integrating Platform for ZNE Buildings with EVs and Storage: DC Direct Systems – A Bridge to a Low Carbon Future?."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Effect of using Different Vehicle Weight Groups on the Estimated Relationship between Mass Reduction and U.S. Societal Fatality Risk per Vehicle Miles of Travel." (2016).

Khanna, Nina, David Fridley, Lynn K. Price, Nan Zhou, and Stephanie Ohshita."Estimating China’s Urban Energy Demand and CO₂ Emissions: A Bottom-up Modeling Perspective."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Overholt, Philip, Joseph H Eto, Chen-Ching Liu, Stephen McArthur, and Seung-Jae Lee."Evolution of Power Grids (Transmission)."Smart Grid Handbook 6066146PAS-1026.1283155 (2016). DOI

Berger, Michael A., Liesel Hans, Kate Piscopo, and Michael D. Sohn."Exploring the Energy Benefits of Advanced Water Metering." (2016).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Peter L. Therkelsen, Prakash Rao, and Aimee T. McKane."Global Impact Estimation of ISO 50001 Energy Management System for Industrial and Service Sectors." (2016).

Feng, Wei, Nina Khanna, David Fridley, Jing Ke, Ke Huang, and Nan Zhou."Impact Analysis of Developing Net Zero Energy Buildings in China."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in BUildings 10 (2016).

Gerke, Brian F., Michael A. McNeil, Thomas Tu, and Feiyang Xu."The International Database of Efficient Appliances (IDEA): A New Resource for Global Efficiency Policy."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Therkelsen, Peter L., Prakash Rao, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T. McKane."The ISO 50001 Impact Estimator Tool (IET 50001 V1.1.4) - User Guide and Introduction to the ISO 50001 Impacts Methodology." (2016).

Mills, Evan."Job Creation and Energy Savings Through a Transition to Modern Off-grid Lighting."Energy for Sustainable Development 33 (2016) 155-166. DOI

Franconi, Ellen M., Michael Bendewald, Jon Creyts, Carolyn Szum, and Nan Zhou."Opportunities for Realizing Drastic Reductions in Building Sector Carbon Emissions through U.S.-China Collaboration."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Mills, Andrew D., Galen L. Barbose, Joachim Seel, Changgui Dong, Trieu Mai, Ben Sigrin, and Jarett Zuboy."Planning for a Distributed Disruption: Innovative Practices for Incorporating Distributed Solar into Utility Planning." (2016).

Zhou, Nan, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, Ellen M. Franconi, Jon Creyts, Lijing Gu, and Jianguo Zhang."Policy Roadmap to 50% Energy Reduction in Chinese Buildings by 2050."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Brown, Richard E., Erin Beddingfield, Marshall Duer-Balkind, Ali Levine, and Elena Alschuler."Putting Data to Work: Using Building Energy Performance Data to Expand the Market for Energy Efficiency in Buildings." (2016). DOI

Khanna, Nina, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, and Jing Ke."Quantifying the potential impacts of China's power-sector policies on coal input and CO2 emissions through 2050: A bottom-up perspective."Utilities Policy 41 (2016) 128-138. DOI