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

Alschuler, Elena, Cindy Zhu, Evan Mills, Andrew White, and Theddi Wright Chappell."Appraising Green: Show me the Market Value."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 21-26, 2016 (2016).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B., and Max Wei."Assessment of the climate commitments and additional mitigation policies of the United States."Nature Climate Change (2016). DOI

Zhang, Qi, Ali Hasanbeigi, Lynn K. Price, Hongyou Lu, and Marlene Arens."A Bottom-up Energy Efficiency Improvement Roadmap for China’s Iron and Steel Industry up to 2050." (2016).

Eto, Joseph H."Building Electric Transmission Lines: A Review of Recent Regional Transmission Plans." (2016).

Eto, Joseph H."Building Electric Transmission Lines: A Review of Recent Transmission Projects." (2016).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Comments on Docket No. NHTSA-2016-0068 and Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2015- 0827, Draft Technical Assessment Report: Midterm Evaluation of Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards for Model Years 2022." (2016).

Sleiman, Mohamad, Jennifer M. Logue, V. Nahuel Montesinos, Marion L. Russell, Marta I. Litter, Lara A. Gundel, and Hugo Destaillats."Emissions from Electronic Cigarettes: Key Parameters Affecting the Release of Harmful Chemicals."Environmental Science & Technology 50.17 (2016) 9644 - 9651. DOI

Schiller, Steven R., C. Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd, and Bill Saxonis."Evaluation of Residential Behavior-Based Programs."Energy Efficiency EM&V Webinar Series (2016).

Cappers, Peter, C. Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd, and Ling Jin."Experiences of Vulnerable Residential Customer Subpopulations with Critical Peak Pricing." (2016).

Leifer, Ira, Christopher Melton, Jason Frash, Marc L. Fischer, Xinguang Cui, John Murray, and David S. Green."Fusion of Mobile In Situ and Satellite Remote Sensing Observations of Chemical Release Emissions to Improve Disaster Response." (2016).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Andrew D. Mills, Luke Lavin, Nancy Ryan, Arne Olsen, and Lisa C. Schwartz."The Future of Electricity Resource Planning."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 6 (2016).

Tucker, Michael C., Alexandra Weiss, and Adam Z. Weber."Improvement and analysis of the hydrogen-cerium redox flow cell."Journal of Power Sources 327 (2016) 591 - 598. DOI

Jin, Ling, C. Anna Spurlock, Sam Borgeson, Daniel Fredman, Liesel Hans, Siddharth Patel, and Annika Todd."Load Shape Clustering Using Residential Smart Meter Data: a Technical Memorandum." (2016).

Larsen, Peter H.."A Method to Estimate the Costs and Benefits of Undergrounding Electricity Transmission and Distribution lines."Energy Economics 60.November 2016 (2016) 47-61. DOI

Houde, Sebastien, and C. Anna Spurlock."Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards and Appliances: Old and New Economic Rationales."Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy 5.2 (2016). DOI

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).