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)

2023

Woolf, Tim."Performance Indices." (2023).

Rand, Joseph, Rose Strauss, Will Gorman, Joachim Seel, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Seongeun Jeong, Dana Robson, and Ryan H. Wiser."Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2022." (2023).

Moreira, Alexandre, Miguel Heleno, Alan Valenzuela, Joseph H. Eto, Jaime Ortega, and Cristina Botero."A Scalable Approach to Large Scale Risk-Averse Distribution Grid Expansion Planning."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2023) 1 - 14. DOI

Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Cameron Brooks, and Sam Kozel."A Snapshot of EV-Specific Rate Designs Among U.S. Investor-Owned Electric Utilities." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C.."State Approaches for Distribution System Planning, including Grid Modernization." (2023).

Rosner, Fabian, Alexander Schamberger, and Hanna Breunig."Techno-economic analysis of a CO2 direct air capture-cooling tower hybrid process at a geothermal facility."ChemRxiv (2023).

Crafton, Matthew J., Tzu-Yang Huang, Yuan Yue, Raynald Giovine, Vincent C. Wu, Chaochao Dun, Jeffrey J. Urban, Raphaële J. Clément, Wei Tong, and Bryan D. McCloskey."Tuning Bulk Redox and Altering Interfacial Reactivity in Highly Fluorinated Cation-Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15.15 (2023) 18747 - 18762. DOI

Sun, Qingyi, Jing Ke, Camilla Dunham, Joong Hoon Sim, and Yuting Chen."Using Field-Metered Data to Characterize Consumer Usage Patterns of Residential Dishwashers." (2023).

Wang, Wenjun, Nina Khanna, Jiang Lin, and Xu Liu."Black carbon emissions and reduction potential in China: 2015–2050."Journal of Environmental Management 329 (2023). DOI

Walker, Iain S., Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Brennan Less."Challenges and Opportunities for Home Decarbonization." (2023).

Rosner, Fabian, Dionissios Papadias, Kriston Brooks, Kelvin Yoro, Rajesh K. Ahluwalia, Tom Autrey, and Hanna Breunig."Green steel: design and cost analysis of hydrogen-based direct iron reduction."ChemRxiv (2023).

Regnier, Cynthia, Luis L. Fernandes, Kaiyu Sun, Pia Engel-Moss, Tom Abram, Luke McGuire, and Ruju Rathod."Integrated Whole-Building Zero Net Energy Retrofits for Small Commercial Offices." (2023).

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Joachim Seel, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Fredrich Kahrl, Will Gorman, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Cotton, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in the NYISO Territory." (2023).

O'Brien, William, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Tianzhen Hong."International review of occupant aspects of building energy codes and standards."ASHRAE 65 (2023).

Bolinger, Mark, Dev Millstein, Will Gorman, Patrick Dobson, and Seongeun Jeong."Mind the gap: Comparing the net value of geothermal, wind, solar, and solar+storage in the Western United States."Renewable Energy 205 (2023) 999-1009. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Hongyou Lu, and Nan Zhou."Net-Zero Roadmap for China's Steel Industry." (2023).

Utterback, James K., Alex J. King, Livia Belman-Wells, David M. Larson, Leo M. Hamerlynck, Adam Z. Weber, and Naomi S. Ginsberg."Operando Label-free Optical Imaging of Solution-Phase Ion Transport and Electrochemistry."ACS Energy Letters (2023) 1785 - 1792. DOI

Tucker, Michael C., Fengyu Shen, and Martha Welander."Oxidation of Porous Stainless Steel Supports for Metal-Supported Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2023).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Priyanka Mohanty, Shruti M. Deorah, Nihan Karali, Umed Paliwal, Jessica Kersey, and Amol A. Phadke."Pathways to Atmanirbhar Bharat: Harnessing India's Renewable Edge for Cost-Effective Energy Independence by 2047." (2023).

Porzio, Jason, Derek Wolfson, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Corinne D. Scown."Private and External Costs and Benefits of Replacing High-Emitting Peaker Plants with Batteries."Environmental Science & Technology 57.12 (2023) 4992 - 5002. DOI

Coleman, Philip, and Christine Walker."Recommended vs. Actual Escalation Rates For ESPCs: Is the Guidance Good?."International Journal of Energy Management 5.1 (2023).

Chen, Zhelun, Zheng O'Neill, Jin Wen, Ojas Pradhan, Tao Yang, Xing Lu, Guanjing Lin, Shohei Miyata, Seungjae Lee, Chou Shen, Roberto Chiosa, Marco Savino Piscitelli, Alfonso Capozzoli, Franz Hengel, Alexander Kuhrer, Marco Pritonic, Wei Liu, John Claub, Yimin Chen, and Terry Herr."A review of data-driven fault detection and diagnostics for building HVAC systems."Applied Energy Vol.339 No..121030 (2023). DOI

Elmallah, Salma, Ben Hoen, K. Sydny Fujita, Dana Robson, and Eric Brunner."Shedding light on large-scale solar impacts: An analysis of property values and proximity to photovoltaics across six U.S. states."Energy Policy (2023). DOI

Zuberi, Jibran, Ali Hasanbeigi, and William R. Morrow III."Techno-economic evaluation of industrial heat pump applications in US pulp and paper, textile, and automotive industries."Energy Efficiency 16.3 (2023). DOI

Lee, Jason K., Grace Y. Lau, Mayank Sabharwal, Adam Z. Weber, Xiong Peng, and Michael C. Tucker."Titanium porous-transport layers for PEM water electrolysis prepared by tape casting."Journal of Power Sources 559 (2023) 232606. DOI