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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.
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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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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.

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2024

Jin, Ling, Xiaodan Xu, Yuhan Wang, Alina Lazar, Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi, C Anna Spurlock, Zachary Needell, Duleep Rathgamage Don, Mahyar Amirgholy, and Mona Asudegi."Macroscopic Traffic Modeling Using Probe Vehicle Data: A Machine Learning Approach."Data Science for Transportation 6.3 (2024). DOI

Browne, Axel, David Butts, Edgar Jaramillo-Rodriguez, Nidhi Parikh, Geoffrey Fairchild, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Thomas P Wenzel, Timothy C Germann, and Sara Del Valle."Evaluating disease surveillance strategies for early outbreak detection in contact networks with varying community structure."Social Networks 79 (2024) 122 - 132. DOI

Needell, Zachary, Paul Waddell, Juan Caicedo, Haitam Laarabi, Yuhan Wang, Cristian Poliziani, Jessica Lazarus, Dmitrii Openkov, Max Gardner, Nazanin Rezaei, Josh Auld, and Randy Weimer."Platform for Integrated Land use And Transportation Experiments and Simulation (PILATES) v1.0." (2024).

Jin, Ling, Connor P Jackson, Yuhan Wang, Qianmiao Chen, Tin Ho, C Anna Spurlock, Aaron Brooker, Jake Holden, Jeff Gonder, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Bingrong Sun, Shivam Sharda, Venu Garikapati, Thomas P Wenzel, and Juan Caicedo."Technology progress and clean vehicle policies on fleet turnover and equity: insights from household vehicle fleet micro-simulations with ATLAS."Transportation Planning and Technology (2024) 1 - 24. DOI

Popovich, Natalie, Anjuli Jain Figueroa, Deborah Sunter, and Monisha Shah."Identifying disadvantaged communities in the United States: An energy-oriented mapping tool that aggregates environmental and socioeconomic burdens."Energy Research & Social Science 109 (2024) 103391. DOI

Xu, Xiaodan, Hung-Chia Yang, Kyungsoo Jeong, William Bui, Srinath Ravulaparthy, Haitam Laarabi, Zachary Needell, and C Anna Spurlock."Teaching freight mode choice models new tricks using interpretable machine learning methods."Frontiers in Future Transportation 5 (2024). DOI

Laarabi, Haitam, Zachary Needell, Rashid Waraich, Cristian Poliziani, and Thomas P Wenzel."A Modeling Framework for Behavior, Energy, Autonomy and Mobility (BEAM)." (2024).

Rezaei, Nazanin, Annika Todd-Blick, K Sydny Fujita, Natalie Popovich, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Juan Caicedo, Carlos Guirado, and C Anna Spurlock."At the nexus of equity and transportation modeling: Assessing accessibility through the Individual Experienced Utility-Based Synthesis (INEXUS) metric."Journal of Transport Geography 115 (2024) 103824. DOI

Spurlock, C Anna, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Aaron Brooker, Juan Caicedo, Jeff Gonder, Jake Holden, Kyungsoo Jeong, Ling Jin, Haitam Laarabi, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Shivam Sharda, Bingrong Sun, Paul Waddell, Yuhan Wang, Rashid Waraich, Thomas P Wenzel, and Xiaodan Xu."Behavior, Energy, Autonomy & Mobility Comprehensive Regional Evaluator: Overview, calibration and validation summary of an agent-based integrated regional transportation modeling workflow." (2024).

Moon, Hee Seung, Won Young Park, Thomas P Hendrickson, Amol A Phadke, and Natalie Popovich."Exploring the cost and emissions impacts, feasibility and scalability of battery electric ships."Nature Energy (2024). DOI

Black, Douglas R, Nadia Panossian, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, John Farrell, Cabell Hodge, Andrew Meintz, Muhammad Abdullah, Mithat John Kisacikoglu, Jesse Bennett, Rongxin Yin, Shreya Agarwal, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."Survey and gap prioritization of U.S. electric vehicle charge management deployments." (2024).

2023

Jin, Ling, Xiaodan Xu, Yuhan Wang, Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi, Alina Lazar, Duleep Rathgamage Don, Zachary Needell, C Anna Spurlock, Mahyar Amirgholy, and Mona Asudegi."Leveraging Probe Data and Machine Learning to Derive and Interpret Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams Across U.S. Cities."2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (2023). DOI

Laarabi, Haitam, Zachary Needell, Rashid Waraich, Cristian Poliziani, and Thomas P Wenzel."BEAM: The Modeling Framework for Behavior, Energy, Autonomy & Mobility - The Open-Source Agent-Based Regional Transportation Model Unpacked: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Inner Dynamics." (2023).

Moraski, Jill W, Natalie Popovich, and Amol A Phadke."Leveraging rail-based mobile energy storage to increase grid reliability in the face of climate uncertainty."Nature Energy 8.7 (2023) 736 - 746. DOI

Yang, Hung-Chia, Ling Jin, Alina Lazar, Annika Todd-Blick, Alex Sim, Kesheng Wu, Qianmiao Chen, and C Anna Spurlock."Gender Gaps in Mode Usage, Vehicle Ownership, and Spatial Mobility When Entering Parenthood: A Life Course Perspective."Systems 11.6 (2023) 314. DOI

Poliziani, Cristian, Gary Hsueh, David Czerwinski, Thomas P Wenzel, Zachary Needell, Haitam Laarabi, Joerg Schweizer, and Federico Rupi."Micro Transit Simulation of On-Demand Shuttles Based on Transit Data for First- and Last-Mile Connection."ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 12.4 (2023) 177. DOI

2022

Kersey, Jessica, Natalie Popovich, and Amol A Phadke."Rapid battery cost declines accelerate the prospects of all-electric interregional container shipping."Nature Energy 7.7 (2022) 664 - 674. DOI

Jin, Ling, Alina Azar, Caitlin Brown, Bingrong Sun, Venu Garikapati, Srinath Ravulaparthy, Qianmiao Chen, Alex Sim, Kesheng Wu, Tin Ho, Thomas P Wenzel, and C Anna Spurlock."What Makes You Hold on to That Old Car? Joint Insights from Machine Learning and Multinomial Logit on Vehicle-level Transaction Decisions."Frontiers in Future Transportation - Connected Mobility and Automation (2022). DOI

2021

Lazar, Alina, Ling Jin, Caitlin Brown, C Anna Spurlock, Alex Sim, and Kesheng Wu."Performance of the Gold Standard and Machine Learning in Predicting Vehicle Transactions."2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (2021). DOI

Wells, Emily McAuliffe, Mitchell J Small, C Anna Spurlock, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi."Factors associated with emerging multimodal transportation behavior in the San Francisco Bay Area."Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability 1 (2021).

Popovich, Natalie, Deepak Rajagopal, Elif Tasar, and Amol A Phadke."Economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric."Nature Energy 6.11 (2021) 1017 - 1025. DOI

Popovich, Natalie, C Anna Spurlock, Zachary Needell, Ling Jin, Thomas P Wenzel, Colin Sheppard, and Mona Asudegi."A methodology to develop a geospatial transportation typology."Journal of Transport Geography 93 (2021) 103061. DOI

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, Jessica Kersey, Taylor McNair, Umed Paliwal, David Wooley, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, Michael O’Boyle, Ric O’Connell, Utkarsha Agwan, Priyanka Mohanty, Priya Sreedharan, and Deepak Rajagopal."2035 The Report: Plummeting Costs and Dramatic Improvements In Batteries Can Accelerate Our Clean Transportation Future." (2021).

Phadke, Amol A, Aditya Khandekar, Nikit Abhyankar, David Wooley, and Deepak Rajagopal."Why Regional and Long-Haul Trucks are Primed for Electrification Now." (2021).

Sheppard, Colin, Alan T Jenn, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Gordon S Bauer, and Brian F Gerke."Private versus Shared, Automated Electric Vehicles for U.S. Personal Mobility: Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Grid Integration, and Cost Impacts."Environmental Science & Technology (2021). DOI