Energy Technologies Area

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 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)

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1990

Russo, Richard E, Dorys Rojas, Piotr B Robouch, and Robert J Silva."Remote photoacoustic measurements in aqueous solutions using an optical fiber."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 61.12 (1990). DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Fuel Cell Cathode Studies in Aqueous K₂CO₃ and KOH."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 3360-3367. DOI

Striebel, Kathryn A, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Oxygen Reduction on Pt in Aqueous K₂CO₃ and KOH."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 3351-3359. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Ronald P Reade, J M McMillan, and B L Olsen."Metal buffer layers and YBaCuO thin films on Pt and Stainless steel using pulsed laser deposition."Journal of Applied Physics 68.3 (1990) 1354-1356. DOI

Isaacson, Mark J, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Zinc Electrode Rest Potentials in Concentrated KOH-K₂Zn(OH)₄ Electrolytes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 2361-2364. DOI

Torres, Richard A, Cynthia E. A Palmer, Patricia A Baisden, Robert J Silva, and Richard E Russo."Comparison of photoacoustic spectroscopy, conventional absorption spectroscopy, and potentiometry as probes of Lanthanide speciation."Analytical Chemistry 62.3 (1990) 298-303. DOI

Isaacson, Mark J, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Current Density and ZnO Precipitation-Dissolution Distributions in Zn-ZnO Porous Electrodes and Their Effect on Material Redistribution: A Two-Dimensional Mathematical Model."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 2014-2021. DOI

Mao, Xianglei, Richard E Russo, H B Liu, and James C Ho."As-Deposited Sb-Doped Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Thin-Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition."Applied Physics Letters 57.24 (1990) 2591-2593. DOI

Spear, Jonathan D, Richard E Russo, and Robert J Silva."Collinear photothermal deflection spectroscopy with light scattering samples."Applied Optics 29 (1990) 4225.

Lerner, M M, Steven J Visco, M Ue, Marca M Doeff, and L C Dejonghe."Preparation and Discharge Characteristics of Solid Redox Polymerization Electrodes Employing Disulfide Polymers and Copolymers."1990 MRS Fall Meeting 210 (Symposium L – Solid State Ionics II) (1990). DOI

Braun, James E."Reducing Energy Costs and Peak Electrical Demand Through Optimal Control of Building Thermal Storage."ASHRAE Transactions 96.2 (1990) 876-887.

1989

McLarnon, Frank R, and Elton J Cairns."Energy Storage."Annual Review of Energy 14 (1989) 241-271. DOI

Marnay, Chris, and Todd P Strauss."Chronological Model Comparison." (1989).

Balooch, Mehdi, Donald R Olander, and Richard E Russo."Y-Ba-Cu-O superconducting films produced by long-pulse laser vaporization."Applied Physics Letters 55.2 (1989) 197. DOI

1988

Spear, Jonathan D, Richard E Russo, and Robert J Silva."Differential photothermal deflection spectroscopy using a single position sensor."Appl.Spectrosc. 42 (1988) 1103.

1987

Lessner, Philip M, Frank R McLarnon, Jack Winnick, and Elton J Cairns."Kinetics of Aqueous Polysulfide Solutions Part III. Investigation of Homogeneous and Electrode Kinetics by the Rotating Disk Method."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 134 (1987) 2669-2677. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Frank R McLarnon, Jonathan D Spear, and Elton J Cairns."Probe beam deflection for In situ measurements of concentration and spectroscopic behavior during copper oxidization and reduction."J.Electrochem.Soc. 134 (1987) 2783.

1986

Lessner, Philip M, Jack Winnick, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Kinetics of Aqueous Polysulfide Solutions I. Theory of Coupled Electrochemical and Chemical Reactions, Response to a Potential Step."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 133 (1986) 2510-2516. DOI

Becker, P C, G M Williams, Richard E Russo, Norman E Edelstein, J. J Arnold Koningstein, Lynn A Boatner, and Marvin M Abraham."Resonance electronic Raman scattering in Erbium phosphate crystals."Optics Letters 11.5 (1986) 282-284. DOI

Russo, Richard E, and Arlon J Hunt."Comparison of Ethyl versus methyl sol-gels for silica aerogel using polar nephelometry."J.Non.Cryst.Solids 86 (1986) 219.

1985

Tewari, Param H, Arlon J Hunt, and Kevin D Lofftus."Ambient-temperature supercritical drying of transparent silica aerogels."Materials Letters 3.9-10 (1985) 363-367. DOI

Becker, P C, Norman E Edelstein, G M Williams, Jerome J Bucher, Richard E Russo, J. J Arnold Koningstein, Lynn A Boatner, and Marvin M Abraham."Intensities and asymmetries of electronic Raman scattering in Thulium and Erbium phosphate."Physics Review B 31.12 (1985) 8102-8110. DOI

Hunt, Arlon J, J Ayer, Patricia G Hull, Fletcher J Miller, Richard E Russo, and Walter Yuen."Solar radiant processing of gas particle systems for producing useful fuel and chemicals."23rd ASME/AICHE National Heat Transfer Conference 81 (1985) 191-196.

Nichols, James T, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Zinc electrode cycle-life performance in alkaline electrolytes having reduced zinc species solubility."Chemical Engineering Communications 37.1-6 (1985) 355-379. DOI

1984

Hunt, Arlon J."4452771 Carbon particles."Carbon 22 (1984) vii-vii.