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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2015

Huck, Patrick, Anubhav Jain, Dan Gunter, Donald Winston, and Kristin A Persson."A Community Contribution Framework for Sharing Materials Data with Materials Project."2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science)2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on e-Science (2015). DOI

Larsen, Peter H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Joseph H Eto, and James L Sweeney."Assessing Changes in the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System." (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Rongpeng Zhang, Aimee T McKane, Peter L Therkelsen, and Tianzhen Hong."Development and Validation of Demand Response Quick Assessment Tool For Refrigerated Warehouses in California." (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, and Douglas R Black."Improvement Of Demand Response Quick Assessment Tool (DRQAT) and Tool Validation Case Studies." (2015).

Page, Kirt A, Jae Wook Shin, Scott A Eastman, Brandon W Rowe, Sangcheol Kim, Ahmet Kusoglu, Kevin G Yager, and Gery R Stafford."In Situ Method for Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Nafion Thin Films during Hydration Cycles."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7.32 (2015) 17874 - 17883. DOI

Cheng, Lei, Cheng Hao Wu, Angelique Jarry, Wei Chen, Yifan Ye, Junfa Zhu, Robert Kostecki, Kristin A Persson, Jinghua Guo, Miquel Salmeron, Guoying Chen, and Marca M Doeff."Interrelationships among Grain Size, Surface Composition, Air Stability, and Interfacial Resistance of Al-Substituted LiLa...."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7.32 (2015) 17649 - 17655. DOI

Rong, Ziqin, Rahul Malik, Pieremanuele Canepa, Sai Gautam Gopalakrishnan, Miao Liu, Anubhav Jain, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Materials Design Rules for Multivalent Ion Mobility in Intercalation Structures."Chemistry of Materials 27.17 (2015) 6016 - 6021. DOI

Ling, Min, Jingxia Qiu, Sheng Li, Cheng Yan, Milton J Kiefel, Gao Liu, and Shanqing Zhang."Multifunctional SA-PProDOT Binder for Lithium Ion Batteries."Nano Letters 15.7 (2015) 4440 - 4447. DOI

Olsen, Daniel, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California Agricultural Irrigation." (2015).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Craig P Wray, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California Wastewater Treatment Facilities." (2015).

Homan, Gregory K, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California's Dairy Processing Industry." (2015).

Stewart, Emma M, Sila Kiliccote, Daniel Arnold, Alexandra von Meier, and Reza Arghandeh."Accuracy and Validation of Measured and Modeled Data for Distributed PV Interconnection and Control."2015 IEEE PES GM (2015).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B, and Samveg Saxena."Autonomous taxis could greatly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions of US light-duty vehicles."Nature Climate Change 5.9 (2015) 860 - 863. DOI

García-Salaberri, Pablo A, Gisuk Hwang, Marcos Vera, Adam Z Weber, and Jeffrey T Gostick."Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of through-plane saturation distribution."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 86 (2015) 319 - 333. DOI

Gautam, Gopalakrishnan Sai, Pieremanuele Canepa, Rahul Malik, Miao Liu, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."First-principles evaluation of multi-valent cation insertion into orthorhombic V₂O₅."Chemical Communications 51.71 (2015) 13619 - 13622. DOI

Martinez, Carlos A, and Joseph H Eto."Wide-area monitoring of the North American power grid: An integrated portfolio of real-time reliability tools."2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (2015) 1 - 5. DOI

Robles, Steven."2014 FIDVR Events Analysis on Valley Distribution Circuits." (2015).

Robles, Steven."Commercial 3-Phase Rooftop Air Conditioner Test Report." (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Mary Ann Piette, and Ella Hae Yeon Sung."Diffusion of Automated Grid Transactions Through Energy Efficiency Codes."ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, 2015 (2015).

Tucker, Michael C, Kyu-Taek Cho, Franz B Spingler, Adam Z Weber, and Guangyu Lin."Impact of membrane characteristics on the performance and cycling of the Br2–H2 redox flow cell."Journal of Power Sources 284 (2015) 212 - 221. DOI

Milan, Christian, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Salman Mashayekh."Modelling of Non-linear CHP Efficiency Curves in Distributed Energy Systems."Applied Energy 148 (2015) 334-347. DOI

Mao, Wenfeng, Yanbao Fu, Hui Zhao, Guo Ai, Yiling Dai, Dechao Meng, Xin-he Zhang, Deyang Qu, Gao Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, and Zhi-yuan Tang."Rational Design and Facial Synthesis of Li₃V₂(PO₄)₃@C Nanocomposites Using Carbon with Different Dimensions for Ultrahigh-Rate Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7 (2015) 12057-12066. DOI

Robles, Steven."Residential Air Conditioner with VFD Test Report." (2015).

Lee, Soochan, Robert A Taylor, Lenore Dai, Ravi S Prasher, and Patrick E Phelan."The effective latent heat of aqueous nanofluids."Mater. Res. Express 2 (2015) 065004. DOI

Qu, Xiaohui, Anubhav Jain, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Lei Cheng, Yong Zhang, Shyue P Ong, Miriam Brafman, Edward Maginn, Larry A Curtiss, and Kristin A Persson."The Electrolyte Genome project: A big data approach in battery materials discovery."Computational Materials Science 103 (2015) 56-67. DOI