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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2014

DeForest, Nicholas, Gonçalo Mendes, Michael Stadler, Wei Feng, Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay."Optimal Deployment of Thermal Energy Storage Under Diverse Economic and Climate Conditions."Applied Energy 119 (2014) 488-496. DOI

Gonzalez, Amanda, Heidi Hauenstein, Girish Ghatikar, and Patrick Eilert."Unlocking the Smart Grid through Building Codes and Communication Standards: Code Opportunities to Increase DR Transactions."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Kueck, John D, Dmitry Kosterev, John Undrill, and Joseph H Eto."Voltage sag and recovery influence for modeling motor loads."2014 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Transmission & Distribution Conference & Exposition (2014) 1 - 5. DOI

Nan, Caiyun, Zhan Lin, Honggang Liao, Min-Kyu Song, Yadong Li, and Elton J Cairns."Durable Carbon-Coated Li₂S Core–Shell Spheres for High Performance Lithium/Sulfur Cells."Journal of the American Chemical Society 136 (2014) 4659-4663. DOI

Iturrondobeitia, Amaia, Aintzane Goñi, Luis Lezama, Chunjoong Kim, Marca M Doeff, Jordi Cabana, and Teófilo Rojo."Modification of the electrochemical activity of LiMn_1.95Si_0.05O₄ spinel via addition of phases with different physico-chemical properties."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2.9 (2014) 3216-3222. DOI

Wong, Dominica H. C, Jacob L Thelen, Yanbao Fu, Didier H Devaux, Ashish A Pandya, Vincent S Battaglia, Nitash P Balsara, and Joseph M DeSimone."Nonflammable perfluoropolyether-based electrolytes for lithium batteries."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.9 (2014) 3327 - 3331. DOI

Gallagher, Kevin G, Steven Goebel, Thomas Greszler, Mark Mathias, Wolfgang Oelerich, Damla Eroglu, and Venkat Srinivasan."Quantifying the promise of lithium–air batteries for electric vehicles."Energy & Environmental Science 7.5 (2014) 1555-1563. DOI

Lin, Feng, Isaac M Markus, Dennis Nordlund, Tsu-Chien Weng, Mark D Asta, Huolin L Xin, and Marca M Doeff."Surface reconstruction and chemical evolution of stoichiometric layered cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries."Nature communications 5 (2014). DOI

Sarkar, Arnab, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Advancing the analytical capabilities of laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry for boron isotopic analysis."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 92 (2014) 42-50. DOI

Qiao, Ruimin, Ivan T Lucas, Altaf Karim, Jaroslaw S Syzdek, Xiaosong Liu, Wei Chen, Kristin A Persson, Robert Kostecki, and Wanli Yang."Distinct Solid-Electrolyte-Interphases on Sn (100) and (001) Electrodes Studied by Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy."Advanced Materials Interfaces (2014). DOI

Oh, Yuhong, Seunghoon Nam, Sungun Wi, Joonhyeon Kang, Taehyun Hwang, Sangheon Lee, Helen H Park, Jordi Cabana, Chunjoong Kim, and Byungwoo Park."Effective wrapping of graphene on individual Li₄Ti₅O₁₂ grains for high-rate Li-ion batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2 (2014) 2023-2027. DOI

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Zitao Li, Yuchun Zhai, Zhihui Wang, Xiangyun Song, Vincent S Battaglia, and Gao Liu."Microsized single-crystal spinel LAMO for high-power lithium ion batteries synthesized via polyvinylpyrrolidone combustion method."Journal of Power Sources 248 (2014) 22-27. DOI

Diwakar, Prasoon K, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Sivanandan S Harilal, Richard E Russo, and Ahmed Hassanein."Ultrafast laser ablation ICP-MS: role of spot size, laser fluence, and repetition rate in signal intensity and elemental fractionation."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 29.2 (2014) 339-346. DOI

Saxena, Samveg, Nihar Shah, Iván Dario Bedoya, and Amol A Phadke."Understanding Optimal Engine Operating Strategies for Gasoline-Fueled HCCI Engines using Crank-Angle Resolved Exergy Analysis."Applied Energy 114 (2014) 155-163. DOI

Weber, Adam Z, Rodney L Borup, Robert M Darling, Prodip K Das, Thomas J Dursch, Wenbin Gu, David Harvey, Ahmet Kusoglu, Shawn Litster, Matthew M Mench, Rangachary Mukundan, Jon P Owejan, Jon G Pharoah, Marc Secanell, and Iryna V Zenyuk."A Critical Review of Modeling Transport Phenomena in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.12 (2014) F1254 - F1299. DOI

Heleno, Miguel, Jean Sumaili, José Meirinhos, and Mauro A da Rosa."A linearized approach to the Symmetric Fuzzy Power Flow for the application to real systems."International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 54 (2014) 610 - 618. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z Weber."A Mechanistic Model for Pinhole Growth in Fuel-Cell Membranes during Cyclic Loads."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.8 (2014) E3311 - E3322. DOI

Lee, Seok-Hee, Chan-Kyu Kim, Hee-Sang Shim, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Richard E Russo, and Sungho Jeong."Ablation and spectroscopic characteristics of thin CuIn_1-xGa_xSe₂ solar cell films fabricated by co-evaporation and co-sputtering processes."International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology 1.1 (2014) 17-24. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, David Riess, and Mary Ann Piette."Analysis of Open Automated Demand Response Deployments in California and Guidelines to Transition to Industry Standards." (2014).

Tucker, Michael C, and Jay Tu."Ceramic Coatings and Glass Additives for Improved SiC-Based Filters for Molten Iron Filtration."International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology 11.1 (2014) 118-124. DOI

Fisher, Emily, and Joseph H Eto."Congestion Measures for Organized Markets in the U.S.."IEEE 47th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) (2014). DOI

Singh, Meenesh R, John C Stevens, and Adam Z Weber."Design of Membrane-Encapsulated Wireless Photoelectrochemical Cells for Hydrogen Production."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.8 (2014) E3283 - E3296. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Michelle Calabrese, and Adam Z Weber."Effect of Mechanical Compression on Chemical Degradation of Nafion Membranes."ECS Electrochemistry Letters 3.5 (2014) F33 - F36. DOI

Cheng, Lei, Joong Sun Park, Huaming Hou, Vassilia Zorba, Guoying Chen, Thomas J Richardson, Jordi Cabana, Richard E Russo, and Marca M Doeff."Effect of microstructure and surface impurity segregation on the electrical and electrochemical properties of dense Al-substituted Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2.1 (2014) 172-181. DOI

Syzdek, Jaroslaw S, Marek Marcinek, and Robert Kostecki."Electrochemical activity of carbon blacks in LiPF_6-based organic electrolytes."Journal of Power Sources 245 (2014) 739-744. DOI