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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2022

Hubble, Dion, David Emory Brown, Yangzhi Zhao, Chen Fang, Jonathan Lau, Bryan D McCloskey, and Gao Liu."Liquid electrolyte development for low-temperature lithium-ion batteries."Energy & Environmental Science 15.2 (2022) 550 - 578. DOI

Zhu, Tianyu, Thanh-Nhan Tran, Chen Fang, Dongye Liu, Subramanya P Herle, Jie Guan, Girish Gopal, Ajey Joshi, James Cushing, Andrew M Minor, and Gao Liu."Lithium substituted poly(amic acid) as a water-soluble anode binder for high-temperature pre-lithiation."Journal of Power Sources 521 (2022) 230889. DOI

Odukomaiya, Adewale, Jason Woods, Nelson James, Sumanjeet Kaur, Kyle R Gluesenkamp, Navin Kumar, Sven Mumme, Roderick Jackson, and Ravi S Prasher."Correction: Addressing energy storage needs at lower cost via on-site thermal energy storage in buildings."Energy & Environmental Science 15.1 (2022) 395 - 395. DOI

Barim, Gözde, Rohan Dhall, Elisabetta Arca, Tevye R Kuykendall, Wei Yin, Kenneth J Takeuchi, Esther S Takeuchi, Amy C Marschilok, and Marca M Doeff."Heterostructured Lepidocrocite Titanate-Carbon Nanosheets for Electrochemical Applications."ACS Applied Nano Materials 5.1 (2022) 678 - 690. DOI

Xiao, Haiqing, Chen Fang, Tianyue Zheng, Hua Bai, and Gao Liu."Investigation of SiOx anode fading mechanism with limited capacity cycling."APL Materials 10.1 (2022) 011108. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, and Martha Welander."Metal-Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Natural Gas." (2022).

Fang, Chen, Insun Yoon, Dion Hubble, Thanh-Nhan Tran, Robert Kostecki, and Gao Liu."Recent Applications of Langmuir–Blodgett Technique in Battery Research."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14.2 (2022) 2431 - 2439. DOI

Peng, Peng, Akanksha K Menon, Nathaniel Weger, Ravi S Prasher, Sean D Lubner, Hanna Breunig, and Lin Yang."Techno-economic Analysis of High-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage for On-Demand Heat and Power." (2022).

Lilley, Drew, Peiyuan Yu, Jason Ma, Anubhav Jain, and Ravi S Prasher."Thermal fluids with high specific heat capacity through reversible Diels-Alder reactions."iScience 25.1 (2022) 103540. DOI

Gehbauer, Christoph, Andreas S Rippl, and Eleanor S Lee."Advanced Control of Dynamic Facades and HVAC with Reinforcement Learning."Building Simulation 2021 (2022).

Marques, Luciana, Miguel Heleno, and Wadaed Uturbey."Decentralized Frameworks for Future Power SystemsTransactive control for residential demand-side management." (2022) 277 - 317. DOI

Rippy, Kerry, Judith Vidal, Shuang Cui, and Sumanjeet Kaur."Mitigation of Leakage and Water Ingress for a Promising Phase Change Material (PCM) Containing Polyethylene Glycol (PEG)Abstract."ASME 2022 16th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2022 Heat Transfer Summer ConferenceASME 2022 16th International Conference on Energy Sustainability (2022). DOI

Agarwal, Shreya, and Douglas R Black."Optimal sizing of microgrid DERs for specialized critical load resilience."2022 IEEE Green Energy and Smart Systems Conference (IGESSC)2022 IEEE Green Energy and Smart System Systems (IGESSC) (2022). DOI

2021

Yang, Lin, Madeleine P Gordon, Akanksha K Menon, Alexandra Bruefach, Kyle Haas, M S Scott, Ravi S Prasher, and Jeffrey J Urban."Decoupling electron and phonon transport in single-nanowire hybrid materials for high-performance thermoelectrics."Science Advances 7.20 (2021) eabe6000. DOI

Moreira, Alexandre, Miguel Heleno, and Alan Valenzuela."A Risk-Averse Approach for Distribution Grid Expansion Planning."Energies 14.24 (2021) 8482. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet."Chalkboard 1 - The Many Colors of Hydrogen."The Electrochemical Society Interface 30.4 (2021) 44 - 48. DOI

Touzani, Samir, Anand Prakash, Zhe Wang, Shreya Agarwal, Marco Pritoni, Mariam Kiran, Richard E Brown, and Jessica Granderson."Controlling distributed energy resources via deep reinforcement learning for load flexibility and energy efficiency."Applied Energy 304 (2021) 117733. DOI

Li, Ning, Meiling Sun, Wang Hay Kan, Zengqing Zhuo, Sooyeon Hwang, Sara E Renfrew, Maxim Avdeev, Ashfia Huq, Bryan D McCloskey, Dong Su, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Layered-rocksalt intergrown cathode for high-capacity zero-strain battery operation."Nature Communications 12.1 (2021). DOI

Giannelos, Spyros, Anjali Jain, Stefan Borozan, Paola Falugi, Alexandre Moreira, Rohit Bhakar, Jyotirmay Mathur, and Goran Strbac."Long-Term Expansion Planning of the Transmission Network in India under Multi-Dimensional Uncertainty."Energies 14.22 (2021) 7813. DOI

Bui, Justin C, Kaitlin RaeM Corpus, Alexis T Bell, and Adam Z Weber."On the Nature of Field-Enhanced Water Dissociation in Bipolar Membranes."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125.45 (2021) 24974 - 24987. DOI

Gao, Yuan, Qiye Zheng, Jacob C Jonsson, Sean D Lubner, Dragan C Curcija, Luis L Fernandes, Sumanjeet Kaur, and Christian Kohler."Parametric study of solid-solid translucent phase change materials in building windows."Applied Energy 301 (2021) 117467. DOI

Marques, Luciana, Wadaed Uturbey, and Miguel Heleno."An Integer Non-Cooperative Game Approach for the Transactive Control of Thermal Appliances in Energy Communities."Energies 14.21 (2021) 6971. DOI

Brown, David E, Eric J McShane, Zachary M Konz, Kristian B Knudsen, and Bryan D McCloskey."Detecting onset of lithium plating during fast charging of Li-ion batteries using operando electrochemical impedance spectroscopy."Cell Reports Physical Science 2.10 (2021) 100589. DOI

Zhuo, Zengqing, Kehua Dai, Jinpeng Wu, Liang Zhang, Nobumichi Tamura, Yi- de Chuang, Jun Feng, Jinghua Guo, Zhi-xun Shen, Gao Liu, Feng Pan, and Wanli Yang."Distinct Oxygen Redox Activities in Li2MO3 (M = Mn, Ru, Ir)."ACS Energy Letters 6.10 (2021) 3417 - 3424. DOI