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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2013

Whitely, Eric, Alan G Isenmonger, and Joseph H Eto."Perspectives on Real-Time Grid Operating Technologies to Manage Reliability in the Western Interconnection." (2013).

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Mohammad Bozchalui, Ratnesh Sharma, Chris Marnay, Ana Barbosa-Póvoa, and Paulo Ferrão."Stochastic Programming of Vehicle to Building Interactions with Uncertainty in PEVs Driving for a Medium Office Building."39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2013).

Harmon, Russell S, Richard E Russo, and Richard R Hark."Applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for geochemical and environmental analysis: A comprehensive review."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 87 (2013) 11-26. DOI

Kim, Joyce Jihyun, Sila Kiliccote, and Rongxin Yin."Automated Demand Response Technologies and Demonstration in New York City using OpenADR." (2013).

Iturrondobeitia, Amaia, Aintzane Goñi, Luis Lezama, Chunjoong Kim, Marca M Doeff, Jordi Cabana, and Teófilo Rojo."Effect of Si (iv) substitution on electrochemical, magnetic and spectroscopic performance of nanosized LiMn_2-xSi_xO₄."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 1.36 (2013) 10857-10862. DOI

Lee, Eunseok, and Kristin A Persson."First-principles study of the nano-scaling effect on the electrochemical behavior in LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄."Nanotechnology 24.42 (2013). DOI

Olsen, Daniel, Nance Matson, Michael D Sohn, Cody Rose, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Sila Kiliccote, Marissa Hummon, David Palchak, Paul Denholm, Jennie Jorgenson, and Ookie Ma."Grid Integration of Aggregated Demand Response, Part 1: Load Availability Profiles and Constraints for the Western Interconnection." (2013).

Xia, Ting, Wei Zhang, Wenjing Li, Nathan A Oyler, Gao Liu, and Xiaobo Chen."Hydrogenated surface disorder enhances lithium ion battery performance."Nano Energy 2.5 (2013) 826-835. DOI

Norberg, Nick S, Simon F Lux, and Robert Kostecki."Interfacial side-reactions at a LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ electrode in organic carbonate-based electrolytes."Electrochemistry Communications 34 (2013) 29-32. DOI

Gunawan, Andrey, Chao-Han Lin, Daniel A Buttry, Vladimiro Mujica, Robert A Taylor, Ravi S Prasher, and Patrick E Phelan."Liquid Thermoelectrics: Review of Recent And Limited New Data of Thermogalvanic Cell Experiments."Nanoscale Microscale Thermophys. Eng. 17 (2013) 304–323. DOI

Martinez, Carlos A."NERC Frequency Response Standard, Current Status, Issues, and 2010 to 2013 Field Trial Results."NERC Frequency Response Standard (BAL-003-1) (2013).

Nadimpalli, Siva P. V, Vijay A Sethuraman, Giovanna Bucci, Venkat Srinivasan, Allan F Bower, and Pradeep R Guduru."On plastic deformation and fracture in Si films during electrochemical lithiation/delithiation cycling."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 160.10 (2013) A1885-A1893. DOI

Ling, Min, Jingxia Qiu, Sheng Li, Hui Zhao, Gao Liu, and Shanqing Zhang."An environmentally benign LIB fabrication process using a low cost, water soluble and efficient binder."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 1.38 (2013) 11543-11547. DOI

Liu, Xiaosong, Dongdong Wang, Gao Liu, Venkat Srinivasan, Zhi Liu, Zahid Hussain, and Wanli Yang."Distinct charge dynamics in battery electrodes revealed by in situ and operando soft X-ray spectroscopy."Nature communications 4 (2013). DOI

Shirpour, Mona, Jordi Cabana, and Marca M Doeff."New materials based on a layered sodium titanate for dual electrochemical Na and Li intercalation systems."Energy & Environmental Science 6.8 (2013) 2538-2547. DOI

Cabana, Jordi, Natasha A Chernova, Jie Xiao, Megan Roppolo, Kellie A Aldi, M. M Stanley Whittingham, and Clare P Grey."Study of the Transition Metal Ordering in Layered Na_xNi_x/2Mn_1–x/2O₂ (2/3≤x≤1) and Consequences of Na/Li Exchange."Inorganic Chemistry 52 (2013) 8540-8550. DOI

Wu, Mingyan, Xingcheng Xiao, Nenad Vukmirovic, Shidi Xun, Prodip K Das, Xiangyun Song, Paul Olalde-Velasco, Dongdong Wang, Adam Z Weber, Lin-Wang Wang, Vincent S Battaglia, Wanli Yang, and Gao Liu."Toward an Ideal Polymer Binder Design for High-Capacity Battery Anodes."J Am Chem Soc 135.32 (2013) 12048-56. DOI

Bravo, Richard J, and Steven Robles."2012 FIDVR Events Analysis: Valley Distribution Circuits." (2013).

Jain, Anubhav, Shyue P Ong, Geoffroy Hautier, Wei Chen, William D Richards, Stephen Dacek, Shreyas Cholia, Dan Gunter, David Skinner, Gerbrand Ceder, and Kristin A Persson."Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation."APL Materials 1.1 (2013). DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, Mary Ann Piette, Janie Page, Sila Kiliccote, Charles McParland, and David S Watson."Demonstration and Results of Grid Integrated Technologies at the Demand to Grid Laboratory (D2G Lab): Phase I Operations Report." (2013).

Patel, Shrayesh N, Anna E Javier, and Nitash P Balsara."Electrochemically Oxidized Electronic and Ionic Conducting Nanostructured Block Copolymers for Lithium Battery Electrodes."ACS Nano 7 (2013) 6056-6068. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, and Chandrayee Basu."Expanding Buildings-to-Grid (B2G) Objectives in India." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J, Robert J Yinger, Steven Robles, and Joseph H Eto."FIDVR Events Analysis, Part I."Proceedings of the IEEE PES General Meeting (2013). DOI

Bravo, Richard J, Robert J Yinger, Steven Robles, and Joseph H Eto."FIDVR in Distribution Circuits."Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2013). DOI

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J Gonzalez, Vassilia Zorba, and Jong-Hyun Yoo."Laser ablation in analytical chemistry."Analytical Chemistry 85.13 (2013) 6162-6177. DOI