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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2012

Marnay, Chris, Nicholas DeForest, and Judy Lai."A Green Prison: The Santa Rita Jail Campus Microgrid." (2012).

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Peter H Larsen, Annika Todd-Blick, and Emily Fisher."An Examination of Temporal Trends in Electricity Reliability Based on Reports from U.S. Electric Utilities." (2012).

Ghatikar, Girish, Aimee T McKane, Sasank Goli, Peter L Therkelsen, and Daniel Olsen."Assessing the Control Systems Capacity for Demand Response in California Industries." (2012).

Fisk, William J, Douglas R Black, and Gregory Brunner."Changing Ventilation Rates in U.S. Offices: Implications for Health, Work Performance, Energy, and Associated Economics."Building and Environment 47 (2012) 368-372. DOI

Ridgway, Paul L, Honghe Zheng, Abner F Bello, Xiangyun Song, Shidi Xun, Jin Chong, and Vincent S Battaglia."Comparison of Cycling Performance of Lithium Ion Cell Anode Graphites."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.5 (2012) A520. DOI

Zheng, Honghe, Ruizhi Yang, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S Battaglia."Cooperation between active material, polymeric binder and conductive carbon additive in lithium ion battery cathode."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 116.7 (2012) 4875-4882. DOI

Upreti, Shailesh, Natasha A Chernova, Jie Xiao, Joel K Miller, Olga V Yakubovich, Jordi Cabana, Clare P Grey, Vincent L Chevrier, Gerbrand Ceder, Janice L Musfeldt, and M. M Stanley Whittingham."Crystal structure, physical properties, and electrochemistry of copper substituted LiFePO₄ single crystals."Chemistry of Materials 24 (2012) 166-173. DOI

Hwang, Gisuk, and Adam Z Weber."Effective-Diffusivity Measurement of Partially-Saturated Fuel-Cell Gas-Diffusion Layers."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 159.11 (2012) F683 - F692. DOI

Ji, Liwen, Honghe Zheng, Ariel Ismach, Zhongkui Tan, Shidi Xun, Eric Lin, Vincent S Battaglia, Venkat Srinivasan, and Yuegang Zhang."Graphene/Si multilayer structure anodes for advanced half and full lithium-ion cells."Nano Energy 1.1 (2012) 164-171. DOI

Wu, Shao-Ling, Wei Zhang, Xiangyun Song, Alpesh K Shukla, Gao Liu, Vincent S Battaglia, and Venkat Srinivasan."High Rate Capability of Li(Ni_1/3Mn_1/3Co_1/3)O₂ Electrode for Li-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.4 (2012) A438-A444. DOI

Jung, Sokhee, Young-Ho Ahn, Sang-Eun Oh, Junho Lee, Kyu-Taek Cho, Youngjin Kim, Myeong Woon Kim, Joonmok Shim, and Moonsung Kang."Impedance and thermodynamic analysis of bioanode, abiotic anode, and riboflavin-amended anode in microbial fuel cells."Bulletin of Korean Chemical Society 33 (2012) 3349-3354. DOI

Same, Adam, Vincent S Battaglia, Hong-Yue Tang, and Jae Wan Park."In situ neutron radiography analysis of graphite/NCA lithium-ion battery during overcharge."Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 42.1 (2012) 1-9. DOI

Dursch, Thomas J, Monica A Ciontea, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber."Isothermal Ice Crystallization Kinetics in the Gas-Diffusion Layer of a Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cell."Langmuir 28.2 (2012) 1222 - 1234. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Nan Zhou, Min Qin, and John Romankiewicz."Lessons Learned from Microgrid Demonstrations Worldwide." (2012).

Bode, Josh L, Michael J Sullivan, and Joseph H Eto."Measuring Short-term Air Conditioner Demand Reductions for Operations and Settlement." (2012) 120.

Liu, Gao, Honghe Zheng, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S Battaglia."Particles and polymer binder interaction: a controlling factor in lithium-ion electrode performance."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.3 (2012) A214-A221. DOI

Lee, Eunseok, and Kristin A Persson."Revealing the coupled cation interactions behind the electrochemical profile of Li_xNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄."Energy & Environmental Science 5.3 (2012) 6047-6051. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Miguel A Modestino, Alexander Hexemer, Rachel A Segalman, and Adam Z Weber."Subsecond Morphological Changes in Nafion during Water Uptake Detected by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering."ACS Macro Letters 1.1 (2012) 33 - 36. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Eric Parker, Clark Bernier, Paul Young, Dave Sheehan, John D Kueck, and Brendan J Kirby."The Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration--Measuring the Speed and Magnitude of Aggregated Demand Response."2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2012) 2012 - 2019. DOI

Lux, Simon F, Ivan T Lucas, Elad Pollak, Stefano Passerini, Martin Winter, and Robert Kostecki."The mechanism of HF formation in LiPF₆ based organic carbonate electrolytes."Electrochemistry Communications 14.1 (2012) 47-50. DOI

Fisher, Emily, Joseph H Eto, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Understanding Bulk Power Reliability: The Importance of Good Data and A Critical Review of Existing Sources."IEEE 45th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) (2012). DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Anthony Kwong, Kyle Clark, Haluna P Gunterman, and Adam Z Weber."Water Uptake of Fuel-Cell Catalyst Layers."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 159.9 (2012) F530 - F535. DOI

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Joseph H Eto, Gonçalo Cardoso, Andrea A Mammoli, Hans Barsun, Richard Burnett, David Klapp, and Judy Lai."Web-Based Economic and Environmental Optimization of Microgrids."2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (2012). DOI

Weber, Adam Z, Sivagaminathan Balasubramanian, Prodip K Das, and Sundmacher Kai."Chapter 2 - Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells."Advances in Chemical EngineeringFuel Cell EngineeringProton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells 41 (2012) 65 - 144. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, Nance Matson, and Mary Ann Piette."Demand Response Opportunities and Enabling Technologies for Data Centers: Findings From Field Studies." (2012).