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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2011

Ji, Liwen, Zhongkui Tan, Tevye R Kuykendall, Eun J An, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, and Yuegang Zhang."Multilayer nanoassembly of Sn-nanopillar arrays sandwiched between graphene layers for high-capacity lithium storage."Energy & Environmental Science 4.9 (2011) 3611-3616. DOI

McParland, Charles."OpenADR Open Source Toolkit: Developing Open Source Software for the Smart Grid."2011 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (2011).

Chon, Michael J, Vijay A Sethuraman, Anthony McCormick, Venkat Srinivasan, and Pradeep R Guduru."Real-time measurement of stress and damage evolution during initial lithiation of crystalline silicon."Physical Review Letters 107.4 (2011). DOI

Liu, Jun, Thomas E Conry, Xiangyun Song, Li Yang, Marca M Doeff, and Thomas J Richardson."Spherical nanoporous LiCoPO₄/C composites as high performance cathode materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 (2011) 9984-9987. DOI

Groissböck, Markus, Michael Stadler, and Thomas Edlinger."Work Package 1: Requirements Analysis, EnRiMa Validatoin Test Site Report for the University of Applied Science Burfenland, Pinkafeld Campus."Working Paper of Work Package 1 of the EnRiMa project. EnRiMa a reserach project withint the 7th framework programme of the European Commision (2011).

Marnay, Chris, Nicholas DeForest, Michael Stadler, Jonathan Donadee, Carlos Dierckxsens, Gonçalo Mendes, Judy Lai, and Gonçalo Cardoso."A Green Prison: Santa Rita Jail Creeps Towards Zero Net Energy (ZNE)."ECEEE Summer Study, June 6-11, 2011 (2011).

Jain, Anubhav, Geoffroy Hautier, Charles J Moore, Shyue P Ong, Christopher C Fischer, Tim Mueller, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."A high-throughput infrastructure for density functional theory calculations."Computational Materials Science 50 (2011) 2295-2310. DOI

Stadler, Michael, Jonathan Donadee, Chris Marnay, Gonçalo Mendes, Jan von Appen, Olivier Mégel, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Nicholas DeForest, and Judy Lai."Application of the Software as a Service Model to the Control of Complex Building Systems."ECEEE Summer Study, June 6-11, 2011 (2011).

von Appen, Jan, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Ilan Momber, David Klapp, and Alexander von Scheven."Assessment of the Economic Potential of Microgrids for Reactive Power Supply."ICPE2011-ECCE Asia 8th International Conference on Power Electronics (2011).

Fisk, William J, Gregory Brunner, and Douglas R Black."Benefits and costs of increasing ventilation rates in U.S. offices."Proceedings of Indoor Air 2011, a219 2 (2011).

Klapp, David, R Zimmerly, and J Howard."CERTS Microgrid Mechanical Switch Test Report." (2011).

Eto, Joseph H."CERTS Microgrid Test Bed Phase III Activities." (2011).

Lai, Judy, Nicholas DeForest, Sila Kiliccote, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee."Evaluation of evolving residential electricity tariffs."ECEEE Summer Study, June 6-11, 2011 (2011).

Prasher, Ravi S."Method for cooling an integrated circuit die with coolant flow in a microchannel and a thin film thermoelectric cooling device in the microchannel." (2011).

Yoon, Wonseok, and Adam Z Weber."Modeling Low-Platinum-Loading Effects in Fuel-Cell Catalyst Layers."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 158.8 (2011) B1007-1018. DOI

Edlinger, Thomas, Michael Stadler, and Markus Groissböck."Work Package 1: Requirements Analysis, EnRiMa Validation Test Site Report for the office building ENERGYbase."Working Paper of Work Package 1 of the EnRiMa project. EnRiMa a research project within the 7th framework programme of the European Commission (2011).

Meirer, Florian, Jordi Cabana, Yijin Liu, Apurva Mehta, Joy C Andrews, and Piero Pianetta."3D imaging of Chemical Phase Transformations at the nanoscale with full field transmission X-Ray Microscopy."Synchrotron Radadiation 18.18 (2011) 773-781. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, Lei Cheng, and Lutgard DeJonghe."Cathode Contact Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells."219th ECS Meeting (2011). DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Judy Lai, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Mendes, Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee."Integration & Operation of a Microgrid at Santa Rita Jail."Jeju 2011 Symposium on Microgrids, Jeju Island, Korea, May 27 - 28, 2011 (2011).

Hwang, Gisuk, Massoud Kaviany, Jeffrey T Gostick, Brian L Kienitz, Adam Z Weber, and Moo Hwan Kim."Role of Water States on Water Uptake and Proton Transport in Nafion using Molecular Simulations and Bimodal Network."Polymer 52.12 (2011) 2584-2593. DOI

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Cardoso, Nicholas DeForest, Jonathan Donadee, Tomás Gómez, Judy Lai, Chris Marnay, Olivier Mégel, Gonçalo Mendes, and Afzal S Siddiqui."Smart buildings with electric vehicle interconnection as buffer for local renewables?."Researching the Intelligent City: Key Challenges of Integrating Urban Energy and Mobility Systems Research Symposium (2011).

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Mendes, Chris Marnay, Olivier Mégel, and Judy Lai."Analysis of electric interconnection with commercial building."Electric Vehicle Integration Into the Smart Grid of the Future - G2V & V2G Forum, April 6, 2011 (2011).

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Mendes, Chris Marnay, Olivier Mégel, and Judy Lai."Analysis of electric vehicle interconnection with commercial building microgrids."UCLA Smart Grid Thought Leadership Forum April 6, 2011 (2011).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Nicholas DeForest, Jonathan Donadee, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Judy Lai."Applications of Optimal Building Energy System Selection and Operation."Microgen’II: Second International Conference of Microgeneration and Related Technologies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 4-6 Apr 2011 (2011).

Eto, Joseph H, and Robert J Thomas."Computational Needs for the Next Generation Electric Grid Proceedings." (2011) 376.