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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2010

Thompson, Lisa, Alexander B Lekov, Aimee T McKane, and Mary Ann Piette."Opportunities for Open Automated Demand Response in Wastewater Treatment Facilities in California - Phase II Report. San Luis Rey Wastewater Treatment Plant Case Study." (2010).

Phelan, Patrick E, Robert A Taylor, Ronald J Adrian, Ravi S Prasher, and Todd P Otanicar."Photothermal Energy Conversion in Liquid Nanoparticle Suspensions."ASME 2010 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels collocated with 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting (2010) 781–787. DOI

Tucker, Michael C."Progress in metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells: A review."Journal of Power Sources 195.15 (2010) 4570 - 4582. DOI

Cabana, Jordi, Christopher S Johnson, Xiao-Qing Yang, Kyung-Yoon Chung, Won-Sub Yoon, Sun-Ho Kang, Michael M Thackeray, and Clare P Grey."Structural complexity of layered-spinel composite electrodes for Li-ion batteries."Journal of Materials Research 25.8 (2010) 1601-1616.

Pollak, Elad, Baisong Geng, Ki-Joon Jeon, Ivan T Lucas, Thomas J Richardson, Feng Wang, and Robert Kostecki."The interaction of Li⁺ with single-layer and few-layer graphene."Nano letters 10.9 (2010) 3386-3388. DOI

Cairns, Elton J, and Paul Albertus."Batteries for electric and hybrid-electric vehicles."Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 1 (2010) 299-320. DOI

Braun, Artur, Bongjin S Mun, Yun Sun, Zhi Liu, Oliver Gröning, R Mäder, Selma Erat, Xueyuan Zhang, Samuel S Mao, Ekaterina Pomjakushina, Kazimierz Conder, and Thomas Graule."Correlation of conductivity and angle integrated valence band photoemission characteristics in single crystal iron perovskites for 300 K < T < 800 K: Comparison of surface and bulk sensitive methods."Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 181.1 (2010) 56-62. DOI

Shen, Shaohua, Liejin Guo, Xiaobo Chen, Feng Ren, and Samuel S Mao."Effect of Ag₂S on solar-driven photocatalytic hydrogen evolution of nanostructured CdS."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 35.13 (2010) 7110-7115. DOI

Sullivan, Michael J, Matthew G Mercurio, Josh A Schellenberg, and Joseph H Eto."How to Estimate the Value of Service Reliability Improvements."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2010) 5. DOI

Yin, Rongxin, Peng Xu, Mary Ann Piette, and Sila Kiliccote."Study on Auto-DR and Pre-cooling of Commercial Buildings with Thermal Mass in California."Energy and Buildings 42.7 (2010) 967-975.

Norwood, Zack, Timothy E Lipman, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Assessment of Combined Heat and Power System "Premium Power" Applications in California."International Journal of Distributed Energy Resources 6.2 (2010) 131-147.

Norwood, Zack, Timothy E Lipman, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Assessment of the Combined Heat and Power System "Premium Power" Applications in California." (2010) 23.

Norwood, Zack, Timothy E Lipman, Chris Marnay, and Daniel M Kammen."Assessment of the Combined Heat and Power System "Premium Power" Applications in California FINAL REPORT." (2010) 36.

Solutions, Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology."CERTS Microgrid Phase Two Test Report." (2010).

Hautier, Geoffroy, Christopher C Fischer, Anubhav Jain, Tim Mueller, and Gerbrand Ceder."Finding Nature’s Missing Ternary Oxide Compounds Using Machine Learning and Density Functional Theory."Chemistry of Materials 22 (2010) 3762-3767. DOI

Sohn, Michael D, Douglas R Black, Phillip N Price, Yiqing Lin, Rohini Brahme, Amit Surana, Satish Narayanan, Alberto Cerpa, Varick Ericson, and Ankur Kamthe."Occupancy-Based Energy Management in Buildings: Final Report to Sponsors." (2010).

Ghatikar, Girish, Johanna L Mathieu, Mary Ann Piette, Edward Koch, and Dan Hennage."Open Automated Demand Response Dynamic Pricing Technologies and Demonstration." (2010).

Siddiqui, Afzal S, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, and Judy Lai."Optimal Control of Distributed Energy Resources and Demand Response under Uncertainty."IAEE’s Rio 2010 International Conference, June 6-9, 2010 (2010).

Momber, Ilan, Tomás Gómez, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Sebastian Beer, Judy Lai, Chris Marnay, and Vincent S Battaglia."Plug-in Electric Vehicle Interactions with a Small Office Building: An Economic Analysis using DER-CAM." (2010) 12.

Martinez, Carlos A, Howard F Illian, and L Patterson."Research Results and Recommendations for Automatic Processes for Identifying Interconnections Frequency Events and Estimate Frequency Response."Frequency Events Identification and Frequency Response (2010).

Ghatikar, Girish."Smart Grid Opportunities for Data Centers."Datacenter Dynamics North America (2010).

Sethuraman, Vijay A, Laurence J Hardwick, Venkat Srinivasan, and Robert Kostecki."Surface structural disordering in graphite upon lithium intercalation/deintercalation."Journal of Power Sources 195.11 (2010) 3655-3660. DOI

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, and Afzal S Siddiqui."The Influence of a CO₂ Pricing Scheme on Distributed Energy Resources in California's Commercial Buildings." (2010) 26.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, and Afzal S Siddiqui."The Influence of a CO₂ Pricing Scheme on Distributed Energy Resources in California's Commercial Buildings."23rd Annual Western Conference, Advanced Workship in Regulation and Competition (2010).

Jain, Anubhav, S.-A Seyed-Reihani, Christopher C Fischer, David J Couling, Gerbrand Ceder, and William H Green."Ab initio screening of metal sorbents for elemental mercury capture in syngas streams."Chemical Engineering Science 65.10 (2010) 3025-3033. DOI