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

Persson, Kristin A, Vijay A Sethuraman, Laurence J Hardwick, Yoyo Hinuma, Ying Shirley Meng, Anton Van der Ven, Venkat Srinivasan, Robert Kostecki, and Gerbrand Ceder."Lithium diffusion in graphitic carbon."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 1.8 (2010) 1176-1180. DOI

Delacourt, Charles, Paul L Ridgway, and John S Newman."Mathematical Modeling of CO₂ Reduction to CO in Aqueous Electrolytes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 157.12 (2010) B1902. DOI

Spanakis, Emmanuel, Marios Barberoglou, Vassilia Zorba, Panagiotis Tzanetakis, and Costas Fotakis."Metal coated silicon spike cold-electron emitters show improvement of performance with operation."Applied Physics Letters 96.3 (2010). DOI

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Gonçalo Cardoso, Timothy E Lipman, Olivier Mégel, Srirupa Ganguly, Afzal S Siddiqui, and Judy Lai."The CO₂ Abatement Potential of California’s Mid-Sized Commercial Buildings." (2010) 71.

Zheng, Honghe, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, Paul L Ridgway, Shidi Xun, and Vincent S Battaglia."An Optimization of Electrode Energy and Power Density through of Variations in Inactive Material and Electrode Porosity."J. Elec. Chem (2010).

Dudley, Junqiao Han, Douglas R Black, Michael G Apte, Mary Ann Piette, and Pam M Berkeley."Comparison of Demand Response Performance with an EnergyPlus Model in a Low Energy Campus Building."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, Johanna L Mathieu, and Kristen Parrish."Findings from Seven Years of Field Performance Data for Automated Demand Response in Commercial Buildings."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Barcelo, Steven J, and Samuel S Mao."High Throughput optical characterization of alloy hydrogenation."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2010).

Barcelo, Steven J, and Samuel S Mao."Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology and its potential for aviation."Professional Pilots 44 (2010) 70.

Barcelo, Steven J, Matthew Rogers, Costas P Grigoropoulos, and Samuel S Mao."Hydrogen Storage property of sandwiched magnesium hydride naoparticle thin film."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2010).

Kiliccote, Sila, Pamela Sporborg, Imran Sheikh, Erich Huffaker, and Mary Ann Piette."Integrating Renewable Resources in California and the Role of Automated Demand Response." (2010).

Delacourt, Charles, and John S Newman."Mathematical Modeling of CO₂ Reduction to CO in Aqueous Electrolytes, II Study of an Electrolysis Cell Making Synagas (CO + H₂) from CO₂ and H₂O Reduction at Room Temperature."Electrochemical Society 157 (2010) B1911-B1926.

Price, Phillip N."Methods for Analyzing Electric Load Shape and its Variability." (2010).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, and Junqiao Han Dudley."Northwest Open Automated Demand Response Technology Demonstration Project." (2010).

Ghatikar, Girish, Johanna L Mathieu, Mary Ann Piette, and Sila Kiliccote."Open Automated Demand Response Technologies for Dynamic Pricing and Smart Grid."Grid-Interop Conference 2010 (2010).

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J Richardson."Overcharge Protection for 4 V Lithium Batteries at High Rates and Low Temperatures."Journal of Electrochemical Society 157.6 (2010) A735-A740. DOI

Momber, Ilan, Tomás Gómez, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Sebastian Beer, Judy Lai, and Vincent S Battaglia."Plug in Electric Vehicle Interactions with a small office Building: An Economic Analysis Using DER-CAM."IEEE 2010 Power And Energy General Meeting (2010).

Yin, Rongxin, Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, and Kristen Parrish."Scenario Analysis of Peak Demand Savings for Commercial Buildings with Thermal Mass in California."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Gonçalo Cardoso, Timothy E Lipman, Olivier Mégel, Srirupa Ganguly, Afzal S Siddiqui, and Judy Lai."The CO₂ Reduction Potential of Combined Heat and Power in California's Commercial Buildings."Clean Tech Law & Business Journal (2010) 16.

Rubinstein, Francis M, Li Xiaolei, and David S Watson."Using Dimmable Lighting for Regulation Capacity and Non-Spinning Reserves in the Ancillary Services Market. A Feasibility Study." (2010).

2009

Sullivan, Michael J, Matthew G Mercurio, and Josh A Schellenberg."Estimated Value of Service Reliability for Electric Utility Customers in the United States." (2009) 130.

Prasher, Ravi S."Cooling an integrated circuit die with coolant flow in a microchannel and a thin film thermoelectric cooling device in the microchannel." (2009).

Tang, Lei, Byungchan Han, Kristin A Persson, Cody Friesen, Ting He, Karl Sieradzki, and Gerbrand Ceder."Electrochemical stability of nanometer-scale Pt particles in acidic environments."Journal of the American Chemical Society 132.2 (2009) 596-600. DOI

Zhang, Tiejun, Tao Tong, Je-Young Chang, Yoav Peles, Ravi S Prasher, Michael K Jensen, John T Wen, and Patrick E Phelan."Ledinegg instability in microchannels."Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 52 (2009) 5661–5674. DOI

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2009)." (2009).