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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2009

Papadopoulou, Evie L, Vassilia Zorba, Alexios Pagkozidis, Marios Barberoglou, Emmanuel Stratakis, and Costas Fotakis."Reversible wettability of ZnO nanostructured thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition."Thin Solid Films 518.4 (2009) 1267-1270. DOI

Budhraja, Vikram S, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Transmission Benefit Quantification, Cost Allocation and Cost Recovery."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009) 216.

Herter, Karen, Josh Rasin, and Tim Perry."Development and Demonstration of the Open Automated Demand Response Standard for the Residential Sector." (2009).

McGrath, Patrick, Aurora Marie Fojas, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."Electro-oxidation kinetics of adsorbed CO on platinum electrocatalysts."Chemical Engineering Science 64 (2009) 4765-4771. DOI

Kim, Suhan, Gao Liu, and Andrew M Minor."FIB Sample Preparation of Polymer Thin Films on Hard Substrates Using the Shadow-FIB method."Microscopy Today 17 (2009) 20-23.

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."CleanTech Law and Business Review (2009) 19.

McParland, Charles."The Evolution of the Internet Community and the "Yet-to-Evolve" Smart Grid Community: Parallels and Lessons-to-Be-Learned." (2009).

Bol'shakov, Alexander A, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Chunyi Liu, and Richard E Russo."Discrimination of complex substances with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy."Spectroscopy 24.10 (2009) 36-44.

Lasseter, Robert H, and Micah Erickson."Integration of Battery-Based Energy Storage Element in the CERTS Microgrid."Final Report Task 4: Value and Technology Assessment to Enhance the Business Case for the CERTS Microgrid (2009).

Jaiswal, Abhishek, Craig R Horne, On Chang, Wenrui Zhang, W Kong, E Wang, Anthony Chern, and Marca M Doeff."Nanoscale LiFePO₄ and Li₄Ti₅O₁₂ for high rate Li-ion batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 156 (2009) A1041-A1046. DOI

Wilcox, James D, Efrain E Rodriguez, and Marca M Doeff."The Impact of Aluminum and Iron Substitution on the Structure and Electrochemistry of Li(Ni_0.4Co_0.2-yM_yMn_0.4)O₂ Materials."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 156 (2009) A1011-A1018. DOI

."2009 DOE-NERC Workshop on Fault-Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery (FIDVR)." (2009).

Granderson, Jessica, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Chilled Water Storage System and Demand Response at the University of California at Merced."9th International Conference for Enhanced Building Operations, November 17-18, 2009 (2009).

Lee, Zonghoon, Ki-Joon Jeon, Albert Dato, Rolf Erni, Thomas J Richardson, Michael Frenklach, and Velimir Radmilovic."Direct Imagining of Soft-hard Interfaces Enabled by Graphene."NanoLetters 9.9 (2009) 3365-3369. DOI

Boueri, Myriam, Matthieu Baudelet, Jin Yu, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, and Richard E Russo."Early stage expansion and time-resolved spectral emission of laser-induced plasma from polymer."Applied Surface Science 255.24 (2009) 9566-9571. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Timothy E Lipman, Judy Lai, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Olivier Mégel."Greenhouse Gas Abatement with Distributed Generation in California's Commercial Buildings."6th Annual California Climate Change Research Symposium (2009).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, Afzal S Siddiqui, and Judy Lai."Greenhouse Gas Abatement with Distributed Generation in California's Commerical Buildings."10th IAEE European Conference, Energy, Policies and Technologies for Sustainable Economies (2009).

Littlejohn, David, Robert K Cheng, David R Noble, and Tim Lieuwen."Laboratory Investigations of Low-Swirl Injectors Operating With Syngases."Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 132.1 (2009) 011502-011509. DOI

Zorba, Vassilia, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Optical far-and near-field femtosecond laser ablation of Si for nanoscale chemical analysis."Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 396.1 (2009) 173-180. DOI

Tyagi, Himanshu, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Predicted Efficiency of a Low-Temperature Nanofluid-Based Direct Absorption Solar Collector."J. Sol. Energy Eng. 131 (2009) 041004. DOI

Rogers, Matthew, Steven J Barcelo, Xiaobo Chen, Thomas J Richardson, Vincent Berube, Gang Chen, Mildred S Dresselhaus, Costas P Grigoropoulos, and Samuel S Mao."Hydrogen Storage Characteristics of Nanograined Free-Standing Magnesium-Nickel Films."Applied Physics A 96.2 (2009) 349-352. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, Judy Lai, and Afzal S Siddiqui."The Added Economic and Environmental Value of Solar Thermal Systems in Microgrids with Combined Heat and Power." (2009) 13.

Marnay, Chris, Judy Lai, Michael Stadler, and Afzal S Siddiqui."Added Value of Reliability to a Microgrid: Simulations of Three California Buildings."Cigré Integration of Wide-Scale Renewable Resources into the Power Delivery System, July 29-31, 2009 (2009) 9.

Stadler, Michael, and Timothy E Lipman."California CHP Greenhouse Gas Abatement: Contribution of Medium-Sized Commercial Buildings." (2009).

Taylor, Robert A, Patrick E Phelan, Ronald J Adrian, Todd P Otanicar, and Ravi S Prasher."Experimental Results for Light-Induced Boiling in Water-Based Graphite Nanoparticle Suspensions."ASME 2009 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the InterPACK09 and 3rd Energy Sustainability Conferences (2009). DOI