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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2008

McGrath, Patrick, Aurora Marie Fojas, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."Site-dependent C chemical shifts of CO adsorbed on Pt electrocatalysts."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112 (2008) 14702-14705. DOI

Thomas, Edward V, Ira Bloom, Jon P Christophersen, and Vincent S Battaglia."Statistical methodology for predicting the life of lithium-ion cells via accelerated degradation testing."Journal of Power Sources 184.1 (2008) 312-317. DOI

Bi, Lei, Alexander R Taussig, Hyun-Suk Kim, Lei Wang, Gerald F Dionne, D Bono, Kristin A Persson, Gerbrand Ceder, and Caroline A Ross."Structural, magnetic, and optical properties of BiFeO₃ and Bi₂FeMnO₆ epitaxial thin films: An experimental and first-principles study."Physical Review B 78 (2008) 104106. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Inês Lima Azevedo, Hirohisa Aki, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."The Stochastic Building Simulation Tool SLBM and its New Energy Forecasting Approach."Fifth Annual California Climate Change Conference, September 8-10, 2008 (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Sam Borgeson, Brian E Coffey, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."A Buildings Module for the Stochastic Energy Deployment System."ACEEE 2008 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008).

Prasher, Ravi S, Tao Tong, and Arun Majumdar."Approximate analytical models for phonon specific heat and ballistic thermal conductance of nanowires."Nano Lett. 8 (2008) 99–103. DOI

Stadler, Michael, and Chris Marnay."Dezentrale Energieversorgung mit Speichertechnologien." (2008) 5.

Stadler, Michael, Hirohisa Aki, Ryan M Firestone, Judy Lai, Chris Marnay, and Afzal S Siddiqui."Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Scaling Up: Building Tomorrow's Solutions, August 17-22, 2008 (2008).

Siddiqui, Afzal S, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation Investment by a Microgrid under Uncertainty." (2008) 37.

Sivakumar, V, Caroline A Ross, N Yabuuchi, Yang Shao-Horn, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Electrochemical Control of the Magnetic Moment of CrO₂."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 155 (2008) P83-P88.

Lee, Tae-Woo, Himanshu Tyagi, David Sonenschein, Patrick E Phelan, Ravi S Prasher, Robert Peck, and Paul Arentzen."Ignition and Combustion Characteristics of Liquid Fuel Droplets Containing Metal Nanoparticles."ASME 2008 Heat Transfer Summer Conference collocated with the Fluids Engineering, Energy Sustainability, and 3rd Energy Nanotechnology ConferencesHeat Transfer: Volume 3 (2008). DOI

Doeff, Marca M, James D Wilcox, Rong Yu, Albert Aumentado, Marek Marcinek, and Robert Kostecki."Impact of carbon structure and morphology on the electrochemical performance of LiFePO₄/C composites."Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 12.7-8 (2008) 995-1001. DOI

Chen, Guoying, James D Wilcox, and Thomas J Richardson."Improving the performance of lithium manganese phosphate through divalent cation substitution."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 11.11 (2008) A190-A194. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Ryan M Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Commercial-Building Microgrids."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 23.3 (2008) 975-982. DOI

Moore, A L, S K Saha, Ravi S Prasher, and L Shi."Phonon backscattering and thermal conductivity suppression in sawtooth nanowires."Appl. Phys. Lett. (2008). DOI

Rubinstein, Francis M, Dmitriy Bolotov, Mark S Levi, Kevin Powell, and Peter Schwartz."The Advantage of Highly Controlled Lighting for Offices and Commercial Buildings."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 17-22, 2008 (2008) 063901(1-5).

Doe, Robert E, Kristin A Persson, Ying Shirley Meng, and Gerbrand Ceder."First-Principles Investigation of the Li-Fe-F Phase Diagram and Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Conversion Reactions of Iron Fluorides with Lithium."Chemistry of Materials 20.16 (2008) 5274-5283. DOI

Martinez, Carlos A."Intelligent real-time tools and visualizations for wide-area electrical grid reliability management."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting - Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century (2008) 1 - 4. DOI

Marnay, Chris."Microgrids and Heterogeneous Power Quality and Reliability." (2008) 13.

Marnay, Chris, and Michael Stadler."Microgrids, CHP, Storage, Heterogenous Power Quality and Reliability, and Uncertainty." (2008).

Stewart, Sarah G, Venkat Srinivasan, and John S Newman."Modeling the performance of lithium-ion batteries and capacitors during hybrid-electric-vehicle operation."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 155.9 (2008) A664-A671. DOI

Venkataramanan, Giri, and Chris Marnay."A Larger Role for Microgrids: Are Microgrids a Viable Paradigm for Electricity Supply Expansion?."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine May/June (2008) 5.

Cheng, Robert K, and David Littlejohn."Effects of Combustor Geometry on the Flowfields and Flame Properties of A Low-Swirl Injector."ASME Turbo Expo 2008: Power for Land, Sea, and Air 3 (2008). DOI

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Ryan M Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Microgrids in Commercial Buildings."31st IAEE International Conference "Bridging Energy Supply and Demand: Logistics, Competition and Environment", June 18-20, 2008 (2008).

Parashar, Manu, Wei Zhou, Dan J Trudnowski, Yuri V Makarov, and Ian Dobson."Phasor Technology Applications Feasibility Assessment and Research Results Report." (2008) 66.