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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2008

Marnay, Chris, Hiroshi Asano, Stavros Papathanassiou, and Goran Strbac."Policymaking Microgrids: Economic and Regulatory Issues of Microgrid Implementation."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine May/June (2008) 11.

Parashar, Manu, Abhijeet Agarwal, Yuri V Makarov, and Ian Dobson."Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (RTVSA) Report on Algorithms & Framework." (2008) 73.

Parashar, Manu, Abhijeet Agarwal, Yuri V Makarov, and Ian Dobson."Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (RTVSA) Summary Report." (2008) 49.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Sam Borgeson, Brian E Coffey, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."Beta version SEDS Lite Building Module." (2008).

Saint, Juliette A, Marca M Doeff, and James D Wilcox."Electrode materials with the Na_0.44MnO₂ structure: Effect of titanium substitution on physical and electrochemical properties."Chemistry of Materials 20 (2008) 3404-3411. DOI

Cheng, Robert K, and David Littlejohn."Laboratory Study of Premixed H₂-Air and H₂-N₂-Air Flames in a Low-Swirl Injector for Ultra-Low Emissions Gas Turbines."Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 130.3 (2008) 31503-31511. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Hirohisa Aki, Brian E Coffey, Ryan M Firestone, Judy Lai, and Afzal S Siddiqui."Microgrid Selection and Operation for Commercial Buildings in California and New York States."4th European PV-Hybrid and Mini-Grid Conference, May 29-30, 2008 (2008) 12.

."2008 US DOE Workshop on the Role of Residential AC in Contributing to Fault-Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery (FIDVR)." (2008).

Predith, A, Gerbrand Ceder, Chris Wolverton, Kristin A Persson, and Tim Mueller."Ab initio prediction of ordered ground-state structures in ZrO₂-Y₂O₃."Physical Review B 77 (2008). DOI

Martinez, Carlos A."Frequency Data Sources, Pre-Calculations, Normal and Intelligent Alarm Summaries and Definitions."NERC Wide-Area Resources Adequacy Monitoring System (ACE Frequency) (2008).

Weber, Adam Z."Gas-Crossover and Membrane-Pinhole Effects in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 155.6 (2008) B521-B531. DOI

Tyagi, Himanshu, Patrick E Phelan, Ravi S Prasher, Robert Peck, Taewoo Lee, Jose R Pacheco, and Paul Arentzen."Increased hot-plate ignition probability for nanoparticle-laden diesel fuel."Nano Lett. 8 (2008) 1410–1416. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S."Micropin heat exchanger." (2008).

Shin, Joon Ho, and Elton J Cairns."Characterization of N-methyl-N-butylpyrrolidinium bis (trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide-LiTFSI-tetra (ethylene glycol) dimethyl ether mixtures as a Li metal cell electrolyte."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 155 (2008) A368-A373. DOI

Evans, W, Ravi S Prasher, J Fish, P Meakin, Patrick E Phelan, and others others."Effect of aggregation and interfacial thermal resistance on thermal conductivity of nanocomposites and colloidal nanofluids."International Journal of (2008). DOI

Force, NERC Real-Time Tools Best Practices Task, and Joseph H Eto."Real-Time Tools Survey Analysis and Recommendations, Final Report." (2008).

Gonzalez, Jhanis J, Dayana D Oropeza, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Assessment of the precision and accuracy of thorium (²³²Th) and uranium (²³⁸U) measured by quadrupole based-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry: comparison of liquid nebulization, nanosecond and femtosecond laser ablation."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 23.2 (2008) 229-234. DOI

Wikler, Greg, Ingrid Bran, Joe Prijyanonda, Sharon Yoshida, Kelly Smith, Mary Ann Piette, Sila Kiliccote, Girish Ghatikar, Dan Hennage, and Chuck Thomas."Pacific Gas & Electric Company 2007 Auto-DR Program: Task 13 Deliverable: Auto-DR Assessment Study." (2008).

Marnay, Chris, and Nan Zhou."Status of Overseas Microgrid Programs: Microgrid Research Activities in the U.S. (English version)." (2008) 8.

Bengtson, Amelia, Kristin A Persson, and Dane Morgan."Ab initio study of the composition dependence of the pressure-induced spin crossover in perovskite (Mg_1-x,Fe_x)SiO₃."Earth and Planetary Science Letters 265 (2008) 535-545.

Prasher, Ravi S, and Je-Young Chang."Cooling of Electronic Chips Using Microchannel and Micro-Pin Fin Heat Exchangers."ASME 2008 6th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels (2008) 1881–1887. DOI

Stadler, Michael, and Chris Marnay."Dezentrale Energieversorgung mit Speichertechnologien."Energy Journal of the Austrian Energy Agency Numbers 2 & 3 (2008).

Thomas, Robert J, Timothy D Mount, Richard Schuler, William Schulze, Ray Zimmerman, Fernando L Alvarado, Bernard Lesieutre, Philip Overholt, and Joseph H Eto."Efficient and Reliable Reactive Power Supply and Consumption - Insights from an Integrated Program of Engineering and Economics Research."The Electricity Journal 21.1 (2008) 70–81. DOI

Zheng, Honghe, Gao Liu, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S Battaglia."Li[Ni_1/3Mn_1/3Co_1/3]O₂-based electrodes for PHEV applications: an optimization."ECS Transactions 11.32 (2008) 1-9. DOI

Stewart, Sarah G, Paul Albertus, Venkat Srinivasan, Irene Plitz, Nathalie Pereira, Glenn G Amatucci, and John S Newman."Optimizing the performance of lithium titanate spinel paired with activated carbon or iron phosphate."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 155.3 (2008) A253-A261. DOI