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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2007

Koch, Edward, and Mary Ann Piette."Architecture Concepts and Technical Issues for an Open, Interoperable Automated Demand Response Infrastructure."Grid Interop Forum (2007).

Nakahara, Kentaro, Jiro Iriyama, Shigeyuki Iwasa, Masahiro Suguro, Masaharu Satoh, and Elton J Cairns."Cell properties for modified PTMA cathodes of organic radical batteries."Journal of Power Sources 165 (2007) 398-402.

Xu, Peng."Demand Response Quick Assessment Tool (DRQAT) Large Commercial Buildings." (2007).

Rubinstein, Francis M, and Sila Kiliccote."Demand Responsive Lighting: A Scoping Study." (2007).

Braun, James E, Steve Frederickson, and Edward A Arens."Demand-Limiting Using Building Thermal Mass for Small Commercial Applications." (2007).

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, and Girish Ghatikar."Design and Implementation of an Open, Interoperable Automated Demand Response Infrastructure."Grid Interop Forum (2007).

Coughlin, Katie."Estimating DR Load Impacts: Evaluation of baseline load models for commercial buildings in California. Preliminary Results." (2007).

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Chunyi Liu, and Richard E Russo."Expansion and radiative cooling of the laser induced plasma."Jourmal of Physics: Conference Series 59.1 (2007) 343-347. DOI

Nakahara, Kentaro, Jiro Iriyama, Shigeyuki Iwasa, Masahiro Suguro, Masaharu Satoh, and Elton J Cairns."High-rate capable organic radical cathodes for lithium rechargeable batteries."Journal of Power Sources 165 (2007) 870-873. DOI

Choi, Jong Hyun, Donald Lucas, and Catherine P Koshland."Laser ablation of nanoscale particles with 193 nm light."Journal of Physics: Conference Series 59.1 (2007) 54-59. DOI

Braun, Artur, Hongxin Wang, Joongpyo Shim, Steven S Lee, and Elton J Cairns."Lithium K(1s) synchrotron NEXAFS spectra of lithium-ion battery cathode, anode and electrolyte materials."Journal of Power Sources 170 (2007) 173-178.

Xu, Peng."Pre-cooling and DR Tool Development." (2007).

Gabrisch, Heike, James D Wilcox, and Marca M Doeff."TEM Studies of Carbon Coated LiFePO₄ After Charge Discharge Cycling."ECS Transactions 3.36 (2007) 29-36. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S."Thermal conductance of single-walled carbon nanotube embedded in an elastic half-space."Appl. Phys. Lett. 90 (2007) 143110. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S, and Gregory M Chrysler."Thermal management arrangement with a low heat flux channel flow coupled to high heat flux channels." (2007).

Liu, Chunyi, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Time resolved shadowgraph images of silicon during laser ablation: Shockwaves and Particle generation."Journal of Physics: Conference Series 59.1 (2007) 338-342. DOI

Baudelet, Matthieu, Myriam Boueri, Jin Yu, Samuel S Mao, Vincent Piscitelli, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Time-resolved ultraviolet laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for organic material analysis."Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 20 (2007) 1329-1334.

Hu, X X Jack, Ravi S Prasher, and Kelly Lofgreen."Ultralow thermal conductivity of nanoparticle packed bed."Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 (2007) 203113. DOI

Wikler, Greg."Update and Participants Forum." (2007).

House, Lon."Water Supply Related Electricity Demand in California." (2007).

Federspiel, Clifford C."Wireless Demand Response Controls for HVAC Systems." (2007).

2006

Wen, Sy-Bor, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Analysis of laser ablation: contribution of ionization energy to the plasma and shockwave properties."Journal of Applied Physics 102.4 (2006). DOI

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."An Analysis of the DER Adoption Climate in Japan Using Optimization Results for Prototype Buildings with U.S. Comparisons."Energy and Buildings Journal Vol. 38.Issue 12 (2006) 10.

Kranzl, Lukas, Michael Stadler, Claus Huber, Reinhard Haas, Mario Ragwitz, Anselm Brakhage, Adam Gula, and Arkadiusz Figorski."Deriving efficient policy portfolios promoting sustainable energy systems - case studies applying Invert simulation tool."Renewable Energy 31.15 (2006) 2393-2410. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, James D Wilcox, Robert Kostecki, and Grace Y Lau."Optimization of carbon coatings on LiFePO₄."Journal of power sources 163.1 (2006) 180-184. DOI