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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2006

Siddiqui, Afzal S, and Chris Marnay."Operation of Distributed Generation Under Stochastic Prices." (2006) 18.

Orans, Ren, and Inc Energy and Environmental Economics."Phase 1 Results: Incentives and Rate Design for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response." (2006).

Deb, Aniruddha, James M Ralph, Elton J Cairns, and Uwe Bergmann."Characterization of La_0.8Sr_0.2FeO_{3- δ} and La_0.7Sr_0.2FeO_{3- δ} as a function of temperature by x-ray absorption spectroscopy."Physical Review B 73.11 (2006) 1151144. DOI

Luo, Lei, Yanfeng Zhang, Samuel S Mao, and Liwei Lin."Fabrication and characterization of ZnO nanowires based UV photodiodes."Sensors and Actuators A: Physica 127.2 (2006) 201-206. DOI

Eto, Joseph H."Maintain, Enhance, and Improve Reliability of California’s Electric System under Restructuring." (2006).

Persson, Kristin A, Gerbrand Ceder, and Dane Morgan."Spin transitions in the Fe_xMn_1-xS₂ system."Physical Review B 73 (2006).

Park, Yong Joon, and Marca M Doeff."Synthesis and electrochemical characterization of M₂Mn₃O₈ (M= Ca, Cu) compounds and derivatives."Solid State Ionics 177 (2006) 893-900. DOI

Lunden, Melissa M, Douglas R Black, Megan McKay, Kenneth L Revzan, Allen H Goldstein, and Nancy J Brown."Characteristics of fine particle growth events observed above a forested ecosystem in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California."Aerosol Science and Technology 40.5 (2006) 373-388. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, Jinglei Lei, Frank R McLarnon, Joongpyo Shim, and Kathryn A Striebel."Diagnostic evaluation of detrimental phenomena in high-power lithium-ion batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 153.4 (2006) A669-A672. DOI

Marnay, Chris, and Giri Venkataramanan."Microgrids in the Evolving Electricity Generation and Delivery Infrastructure." (2006) 7.

Kranzl, Lukas, Michael Stadler, Reinhard Haas, and Claus Huber."Modellierung und Entwicklung von Strategien zur effizienten Förderung nachhaltiger Energiesysteme am Beispiel des Wiener Raumwärmesektors."9. Energieinnovationssymposium TU GRAZ, February 15-17, 2006 (2006).

Barbose, Galen L, Charles A Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Nicole C Hopper, Michael K Ting, and Bernard Neenan."Real Time Pricing as a Default or Optional Service for Commercial and Industrial Customers: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Case Studies." (2006).

Tucker, Michael C, Hideto Kurokawa, Craig P Jacobson, Lutgard C De Jonghe, and Steven J Visco."A fundamental study of chromium deposition on solid oxide fuel cell cathode materials."Journal of Power Sources 160.1 (2006) 130 - 138. DOI

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Ryan M Firestone, Karl M Maribu, Nan Zhou, and Chris Marnay."A Model of U.S. Commercial Distributed Generation Adoption." (2006) 113.

Prasher, Ravi S, and Patrick E Phelan."A Unified Microscopic and Macroscopic Thermal Contact Resistance Model."ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2006) 525–533. DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, and David Hansen."Advanced Controls and Communications for Demand Response and Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings."Second Carnegie Mellon Conference in Electric Power Systems: Monitoring, Sensing, Software and Its Valuation for the Changing Electric Power Industry (2006).

Prasher, Ravi S."Beating the Thermal Conductivity of Air Using Packed Nanoparticle Bed."ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2006) 457–462. DOI

Weber, Adam Z, and John S Newman."Coupled Thermal and Water Management in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 153.12 (2006) A2205-A2214. DOI

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, Mary Ann Piette, and Leah Zagreus."Demand Shifting With Thermal Mass in Large Commercial Buildings: Field Tests, Simulations and Audits." (2006).

Kim, Sarah E, R R Scott List, James G Maveety, Alan M Myers, Quat T Vu, Ravi S Prasher, and Ravindranath V Mahajan."Electro-osmotic pumps and micro-channels." (2006).

Srinivasan, Venkat, and John S Newman."Existence of path-dependence in the LiFePO₄ electrode."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 9.3 (2006) A110-A114. DOI

Chrysler, Gregory M, and Ravi S Prasher."Integrated micro channels and manifold/plenum using separate silicon or low-cost polycrystalline silicon." (2006).

Deb, Aniruddha, Uwe Bergmann, Stephen P Cramer, and Elton J Cairns."Local structure of LiNi_0.5Mn_0.5O₂ cathode material probed by in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy."Journal of Applied Physics 99 (2006). DOI

Son, Jong-Tae, and Elton J Cairns."Preparation and Characterization of Li_1.05[Ni_0.35Co_0.25Mn_0.4]O₂ as a Cathode Material for Rechargeable Lithium Cells."Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 9.1 (2006) A27-A30. DOI

Kim, Sarah E, R R Scott List, James G Maveety, Alan M Myers, Quat T Vu, Ravi S Prasher, Ravi Mahajan, and Gilroy Vandentop."Using external radiators with electroosmotic pumps for cooling integrated circuits." (2006).