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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2004

Klunder, Gregory L, Patrick M Grant, Brian D Andresen, and Richard E Russo."Direct chemical analysis of solids by laser ablation in an Ion storage time-of-flight mass spectrometer."Analytical Chemistry 76.5 (2004) 1249-1256. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, Laura Norin, Xiangyun Song, and Frank R McLarnon."Diagnostic studies of polyolefin separators in high-power Li-ion cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 151.4 (2004) A522-A526. DOI

Thomas-Alyea, Karen E, John S Newman, Guoying Chen, and Thomas J Richardson."Modeling the behavior of electroactive polymers for overcharge protection of lithium batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 151.4 (2004) A509-A521. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Deepak Divan, and William Brumsickle."Pilot Evaluation of Electricity-Reliability and Power-Quality Monitoring in California’s Silicon Valley with the I-Grid® System." (2004) 49.

Joergensen, Kaj, Lukas Kranzl, Elena Tsioliaridou, Maria-Assumpcio Lopez-Polo, Michael Stadler, Gustav Resch, and Reinhard Haas."Rational Use of Energy and Renewable Energy Sources – A Review of Current Policy Strategies and Promotion Schemes, Work Package 1 of INVERT." (2004).

Goldman, Charles A, Bernard Lesieutre, and Emily S Bartholomew."A Review of Market Monitoring Activities at U.S. Independent System Operators." (2004) 41.

Kirby, Brendan J, and John D Kueck."Demand Response Research Plan to Reflect the Needs of the California Independent System Operator."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 78.

Firestone, Ryan M."Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model Technology Data." 2005 (2004).

Stadler, Michael, and Hans Auer."Innovative Maßnahmen auf der Verbraucherseite zur Verbesserung der Marktperformance in liberalisierten Strommärkten: Eine ökonomische Bewertung für Österreich."8. Energieinnovationssymposium TU Graz (2004).

Gumerman, Etan, and Chris Marnay."Learning and Cost Reductions for Generating Technologies in the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS)." (2004) 36.

Kramer, Theresa A, Roger D Flynn, David W Fogg, Evelyn N Wang, Carlos H Hidrovo, Kenneth E Goodson, Ravi S Prasher, David Chau, and Sridhar Narasimhan."Microchannel Experimental Structure for Measuring Temperature Fields During Convective Boiling."ASME 2004 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2004) 699–705. DOI

Chen, Guoying, and Thomas J Richardson."Overcharge protection for rechargeable lithium batteries using electroactive polymers."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 7.2 (2004) A23-A26. DOI

Christensen, John, and John S Newman."A Mathematical Model for the Lithium-Ion Negative Electrode Solid Electrolyte Interphase."Electrochemical Society 151 (2004) A1977.

Piette, Mary Ann."Automated DR in 5 Large Facilities." (2004).

Braun, James E."Background and Previous Research." (2004).

Cairns, Elton J, and Cutler J Cleveland."Batteries, Overview."Encyclopedia of Energy 1 (2004) 117 - 126. DOI

Lunden, Melissa M, Douglas R Black, and Nancy J Brown."Characterizing the Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosols—Interim Report." (2004).

Lee, Kyoung-ho, and James E Braun."Development and Application of an Inverse Building Model for Demand Response in Small Commercial Buildings."SimBuild 2004, IBPSA-USA National Conference (2004).

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Sy-Bor Wen, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Energy deposition and shock wave propagation during pulsed laser ablation in fused silica cavities."Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 37 (2004) 1132-1136.

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Experimental investigation of ablation efficiency and laser-induced plasma expansion during femtosecond and nanosecond laser ablation of silicon."Applied Physics A: Materials science and processing 80 (2004) 237-241.

Kerr, John B, Yongbong Han, Gao Liu, Craig L Reeder, Jiangbing Xie, and Xiao-Guang Sun."Interfacial behavior of polymer electrolytes."Electrochimica Acta 50 (2004) 235-242. DOI

Black, Douglas R, Tracy L Thatcher, Richard G Sextro, William W Delp, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Emily E Wood, Jean C Deputy, Toshifumi Hotchi, Mark R Sippola, and Douglas P Sullivan."Joint Urban 2003: Indoor Measurements Final Data Report." (2004).

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, Chunyi Liu, and Jhanis J Gonzalez."Laser assisted plasma spectrometry: Laser Ablation."J.Anal.Atom.Spectrom. 19 (2004) 1084-1089.

Mao, Samuel S, Xianzhong Zeng, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: flat surface vs. cavity structures."J.Anal.Atom.Spectrom. 19 (2004) 495-498.

Zeng, Xianzhong, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Laser-plasma interactions in fused silica cavities."Journal of Applied Physics 95 (2004) 816-822.