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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2003

Eriksson, Tom A, Young Joo Lee, Joel Hollingsworth, Jeffrey A Reimer, Elton J Cairns, Xiao-Feng Zhang, and Marca M Doeff."Influence of substitution on the structure and electrochemistry of layered manganese oxides."Chemistry of Materials 15.23 (2003) 4456-4463. DOI

Eto, Joseph H."Interim Report: Causes of the August 14th Blackout in the United States and Canada." (2003).

Prasher, Ravi S."Phonon Transport in Anisotropic Scattering Particulate Media."ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2003) 275–283. DOI

Kirby, Brendan J, and John D Kueck."Spinning Reserve from Pump Load: A Technical Findings Report to the California Department of Water Resources."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 58.

Bartholomew, Emily S, Afzal S Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, and Shmuel S Oren."The New York Transmission Congestion Contract Market: Is It Truly Working Efficiently?."The Electricity Journal 16.9 (2003) 14-24. DOI

Stadler, Michael."Die Notwendigkeit von verbraucherseitigen Maßnahmen und elastischen Nachfragekurven für die Marktperformance in liberalisierten Strommärkten: Der Fall Österreich."OVE Workshop Intelligenter Strom (2003).

Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto."Electricity Transmission Congestion Costs: A Review of Recent Reports." (2003) 53.

Lasseter, Robert H, Abbas A Akhil, Chris Marnay, John Stephens, Jeffery E Dagle, Ross T Guttromson, A. A Sakis Meliopoulous, Robert J Yinger, and Joseph H Eto."Integration of Distributed Energy Resources: The CERTS MicroGrid Concept."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 32.

Martinez, Carlos A, Jim Dyer, and Mark Skowronski."Real-Time Voltage Monitoring and VAR Management System."Consultant Report to the California Energy Commission (2003) 20.

Akhil, Abbas A, Chris Marnay, and Timothy E Lipman."Review of Test Facilities for Distributed Energy Resources." (2003) 45.

Martinez, Carlos A, Jim Dyer, and Mark Skowronski."Supplier and Control Area Performance Monitoring System: Utilization of Grid-3P for Automatic Generation Control (AGC), Frequency Response Reserves (FRR) and Ancillary Services (AS) Regulation."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 20.

Firestone, Ryan M, Charles Creighton, Owen C Bailey, Chris Marnay, and Michael Stadler."A Business Case for On-Site Generation: The BD Biosciences Pharmingen Project." (2003) 86.

Ridgway, Paul L, Richard E Russo, Emmanuel Lafond, Ted Jackson, and Charles Habeger."A Laser Ultrasonic System for On-Line Measurement of Elastic Properties of Paper."Journal of Pulp and Paper Science 29.9 (2003) 289-293.

Prasher, Ravi S."A simplified conduction based modeling scheme for design sensitivity study of thermal solution utilizing heat pipe and vapor chamber technology."J. Electron. Packag. (2003). DOI

Frutschy, Kristopher J, Ravi S Prasher, Eric Distefano, and Ajit Sathe V."Direct heatpipe attachment to die using center point loading." (2003).

Curtarolo, Stefano, Dane Morgan, Kristin A Persson, John Rodgers, and Gerbrand Ceder."Predicting Crystal Structures with Data Mining of Quantum Calculations."Physical Review Letters 91 (2003).

Braun, James E."Load Control using Building Thermal Mass."ASME Journal of Solar Engineering 125 (2003) 292-301.

Budhraja, Vikram S, Jim Dyer, and Stephen Hess."Planning for California's Future Transmission Grid Review of Transmission System, Strategic Benefits, Planning Issues And Policy Recommendations."Consultant Report to the California Energy Commission (2003) 30.

Prasher, Ravi S, P Koning, J Shipley, and others others."Dependence of thermal conductivity and mechanical rigidity of particle-laden polymeric thermal interface material on particle volume fraction."Journal of (2003). DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Yaoqin Hu, Frank R McLarnon, and Robert Kostecki."Effect of surface carbon structure on the electrochemical performance of LiFePO₄."Electrochemical and solid-state letters 6.10 (2003) A207-A209. DOI

Satta, Mauro, Xianzhong Zeng, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, Richard E Russo, Anna Giardini Guidoni, and Aldo Mele."Laser plasma spectroscopy of Al-Cu-Fe quasicrystal and alloy."Applied Spectroscopy 57.7 (2003) 737-743.

Gotoda, Hiroshi, Kazuyuki Maeda, Toshihisa Ueda, and Robert K Cheng."Periodic motion of a Bunsen flame tip with burner rotation."Combustion And Flame 134.1-2 (2003) 67-79. DOI

Martinez, Carlos A."Real-Time Performance Monitoring Tools for Wide-Area Operations and Competitive Markets in the Electricity Industry." IEEE General Meeting, Toronto, Canada (2003).

Eriksson, Tom A, and Marca M Doeff."A study of layered lithium manganese oxide cathode materials."Journal of Power Sources 119 (2003) 145-149. DOI

Song, Seung-Wan, Kathryn A Striebel, Xiangyun Song, and Elton J Cairns."Amorphous and nanocrystalline Mg₂Si thin-film electrodes."Journal of Power Sources 119-121 (2003) 110-112. DOI