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

Consulting, KEMA."Analysis and Selection of Analytical Tools to Assess National-Interest Transmission Bottlenecks Final Report." (2003) 53.

Lawton, Leora, Joseph H Eto, Aaron Katz, and Michael J Sullivan."Characteristics and Trends in a National Study of Consumer Outage Costs."Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI) Annual Western Conference (2003) 16.

Siddiqui, Afzal S, Ryan M Firestone, Srijay Ghosh, Michael Stadler, Jennifer L Edwards, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Energy Resources with Combined Heat and Power Applications." (2003) 124.

Prasher, Ravi S."Generalized equation of phonon radiative transport."Appl. Phys. Lett. 83 (2003) 48–50. DOI

Haas, Reinhard, and Michael Stadler."Investment Costs for Transmission and Distribution Lines World-Wide Until 2030." (2003).

Kostecki, Robert, and Frank R McLarnon."Microprobe study of the effect of Li intercalation on the structure of graphite."Journal of power sources 119 (2003) 550-554. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Joel Hollingsworth, Joongpyo Shim, Young Joo Lee, Kathryn A Striebel, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."Sulfur-doped aluminum-substituted manganese oxide spinels for lithium-ion battery applications."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 150 (2003) A1060-A1066. DOI

Sloop, Steven E, John B Kerr, and Kim Kinoshita."The role of Li-ion battery electrolyte reactivity in performance decline and self-discharge."Journal of Power Sources 119-121 (2003) 330-337. DOI

Kerr, John B, Gao Liu, Larry A Curtiss, and Paul C Redfern."Towards room-temperature performance for lithium-polymer batteries."Electrochimica Acta 48 (2003) 2305-2309.

Divan, Deepak, William Brumsickle, and Joseph H Eto."A New Approach to Power Quality and Electricity Reliability Monitoring - Case Study Illustrations of the Capabilities of the I-Grid™ System." (2003) 32.

Divan, Deepak, William Brumsickle, and Joseph H Eto."Assessing I-Grid Web-Based Monitoring for Power Quality and Reliability Benchmarking."IEEE PES DSASC Test Feeder Working Group (2003).

Eto, Joseph H, and John P Stovall."California's Electricity System of the Future: Scenario Analysis in Support of Public-Interest Transmission System R&D Planning." (2003) 61.

Sathe V, Ajit, Michael J Witherspoon, Ravi S Prasher, and Kristopher J Frutschy."Electronic assembly having a heat pipe that conducts heat from a semiconductor die." (2003).

Siddiqui, Afzal S, Emily S Bartholomew, Chris Marnay, and Shmuel S Oren."On the Efficiency of the New York Independent System Operator Market for Transmission Congestion Contracts." (2003) 45.

Dyer, Jim."U.S. Department of Energy Transmission Bottleneck Project Report." (2003) 100.

Bailey, Owen C, Charles Creighton, Ryan M Firestone, Chris Marnay, and Michael Stadler."Distributed Energy Resources in Practice: A Case Study Analysis and Validation of LBNL’s Customer Adoption Model." (2003) 209.

Gumerman, Etan, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Chris Marnay."Evaluation Framework and Tools for Distributed Energy Resources." (2003) 73.

Mao, Xianglei, Samuel S Mao, and Richard E Russo."Imaging femtosecond laser-induced electronic excitation in glass."Applied Physics Letters 82.5 (2003) 697-699. DOI

Edman, Ludvig, and Marca M Doeff."Thermal analysis of a solid polymer electrolyte and a subsequent electrochemical investigation of a lithium polymer battery."Solid State Ionics 158 (2003) 177-186. DOI

Eto, Joseph H."CERTS Research Highlights." (2003).

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Jennifer L Edwards, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation Capabilities of the National Energy Modeling System." (2003) 47.

Song, Seung-Wan, Kathryn A Striebel, Ronald P Reade, Gregory A Roberts, and Elton J Cairns."Electrochemical studies of nanoncrystalline Mg₂Si thin film electrodes prepared by pulsed laser deposition."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 150 (2003) A121-A127. DOI

Neenan, Bernard, Donna Pratt, Peter Cappers, James Doane, Jeremey Anderson, Richard Boisvert, Charles A Goldman, Osman Sezgen, Galen L Barbose, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Michael Kintner-Meyer, Steve Shankle, and Derrick Bates."How and Why Customers Respond to Electricity Price Variability: A Study of NYISO and NYSERDA 2002 PRL Program Performance." (2003) 376.

Kueck, John D, Robert H Staunton, Solomon D Labinov, and Brendan J Kirby."Microgrid Energy Management System."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003).

Watwe, Abhay A, and Ravi S Prasher."Thermal cooling apparatus." (2003).