Energy Technologies Area

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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

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Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2002

Stadler, Michael, Hans Auer, and Reinhard Haas."Die zunehmende Bedeutung von dynamischen Tarifmodellen in liberalisierten europäischen Strommärkten."Energieinnovationssymposium TU Graz (2002).

Striebel, Kathryn A, E Sakai, and Elton J Cairns."Impedance Studies of the Thin Film LiMn₂O₄/Electrolyte Interface."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 149 (2002) A61-A68. DOI

Mele, Aldo, Haichen Liu, Richard E Russo, Xianglei Mao, Anna Giardini Guidoni, and Mauro Satta."Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometric study of laser sputtering from the surface of an Al-Cu-Fe alloy and quasicrystal."Applied Surface Science 186.1-4 (2002) 322-328. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Charles A Goldman, Grayson C Heffner, Brendan J Kirby, John D Kueck, Michael Kintner-Meyer, Jeffery E Dagle, Timothy D Mount, William Schulze, Robert J Thomas, and Ray Zimmerman."Innovative Developments in Load as a Reliability Resource."IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting (2002) 3. DOI

Cheng, Robert K, Ian G Shepherd, Benoit Bédat, and Lawrence Talbot."Premixed turbulent flame structures in moderate and intense isotropic turbulence."Combusition Science and Technology 174.1 (2002) 29-59. DOI

Weller, G.H."Review of Current Southern California Edison Load Management Programs and Proposal for a New Market-Driven, Mass-Market, Demand-Response Program."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2002) 67.

Keseric, Nenad, Michael Stadler, Manfred Tragner, and Hans Auer."Der Einfluss der technischen, wirtschaftlichen und organisatorischen Rahmenbedingungen des Übertragungsnetzes auf die Grosshandelspreise für Strom in Mitteleuropa“,."Energieinnovationssymposium TU GRAZ (2002).

Group, Electric Power."CERTS Area Control Error (ACE) - Frequency Real-Time Monitoring System." (2002) 14.

Gonzalez, Jhanis J, Xianglei Mao, John Roy, Samuel S Mao, and Richard E Russo."Comparison of 193, 213 and 266 nm laser ablation ICP-MS."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 17.9 (2002) 1108-1113. DOI

Lu, Quanming, Samuel S Mao, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Delayed phase explosion during high-power nanosecond laser ablation of silicon."Applied Physics Letters 80.17 (2002) 3072-3074. DOI

Edwards, Jennifer L, Ryan M Firestone, Srijay Ghosh, Chris Marnay, Afzal S Siddiqui, and Michael Stadler."Effects of a Carbon Tax on Combined Heat and Power Adoption by Microgrid."22nd USAEE/IAEE North American Conferences, October 6-8, 2002 (2002).

Edwards, Jennifer L, Ryan M Firestone, Srijay Ghosh, Chris Marnay, Afzal S Siddiqui, and Michael Stadler."Effects of a Carbon Tax on Combined Heat and Power Adoption by a μGrid."Second International Symposium on Distributed Generation: Power System and Market Aspects, October 2-4, 2002 (2002).

Gonzalez, Jhanis J, Xianglei Mao, Samuel S Mao, and Richard E Russo."Femtosecond laser ablation-ICP-MS."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 17 (2002) 1072-1075.

Kerr, John B, Steven E Sloop, Gao Liu, Yongbong Han, Jun Hou, and Shanger Wang."From molecular models to system analysis for lithium battery electrolytes."Journal of Power Sources 110 (2002) 389-400. DOI

Reade, Ronald P, Paul H Berdahl, and Richard E Russo."Ion beam nanotexturing of buffer layers for near single crystal thin film deposition: Application to YBCO superconducting films."Applied Physics Letters 8 (2002) 1352-1354.

Littlejohn, David, Adrian J Majeski, Shaheen R Tonse, Carlo Castaldini, and Robert K Cheng."Laboratory investigation of an ultralow NO_x premixed combustion concept for industrial boilers."Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 29 (2002) 1115-1121. DOI

Shepherd, Ian G, Robert K Cheng, Tobias Plessing, Christoph Kortschik, and Norbert Peters."Premixed Flame Font Structure in Intense Turbulence."Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 29.2 (2002) 1833-1840. DOI

Herter, Karen, Roger Levy, John Wilson, and Arthur H Rosenfeld."Rates and technologies for mass-market demand response."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Chrysler, Gregory M, Ravindranath V Mahajan, and Ravi S Prasher."Spreading in the heat sink base: Phase change systems or solid metals??."IEEE Transactions on (2002).

Russo, Richard E, Xianglei Mao, and Samuel S Mao."The physics of laser ablation in microchemical analysis."Analytical Chemistry 74 (2002) 70A-77A.

Koo, Jae-Mo, Sungjun Im, Eun Seok Cho, Ravi S Prasher, Evelyn N Wang, Linan Jiang, Abdullahel Bari, David Campion, David W Fogg, Min Soo Kim, Thomas W Kenny, Juan G Santiago, and Kenneth E Goodson."VLSI Hotspot Cooling Using Two-Phase Microchannel Convection."ASME 2002 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2002) 13–19. DOI

Feero, William E, Douglas C Dawson, and John Stevens."White Paper on Protection Issues of The MicroGrid Concept." (2002) 24.

2001

Devpura, Amit, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Size Effects On The Thermal Conductivity Of Polymers Laden With Highly Conductive Filler Particles."Microscale Thermophysical Engineering 5.3 (2001) 177 - 189. DOI

Shim, Joongpyo, Chang-Rae Lee, Hong-Ki Lee, Ju-Seong Lee, and Elton J Cairns."Electrochemical characteristics of Pt-WO₃/C and Pt-TiO₂/C electrocatalysts in a polymer electrolyte fuel cell."Journal of Power Sources 102.1-2 (2001) 172-177. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S, and Patrick E Phelan."Erratum: "A Scattering-Mediated Acoustic Mismatch Model for the Prediction of Thermal Boundary Resistance'' [ASME J. Heat Transfer, 123, No. 1, pp. 105–112]."Journal of Heat Transfer 123 (2001) 1194–1194. DOI