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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2001

Alvarado, Fernando L, and Wei Liu."Methodology for Automatic Zone Creation/Merging/Partitioning."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2001) 160.

Srinivasan, Venkat, John W Weidner, and John S Newman."Hysteresis During Cycling of Nickel Hydroxide Active Material."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 148.9 (2001) A969-A980. DOI

Mao, Samuel S, Xianglei Mao, Ralph Greif, and Richard E Russo."Influence of preformed shock wave on the development of picosecond laser ablation plasma."Journal of Applied Physics 89.7 (2001) 4096-4098. DOI

Doeff, Marca M, Abraham Anapolsky, Ludvig Edman, Thomas J Richardson, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."A high-rate manganese oxide for rechargeable lithium battery applications."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 148 (2001) A230-A236. DOI

Rubio, F. F Javier, Afzal S Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."CERTS Customer Adoption Model." (2001) 131.

Braun, Artur, Soenke Seifert, Pappannan Thiyagarajan, Stephen P Cramer, and Elton J Cairns."In situ anomalous small angle X-ray scattering and absorption on an operating rechargeable lithium ion battery cell."Electrochemistry Communications 3.3 (2001) 136-141. DOI

Salleo, Alberto, François Y Génin, Michael D Feit, Alexander M Rubenchik, Timothy Sands, Samuel S Mao, and Richard E Russo."Energy deposition at front and rear surfaces during picosecond laser interaction with fused silica."Applied Physics Letters 78.19 (2001) 2840-2842. DOI

Rush, Benjamin M, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."Nuclear magnetic resonance and voltammetry studies of carbon monoxide adsorption and oxidation on a carbon-supported platinum fuel cell electrocatalyst."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 148 (2001) A137-A148. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S."Surface chemistry and characteristics based model for the thermal contact resistance of fluidic interstitial thermal interface materials."J. Heat Transfer (2001). DOI

Prasher, Ravi S, and Patrick E Phelan."A Scattering-Mediated Acoustic Mismatch Model for the Prediction of Thermal Boundary Resistance."Journal of Heat Transfer 123.1 (2001) 105. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Carlos A Martinez, Jim Dyer, and Vikram S Budhraja."Grid Reliability Management Tools."IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting (2001) 5. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, Xiangyun Song, Kim Kinoshita, and Frank R McLarnon."Nanoscale fabrication and modification of selected battery materials."International Workshop on Electrochemical Systems: Interfaces, Phenomena, and Nanostructures in Lithium Batteries 2000 (2001) 175-183.

Siddiqui, Afzal S, Chris Marnay, and Mark Khavkin."Spot Pricing of Electricity and Ancillary Services in a Competitive California Market."Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2001) 10. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Chris Marnay, Charles A Goldman, John D Kueck, Brendan J Kirby, Jeffery E Dagle, Fernando L Alvarado, Timothy D Mount, Shmuel S Oren, and Carlos A Martinez."An R&D agenda to enhance electricity system reliability by increasing customer participation in emerging competitive markets."IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2001 (2001) 247-251 vol.1. DOI

Brown, Richard E, and Lavelle Freeman."Analyzing the reliability impact of distributed generation."Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, 2001. IEEE 2 (2001) 1013-1018. DOI

Kostecki, Robert, Xiangyun Song, and Kim Kinoshita."Carbon microstructures for electrochemical studies." (2001).

Chan, George C.Y, Wing-Tat Chan, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Comparison of matrix effects in inductively coupled plasma using laser ablation and solution nebulization for dry and wet plasma conditions."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 56 (2001) 1375-1386.

Prasher, Ravi S, P Koning, J Shipley, and others others."Effect of Particle Volume Fraction on the Thermal Conductivity and Mechanical Rigidity of Particle-Laden Polymeric Thermal Interface Material."ASME-PUBLICATIONS (2001).

Chan, George C.Y, Wing-Tat Chan, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Investigation of matrix effects in inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy using laser ablation and solution nebulization - effect of second ionization potential."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 56 (2001) 77-92.

Borisov, Oleg V, Christopher J Bannochie, and Richard E Russo."Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry of pressed pellet surrogates for Pu materials disposition."Applied Spectroscopy 55 (2001) 1304-1311.

Ayers, Michael R, and Arlon J Hunt."Observation of the aggregation behavior of silica sols using laser speckle contrast measurements."Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 290 (2001) 122-128.

Reyburn, B A, M Taya, P Koning, and Ravi S Prasher."Prediction of conductivity of composite thermal interface materials using resistor network model."Pacific Rim/International, Intersociety (2001).

Liu, Haichen, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Representative sampling using single-pulse laser ablation with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry." Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 16.10 (2001) 1115-1120. DOI

Marnay, Chris, F. F Javier Rubio, and Afzal S Siddiqui."Shape of the Microgrid."Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2001, January 28-February 1, 2001 1 (2001) 150-153 vol.1. DOI

Watwe, Abhay A, and Ravi S Prasher."Spreadsheet tool for quick-turn 3D numerical modeling of package thermal performance with non-uniform die heating."ASME-PUBLICATIONS-HTD (2001).