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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2023

Karki, Unique, and Prakash Rao."Techno-economic analysis of the water, energy, and greenhouse gas emissions impacts from the adoption of water efficiency practices in the U.S. manufacturing sector."Resources, Conservation and Recycling 196 (2023) 107054. DOI

Das, Sujit, Heidi Fuchs, Ritu Philip, and Prakash Rao."A review of water valuation metrics: Supporting sustainable water use in manufacturing."Water Resources and Industry 29 (2023) 100199. DOI

Fitzgerald, Patrick, Peter L Therkelsen, Paul Sheaffer, and Prakash Rao."Deeper and persistent energy savings and carbon dioxide reductions achieved through ISO 50001 in the manufacturing sector."Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 57 (2023) 103280. DOI

2022

Rao, Prakash, Paul Sheaffer, Yuting Chen, Unique Karki, and Patrick Fitzgerald."U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 3: Energy Saving Opportunity." (2022). DOI

2021

Newkirk, Alexander, Prakash Rao, and Paul Sheaffer."U.S. Industrial and Commercial Motor System Market Assessment Report Volume 2: Advanced Motors and Drives Supply Chain Review." (2021). DOI

McCall, James, Prakash Rao, Susana Garcia Gonzalez, Sachin Nimbalkar, Sujit Das, Sarang Supekar, and Joe Cresko."U.S. Manufacturing Water Use Data and Estimates: Current State, Limitations, and Future Needs for Supporting Manufacturing Research and Development."ACS ES&T Water (2021). DOI

Hedman, Bruce, David Jones, and Vestal Tutterow."Beneficial CHP – Is that a Thing? Considering CHP in the Context of Beneficial Electrification."ACEEE Summer Study for Energy Efficiency in Industry (2021).

Tutterow, Vestal, and Ethan Rogers."Energy Management and Product Sustainability Standards – A Key Link to Sustainable Supply Chains."ACEEE Summer Study for Energy Efficiency in Industry (2021).

Therkelsen, Peter L, Heidi Fuchs, William Miller, A Whitlock, and E Rightor."Strategic Energy Management Program Persistence and Cost Effectiveness An Analysis of the SEM Program Landscape." (2021). DOI

Fuchs, Heidi, and Prakash Rao."Characterizing manufacturing wastewater in the United States for the purpose of analyzing energy requirements for reuse."Journal of Industrial Ecology (2021). DOI

Booten, Chuck, Prakash Rao, Vi H Rapp, Roderick Jackson, and Ravi S Prasher."Theoretical Minimum Thermal Load in Buildings."Joule 5.1 (2021) 24 - 46. DOI

2020

Earni, Shankar, and Steve E Greenberg."The Installation of Direct Water-Cooling Systems to Reduce Cooling Energy Requirements for High-Performance Computing Centers."ACEEE 2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Fuchs, Heidi, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Peter L Therkelsen."Identification of drivers, benefits, and challenges of ISO 50001 through case study content analysis."Energy Policy 142 (2020). DOI

2019

Mayer, Morgan A, Tyler Huntington, Ana Comesana, Vi H Rapp, and Kyle Niemeyer."Can machine learning predict fuel properties accurately?."2019 WSSCI Fall Technical Meeting (2019).

Chen, Yuting, and Peter L Therkelsen."The effect of linear regression modeling approaches on determining facility wide energy savings." (2019).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, and Peter L Therkelsen."Agricultural demand response for decarbonizing the electricity grid."Journal of Cleaner Production 220 (2019) 827 - 835. DOI

Rao, Prakash, Darren Sholes, and Joe Cresko."Evaluation of U.S. Manufacturing Subsectors at Risk of Physical Water Shortages."Environmental Science & Technology (2019). DOI

2018

Rao, Prakash, William R Morrow III, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Paul Sheaffer, Caroline Dollinger, Sabine Brueske, and Joe Cresko."Energy considerations associated with increased adoption of seawater desalination in the United States."Desalination 445 (2018) 213 - 224. DOI

Therkelsen, Peter L, Jingjing Liu, Holly Grell-Lawe, and Randy Green."Implementation of ISO 50001 at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort." (2018).

Liu, Jingjing, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Paul Sheaffer, Peter L Therkelsen, and Nathaniel Allen."Accelerating the Uptake of ISO 50001 in Commercial Buildings: Two Early Adopters Utilizing an “Enterprise-wide” Approach to Save Energy and Beyond."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Marshall English, and Collin English."Opportunities for Electricity Demand Management in Irrigated Agriculture." (2018). DOI

Fuchs, Heidi, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Peter L Therkelsen."Using Industry’s Own Words to Evaluate ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems Adoption." (2018). DOI

Liu, Jingjing, and Paul Sheaffer."ISO 50001 for US Commercial Buildings – Current Status and Opportunities." (2018).

2017

Rao, Prakash, Robert Kostecki, Larry L Dale, and Ashok J Gadgil."Technology and Engineering of the Water-Energy Nexus."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 42.1 (2017) 407 - 437. DOI