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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2024

Jin, Ling, Xiaodan Xu, Yuhan Wang, Alina Lazar, Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi, C Anna Spurlock, Zachary Needell, Duleep Rathgamage Don, Mahyar Amirgholy, and Mona Asudegi."Macroscopic Traffic Modeling Using Probe Vehicle Data: A Machine Learning Approach."Data Science for Transportation 6.3 (2024). DOI

Browne, Axel, David Butts, Edgar Jaramillo-Rodriguez, Nidhi Parikh, Geoffrey Fairchild, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Thomas P Wenzel, Timothy C Germann, and Sara Del Valle."Evaluating disease surveillance strategies for early outbreak detection in contact networks with varying community structure."Social Networks 79 (2024) 122 - 132. DOI

Nordahl, Sarah L, Rebecca J Hanes, Kimberley K Mayfield, Corey Myers, Sarah E Baker, and Corinne D Scown."Carbon accounting for carbon dioxide removal."One Earth 7.9 (2024) 1494-1500. DOI

Breunig, Hanna, Patricia Fox, Jeremy Domen, R Kumar, Ricardo Jorge Eloy Alves, Kateryna Zhalnina, Anne Voigtländer, Hang Deng, Bhavna Arora, and Peter Nico."Life cycle impact and cost analysis of quarry materials for land-based enhanced weathering in Northern California."Journal of Cleaner Production (2024) 143757. DOI

Jain, Anubhav, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, Michael D Sohn, Will Gorman, Alexandre Moreira, Lazlo Paul, Haitam Laarabi, and Maher Alghalayini."Frontiers in Energy Storage: Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence (AI)." (2024).

Dun, Chaochao, Xinyi Wang, Linfeng Chen, Sichi Li, Hanna Breunig, and Jeffrey J Urban."Nano-enhanced solid-state hydrogen storage: Balancing discovery and pragmatism for future energy solutions."Nano Research (2024). DOI

Ding, Chao, Jing Ke, Mark D Levine, and Nan Zhou."Potential of artificial intelligence in reducing energy and carbon emissions of commercial buildings at scale."Nature Communications 15 (2024). DOI

Shiraishi, Kenji, Won Young Park, and Daniel M Kammen."The role of hydrogen as long-duration energy storage and as an international energy carrier for electricity sector decarbonization."Environmental Research Letters 19.8 (2024). DOI

Zuberi, Jibran, Arman Shehabi, and Prakash Rao."Cross-sectoral assessment of CO2 capture from U.S. industrial flue gases for fuels and chemicals manufacture."International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 135 (2024) 104137. DOI

Rosner, Fabian, Boxun Hu, Michael C Tucker, and Hanna Breunig."Prospects of hydrogen cogeneration and carbon dioxide utilization in electrochemical refineries for ethylene production via oxidative coupling of methane: A techno-economic assessment." (2024).

Wei, Max, Gregory J Rosenquist, Katie Coughlin, Edward Cubero, Chao Ding, Thomas A Burke, Omar Abdelaziz, Jackson Thach, Anthony Ng, Jonah Steinbuck, and Drew Bohan."Benefits and Challenges in Using Low GWP A3 Refrigerants in Residential Air Condition Equipment." (2024).

Peng, Peng, Henry Z.H Jiang, Stephanie Collins, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Jeffrey R Long, and Hanna Breunig."Long Duration Energy Storage Using Hydrogen in Metal–Organic Frameworks: Opportunities and Challenges."ACS Energy Letters (2024) 2727 - 2735. DOI

Needell, Zachary, Paul Waddell, Juan Caicedo, Haitam Laarabi, Yuhan Wang, Cristian Poliziani, Jessica Lazarus, Dmitrii Openkov, Max Gardner, Nazanin Rezaei, Josh Auld, and Randy Weimer."Platform for Integrated Land use And Transportation Experiments and Simulation (PILATES) v1.0." (2024).

Jin, Ling, Connor P Jackson, Yuhan Wang, Qianmiao Chen, Tin Ho, C Anna Spurlock, Aaron Brooker, Jake Holden, Jeff Gonder, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Bingrong Sun, Shivam Sharda, Venu Garikapati, Thomas P Wenzel, and Juan Caicedo."Technology progress and clean vehicle policies on fleet turnover and equity: insights from household vehicle fleet micro-simulations with ATLAS."Transportation Planning and Technology (2024) 1 - 24. DOI

Gerke, Brian F, Sarah Josephine Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Peter Alstone, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Richard E Brown, Jingjing Liu, and Mary Ann Piette."The California Demand Response Potential Study, Phase 4: Report on Shed and Shift Resources Through 2050." (2024).

Popovich, Natalie, Anjuli Jain Figueroa, Deborah Sunter, and Monisha Shah."Identifying disadvantaged communities in the United States: An energy-oriented mapping tool that aggregates environmental and socioeconomic burdens."Energy Research & Social Science 109 (2024) 103391. DOI

Xu, Xiaodan, Hung-Chia Yang, Kyungsoo Jeong, William Bui, Srinath Ravulaparthy, Haitam Laarabi, Zachary Needell, and C Anna Spurlock."Teaching freight mode choice models new tricks using interpretable machine learning methods."Frontiers in Future Transportation 5 (2024). DOI

Laarabi, Haitam, Zachary Needell, Rashid Waraich, Cristian Poliziani, and Thomas P Wenzel."A Modeling Framework for Behavior, Energy, Autonomy and Mobility (BEAM)." (2024).

Rezaei, Nazanin, Annika Todd-Blick, K Sydny Fujita, Natalie Popovich, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Juan Caicedo, Carlos Guirado, and C Anna Spurlock."At the nexus of equity and transportation modeling: Assessing accessibility through the Individual Experienced Utility-Based Synthesis (INEXUS) metric."Journal of Transport Geography 115 (2024) 103824. DOI

Spurlock, C Anna, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Aaron Brooker, Juan Caicedo, Jeff Gonder, Jake Holden, Kyungsoo Jeong, Ling Jin, Haitam Laarabi, Zachary Needell, Cristian Poliziani, Shivam Sharda, Bingrong Sun, Paul Waddell, Yuhan Wang, Rashid Waraich, Thomas P Wenzel, and Xiaodan Xu."Behavior, Energy, Autonomy & Mobility Comprehensive Regional Evaluator: Overview, calibration and validation summary of an agent-based integrated regional transportation modeling workflow." (2024).

McNeil, Wilson H, Fan Tong, Robert A Harley, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Corinne D Scown."Corridor-Level Impacts of Battery-Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks and the Effects of Policy in the United States."Environmental Science & Technology 58.1 (2024) 33 - 42. DOI

Wei, Max, Nica Campbell, Lis Blanco, Neah Downs Dybas, Erin Nobler, Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten, Alan T Jenn, and Monisha Shah."Equity and Energy Justice-Related Metric Development for Evaluation of State- Level Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Programs." (2024).

Hamilton, Sofia D, Dien Wu, Matthew S Johnson, Alexander J Turner, Marc L Fischer, Nikhil Dadheech, and Seongeun Jeong."Estimating Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Two California Cities Using Bayesian Inversion and Satellite Measurements."Geophysical Research Letters 51.20 (2024). DOI

Moon, Hee Seung, Won Young Park, Thomas P Hendrickson, Amol A Phadke, and Natalie Popovich."Exploring the cost and emissions impacts, feasibility and scalability of battery electric ships."Nature Energy (2024). DOI

Black, Douglas R, Nadia Panossian, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, John Farrell, Cabell Hodge, Andrew Meintz, Muhammad Abdullah, Mithat John Kisacikoglu, Jesse Bennett, Rongxin Yin, Shreya Agarwal, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."Survey and gap prioritization of U.S. electric vehicle charge management deployments." (2024).