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

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)

2019

Lin, Jiang, Nina Khanna, Xu Liu, Fei Teng, and Xin Wang."China’s Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Future Trajectories and Mitigation Options and Potential."Scientific Reports 9.1 (2019). DOI

Lin, Jiang, Fredrich Kahrl, Jiahai Yuan, Qixin Chen, and Xu Liu."Economic and carbon emission impacts of electricity market transition in China: A case study of Guangdong Province."Applied Energy 238 (2019) 1093 - 1107. DOI

Liu, Xu, Jiang Lin, Junfeng Hu, Hongyou Lu, and Jiaru Cai."Economic Transition, Technology Change, and Energy Consumption in China: A Provincial-Level Analysis."Energies 12.13 (2019) 2581. DOI

Huang, Hai, David Roland-Holst, Cecilia Springer, Jiang Lin, Wenjia Cai, and Can Wang."Emissions Trading Systems and Social Equity: A CGE Assessment for China."Applied Energy 235 (2019) 1254 - 1265. DOI

Li, Hao, Jiang Lin, Yuhuan Zhao, and Jia-Ning Kang."Identifying the driving factors of energy-water nexus in Beijing from both economy- and sector-wide perspectives."Journal of Cleaner Production 235 (2019) 1450 - 1464. DOI

Tang, Bowen, Jian Xu, Yuanzhang Sun, Nan Zhou, Bo Shen, Siyang Liao, and Yilu Liu."Policy solution and game analysis for addressing the challenge of developing public–private partnership energy project."Environmental Research Letters 14.4 (2019) 044019. DOI

Bao, Yi, Jian Xu, Wei Feng, Yuanzhang Sun, Siyang Liao, Rongxin Yin, Yazhou Jiang, Ming Jin, and Chris Marnay."Provision of secondary frequency regulation by coordinated dispatch of industrial loads and thermal power plants."Applied Energy 241 (2019) 302 - 312. DOI

Ding, Chao, Wei Feng, Xiwang Li, and Nan Zhou."Urban-scale building energy consumption database: a case study for Wuhan, China."Energy Procedia 158 (2019) 6551 - 6556. DOI

Xu, Dongyu, Michaela Burke Stevens, Monty R Cosby, Sebastian Z Oener, Adam M Smith, Lisa J Enman, Katherine E Ayers, Christopher B Capuano, Julie N Renner, Nemanja Danilovic, Yaogang Li, Hongzhi Wang, Qinghong Zhang, and Shannon W Boettcher."Earth-Abundant Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Anion-Exchange-Membrane Water Electrolysis: Effects of Catalyst Conductivity and Comparison with Performance in Three-Electrode Cells."ACS Catalysis 9.1 (2019) 7 - 15. DOI

Less, Brennan, Spencer M Dutton, Xiwang Li, Jordan D Clark, Iain S Walker, and Max H Sherman."Smart Ventilation for Advance California Homes – Single Zone Technology Task." (2019).

2018

Liu, Shiyu, Zhaohong Bie, Jiang Lin, and Xifan Wang."Curtailment of renewable energy in Northwest China and market-based solutions."Energy Policy 123 (2018) 494 - 502. DOI

Lin, Jiang."China’s electricity switch won’t be swift or painless."Nature 562 (2018). DOI

Zhang, Bingying, Qiqiang Li, Luhao Wang, and Wei Feng."Robust optimization for energy transactions in multi-microgrids under uncertainty."Applied Energy 217 (2018) 346 - 360. DOI

Lin, Jiang, Fredrich Kahrl, and Xu Liu."A regional analysis of excess capacity in China’s power systems."Resources, Conservation and Recycling 129 (2018). DOI

Lin, Jiang, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Lynn K Price, and Nan Zhou."Near-term trends in China's coal consumption." (2018).

Lin, Jiang, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Lynn K Price, and Nan Zhou."Has coal use peaked in China: Near-term trends in China's coal consumption."Energy Policy 123 (2018) 208 - 214. DOI

Wang, Xin, Fei Teng, Jingjing Zhang, Nina Khanna, and Jiang Lin."Challenges to addressing non-CO2 greenhouse gases in China’s long-term climate strategy."Climate Policy 18.8 (2018) 1059 - 1065. DOI

Clark, Jordan D, Iain S Walker, Brennan Less, Spencer M Dutton, Xiwang Li, and Max H Sherman."Energy Savings Estimates for Occupancy and Temperature-based Smart Ventilation Control Approaches in Single-family Homes."ASHRAE (2018).

Clark, Jordan D, Iain S Walker, Brennan Less, Spencer M Dutton, Xiwang Li, and Max Sherman."Energy Savings Estimates for Occupancy- and Temperature-based Smart Ventilation Control Approaches in Single-family California Homes."ASHRAE (2018).

2017

Shen, Qing, Simin Xu, and Jiang Lin."Effects of bus transit-oriented development (BTOD) on single-family property value in Seattle metropolitan area."Urban Studies (2017). DOI

Yang, Li, Min Hu, Jingjing Zhang, Stephanie A Siehr, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, Shuang Li, Lingyan Chen, Ang Li, Miao Sun, and Yanhui Wang."2015 China Green Low-Carbon City scorecard."ECEEE Summer Study 2017 (2017).

Ohshita, Stephanie, Jingjing Zhang, Li Yang, Min Hu, Nina Khanna, David Fridley, Shuang Liu, Ang Li, Miao Sun, and Nan Zhou."China Green Low-Carbon City Index." (2017).

Feng, Wei, Xiwang Li, Carolyn Szum, Nan Zhou, Michael Bendewald, Zihe Meng, and Yani Zeng."From Prescriptive to Outcome-Based — The Evolution of Building Energy Codes and Standards in China."ECEEE Summer Study 2017 (2017).

Fang, Xin, Feng Lin, Dennis Nordlund, Matthew Mecklenburg, Mingyuan Ge, Jiepeng Rong, Anyi Zhang, Chenfei Shen, Yihang Liu, Yu Cao, Marca M Doeff, and Chongwu Zhou."Atomic Insights into the Enhanced Surface Stability in High Voltage Cathode Materials by Ultrathin Coating."Advanced Functional Materials 27.7 (2017) 1602873. DOI

LiangZhang, LiangZhang, Min Ling, Jun Feng, Gao Liu, and Jinghua Guo."Effective electrostatic confinement of polysulfides in lithium/sulfur batteries by a functional binder."Nano Energy 40 (2017) 559 - 565. DOI