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

Woods-Robinson, Rachel, Yanbing Han, John S Mangum, Celeste L Melamed, Brian P Gorman, Apurva Mehta, Kristin A Persson, and Andriy Zakutayev."Combinatorial Tuning of Structural and Optoelectronic Properties in Cu Zn1−S."Matter 1.4 (2019) 862 - 880. DOI

2018

Cheng, Lei, Miao Liu, Apurva Mehta, Huolin L Xin, Feng Lin, Kristin A Persson, Guoying Chen, Ethan J Crumlin, and Marca M Doeff."Garnet Electrolyte Surface Degradation and Recovery."ACS Applied Energy Materials 1.12 (2018) 7244 - 7252. DOI

2017

Cheng, Lei, Huaming Hou, Simon F Lux, Robert Kostecki, Ryan Davis, Vassilia Zorba, Apurva Mehta, and Marca M Doeff."Enhanced lithium ion transport in garnet-type solid state electrolytes."Journal of Electroceramics 38.2-4 (2017) 168 - 175. DOI

Cheng, Lei, Huaming Hou, Simon F Lux, Robert Kostecki, Ryan Davis, Vassilia Zorba, Apurva Mehta, and Marca M Doeff."Enhanced lithium ion transport in garnet-type solid state electrolytes."Journal of Electroceramics 38.2-4 (2017) 168 - 175. DOI

2015

Park, Joong Sun, Lei Cheng, Vassilia Zorba, Apurva Mehta, Jordi Cabana, Guoying Chen, Marca M Doeff, Thomas J Richardson, Jung Hoon Park, Ji-Won Son, and Wan-Shick Hong."Effects of Crystallinity and Impurities on the Electrical Conductivity of Li-La-Zr-O Thin Films."Thin Solid Films 576 (2015) 55-60. DOI

2013

Doeff, Marca M, Guoying Chen, Jordi Cabana, Thomas J Richardson, Apurva Mehta, Mona Shirpour, Hugues Duncan, Chunjoong Kim, Kinson C Kam, and Thomas E Conry."Characterization of Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion and Sodium Ion Batteries using Synchrotron Radiation Techniques."Journal of Visualized Experiments (2013). DOI

2012

Conry, Thomas E, Apurva Mehta, Jordi Cabana, and Marca M Doeff."Structural Underpinnings of the Enhanced Cycling Stability upon Al-Substitution in LiNi_0.45Mn_0.45Co_0.1-yAl_yO₂ Positive Electrode Materials for Li-ion Batteries."Chemistry of Materials 24.17 (2012) 3307-3317. DOI

Conry, Thomas E, Apurva Mehta, Jordi Cabana, and Marca M Doeff."XAFS Investigations of LiNi_0.45Mn_0.45Co_0.1-yAl_yO₂ Positive Electrode Materials."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.9 (2012) A1562-A1571. DOI

Kam, Kinson C, Apurva Mehta, John T Heron, and Marca M Doeff."Electrochemical and physical properties of Ti-substituted layered nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) cathode materials."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.8 (2012) A1383-A1392. DOI

2011

Meirer, Florian, Jordi Cabana, Yijin Liu, Apurva Mehta, Joy C Andrews, and Piero Pianetta."3D imaging of Chemical Phase Transformations at the nanoscale with full field transmission X-Ray Microscopy."Synchrotron Radadiation 18.18 (2011) 773-781. DOI