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)

2024

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).

Zhu, Zhikuan, Boxun Hu, and Michael C Tucker."Dynamic operation of metal-supported solid oxide electrolysis cells."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 59 (2024) 316 - 321. DOI

2023

Hu, Boxun, Fabian Rosner, Hanna Breunig, Asia Sarycheva, Robert Kostecki, and Michael C Tucker."Electrochemical conversion of methane to ethylene, olefins, and paraffins using metal-supported solid oxide cells."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 48.86 (2023) 33537 - 33547. DOI

Hu, Boxun, Grace Y Lau, Kevin X Lee, Seraphim Belko, Prabhakar Singh, and Michael C Tucker."Ethanol-fueled metal supported solid oxide fuel cells with a high entropy alloy internal reforming catalyst."Journal of Power Sources 582 (2023) 233544. DOI

Welander, Martha M, Boxun Hu, and Michael C Tucker."Optimization of metal-supported solid oxide electrolysis cells with infiltrated catalysts."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 48.57 (2023) 21578 - 21585. DOI

Hu, Boxun, Fabian Rosner, Hanna Breunig, Asia Sarycheva, Robert Kostecki, and Michael C Tucker."Electrochemical conversion of methane to ethylene, olefins, and paraffins using metal-supported solid oxide cells."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2023). DOI

Rosner, Fabian, Michael C Tucker, Boxun Hu, and Hanna Breunig."Techno-Economic Analysis of Electrochemical Refineries Using Solid Oxide Cells for Oxidative Coupling of Methane."ECS Transactions 111.6 (2023) 2049 - 2055. DOI

Welander, Martha M, Boxun Hu, Seraphim Belko, Kevin X Lee, Pawan K Dubey, Ian Robinson, Prabhakar Singh, and Michael C Tucker."Direct utilization of gaseous fuels in metal supported solid oxide fuel cells."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 48.4 (2023) 1533 - 1539. DOI

2022

Welander, Martha M, Boxun Hu, and Michael C Tucker."Metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells operating with reformed natural gas and sulfur."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 47.21 (2022) 11261 - 11269. DOI

2021

Dogdibegovic, Emir, Yuan Cheng, Fengyu Shen, Ruofan Wang, Boxun Hu, and Michael C Tucker."Scaleup and manufacturability of symmetric-structured metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells."Journal of Power Sources 489.31 (2021) 229439. DOI

Dogdibegovic, Emir, Yuan Cheng, Fengyu Shen, Ruofan Wang, Boxun Hu, and Michael C Tucker."Scaleup and manufacturability of symmetric-structured metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells."Journal of Power Sources 489.31 (2021) 229439. DOI