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)

2012

Jain, Anubhav, Geoffroy Hautier, Charles J Moore, Byoungwoo Kang, Jinhyuk Lee, Hailong Chen, Nancy Twu, and Gerbrand Ceder."A Computational Investigation of Li₉M₃(P₂O₇)₃(PO₄)₂ (M = V, Mo) as Cathodes for Li Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.5 (2012) A622-A633. DOI

Chen, Hailong, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, Charles J Moore, Byoungwoo Kang, Robert E Doe, Lijun Wu, Yime Zhu, Yuanzhi Tang, and Gerbrand Ceder."Carbonophosphates: A New Family of Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries Identified Computationally."Chemistry of Materials 24 (2012) 2009-2016. DOI

Hautier, Geoffroy, Shyue P Ong, Anubhav Jain, Charles J Moore, and Gerbrand Ceder."Accuracy of density functional theory in predicting formation energies of ternary oxides from binary oxides and its implication on phase stability."Physical Review B 85 (2012) 155208-155208. DOI

2011

Hautier, Geoffroy, Anubhav Jain, Hailong Chen, Charles J Moore, Shyue P Ong, and Gerbrand Ceder."Novel mixed polyanions lithium-ion battery cathode materials predicted by high-throughput ab initio computations."Journal of Materials Chemistry 21 (2011) 17147-17153. DOI

Ong, Shyue P, Vincent L Chevrier, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, Charles J Moore, Sangtae Kim, XiaoHui Ma, and Gerbrand Ceder."Voltage, stability and diffusion barrier differences between sodium-ion and lithium-ion intercalation materials."Energy & Environmental Science 4 (2011) 3680-3688. DOI

Hautier, Geoffroy, Anubhav Jain, Shyue P Ong, Byoungwoo Kang, Charles J Moore, Robert E Doe, and Gerbrand Ceder."Phosphates as Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes: An Evaluation Based on High-Throughput Ab Initio Calculations."Chemistry of Materials 23.15 (2011) 3495-3508. DOI

Jain, Anubhav, Geoffroy Hautier, Shyue P Ong, Charles J Moore, Christopher C Fischer, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Formation enthalpies by mixing GGA and GGA+ U calculations."Physical Review B 84.4 (2011). DOI

Jain, Anubhav, Geoffroy Hautier, Charles J Moore, Shyue P Ong, Christopher C Fischer, Tim Mueller, Kristin A Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."A high-throughput infrastructure for density functional theory calculations."Computational Materials Science 50 (2011) 2295-2310. DOI

Kim, Jae C, Charles J Moore, Byoungwoo Kang, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and Gerbrand Ceder."Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties of Monoclinic LiMnBO₃ as a Li Intercalation Material."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 158.3 (2011) A309-A309. DOI