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

Oropeza, Dayana D., Jhanis J. Gonzalez, José R. Chirinos, Vassilia Zorba, Estrella Rogel, César Ovalles, and Francisco López-Linares."Elemental Analysis of Asphaltenes Using Simultaneous Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)–Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (LA-ICP-OES)."Applied Spectroscopy 73.5 (2019) 540 - 549. DOI

2017

Lee, Yonghoon, José R. Chirinos, Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Dayana D. Oropeza, Vassilia Zorba, Xianglei Mao, Jonghyun Yoo, and Richard E. Russo."Laser-Ablation Sampling for Accurate Analysis of Sulfur in Edible Salts."Applied Spectroscopy 71.4 (2017) 651 - 658. DOI

Chirinos, José R., Dayana D. Oropeza, Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Vassilia Zorba, and Richard E. Russo."Analysis of Plant Leaves Using Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry: Use of Carbon to Compensate for Matrix Effects."Applied Spectroscopy 71.4 (2017) 709 - 720. DOI

2014

Chirinos, José R., Dayana D. Oropeza, Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Huaming Hou, Mark Morey, Vassilia Zorba, and Richard E. Russo."Simultaneous 3-dimensional elemental imaging with LIBS and LA-ICP-MS."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 29.7 (2014) 1292-1298. DOI

2013

Chirinos, José R., Dayana D. Oropeza, Jhanis J. Gonzalez, María Ranaudo, and Richard E. Russo."Determination of Vanadium/Nickel Proportionality in the Asphaltene Fraction of Crude Oil Using Thin-Layer Chromatography with Femtosecond Laser Ablation–Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry."Energy & Fuels 27.5 (2013) 2431-2436. DOI

2012

Gonzalez, Jhanis J., Dayana D. Oropeza, Henry Longerich, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Rapid bulk analysis using femtosecond laser ablation inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometry."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 27.9 (2012) 1405-1412. DOI

2011

Russo, Richard E., Timothy W. Suen, Alexander A. Bol'shakov, Jong-Hyun Yoo, Osman Sorkhabi, Xianglei Mao, Jhanis J. Gonzalez, Dayana D. Oropeza, and Vassilia Zorba."Laser plasma spectrochemistry."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 26.8 (2011) 1596-1603. DOI

2008

Gonzalez, Jhanis J., Dayana D. Oropeza, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Assessment of the precision and accuracy of thorium (²³²Th) and uranium (²³⁸U) measured by quadrupole based-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry: comparison of liquid nebulization, nanosecond and femtosecond laser ablation."Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 23.2 (2008) 229-234. DOI

Gonzalez, Jhanis J., Alberto J Fernández, Dayana D. Oropeza, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Femtosecond laser ablation: Experimental study of the repetition rate influence on qualitative and quantitative ICP-MS performance."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 63 (2008) 277-286.