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)

2022

Abhyankar, Nikit, Narayan Gopinathan, Aditya Khandekar, Nihan Karali, Amol A Phadke, and Deepak Rajagopal."Freight Trucks in India are Primed for Electrification." (2022).

Deorah, Shruti M, Aditya Khandekar, Deepak Rajagopal, and Nikit Abhyankar."Pathways for Electrification of South Asia’s Transportation Sector." (2022).

2021

Popovich, Natalie, Deepak Rajagopal, Elif Tasar, and Amol A Phadke."Economic, environmental and grid-resilience benefits of converting diesel trains to battery-electric."Nature Energy 6.11 (2021) 1017 - 1025. DOI

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, Jessica Kersey, Taylor McNair, Umed Paliwal, David Wooley, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, Michael O’Boyle, Ric O’Connell, Utkarsha Agwan, Priyanka Mohanty, Priya Sreedharan, and Deepak Rajagopal."2035 The Report: Plummeting Costs and Dramatic Improvements In Batteries Can Accelerate Our Clean Transportation Future." (2021).

Phadke, Amol A, Aditya Khandekar, Nikit Abhyankar, David Wooley, and Deepak Rajagopal."Why Regional and Long-Haul Trucks are Primed for Electrification Now." (2021).

2019

Rajagopal, Deepak, and Amol A Phadke."Prioritizing electric miles over electric vehicles will deliver greater benefits at lower cost."Environmental Research Letters 14.9 (2019).

Bauer, Gordon S, Amol A Phadke, Jeffery B Greenblatt, and Deepak Rajagopal."Electrifying urban ridesourcing fleets at no added cost through efficient use of charging infrastructure."Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 105 (2019). DOI

Bauer, Gordon S, Amol A Phadke, Jeffery B Greenblatt, and Deepak Rajagopal."Electrifying urban ridesourcing fleets at no added cost through efficient use of charging infrastructure."Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 105 (2019) 385 - 404. DOI

Rajagopal, Deepak, and Amol A Phadke."Prioritizing electric miles over electric vehicles will deliver greater benefits at lower cost."Environmental Research Letters 14.9 (2019) 091001. DOI

Phadke, Amol A, Margaret McCall, and Deepak Rajagopal."Reforming electricity rates to enable economically competitive electric trucking."Environmental Research Letters 14.12 (2019) 124047. DOI

2018

Khandekar, Aditya, Deepak Rajagopal, Nikit Abhyankar, Shruti M Deorah, and Amol A Phadke."The Case for All New City Buses in India to be Electric." (2018).

Rajagopal, Deepak, and Amol A Phadke."Working Paper 001: The case for policies to target electric vehicle miles." (2018).