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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2023

Martin, Andrew, Drew Lilley, Ravi S. Prasher, and Sumanjeet Kaur."Particle Size Optimization of Thermochemical Salt Hydrates for High Energy Density Thermal Storage."ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS (2023). DOI

2022

Lilley, Drew, and Ravi S. Prasher."Ionocaloric refrigeration cycleIonic cooling."Science 378.6626 (2022) 1344 - 1348. DOI

Martin, Andrew, Drew Lilley, Ravi S. Prasher, and Sumanjeet Kaur."Particle Size Optimization of Thermochemical Salt Hydrates for High Energy Density Thermal Storage."ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS (2022). DOI

Consiglio, Anthony N., Drew Lilley, Ravi S. Prasher, Boris Rubinsky, and Matthew J. Powell-Palm."Methods to stabilize aqueous supercooling identified by use of an isochoric nucleation detection (INDe) device."Cryobiology 106 (2022) 91 - 101. DOI

Chang, Brooke, Anthony N. Consiglio, Drew Lilley, Ravi S. Prasher, Boris Rubinsky, Baptiste Journaux, and Matthew J. Powell-Palm."On the pressure dependence of salty aqueous eutectics."Cell Reports Physical Science 3.5 (2022) 100856. DOI

Lilley, Drew, Peiyuan Yu, Jason Ma, Anubhav Jain, and Ravi S. Prasher."Thermal fluids with high specific heat capacity through reversible Diels-Alder reactions."iScience 25.1 (2022) 103540. DOI

2021

Lilley, Drew, Peiyuan Yu, Jason Ma, Anubhav Jain, and Ravi S. Prasher."Thermal Fluids with High Specific Heat Capacity through Reversible Diels–Alder Reactions."iScience (2021) 103540. DOI

Geffroy, Charles, Drew Lilley, Pedro Sanchez Parez, and Ravi S. Prasher."Techno-economic analysis of waste-heat conversion."Joule (2021). DOI

Lau, Jonathan, Joseph K. Papp, Drew Lilley, Piyachai Khomein, Sumanjeet Kaur, Christopher Dames, Gao Liu, and Ravi S. Prasher."Dynamic tunability of phase-change material transition temperatures using ions for thermal energy storage."Cell Reports Physical Science 2.10 (2021) 100613. DOI

Lilley, Drew, Jonathan Lau, Chris Dames, Sumanjeet Kaur, and Ravi S. Prasher."Impact of size and thermal gradient on supercooling of phase change materials for thermal energy storage."Applied Energy 290 (2021) 116635. DOI

Khomein, Piyachai, Asritha Nallapaneni, Jonathan Lau, Drew Lilley, Chenhui Zhu, Sumanjeet Kaur, Ravi S. Prasher, and Gao Liu."Random copolymer of poly(polyethylene glycol methyl ether)methacrylate as tunable transition temperature solid-solid phase change material for thermal energy storage."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 225 (2021) 111030. DOI

Lilley, Drew, Anubhav Jain, and Ravi S. Prasher."A simple model for the entropy of melting of monatomic liquids."Applied Physics Letters 118.8 (2021) 083902. DOI

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