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)

1990

Isaacson, Mark J, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Zinc Electrode Rest Potentials in Concentrated KOH-K₂Zn(OH)₄ Electrolytes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 2361-2364. DOI

Isaacson, Mark J, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Current Density and ZnO Precipitation-Dissolution Distributions in Zn-ZnO Porous Electrodes and Their Effect on Material Redistribution: A Two-Dimensional Mathematical Model."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 2014-2021. DOI

1989

McLarnon, Frank R, and Elton J Cairns."Energy Storage."Annual Review of Energy 14 (1989) 241-271. DOI

1987

Lessner, Philip M, Frank R McLarnon, Jack Winnick, and Elton J Cairns."Kinetics of Aqueous Polysulfide Solutions Part III. Investigation of Homogeneous and Electrode Kinetics by the Rotating Disk Method."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 134 (1987) 2669-2677. DOI

Russo, Richard E, Frank R McLarnon, Jonathan D Spear, and Elton J Cairns."Probe beam deflection for In situ measurements of concentration and spectroscopic behavior during copper oxidization and reduction."J.Electrochem.Soc. 134 (1987) 2783.

1986

Lessner, Philip M, Jack Winnick, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Kinetics of Aqueous Polysulfide Solutions I. Theory of Coupled Electrochemical and Chemical Reactions, Response to a Potential Step."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 133 (1986) 2510-2516. DOI

1985

Nichols, James T, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Zinc electrode cycle-life performance in alkaline electrolytes having reduced zinc species solubility."Chemical Engineering Communications 37.1-6 (1985) 355-379. DOI

1983

Katz, Marc H, James T Nichols, Frank R McLarnon, Elton J Cairns, and Marc H Katz."Computer-controlled multiple-channel system for electrochemical experiments."Journal of Power Sources 10 (1983) 149-165. DOI

1982

Cairns, Elton J, and David G Lovering."Batteries."Molten Salt Technology (1982) 287-321. DOI

Cairns, Elton J, Uziel Landau, Ernest Yeager, and Diane Kortan."Batteries of the Future for Vehicle Applications."Electrochemistry in Industry (1982) 131-151. DOI

Cairns, Elton J, Uziel Landau, Ernest Yeager, and Diane Kortan."Future trends in advanced batteries for automobile propulsion."Electrochemistry in Industry (1982) 377-381. DOI

1981

Cairns, Elton J, Earl H Hietbrink, John Bockris, Brian E Conway, Ernest Yeager, and Ralph E White."Electrochemical power for transportation."Comprehensive Treatise of Electrochemistry 3: Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage (1981) 421-504. DOI

Cairns, Elton J, J.O Bockris, Brian E Conway, Ernest Yeager, and Ralph E White."Secondary Batteries-New Batteries: High Temperature."Comprehensive Treatise of Electrochemistry 3 (1981) 341-370. DOI

1980

Cairns, Elton J, D.W Murphy, J Broadhead, and B.C.H Steele."Requirements of Battery Systems."Materials for Advanced Batteries 2 (1980) 3-27. DOI

1976

Sharma, Ram A, Richard A Murie, and Elton J Cairns."Compatibility of Aluminum Nitride in Environments Representative of High Temperature Cells."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 123 (1976) 1132-1139. DOI

1971

Maroni, Victor A, Ellen J Hathaway, and Elton J Cairns."Structural studies of magnesium halide-potassium halide melts by Raman spectroscopy."The Journal of Physical Chemistry 75 (1971) 155-159. DOI

1967

Cairns, Elton J."Anodic Oxidation and Molecular Structure: Influence on Performance of Normal Saturated Hydrocarbons in Fuel Cells."Science 155 (1967) 1245-1246. DOI