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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.
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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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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)

2021

Zhuo, Zengqing, Kehua Dai, Jinpeng Wu, Liang Zhang, Nobumichi Tamura, Yi- de Chuang, Jun Feng, Jinghua Guo, Zhi-xun Shen, Gao Liu, Feng Pan, and Wanli Yang."Distinct Oxygen Redox Activities in Li2MO3 (M = Mn, Ru, Ir)."ACS Energy Letters 6.10 (2021) 3417 - 3424. DOI

Zhuo, Zengqing, Kehua Dai, Ruimin Qiao, Rui Wang, Jinpeng Wu, Yali Luo, Jiayue Peng, Liquan Chen, Yi-den Chuang, Feng Pan, Zhi-xun Shen, Gao Liu, Hong Li, Thomas P Devereaux, and Wanli Yang."Cycling mechanism of Li₂MnO₃: Li–CO₂ batteries and commonality on oxygen redox in cathode materials."Joule 5.4 (2021) 975 - 997. DOI

Zhuo, Zengqing, Kehua Dai, Ruimin Qiao, Rui Wang, Jinpeng Wu, Yali Liu, Jiayue Peng, Liquan Chen, Yi- de Chuang, Feng Pan, Zhi-xun Shen, Gao Liu, Hong Li, Thomas P Devereaux, and Wanli Yang."Cycling mechanism of Li2MnO3: Li–CO2 batteries and commonality on oxygen redox in cathode materials."Joule 5.4 (2021) 975 - 997. DOI

2020

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Zengqing Zhuo, Yan Feng, Wenfeng Mao, Guo Ai, Feng Pan, Yi-den Chuang, Gao Liu, and Wanli Yang."Negligible voltage hysteresis with strong anionic redox in conventional battery electrode."Nano Energy 74 (2020) 104831. DOI

Wu, Jinpeng, Zengqing Zhuo, Xiaohui Rong, Kehua Dai, Zachary Lebens-Higgins, Shawn Sallis, Feng Pan, Louis F. J Piper, Gao Liu, Yi- De Chuang, Zahid Hussain, Qinghao Li, Rong Zeng, Zhi-xun Shen, and Wanli Yang."Dissociate lattice oxygen redox reactions from capacity and voltage drops of battery electrodes."Science Advances 6.6 (2020) eaaw3871. DOI

2019

2018

Pang, Xiufeng, Carlos Duarte, Philip Haves, and Frank Chuang."Testing and demonstration of model predictive control applied to a radiant slab cooling system in a building test facility."Energy and Buildings 172 (2018) 432 - 441. DOI

Jia, Hongyuan, Xiufeng Pang, and Philip Haves."Experimentally-determined characteristics of radiant systems for office buildings."Applied Energy 221 (2018) 41 - 54. DOI

2017

Zhuo, Zengqing, Paul Olalde-Velasco, Timothy Chin, Vincent S Battaglia, Stephen J Harris, Feng Pan, and Wanli Yang."Effect of excess lithium in LiMn ₂O ₄and Li _1.15Mn _1.85O ₄electrodes revealed by quantitative analysis of soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy."Applied Physics Letters 110.9 (2017) 093902. DOI

Haves, Philip, Xiufeng Pang, and Hongyuan Jia."Experimentally-Determined Characteristics of Radiant Systems for Commercial Buildings." (2017).

Pang, Xiufeng, Mary Ann Piette, and Nan Zhou."Characterizing variations in variable air volume system controls."Energy and Buildings 135 (2017) 166 - 175. DOI

2016

Lee, Eleanor S, Luis L Fernandes, Samir Touzani, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Xiufeng Pang, and Darryl J Dickerhoff."Electrochromic Window Demonstration at the 911 Federal Building, 911 Northeast 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon." (2016).

2015

Lee, Eleanor S, Xiufeng Pang, Andrew McNeil, Sabine Hoffmann, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Zhengrong Li, and Yong Ding."Assessment of the Potential to Achieve Very Low Energy Use in Public Buildings in China with Advanced Window and Shading Systems."Buildings 5.2 (2015) 668-699. DOI

Wetter, Michael, Wangda Zuo, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Xiufeng Pang."Modelica Buildings Library." (2015).

2014

Fernandes, Luis L, Eleanor S Lee, Andrew McNeil, Jacob C Jonsson, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Xiufeng Pang, and Sabine Hoffmann."Angular selective window systems: Assessment of technical potential for energy saving." (2014) 36.

Hong, Tianzhen, Xiufeng Pang, Oren Schetrit, Liping Wang, Shinichi Kasahara, Yoshinori Yura, and Ryohei Hinokuma."A New Model to Simulate Energy Performance of VRF Systems." (2014).

2013

Lee, Eleanor S, Xiufeng Pang, Sabine Hoffmann, Howdy Goudey, and Anothai Thanachareonkit."An empirical study of a full-scale polymer thermochromic window and its implications on material science development objectives."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 116 (2013) 14-26. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S, Luis L Fernandes, Howdy Goudey, Jacob C Jonsson, Dragan C Curcija, Xiufeng Pang, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, and Sabine Hoffmann."A Pilot Demonstration of Electrochromic and Thermochromic Windows in the Denver Federal Center, Building 41, Denver, Colorado." (2013).

Pang, Xiufeng, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Improving Building Performance at Urban Scale with a Framework for Real-time Data Sharing." (2013).

2012

Earni, Shankar, Spencer Woodworth, Xiufeng Pang, Jorge Hernandez-Maldonado, Rongxin Yin, Liping Wang, Steve E Greenberg, John Fiegel, and Alma Rubalcava."Monitoring-based HVAC Commissioning of an Existing Office Building for Energy Efficiency." (2012).

Wang, Liping, Paul A Mathew, and Xiufeng Pang."Uncertainties in energy consumption introduced by building operations and weather for a medium-size office building."Energy and Buildings 53 (2012) 152 - 158. DOI

Wang, Liping, Paul A Mathew, and Xiufeng Pang."Uncertainties in energy consumption introduced by building operations and weather for a medium-size office building."Energy and Buildings 53 (2012) 152 - 158. DOI

Pang, Xiufeng, Michael Wetter, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Philip Haves."A framework for simulation-based real-time whole building performance assessment."Building and Environment 54 (2012) 100-108.

2011

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Michael Wetter, Zhengwei Li, Xiufeng Pang, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Philip Haves."BACnet and Analog/Digital Interfaces of the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed."Proc. of the 12th IBPSA Conference (2011) p. 294-301.

Haves, Philip, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Michael Wetter, Zhengwei Li, and Xiufeng Pang."BacNet and Analog/Digital Interfaces of the Building Controls Virtual Testbed." (2011).