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)

2014

Wang, Yungang, Michael D Sohn, Yilun Wang, Kathleen M Lask, Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Ashok J Gadgil."How many replicate tests are needed to test cookstove performance and emissions? – Three is not adequate."Energy for Sustainable Development 20 (2014) 21-29. DOI

2013

Wang, Yungang, Jiaoyan Huang, Philip K Hopke, Oliver V Rattigan, David C Chalupa, Mark J Utell, and Thomas M Holsen."Effect of the shutdown of a large coal-fired power plant on ambient mercury species."Chemosphere 92.4 (2013) 360-367. DOI

Wang, Yungang, and Philip K Hopke."A ten-year source apportionment study of ambient fine particulate matter in San Jose, California."Atmospheric Pollution Research 4 (2013) 398-404. DOI

Qian, Hua, and Yungang Wang."Application Analysis of Ground Source Heat Pumps in Building Space Conditioning."Energy for Sustainable Development (2013).

Wang, Yungang, Michael D Sohn, Ashok J Gadgil, Yilun Wang, Kathleen M Lask, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."How many replicate tests do I need? – Variability of cookstove performance and emissions has implications for obtaining useful results ." (2013).

2012

Wang, Yungang, and Ashok J Gadgil."Critical Review of Particulate Matter Emitted from Biomass Cookstoves."AAAR 31st Annual Conference (2012).

Wang, Yungang, Ashok J Gadgil, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."How Many Replicates Are Sufficient for Characterizing Cookstove Emissions – A Case Study Using the Berkeley-Darfur Stove and Three Stone Fire."AAAR 31st Annual Conference (2012).

Kota, Sri Harsha, Hongliang Zhang, Qi Ying, Yungang Wang, and Philip K Hopke."Black Carbon Emission from Barbeque Activities during College Football Games."A&WMA International Conference on Aerosol and Atmospheric Optics: Visibility and Air Pollution (2012).

Wang, Yungang, Philip K Hopke, Xiaoyan Xia, Oliver V Rattigan, David C Chalupa, and Mark J Utell."Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter using Inorganic and Organic Species as Tracers."Atmospheric Environment 55 (2012) 525-532. DOI

Wang, Yungang, Ashok J Gadgil, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."Effect of Change in Cookstove Types on Visibility - Case Study of the Berkeley-Darfur Stove and Three-Stone Fire." (2012).

2010

Doeff, Marca M, Jiajun Chen, Thomas E Conry, Ruigang Wang, James D Wilcox, and Albert Aumentado."Combustion synthesis of nanoparticulate LiMg_xMn_1-xPO₄ (x= 0, 0.1, 0.2) carbon composites."Journal of Materials Research 25 (2010) 1460-1468. DOI

2009

Wu, Lixia, Mingsheng Liu, Xiufeng Pang, Gang Wang, and Thomas G Lewis."CCLEP Reduces Energy Consumption by More than 50% for a Luxury Shopping Mall."ASHRAE Transactions 115.2 (2009) 492-501.

2007

Wu, Lixia, Mingsheng Liu, Gang Wang, and Xiufeng Pang."Integrated Static Pressure Reset with Fan Air Flow Station in Dual-duct VAV System Control."ASME Energy Sustainability (2007).