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)

2020

Gonze, Xavier, Bernard Amadon, Gabriel Antonius, Frédéric Arnardi, Lucas Baguet, Jean-Michel Beuken, Jordan Bieder, François Bottin, Johann Bouchet, Eric Bousquet, Nils Brouwer, Fabien Bruneval, Guillaume Brunin, Théo Cavignac, Jean-Baptiste Charraud, Wei Chen, Michel Côté, Stefaan Cottenier, Jules Denier, Grégory Geneste, Philippe Ghosez, Matteo Giantomassi, Yannick Gillet, Olivier Gingras, Donald R Hamann, Geoffroy Hautier, Xu He, Nicole Helbig, Natalie Holzwarth, Yongchao Jia, François Jollet, William Lafargue-Dit-Hauret, Kurt Lejaeghere, Miguel A.L Marques, Alexandre Martin, Cyril Martins, Henrique P.C Miranda, Francesco Naccarato, Kristin A Persson, Guido Petretto, Valentin Planes, Yann Pouillon, Sergei Prokhorenko, Fabio Ricci, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Aldo H Romero, Michael Marcus Schmitt, Marc Torrent, Michiel J van Setten, Benoit Van Troeye, Matthieu J Verstraete, Gilles Zérah, and Josef W Zwanziger."The Abinitproject: Impact, environment and recent developments."Computer Physics Communications 248 (2020) 107042. DOI

2019

Waroquiers, David, Janine George, Matthew Horton, Stephan Schenk, Kristin A Persson, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Xavier Gonze, and Geoffroy Hautier."ChemEnv : A Fast and Robust Coordination Environment Identification Too." (2019). DOI

Kuo, Jimmy Jiahong, Umut Aydemir, Jan-Hendrik Pöhls, Fei Zhou, Guodong Yu, Alireza Faghaninia, Francesco Ricci, Mary Anne White, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and G. G Jeffrey Snyder."Origins of ultralow thermal conductivity in 1-2-1-4 quaternary selenides."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 7.6 (2019) 2589 - 2596. DOI

2018

Petretto, Guido, Shyam S Dwaraknath, Henrique P.C Miranda, Donald Winston, Matteo Giantomassi, Michiel J van Setten, Xavier Gonze, Kristin A Persson, Geoffroy Hautier, and Gian-Marco Rignanese."High-throughput density-functional perturbation theory phonons for inorganic materials."Scientific Data 5 (2018) 180065. DOI

2017

Pöhls, Jan-Hendrik, Alireza Faghaninia, Guido Petretto, Umut Aydemir, Francesco Ricci, Guodong Li, Max Wood, Saneyuki Ohno, Geoffroy Hautier, G. G Jeffrey Snyder, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Anubhav Jain, and Mary Anne White."Metal phosphides as potential thermoelectric materials."Journal of Materials Chemistry C 5.47 (2017) 12441 - 12456. DOI

Ricci, Francesco, Wei Chen, Umut Aydemir, G. G Jeffrey Snyder, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Anubhav Jain, and Geoffroy Hautier."An ab initio electronic transport database for inorganic materials."Scientific Data 4.1 (2017). DOI

Faghaninia, Alireza, Guodong Yu, Umut Aydemir, Max Wood, Wei Chen, Gian-Marco Rignanese, G. G Jeffrey Snyder, Geoffroy Hautier, and Anubhav Jain."A computational assessment of the electronic, thermoelectric, and defect properties of bournonite (CuPbSbS ₃) and related substitutions."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19.9 (2017) 6743 - 6756. DOI

2015

Jain, Anubhav, Shyue Ping Ong, Wei Chen, Bharat Medasan, Xiaohui Qu, Michael Kocher, Miriam Brafman, Guido Petretto, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Geoffroy Hautier, Daniel Gunter, and Kristin A Persson."FireWorks: a dynamic workflow system designed for high-throughput applications."Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 27.17 (2015) 5037 - 5059. DOI