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)

2023

Hu, Boxun, Grace Y Lau, Kevin X Lee, Seraphim Belko, Prabhakar Singh, and Michael C Tucker."Ethanol-fueled metal supported solid oxide fuel cells with a high entropy alloy internal reforming catalyst."Journal of Power Sources 582 (2023) 233544. DOI

Lee, Jason K, Grace Y Lau, Mayank Sabharwal, Adam Z Weber, Xiong Peng, and Michael C Tucker."Titanium porous-transport layers for PEM water electrolysis prepared by tape casting."Journal of Power Sources 559 (2023) 232606. DOI

2021

Luo, Xiaoyan, Grace Y Lau, Meron Tesfaye, Claire R Arthurs, Isvar A Cordova, Cheng Wang, Michael A Yandrasits, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Thickness Dependence of Proton-Exchange-Membrane Properties."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 168.10 (2021) 104517. DOI

2019

Wang, Ruofan, Emir Dogdibegovic, Grace Y Lau, and Michael C Tucker."Metal‐Supported Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell with Significantly Enhanced Catalysis."Energy Technology 7.5 (2019) 1801154. DOI

Wang, Ruofan, Grace Y Lau, Dong Ding, Tianli Zhu, and Michael C Tucker."Approaches for co-sintering metal-supported proton-conducting solid oxide cells with Ba(Zr,Ce,Y,Yb)O_{3-δ/sub> electrolyte}."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 44.26 (2019) 13768 - 13776. DOI

Dogdibegovic, Emir, Ruofan Wang, Grace Y Lau, and Michael C Tucker."High performance metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells with infiltrated electrodes."Journal of Power Sources 410-411 (2019) 91 - 98. DOI

Dogdibegovic, Emir, Ruofan Wang, Grace Y Lau, Alireza Karimaghaloo, Min Hwan Lee, and Michael C Tucker."Progress in durability of metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells with infiltrated electrodes."Journal of Power Sources 437 (2019) 226935. DOI

2010

Lau, Grace Y, Michael C Tucker, Craig P Jacobson, Steven J Visco, Stacy H Gleixner, and Lutgard C DeJonghe."Chromium transport by solid state diffusion on solid oxide fuel cell cathode."Journal of Power Sources 195.22 (2010) 7540 - 7547. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, Grace Y Lau, Craig P Jacobson, Steven J Visco, and Lutgard C De Jonghe."Cu–YSZ cermet solid oxide fuel cell anode prepared by high-temperature sintering."Journal of Power Sources 195.10 (2010) 3119 - 3123. DOI

2008

Tucker, Michael C, Grace Y Lau, Craig P Jacobson, Lutgard C DeJonghe, and Steven J Visco."Stability and robustness of metal-supported SOFCs."Journal of Power Sources 175.1 (2008) 447 - 451. DOI

2007

Tucker, Michael C, Grace Y Lau, Craig P Jacobson, Lutgard C DeJonghe, and Steven J Visco."Performance of metal-supported SOFCs with infiltrated electrodes."Journal of Power Sources 171.2 (2007) 477 - 482. DOI

2006

Doeff, Marca M, James D Wilcox, Robert Kostecki, and Grace Y Lau."Optimization of carbon coatings on LiFePO₄."Journal of power sources 163.1 (2006) 180-184. DOI