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)

2011

Chang, H, S.V Kalinin, S Yang, P Yu, S Bhattacharya, P.P Wu, N Balke, S Jesse, L.Q Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.J Pennycook, and A.Y Borisevich."Watching domains grow: In-situ studies of polarization switching by combined scanning probe and scanning transmission electron microscopy."Journal of Applied Physics 110 (2011). DOI

2008

Galitsky, Christina, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Ernst Worrell, and Eric R Masanet."Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Saving Opportunities for the Pharmaceutical Industry." (2008).

2006

Galitsky, Christina, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Ernst Worrell, and Eric R Masanet."Improving Energy Efficiency in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Operations." (2006).

2004

Price, Phillip N, Sheng-Chieh Chang, and Michael D Sohn."Characterizing buildings for airflow models: What should we measure?." (2004).

Black, Douglas R, Tracy L Thatcher, Richard G Sextro, William W Delp, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Emily E Wood, Jean C Deputy, Toshifumi Hotchi, Mark R Sippola, and Douglas P Sullivan."Joint Urban 2003: Indoor Measurements Final Data Report." (2004).

2003

Pomerantz, Melvin, Hashem Akbari, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Ronnen M Levinson, and Brian Pon."Examples of cooler reflective streets for urban heat-island mitigation : portland cement concrete and chip seals." (2003).

Black, Douglas R, Tracy L Thatcher, William W Delp, Elisabeth A Derby, Sheng-Chieh Chang, and Richard G Sextro."Data summary report of commercial building experiments in Salt Lake City, UT from May 17 to June 10, 2002." (2003).

Fan, W, S Saha, J.A Carlisle, O Auciello, R.P.H Chang, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Layered Cu-based electrode for high-dielectric constant oxide thin film-based devices."Applied Physics Letters 82 (2003) 1452-1454. DOI

Fan, W, B Kabius, J.M Miller, S Saha, J.A Carlisle, O Auciello, R.P.H Chang, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Materials science and integration bases for fabrication of (Ba xSr1-x)TiO3 thin film capacitors with layered Cu-based electrodes."Journal of Applied Physics 94 (2003) 6192-6200. DOI

2000

Pomerantz, Melvin, Brian Pon, Hashem Akbari, and Sheng-Chieh Chang."The effect of pavements' temperatures on air temperatures in large cities." (2000).

1998

Im, J, A.R Krauss, A.M Dhote, D.M Gruen, O Auciello, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and R.P.H Chang."Studies of metallic species and oxygen incorporation during sputter-deposition of SrBi2Ta2O9 films, using mass spectroscopy of recoiled ions."Applied Physics Letters 72 (1998) 2529-2531. DOI

1994

Chen, L.H, S Jin, T.H Tiefel, S.H Chang, M Eibschutz, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Magnetoresistance in a spinodally decomposed Cu-Ni-Fe alloy consisting of two ferromagnetic phases."Physical Review B 49 (1994) 9194-9197. DOI