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)

2019

Wang, Hao, Sumanjeet Kaur, Mahmoud Elzouka, and Ravi S. Prasher."A nano-photonic filter for near infrared radiative heater."Applied Thermal Engineering 153 (2019) 221 - 224. DOI

2018

Wang, Hao, Iwan Haechler, Sumanjeet Kaur, Justin P. Freedman, and Ravi S. Prasher."Spectrally selective solar absorber stable up to 900 °C for 120 h under ambient conditions."Solar Energy 174 (2018) 305–311. DOI

Freedman, Justin P., Hao Wang, and Ravi S. Prasher."Analysis of Nanofluid-Based Parabolic Trough Collectors for Solar Thermal Applications."Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 140.5 (2018) 051008. DOI

Zhang, Bingying, Qiqiang Li, Luhao Wang, and Wei Feng."Robust optimization for energy transactions in multi-microgrids under uncertainty."Applied Energy 217 (2018) 346 - 360. DOI

Fang, Yingchun, Yudai Huang, Wei Tong, Yanjun Cai, Xingchao Wang, Yong Guo, Dianzeng Jia, and Jun Zong."Synthesis of hollow peanut-like hierarchical mesoporous LiNi 1/3 Co 1/3 Mn 1/3 O2 cathode materials with exceptional cycle performance for lithium-ion batteries by a simple self-template solid-state method."Journal of Alloys and Compounds 743 (2018) 707 - 715. DOI

Tong, Wei, Yudai Huang, Wei Jia, Xingchao Wang, Yong Guo, Zhipeng Sun, Dianzeng Jia, and Jun Zong."Leaf-like interconnected network structure of MWCNT/Co9S8/S for lithium-sulfur batteries."Journal of Alloys and Compounds 731 (2018) 964 - 970. DOI

2016

Sa, Niya, Nav Nidhi Rajput, Hao Wang, Baris Key, Magali S. Ferrandon, Venkat Srinivasan, Kristin A. Persson, Anthony K. Burrell, and John T. Vaughey."Concentration dependent electrochemical properties and structural analysis of a simple magnesium electrolyte: magnesium bis(trifluoromethane sulfonyl)imide in diglyme."RSC Advances 6.114 (2016) 113663 - 113670. DOI

Sa, Niya, Hao Wang, Danielle L. Proffit, Albert L. Lipson, Baris Key, Miao Liu, Zhenxing Feng, Timothy T. Fister, Yang Ren, Cheng-Jun Sun, John T. Vaughey, Paul A. Fenter, Kristin A. Persson, and Anthony K. Burrell."Is alpha-V2O5 a cathode material for Mg insertion batteries?."Journal of Power Sources 323 (2016) 44 - 50. DOI