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

2018

Pöhls, Jan-Hendrik, Zhe Luo, Umut Aydemir, Jon-Paul Sun, Shiqiang Hao, Jiangang He, Ian G. Hill, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, Xiaoqin Zeng, Chris Wolverton, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Hong Zhu, and Mary Anne White."First-principles calculations and experimental studies of XYZ₂ thermoelectric compounds: detailed analysis of van der Waals interactions."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 6.40 (2018) 19502 - 19519. DOI

2017

Gibbs, Zachary M., Francesco Ricci, Guodong Li, Hong Zhu, Kristin A. Persson, Gerbrand Ceder, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and G. Jeffrey Snyder."Effective mass and Fermi surface complexity factor from ab initio band structure calculations."npj Computational Materials 3.1 (2017). DOI

2016

Chen, Wei, Jan-Hendrik Pöhls, Geoffroy Hautier, Danny Broberg, Saurabh Bajaj, Umut Aydemir, Zachary M. Gibbs, Hong Zhu, Mark Asta, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Bryce Meredig, Mary Anne White, Kristin A. Persson, and Anubhav Jain."Understanding thermoelectric properties from high-throughput calculations: trends, insights, and comparisons with experiment."Journal of Materials Chemistry C 4.20 (2016) 4414 - 4426. DOI

Aydemir, Umut, Jan-Hendrik Pöhls, Hong Zhu, Geoffroy Hautier, Saurabh Bajaj, Zachary M. Gibbs, Wei Chen, Guodong Li, Saneyuki Ohno, Danny Broberg, Stephen Dongmin Kang, Mark Asta, Gerbrand Ceder, Mary Anne White, Kristin A. Persson, Anubhav Jain, and G. Jeffrey Snyder."YCuTe ₂ : a member of a new class of thermoelectric materials with CuTe ₄ -based layered structure."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 4.7 (2016) 2461 - 2472. DOI

2015

Zhu, Hong, Geoffroy Hautier, Umut Aydemir, Zachary M. Gibbs, Guodong Li, Saurabh Bajaj, Jan-Hendrik Pöhls, Danny Broberg, Wei Chen, Anubhav Jain, Mary Anne White, Mark D. Asta, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Kristin A. Persson, and Gerbrand Ceder."Computational and experimental investigation of TmAgTe ₂ and XYZ ₂ compounds, a new group of thermoelectric materials identified by first-principles high-throughput screening."Journal of Materials Chemistry C 3.40 (2015) 10554 - 10565. DOI

2003

Sinton, Jonathan E., Joanna I. Lewis, Mark D. Levine, and Yuezhong Zhu."China's Sustainable Energy Future--Scenarios of Energy and Carbon Emissions." (2003).