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)

2010

Cairns, Elton J., Wolf Vielstich, Arnold Lamm, Hubert A. Gasteiger, and Harumi Yokokawa."Aqueous carbonate electrolyte fuel cells."Handbook of Fuel Cells Fundamentals and Survey of Systems (2010). DOI

Sandstede, Gerd, Elton J. Cairns, Vladimir S. Bagotsky, Klaus Wiesener, Wolf Vielstich, Arnold Lamm, Hubert A. Gasteiger, and Harumi Yokokawa."History of low temperature fuel cells."Handbook of Fuel Cells Fundamentals Technology and Applications (2010). DOI

2003

Sandstede, Gerd, Elton J. Cairns, Vladimir S. Bagotsky, Klaus Wiesener, Wolf Vielstich, Arnold Lamm, and Hubert A. Gasteiger."General scientiﬁc background before and during the beginning of fuel cell research."Handbook of Fuel Cells Fundamentals, Technology and Applications (2003) 143-219.

1994

Gasteiger, Hubert A., Nenad Marković, Philip N. Ross, and Elton J. Cairns."Electro-oxidation of small organic molecules on well-characterized Pt-Ru alloys."Electrochimica Acta 39.11-12 (1994) 1825-1832. DOI

Gasteiger, Hubert A., Nenad Marković, Philip N. Ross, and Elton J. Cairns."Temperature-Dependent Methanol Electro-Oxidation on Well-Characterized Pt-Ru Alloys."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 141 (1994) 1795-1803. DOI

Gasteiger, Hubert A., Nenad Marković, Philip N. Ross, and Elton J. Cairns."Carbon monoxide electrooxidation on well-characterized platinum-ruthenium alloys."The Journal of Physical Chemistry 98.2 (1994) 617-625. DOI

Gasteiger, Hubert A., Nenad Marković, Philip N. Ross, and Elton J. Cairns."Temperature-Dependent Methanol Electro-Oxidation on Well-Characterized Pt-Ru Alloys."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 141.7 (1994) 1795-1803. DOI

1993

Rudnicki, James D., Gessie M. Brisard, Hubert A. Gasteiger, Richard E. Russo, Frank R. McLarnon, and Elton J. Cairns."Effect of the supporting electrolyte and beam diameter on probe beam deflection experiments."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 362.1-2 (1993) 55-69. DOI

Gasteiger, Hubert A., Nenad Marković, Philip N. Ross, and Elton J. Cairns."Methanol electrooxidation on well-characterized platinum-ruthenium bulk alloys."The Journal of Physical Chemistry 97 (1993) 12020-12029. DOI