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)

2020

Xu, Ke, Yanhui Liu, Zihan An, Ashok J Gadgil, Guorong Xu, and Guoling Ruan."The polymeric conformational effect on capacitive deionization performance of graphene oxide/polypyrrole composite electrode."Desalination 486 (2020). DOI

2017

Gilbert, Haley E, Pablo J Rosado, George A Ban-Weiss, John T Harvey, Hui Li, Benjamin H Mandel, Dev Millstein, Arash Mohegh, Arash Saboori, and Ronnen M Levinson."Energy and environmental consequences of a cool pavement campaign." (2017).

Luo, Na, Tianzhen Hong, Hui Li, Rouxi Jia, and Wenguo Weng."Data Analytics and Optimization of an Ice-Based Energy Storage System for Commercial Buildings." (2017).

2015

Cao, Meichun, Pablo J Rosado, Zhaohui Lin, Ronnen M Levinson, and Dev Millstein."Cool Roofs in Guangzhou, China: Outdoor Air Temperature Reductions during Heat Waves and Typical Summer Conditions."Environmental Science & Technology 49.24 (2015) 14672 - 14679. DOI

2010

Schwalm, Christopher R, Christopher A Williams, Kevin Schaefer, Ryan Anderson, M. M Altaf Arain, Ian Baker, Alan Barr, T. T Andrew Black, Guangsheng Chen, Jing Ming Chen, Philippe Ciais, Kenneth J Davis, Ankur R Desai, Michael Dietze, Danilo Dragoni, Marc L Fischer, Lawrence B Flanagan, Robert Grant, Lianhong Gu, David Y Hollinger, R. R César Izaurralde, Chris Kucharik, Peter Lafleur, Beverly E Law, Longhui Li, Zhengpeng Li, Shuguang Liu, Erandathie Lokupitiya, Yiqi Luo, Siyan Ma, Hank Margolis, Roser Matamala, Harry McCaughey, Russell K Monson, Walter C Oechel, Changhui Peng, Benjamin Poulter, David T Price, Dan M Riciutto, William J Riley, Alok Kumar Sahoo, Michael Sprintsin, Jianfeng Sun, Hanqin Tian, Christina Tonitto, Hans Verbeeck, and Shashi B Verma."A model-data intercomparison of CO₂ exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis."Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 115.G3 (2010). DOI

Goth-Goldstein, Regine, Marion L Russell, Donghui Li, Ana P Müller, Maira Caleffi, Joao Eschiletti, Marcia Graudenz, and Michael D Sohn."Role of CYP1B1 in PAH‐DNA Adduct Formation and Breast Cancer Risk." (2010).