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

Smidt, Tess E, Stephanie A Mack, Sebastian E Reyes-Lillo, Anubhav Jain, and Jeffrey B Neaton."An automatically curated first-principles database of ferroelectrics."Scientific Data 7.1 (2020). DOI

2017

Newhouse, Paul F, Sebastian E Reyes-Lillo, Guo Li, Lan Zhou, Aniketa Shinde, Dan Guevarra, Santosh K Suram, Edwin Soedarmadji, Matthias H Richter, Xiaohui Qu, Kristin A Persson, Jeffrey B Neaton, and John M Gregoire."Discovery and Characterization of a Pourbaix-Stable, 1.8 eV Direct Gap Bismuth Manganate Photoanode."Chemistry of Materials 29.23 (2017) 10027 - 10036. DOI

Shinde, Aniketa, Santosh K Suram, Qimin Yan, Lan Zhou, Arunima K Singh, Jie Yu, Kristin A Persson, Jeffrey B Neaton, and John M Gregoire."Discovery of Manganese-Based Solar Fuel Photoanodes via Integration of Electronic Structure Calculations, Pourbaix Stability Modeling, and High-Throughput Experiments."ACS Energy Letters 2.10 (2017) 2307 - 2312. DOI

Mathew, Kiran, Joseph H Montoya, Alireza Faghaninia, Shyam S Dwaraknath, Muratahan Aykol, Hanmei Tang, Iek-heng Chu, Tess Smidt, Brandon Bocklund, Matthew Horton, John Dagdelen, Brandon Wood, Zi-Kui Liu, Jeffrey B Neaton, Shyue Ping Ong, Kristin A Persson, and Anubhav Jain."Atomate: A high-level interface to generate, execute, and analyze computational materials science workflows."Computational Materials Science 139 (2017) 140 - 152. DOI

Yan, Qimin, Jie Yu, Santosh K Suram, Lan Zhou, Aniketa Shinde, Paul F Newhouse, Wei Chen, Guo Li, Kristin A Persson, John M Gregoire, and Jeffrey B Neaton."Solar fuels photoanode materials discovery by integrating high-throughput theory and experiment."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.12 (2017) 3040 - 3043. DOI

2016

Zhou, Lan, Qimin Yan, Jie Yu, Ryan J. R Jones, Natalie Becerra-Stasiewicz, Santosh K Suram, Aniketa Shinde, Dan Guevarra, Jeffrey B Neaton, Kristin A Persson, and John M Gregoire."Stability and self-passivation of copper vanadate photoanodes under chemical, electrochemical, and photoelectrochemical operation."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18.14 (2016) 9349 - 9352. DOI

2015

Yan, Qimin, Guo Li, Paul F Newhouse, Jie Yu, Kristin A Persson, John M Gregoire, and Jeffrey B Neaton."MnM₂V₂O₇: An Earth Abundant Light Absorber for Solar Water Splitting."Advanced Energy Materials 5 (2015). DOI

Yu, Jie, Qimin Yan, Wei Chen, Anubhav Jain, Jeffrey B Neaton, and Kristin A Persson."First-principles study of electronic structure and photocatalytic properties of MnNiO₃ as an alkaline oxygen-evolution photocatalyst."Chemical Communications 51 (2015) 2867-2870. DOI