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)

2023

2022

Meyers, Stephen, Rongxin Yin, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Cynthia Regnier, and Purabi Thakre."Innovative Technologies for a Low Carbon Electricity System." (2022).

2021

Giammar, Daniel, D.M. Greene, Anushka Mishrra, Nalini Rao, Joshua Sperling, Michael Talmadge, Ariel Miara, Kurban A. Sitterley, Alana Wilson, Sertac Akar, Parthiv Kurup, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, and Katie Coughlin."Cost and Energy Metrics for Municipal Water ReuseCost and Energy Metrics for Municipal Water Reuse."ACS ES&T Engineering (2021). DOI

Quon, Hunter, Joshua Sperling, Katie Coughlin, David L. Greene, Ariel Miara, Sertac Akar, Michael Talmadge, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Jordan Macknick, and Sunny Jiang."Pipe Parity Analysis of Seawater Desalination in the United States: Exploring Costs, Energy, and Reliability via Case Studies and Scenarios of Emerging Technology."ACS ES&T Engineering (2021). DOI

National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), , Tzahi Cath, Shankar Chellam, Lynn Katz, Jaehong Kim, Richard Breckenridge, Jordan Macknick, Jason Monnell, Trenton Rogers, David L. Sedlak, Sridhar Seetharaman, and Jennifer Stokes-Draut."National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Industrial Sector Technology Roadmap 2021." (2021). DOI

National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), , Daniel Giammar, Sunny Jiang, Pei Xu, Richard Breckenridge, Jordan Macknick, Nalini Rao, David L. Sedlak, and Jennifer Stokes-Draut."National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Municipal Sector Technology Roadmap 2021." (2021). DOI

Borch, Thomas, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Lynn Katz, Pei Xu, Richard Breckenridge, Kirk Ellison, Jessica Fox, Jordan Macknick, David L. Sedlak, and Jennifer Stokes-Draut."National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Technology Roadmap: Agriculture Sector." (2021). DOI

National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), , Amy Childress, Daniel Giammar, Sunny Jiang, Richard Breckenridge, Andrew Howell, Jordan Macknick, David L. Sedlak, and Jennifer Stokes-Draut."National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Power Sector Technology Roadmap 2021." (2021). DOI

National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), , Tzahi Cath, Shankar Chellam, Lynn Katz, Richard Breckenridge, Kirk Ellison, Jordan Macknick, Jason Monnell, Nalini Rao, David L. Sedlak, and Jennifer Stokes-Draut."National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Resource Extraction Sector Technology Roadmap 2021." (2021). DOI

2020

Grubert, Emily, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Arpad Horvath, and William Eisenstein."Utility-specific projections of electricity sector greenhouse gas emissions: a committed emissions model-based case study of California through 2050."Environmental Research Letters 15.10 (2020) 1040a4. DOI

2012

Shehabi, Arman, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, and Arpad Horvath."Energy and Air Emission Implications of a Decentralized Wastewater System."Environmental Research Letters 7.2 (2012). DOI