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)

2021

Chen, Chien-fei, Marilena De Simone, Selin Yilmaz, Xiaojing Xu, Zhe Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Yiqun Pan."Intersecting heuristic adaptive strategies, building design and energy saving intentions when facing discomfort environment: A cross-country analysis."Building and Environment 204 (2021) 108129. DOI

2020

Hong, Tianzhen, Chien-Fei Chen, Zhe Wang, and Xiaojing Xu."Linking human-building interactions in shared offices with personality traits."Building and Environment 170 (2020) 106602. DOI

2018

Deng, Changjian, Paige Skinner, Yuzi Liu, Meiling Sun, Wei Tong, Chunrong Ma, Miu Lun Lau, Riley Hunt, Pete Barnes, Jing Xu, and Hui Xiong."Li-Substituted Layered Spinel Cathode Material for Sodium Ion Batteries."Chemistry of Materials 30.22 (2018) 8145 - 8154. DOI

Xu, Jing, Meiling Sun, Ruimin Qiao, Sara E Renfrew, Lu Ma, Tianpin Wu, Sooyeon Hwang, Dennis Nordlund, Dong Su, Khalil Amine, Jun Lu, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Elucidating anionic oxygen activity in lithium-rich layered oxides."Nature Communications 9.1 (2018). DOI

2017

Xing, Zhenyu, Yitong Qi, Ziqi Tian, Jing Xu, Yifei Yuan, Clement Bommier, Jun Lu, Wei Tong, De-en Jiang, and Xiulei Ji."Identify the Removable Substructure in Carbon ActivationIdentify the Removable Substructure in Carbon Activation."Chemistry of Materials 29.17 (2017) 7288 - 7295. DOI

Xu, Jing, Sara E Renfrew, Matthew A Marcus, Meiling Sun, Bryan D McCloskey, and Wei Tong."Investigating Li ₂NiO ₂ –Li₂CuO ₂Solid Solutions as High-Capacity Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries."The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121.21 (2017) 11100 - 11107. DOI

Ma, Chuze, Judith Alvarado, Jing Xu, Raphaële J Clément, Moses Kodur, Wei Tong, Clare P Grey, and Ying Shirley Meng."Exploring Oxygen Activity in the High Energy P2-Type Na _0.78Ni _0.23Mn _0.69O ₂Cathode Material for Na-Ion Batteries."Journal of the American Chemical Society 139.13 (2017) 4835 - 4845. DOI

Xu, Jing, Min Ling, Lydia Terborg, Hui Zhao, Fen Qiu, Jeffrey J Urban, Robert Kostecki, Gao Liu, and Wei Tong."Facile Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Si-Sn-C Nanocomposites for High-Energy Li-Ion Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164.7 (2017) A1378 - A1383. DOI

Xu, Jing, Feng Lin, Marca M Doeff, and Wei Tong."A review of Ni-based layered oxides for rechargeable Li-ion batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 5.3 (2017) 874 - 901. DOI