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)

1998

Church, Matthew N, Jonathan D Spear, Richard E Russo, Gregory L Klunder, Patrick M Grant, and Brian D Andresen."Transient Isotachophoretic−Electrophoretic Separations of Lanthanides with Indirect Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection."Analytical Chemistry 70.13 (1998) 2475-2480. DOI

Klunder, Gregory L, John E Andrews, Patrick M Grant, Brian D Andresen, Matthew N Church, Jonathan D Spear, and Richard E Russo."Nuclear fission product analysis using capillary electrophoresis."Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 236.1-2 (1998) 149-153. DOI

Spear, Jonathan D, Gregory L Klunder, and Richard E Russo."Photothermal deflection spectroscopy of an aqueous sample in a narrow bore quartz capillary."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 69 (1998) 2267.

1996

Deng, Zhongyi, Jonathan D Spear, James D Rudnicki, Frank R McLarnon, and Elton J Cairns."Infrared photothermal deflection spectroscopy: A new probe for the investigation of electrochemical interfaces."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 143.5 (1996) 1514-1521. DOI

Spear, Jonathan D, and Richard E Russo."Low noise position sensor for optical probe beam deflection measurements."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 67 (1996) 2481-2484.

1993

Spear, Jonathan D, Robert J Silva, Gregory L Klunder, and Richard E Russo."Collinear photothermal deflection spectroscopy of liquid samples at varying temperature."Applied Spectroscopy 47.10 (1993) 1580-1584.

1992

Spear, Jonathan D, Richard E Russo, John E Andrews, and Patrick M Grant."Lens correction for the implementation of cylindrical vessels in a spectrophotometer."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 63.10 (1992) 4457. DOI

1991

Rojas, Dorys, Robert J Silva, Jonathan D Spear, and Richard E Russo."Dual beam optical fiber thermal lens spectrometry."Analytical Chemistry 63.18 (1991) 1927-1932. DOI

Spear, Jonathan D, and Richard E Russo."Transverse photothermal beam deflection within a solid."Applied Physics 70 (1991) 580.

1990

Spear, Jonathan D, Richard E Russo, and Robert J Silva."Collinear photothermal deflection spectroscopy with light scattering samples."Applied Optics 29 (1990) 4225.

1988

Spear, Jonathan D, Richard E Russo, and Robert J Silva."Differential photothermal deflection spectroscopy using a single position sensor."Appl.Spectrosc. 42 (1988) 1103.

1987

Russo, Richard E, Frank R McLarnon, Jonathan D Spear, and Elton J Cairns."Probe beam deflection for In situ measurements of concentration and spectroscopic behavior during copper oxidization and reduction."J.Electrochem.Soc. 134 (1987) 2783.