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

Mrdjenovich, David, Matthew K. Horton, Joseph H. Montoya, Christian M. Legaspi, Shyam Dwaraknath, Vahe Tshitoyan, Anubhav Jain, and Kristin A. Persson."propnet: A Knowledge Graph for Materials Science."Matter 2.2 (2020) 464 - 480. DOI

2019

Patel, Anjli M., Jens K. Nørskov, Kristin A. Persson, and Joseph H. Montoya."Efficient Pourbaix diagrams of many-element compounds."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 21.45 (2019) 25323 - 25327. DOI

Tran, Richard, Xiang-Guo Li, Joseph H. Montoya, Donald Winston, Kristin A. Persson, and Shyue Ping Ong."Anisotropic work function of elemental crystals."Surface Science 687 (2019) 48 - 55. DOI

Singh, Arunima K., Joseph H. Montoya, John M. Gregoire, and Kristin A. Persson."Robust and synthesizable photocatalysts for CO2 reduction: a data-driven materials discovery."Nature Communications 10.1 (2019). DOI

2018

Zhou, Lan, Aniketa Shinde, Joseph H. Montoya, Arunima K. Singh, Sheraz Gul, Junko Yano, Yifan Ye, Ethan J. Crumlin, Matthias H. Richter, Jason K. Coope, Helge S. Stein, Joel A. Haber, Kristin A. Persson, and John M. Gregoire."Rutile Alloys in the Mn–Sb–O System Stabilize Mn ³⁺ To Enable Oxygen Evolution in Strong Acid."ACS Catalysis 8.12 (2018) 10938 - 10948. DOI

Tabor, Daniel P., Loïc M. Roch, Semion K. Saikin, Christoph Kreisbeck, Dennis Sheberla, Joseph H. Montoya, Shyam S. Dwaraknath, Muratahan Aykol, Carlos Ortiz, Hermann Tribukait, Carlos Amador-Bedolla, Christoph J. Brabec, Benji Maruyama, Kristin A. Persson, and Alán Aspuru-Guzik."Accelerating the discovery of materials for clean energy in the era of smart automation."Nature Reviews Materials 3.5 (2018) 5 - 20. DOI

2017

Singh, Arunima K., Lan Zhou, Aniketa Shinde, Santosh K. Suram, Joseph H. Montoya, Donald Winston, John M. Gregoire, and Kristin A. Persson."Electrochemical Stability of Metastable Materials."Chemistry of Materials 29.23 (2017) 10159 - 10167. 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

Montoya, Joseph H., and Kristin A. Persson."A high-throughput framework for determining adsorption energies on solid surfaces."npj Computational Materials 3.1 (2017). DOI