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

Zhang, Buyi, Bei Fan, Zhi Huang, Kenneth Higa, Vincent S Battaglia, and Ravi S Prasher."A Review of Dispersion Film Drying Research."Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage 20.3 (2023). DOI

2020

Barai, Pallab, Kenneth Higa, and Venkat Srinivasan."Correction: Lithium dendrite growth mechanisms in polymer electrolytes and prevention strategies."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 22.4 (2020) 2590 - 2591. DOI

2019

Barai, Pallab, Kenneth Higa, Anh T Ngo, Larry A Curtiss, and Venkat Srinivasan."Mechanical Stress Induced Current Focusing and Fracture in Grain Boundaries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.10 (2019) A1752 - A1762. DOI

2018

Barai, Pallab, Kenneth Higa, and Venkat Srinivasan."Impact of External Pressure and Electrolyte Transport Properties on Lithium Dendrite Growth."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.11 (2018) A2654 - A2666. DOI

2017

Feng, Zhange, Kenneth Higa, Kee Sung Han, and Venkat Srinivasan."Evaluating Transport Properties and Ionic Dissociation of LiPF ₆ in Concentrated Electrolyte."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164.12 (2017) A2434 - A2440. DOI

Barai, Pallab, Kenneth Higa, and Venkat Srinivasan."Lithium dendrite growth mechanisms in polymer electrolytes and prevention strategies."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19.31 (2017) 20493 - 20505. DOI

Garrick, Taylor R, Kenneth Higa, Shao-Ling Wu, Yiling Dai, Xinyu Huang, Venkat Srinivasan, and John W Weidner."Modeling Battery Performance Due to Intercalation Driven Volume Change in Porous Electrodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164.11 (2017) E3592 - E3597. DOI

Higa, Kenneth, Shao-Ling Wu, Dilworth Y Parkinson, Yanbao Fu, Steven Ferreira, Vincent S Battaglia, and Venkat Srinivasan."Comparing Macroscale and Microscale Simulations of Porous Battery Electrodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164.11 (2017) E3473 - E3488. DOI

Higa, Kenneth, Hui Zhao, Dilworth Y Parkinson, Harold Barnard, Min Ling, Gao Liu, and Venkat Srinivasan."Electrode Slurry Particle Density Mapping Using X-ray Radiography."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164.2 (2017) A380 - A388. DOI

2016

Zhao, Hui, Qing Yang, Neslihan Yuca, Min Ling, Kenneth Higa, Vincent S Battaglia, Dilworth Y Parkinson, Venkat Srinivasan, and Gao Liu."A Convenient and Versatile Method To Control the Electrode Microstructure toward High-Energy Lithium-Ion Batteries."Nano Letters 16.7 (2016) 4686 - 4690. DOI