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)

2019

Browne, Eleanor C, Xiaolu Zhang, Jonathan P Franklin, Kelsey J Ridley, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Kevin R Wilson, Christopher D Cappa, and Jesse H Kroll."Effect of heterogeneous oxidative aging on light absorption by biomass burning organic aerosol."Aerosol Science and Technology 53.6 (2019) 663 - 674. DOI

2015

Canagaratna, Manjula R, Paola Massoli, Eleanor C Browne, Jonathan P Franklin, Kevin R Wilson, Timothy B Onasch, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Edward C Fortner, Charles E Kolb, John T Jayne, Jesse H Kroll, and Douglas R Worsnop."Chemical Compositions of Black Carbon Particle Cores and Coatings via Soot Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometry with Photoionization and Electron Ionization."The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 119.19 (2015) 4589-4599. DOI

Browne, Eleanor C, Jonathan P Franklin, Manjula R Canagaratna, Paola Massoli, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Douglas R Worsnop, Kevin R Wilson, and Jesse H Kroll."Changes to the Chemical Composition of Soot from Heterogeneous Oxidation Reactions."The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 119.7 (2015) 1154 - 1163. DOI

2014

Worton, David R, Gabriel Isaacman, Drew R Gentner, Timothy R Dallmann, Arthur W. H Chan, Christopher R Ruehl, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Kevin R Wilson, Robert A Harley, and Allen H Goldstein."Lubricating Oil Dominates Primary Organic Aerosol Emissions from Motor Vehicles."Environmental Science & Technology 48.7 (2014) 3698-3706. DOI

2013

2011

Sleiman, Mohamad, Peyton Jacob III, Emma Smith, Kevin R Wilson, Musahid Ahmed, Neal L Benowitz, James F Pankow, Brett C Singer, Lara A Gundel, and Hugo Destaillats."After the Smoke Clears: Indoor Chemistry of Thirdhand Smoke."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2011, The International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (2011).

2010

Sleiman, Mohamad, Hugo Destaillats, Jared D Smith, Chen-Lin Liu, Musahid Ahmed, Kevin R Wilson, and Lara A Gundel."Secondary organic aerosol formation from ozone-initiated reactions with nicotine and secondhand tobacco smoke."Atmospheric Environment 44.34 (2010) 4191-4198. DOI

2009

Timko, Michael T, Zhenhong Yu, Jesse H Kroll, John T Jayne, Douglas R Worsnop, Richard C Miake-Lye, Timothy B Onasch, David Liscinsky, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Hugo Destaillats, Amara L Holder, Jared D Smith, and Kevin R Wilson."Sampling artifacts from conductive silicone tubing."Aerosol Science and Technology 43.9 (2009) 855-865. DOI