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)

2016

Cho, Kyu-Taek, Michael C Tucker, and Adam Z Weber."A Review of Hydrogen/Halogen Flow Cells."Energy Technology 4.6 (2016) 655 - 678. DOI

2015

Knudsen, Edward, Paul Albertus, Kyu-Taek Cho, Adam Z Weber, and Aleksandar Kojic."Flow simulation and analysis of high-power flow batteries."Journal of Power Sources 299 (2015) 617-628. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, Kyu-Taek Cho, Franz B Spingler, Adam Z Weber, and Guangyu Lin."Impact of membrane characteristics on the performance and cycling of the Br2–H2 redox flow cell."Journal of Power Sources 284 (2015) 212 - 221. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, Kyu-Taek Cho, Adam Z Weber, Guangyu Lin, and Trung V Nguyen."Optimization of electrode characteristics for the Br₂/H₂ redox flow cell."Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 45.1 (2015) 11 - 19. DOI

2014

Cho, Kyu-Taek, Michael C Tucker, Markus Ding, Paul L Ridgway, Vincent S Battaglia, Venkat Srinivasan, and Adam Z Weber."Cyclic Performance Analysis of Hydrogen/Bromine Flow Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage."ChemPlusChem 80.2 (2014) 402 - 411. DOI

Tucker, Michael C, Kyu-Taek Cho, and Adam Z Weber."Optimization of the iron-ion/hydrogen redox flow cell with iron chloride catholyte salt."Journal of Power Sources 245 (2014) 691 - 697. DOI

2013

Cho, Kyu-Taek, Paul Albertus, Vincent S Battaglia, Aleksandar Kojic, Venkat Srinivasan, and Adam Z Weber."Optimization and Analysis of High-Power Hydrogen/Bromine-Flow Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage."Energy Technology 1.10 (2013) 596 - 608. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Kyu-Taek Cho, Rafael A Prato, and Adam Z Weber."Structural and transport properties of Nafion in hydrobromic-acid solutions."Solid State Ionics (2013). DOI

2012

Cho, Kyu-Taek, Paul L Ridgway, Adam Z Weber, Sophia Haussener, Vincent S Battaglia, and Venkat Srinivasan."High performance hydrogen/bromine redox flow battery for grid-scale energy storage."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.11 (2012) A1806-A1815. DOI

Cho, Kyu-Taek, and Matthew M Mench."Investigation of the role of the micro-porous layer in polymer electrolyte fuel cells with hydrogen deuterium contrast neutron radiography."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14 (2012) 4296-4302. DOI

Jung, Sokhee, Young-Ho Ahn, Sang-Eun Oh, Junho Lee, Kyu-Taek Cho, Youngjin Kim, Myeong Woon Kim, Joonmok Shim, and Moonsung Kang."Impedance and thermodynamic analysis of bioanode, abiotic anode, and riboflavin-amended anode in microbial fuel cells."Bulletin of Korean Chemical Society 33 (2012) 3349-3354. DOI