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)

2022

Yang, Lin, Yi Tao, Madeleine P Gordon, Akanksha K Menon, Yunfei Chen, Ravi S Prasher, and Jeffrey J Urban."Morphological Ordering of the Organic Layer for High-Performance Hybrid Thermoelectrics."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14.51 (2022) 57460 - 57470. DOI

Peng, Peng, Akanksha K Menon, Nathaniel Weger, Ravi S Prasher, Sean D Lubner, Hanna Breunig, and Lin Yang."Techno-economic Analysis of High-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage for On-Demand Heat and Power." (2022).

Peng, Peng, Lin Yang, Akanksha K Menon, Nathaniel Weger, Ravi S Prasher, Hanna Breunig, and Sean D Lubner."Techno-economic Analysis of High-Temperature Thermal Energy Storage for On-Demand Heat and Power."Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry (2022). DOI

2021

Yang, Lin, Madeleine P Gordon, Akanksha K Menon, Alexandra Bruefach, Kyle Haas, M S Scott, Ravi S Prasher, and Jeffrey J Urban."Decoupling electron and phonon transport in single-nanowire hybrid materials for high-performance thermoelectrics."Science Advances 7.20 (2021) eabe6000. DOI

Yang, Lin, Ravi S Prasher, and Deyu Li."From nanowires to super heat conductors."Journal of Applied Physics 130.22 (2021) 220901. DOI

Yang, Lin, Daihong Huh, Rui Ning, Vi H Rapp, Yuqiang Zeng, Yunzhi Liu, Sucheol Ju, Yi Tao, Yue Jiang, Jihyun Beak, Juyoung Leem, Sumanjeet Kaur, Heon Lee, Xiaolin Zheng, and Ravi S Prasher."High thermoelectric figure of merit of porous Si nanowires from 300 to 700 K."Nature Communications 12.1 (2021). DOI

Gordon, Madeleine P, Kyle Haas, Edmond W Zaia, Akanksha K Menon, Lin Yang, Alexandra Bruefach, Michael D Galluzzo, Mary C Scott, Prasher Prasher, Ayaskanta Sahu, and Jeffrey J Urban."Understanding Diameter and Length Effects in a Solution‐Processable Tellurium‐Poly(3,4‐Ethylenedioxythiophene) Polystyrene Sulfonate Hybrid Thermoelectric Nanowire Mesh."Advanced Electronic Materials 7.3 (2021) 2000904. DOI

2009

Klein, Stephen A, Renata B McCoy, Hugh Morrison, Andrew S Ackerman, Alexander Avramov, Gijs de Boer, Mingxuan Chen, Jason N. S Cole, Anthony Del Genio, Michael Falk, Michael J Foster, Ann M Fridlind, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Tempei Hashino, Jerry Y Harrington, Corinna Hoose, Marat F Khairoutdinov, Vincent E Larson, Xiaohong Liu, Yali Luo, Greg M McFarquhar, Surabi Menon, Roel A. J Neggers, Sungsu Park, Michael R Poellot, Jerome M Schmidt, Igor Sednev, Ben J Shipway, Matthew D Shupe, Douglas A Spangenberg, Yogesh C Sud, David D Turner, Dana E Veron, Knut von Salzen, Gregory K Walker, Zhien Wang, Audrey B Wolf, Shaocheng Xie, Kuan-Man Xu, Fanglin Yang, and Gong Zhang."Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-phase Arctic cloud experiment. Part I: Single layer cloud."Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 135.641 Part B (2009) 979-1002. DOI