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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2018

Pant, Lalit M, Zhiwei Yang, Michael L Perry, and Adam Z Weber."Development of a Simple and Rapid Diagnostic Method for Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.6 (2018) F3007 - F3014. DOI

2017

Darling, Robert M, Huai-Suen Shiau, Adam Z Weber, and Michael L Perry."The Relationship between Shunt Currents and Edge Corrosion in Flow Batteries."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 164.11 (2017) E3081 - E3091. DOI

2016

Perry, Michael L, and Adam Z Weber."Advanced Redox-Flow Batteries: A Perspective."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 163.1 (2016) A5064 - A5067. DOI

Darling, Robert M, Adam Z Weber, Michael C Tucker, and Michael L Perry."The Influence of Electric Field on Crossover in Redox-Flow Batteries."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 163.1 (2016) A5014 - A5022. DOI

2015

1998

Perry, Michael L, John S Newman, and Elton J Cairns."Mass Transport in Gas-Diffusion Electrodes: A Diagnostic Tool for Fuel-Cell Cathodes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 145 (1998) 5-15. DOI