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

Hu, Wei, Kyle Bradbury, Jordan M Malof, Boning Li, Bohao Huang, Artem Streltsov, K Sydny Fujita, and Ben Hoen."What you get is not always what you see—pitfalls in solar array assessment using overhead imagery."Applied Energy 327 (2022). DOI

He, Xin, Jue Wu, Zhuoying Zhu, Haodong Liu, Ning Li, Dong Zhou, Xu Hou, Jun Wang, Haowei Zhang, Dominic Bresser, Yanbao Fu, Matthew J Crafton, Bryan D McCloskey, Yan Chen, Ke An, Ping Liu, Anubhav Jain, Jie Li, Wanli Yang, Yong Yang, Martin Winter, and Robert Kostecki."Chemical and structural evolutions of Li–Mn-rich layered electrodes at different current densities."Energy & Environmental Science 15.10 (2022) 4137 - 4147. DOI

2021

Li, Ning, Meiling Sun, Wang Hay Kan, Zengqing Zhuo, Sooyeon Hwang, Sara E Renfrew, Maxim Avdeev, Ashfia Huq, Bryan D McCloskey, Dong Su, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Layered-rocksalt intergrown cathode for high-capacity zero-strain battery operation."Nature Communications 12.1 (2021). DOI

Yue, Yuan, Yang Ha, Tzu-Yang Huang, Ning Li, Linze Li, Qingtian Li, Jun Feng, Chongmin Wang, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Interplay between Cation and Anion Redox in Ni-Based Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes."ACS Nano 15.8 (2021) 13360 - 13369. DOI

2020

Zhang, Linjing, Caiping Zhang, Ning Li, and Wei Tong."Influence of Charge Cutoff Voltage on the Cycling Behavior of LiNi _0.5Mn_0.3Co_0.2O₂ Cathode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167.12 (2020) 120509. DOI

Yue, Yuan, Ning Li, Linze Li, Emily E Foley, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, Raphaële J Clément, Chongmin Wang, and Wei Tong."Redox Behaviors in a Li-Excess Cation-Disordered Mn–Nb–O–F Rocksalt Cathode."Chemistry of Materials 32.11 (2020) 4490 - 4498. DOI

2019

Li, Ning, Sooyeon Hwang, Meiling Sun, Yanbao Fu, Vincent S Battaglia, Dong Su, and Wei Tong."Unraveling the Voltage Decay Phenomenon in Li‐Rich Layered Oxide Cathode of No Oxygen Activity."Advanced Energy Materials 9.47 (2019) 1902258. DOI

Li, Ning, Shawn Sallis, Joseph K Papp, James Wei, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Unraveling the Cationic and Anionic Redox Reactions in a Conventional Layered Oxide CathodeUnraveling the Cationic and Anionic Redox Reactions in a Conventional Layered Oxide Cathode."ACS Energy Letters 4.12 (2019) 2836 - 2842. DOI

Yourey, William, Yanbao Fu, Ning Li, Vincent S Battaglia, and Wei Tong."Determining Accelerated Charging Procedure from Half Cell Characterization."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 166.8 (2019) A1432 - A1438. DOI

2018

Fang, Shan, Ning Li, Tianyue Zheng, Yanbao Fu, Xiangyun Song, Ting Zhang, Shaopeng Li, Bin Wang, Xiaogang Zhang, and Gao Liu."Highly Graphitized Carbon Coating on SiO with a π–π Stacking Precursor Polymer for High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries."Polymers 10.6 (2018) 610. DOI