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)

1997

Berdahl, Paul H., and Sarah E. Bretz."Preliminary survey of the solar reflectance of cool roofing materials."Energy and Buildings 25 (1997) 149-158. DOI

1996

Akbari, Hashem, Ronnen M. Levinson, and Paul H. Berdahl."ASTM standards for measuring solar reflectance and infrared emittance of construction materials and comparing their steady-state surface temperatures."1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1 (1996) 1-11.

1995

Reade, Ronald P., Paul H. Berdahl, Leonard W. Schaper, and Richard E. Russo."Multilayer YBaCuO structures using ion-assisted intermediate layers."IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductvity 5.2 (1995) 2007-2010. DOI

Berdahl, Paul H.."Building energy efficiency and fire safety aspects of reflective coatings."Energy and Buildings 22 (1995) 187-191. DOI

Reade, Ronald P., Paul H. Berdahl, Leonard W. Schaper, and Richard E. Russo."Y-Ba-Cu-O multilayer structures with amorphous dielectric layers for multichip modules using ion-assisted pulsed laser deposition."Applied Physics Letters 66.15 (1995) 2001-2003. DOI

1993

Gupta, Shiv K., Paul H. Berdahl, Richard E. Russo, Gabriel Briceño, and Alex Zettl."Pulse I-V characteristics measurement to study dissipation mechanism in epitaxial YBaCuO thin films at high current densities."Physica C: Superconductivity 206.3-4 (1993) 335-344. DOI

1992

Reade, Ronald P., Paul H. Berdahl, Stephen M. Garrison, and Richard E. Russo."Laser deposition of biaxially textured yttria‐stabilized zirconia buffer layers on polycrystalline metallic alloys for high critical current Y‐Ba‐Cu‐O thin films."Applied Physics Letters 61.18 (1992) 2231-2233. DOI

Lam, Q. Harry, Carson D. Jeffries, Paul H. Berdahl, Richard E. Russo, and Ronald P. Reade."Complex ac permeability and harmonic generation of a thin film of YBa2Cu3O7-δ: Measurements and models."Physical Review B 46.1 (1992) 437-442. DOI

Berdahl, Paul H., Xianglei Mao, Ronald P. Reade, Michael D. Rubin, Richard E. Russo, and E. Yin."Angular Magnetoresistance Provides Texture Information on High-Tc Conductors."Physica C 195 (1992) 93-102.

1991

Mao, Xianglei, Paul H. Berdahl, Richard E. Russo, H. B. Liu, and James C. Ho."Bi-Pb-Sb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Superconducting Thin-Films Deposited on Ni-Based Alloy with Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Intermediate Layers."Physica C: Superconductivity 183.1-3 (1991) 167-171. DOI

Lam, Q. Harry, Carson D. Jeffries, Paul H. Berdahl, Richard E. Russo, Gabriel Briceño, and Alex Zettl."Harmonic generation in YBaCuO and BiSrCaCuO."Amer.Phys.Soc. 36 (1991) 568.