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

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

2020

Liu, Haodong, Zhuoying Zhu, Qizhang Yan, Sicen Yu, Xin He, Yan Chen, Rui Zhang, Lu Ma, Tongchao Liu, Matthew Li, Ruoqian Lin, Yiming Chen, Yejing Li, Xing Xing, Yoonjung Choi, Lucy Gao, Helen Sung-yun Cho, Ke An, Jun Feng, Robert Kostecki, Khalil Amine, Tianpin Wu, Jun Lu, Huolin L. Xin, Shyue Ping Ong, and Ping Liu."A disordered rock salt anode for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries."Nature 585.7823 (2020) 63 - 67. DOI

Zheng, Zhiming, Hong-Hui Wu, Haodong Liu, Qiaobao Zhang, Xin He, Sicen Yu, Victoria Petrova, Jun Feng, Robert Kostecki, Ping Liu, Dong-Liang Peng, Meilin Liu, and Ming-Sheng Wang."Achieving Fast and Durable Lithium Storage through Amorphous FeP Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Ultrathin 3D P-Doped Porous Carbon Nanosheets."ACS Nano 14.8 (2020) 9545 - 9561. DOI

2019

Liu, Haodong, Zhuoying Zhu, Jason Huang, Xin He, Yan Chen, Rui Zhang, Ruoqian Lin, Yejing Li, Sicen Yu, Xing Xing, Qizhang Yan, Xiangguo Li, Matthew J. Frost, Ke An, Jun Feng, Robert Kostecki, Huolin L. Xin, Shyue Ping Ong, and Ping Liu."Elucidating the Limit of Li Insertion into the Spinel Li ₄Ti ₅O ₁₂."ACS Materials Letters 1.1 (2019) 96 - 102. DOI

2017

Ruan, , Yanli, Shidong Song, Jiangjin Liu, Ping Liu, Bowen Cheng, Xiangyun Song, and Vincent S. Battaglia."Improved structural stability and ionic conductivity of Na3Zr2Si2PO12 solid electrolyte by rare earth metal substitutions."Ceramics International 43.10 (2017) 7810 - 7815. DOI

2016

Jin, Ming, Wei Feng, Ping Liu, Chris Marnay, and Costas Spanos."MOD-DR: Microgrid optimal dispatch with demand response."Applied Energy 187 (2016). DOI

Liu, Ping, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, Spencer M. Dutton, Ming Jin, Lingwei Zheng, and Nan Zhou."Towards the Optimal Development of Low-Carbon Community Energy Systems."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Liu, Yanping, Kyle Tom, Xi Wang, Chunming Huang, Hongtao Yuan, Hong Ding, Changhyun Ko, Joonki Suh, Lawrence Pan, Kristin A. Persson, and Jie Yao."Dynamic Control of Optical Response in Layered Metal Chalcogenide Nanoplates."Nano Letters 16.1 (2016) 488 - 496. DOI

2003

Berdahl, Paul H., Ronald P. Reade, Jinping Liu, Richard E. Russo, Les Fritzemeier, David Buczek, and Urs Schoop."Oblique ion texturing of yttria-stabilized zirconia: the {211}<111> structure."Applied Physics Letters 82.3 (2003) 343-345. DOI