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)

2024

Yang, Haozhe, Qian Luo, Gang He, Jiang Lin, Jeremiah X Johnson, Fernando Garcia-Menendez, Olivier Deschenes, Ana Mileva, and Ranjit Deshmukh."Regional disparities in health and employment outcomes of China's transition to a low-carbon electricity system."Environmental Research: Energy 1 (2024). DOI

2023

Luo, Qian, Fernando Garcia-Menendez, Haozhe Yang, Ranjit Deshmukh, Gang He, Jiang Lin, and Jeremiah X Johnson."The Health and Climate Benefits of Economic Dispatch in China’s Power System."Environmental Science & Technology 57.7 (2023) 2898–2906. DOI

2020

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, Ranjit Deshmukh, Julia Szinai, and Anand R Gopal."Cost-effective decarbonization of California’s power sector by 2030 with the aid of battery storage." (2020).

2019

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Grace Wu, Duncan S Callaway, and Amol A Phadke."Geospatial and techno-economic analysis of wind and solar resources in India." (2019).

2017

Palchak, David, Jaquelin Cochran, Ranjit Deshmukh, Ali Ehlen, Sushil Kumar Soonee, S.R Narasimhan, Mohit Joshi, Brendan McBennett, Michael Milligan, Priya Sreedharan, Ilya Chernyakhovskiy, and Nikit Abhyankar."GREENING THE GRID: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India’s Electric Grid, Vol. I—National Study."Greening the Grid 1 (2017).

Palchak, David, Jaquelin Cochran, Ranjit Deshmukh, Ali Ehlen, Sushil Kumar Soonee, S.R Narasimhan, Mohit Joshi, Brendan McBennett, Michael Milligan, Priya Sreedharan, Ilya Chernyakhovskiy, and Nikit Abhyankar."GREENING THE GRID: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India’s Electric Grid, Vol. I—National Study EXECUTIVE SUMMARY."Greening the Grid 1 (2017).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Grace Wu, and Amol A Phadke."Renewable Energy Zones for Balancing Siting Trade-offs in India: Multi-Criteria Analysis for Planning Renewable Energy." (2017).

2016

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, and Ranjit Deshmukh."Techno-Economic Assessment of Integrating 175GW of Renewable Energy into the Indian Grid by 2022." (2016).

2015

Wu, Grace, Ranjit Deshmukh, Kudakwashe Ndhlukula, Tijana Radojicic, and Jessica Reilly."Renewable Energy Zones for the Africa Clean Energy Corridor." (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Rongxin Yin, Ranjit Deshmukh, and G. G Ganesh Das."Characterization and Effectiveness of Technologies for India’s Electric Grid Reliability and Energy Security."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Girish Ghatikar, Rongxin Yin, G. G Ganesh Das, and Sujay Kumar Saha."Estimation of Potential and Value of Demand Response for Industrial and Commercial Consumers in Delhi."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Girish Ghatikar, Ranjit Deshmukh, and Aamir Hussain Khan."Findings from an Advanced Demand Response Smart Grid Project to Improve Electricity Reliability in India."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

2013

Abhyankar, Nikit, Amol A Phadke, Jayant A Sathaye, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Alissa K Johnson, Ranjit Deshmukh, Cathie Murray, Bob Lieberman, and Ajith Raoc."Modeling Clean and Secure Energy Scenarios for the Indian Power Sector in 2030." (2013).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Ashwin Gambhir."Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy Mini-grids for Energy Access: A Framework for Policy Design." (2013).

2011

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Ashwin Gambhir, and Amol A Phadke."Analysis of International Policies In The Solar Electricity Sector: Lessons for India." (2011).