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)

1994

Wruck, David A., Richard E. Russo, and Robert J. Silva."Thermal lens spectroscopy of plutonium using laser diode and fiber optics."Journal of Alloys and Compounds 213-214 (1994) 481-483. DOI

Klunder, Gregory L., J. Bürck, Hans J. Ache, Robert J. Silva, and Richard E. Russo."Temperature Effects on a Fiber-Optic Evanescent Wave Absorption Sensor."Applied Spectroscopy 48.3 (1994) 387-393.

1993

Spear, Jonathan D., Robert J. Silva, Gregory L. Klunder, and Richard E. Russo."Collinear photothermal deflection spectroscopy of liquid samples at varying temperature."Applied Spectroscopy 47.10 (1993) 1580-1584.

Schurig, David A., Gregory L. Klunder, Robert J. Silva, and Richard E. Russo."Signal analysis of transients in pulsed photoacoustic spectroscopy."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 64.2 (1993) 363-373. DOI

1992

Klunder, Gregory L., Robert J. Silva, and Richard E. Russo."Photoacoustic spectroscopy and the effect of amplified spontaneous emission."Analytical Chemistry 64.20 (1992) 2429-2433. DOI

Bennett, Dianne A., Darleane C. Hoffman, Heino Nitsche, Richard E. Russo, Richard A. Torres, Patricia A. Baisden, John E. Andrews, Cynthia E. A. Palmer, and Robert J. Silva."Hydrolysis and carbonate complexation of dioxoplutonium (V)."Radiochimica Acta 56.1 (1992).

Rojas, Dorys, Robert J. Silva, and Richard E. Russo."Thermal lens spectroscopy using diode laser and optical fibers."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 63 (1992) 2989.

1991

Rojas, Dorys, Robert J. Silva, Jonathan D. Spear, and Richard E. Russo."Dual beam optical fiber thermal lens spectrometry."Analytical Chemistry 63.18 (1991) 1927-1932. DOI

1990

Russo, Richard E., Dorys Rojas, Piotr B. Robouch, and Robert J. Silva."Remote photoacoustic measurements in aqueous solutions using an optical fiber."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 61.12 (1990). DOI

Torres, Richard A., Cynthia E. A. Palmer, Patricia A. Baisden, Robert J. Silva, and Richard E. Russo."Comparison of photoacoustic spectroscopy, conventional absorption spectroscopy, and potentiometry as probes of Lanthanide speciation."Analytical Chemistry 62.3 (1990) 298-303. DOI

Spear, Jonathan D., Richard E. Russo, and Robert J. Silva."Collinear photothermal deflection spectroscopy with light scattering samples."Applied Optics 29 (1990) 4225.

1988

Spear, Jonathan D., Richard E. Russo, and Robert J. Silva."Differential photothermal deflection spectroscopy using a single position sensor."Appl.Spectrosc. 42 (1988) 1103.