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)

2021

Zhuo, , Zengqing, Kehua Dai, Ruimin Qiao, Rui Wang, Jinpeng Wu, Yali Liu, Jiayue Peng, Liquan Chen, Yi-de Chuang, Feng Pan, Zhi-xun Shen, Gao Liu, Hong Li, Thomas P. Devereaux, and Wanli Yang."Cycling mechanism of Li2MnO3: Li–CO2 batteries and commonality on oxygen redox in cathode materials."Joule 5.4 (2021) 975 - 997. DOI

Zhuo, , Zengqing, Kehua Dai, Ruimin Qiao, Rui Wang, Jinpeng Wu, Yali Luo, Jiayue Peng, Liquan Chen, Yi-den Chuang, Feng Pan, Zhi-xun Shen, Gao Liu, Hong Li, Thomas P. Devereaux, and Wanli Yang."Cycling mechanism of Li₂MnO₃: Li–CO₂ batteries and commonality on oxygen redox in cathode materials."Joule 5.4 (2021) 975 - 997. DOI

2020

Wang, , Xuan, Hua Tian, Fengying Yan, Wei Feng, Rui Wang, and Jiaying Pan."Optimization of a distributed energy system with multiple waste heat sources and heat storage of different temperatures based on the energy quality."Applied Thermal Engineering 181 (2020) 115975. DOI

2018

Wang, Rui, Jingyu Cao, Shichang Cai, Xuemin Yan, Junsheng Li, William M. Yourey, Wei Tong, and Haolin Tang."MOF@Cellulose Derived Co–N–C Nanowire Network as an Advanced Reversible Oxygen Electrocatalyst for Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries."ACS Applied Energy Materials 1.3 (2018) 1060 - 1068. DOI

2017

Wang, Rui, Shichang Cai, Yizhi Yan, William M. Yourey, Wei Tong, and Haolin Tang."A novel high-performance electrode architecture for supercapacitors: Fe ₂O ₃ nanocube and carbon nanotube functionalized carbon."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 5.43 (2017) 22648 - 22653. DOI

Wu, Fanglin, Yizhi Yan, Rui Wang, Haopeng Cai, Wei Tong, and Haolin Tang."Synthesis of LiNi1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2@graphene for lithium-ion batteries via self-assembled polyelectrolyte layers."Ceramics International 43.10 (2017) 7668 - 7673. DOI

2009

Wang, Rui, Francis Tsow, Xuezhi Zhang, Jhih-Hong Peng, Erica S. Forzani, Yongsheng Chen, John C. Crittenden, Hugo Destaillats, and Nongjian Tao."Real-Time Ozone Detection Based on a Microfabricated Quartz Crystal Tuning Fork Sensor."Sensors 9.7 (2009) 5655-5663. DOI