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)

2023

Tricker, Andrew W, Jason K Lee, Jason R Shin, Nemanja Danilovic, Adam Z Weber, and Xiong Peng."Design and operating principles for high-performing anion exchange membrane water electrolyzers."Journal of Power Sources 567 (2023) 232967. DOI

Lee, Jason K, Grace Y Lau, Mayank Sabharwal, Adam Z Weber, Xiong Peng, and Michael C Tucker."Titanium porous-transport layers for PEM water electrolysis prepared by tape casting."Journal of Power Sources 559 (2023) 232606. DOI

Lee, Jason K, Tobias Schuler, Guido Bender, Mayank Sabharwal, Xiong Peng, Adam Z Weber, and Nemanja Danilovic."Interfacial engineering via laser ablation for high-performing PEM water electrolysis."Applied Energy 336 (2023) 120853. DOI

2020

Taie, Zachary, Xiong Peng, Devashish Kulkarni, Iryna V Zenyuk, Adam Z Weber, Christopher Hagen, and Nemanja Danilovic."Pathway to Complete Energy Sector Decarbonization with Available Iridium Resources using Ultralow Loaded Water ElectrolyzersPathway to Complete Energy Sector Decarbonization with Available Iridium Resources using Ultralow Loaded Water Electrolyzers."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12.47 (2020) 52701 - 52712. DOI

Peng, Xiong, Zachary Taie, Jiangjin Liu, Yaqian Zhang, Xinxing Peng, Yagya N Regmi, Julie C Fornaciari, Christopher Capuano, Dustin Binny, Nancy N Kariuki, Deborah J Myers, Mary C Scott, Adam Z Weber, and Nemanja Danilovic."Hierarchical electrode design of highly efficient and stable unitized regenerative fuel cells (URFCs) for long-term energy storage."Energy & Environmental Science 13.12 (2020) 4872 - 4881. DOI

Regmi, Yagya N, Eden Tzanetopoulos, Guosong Zeng, Xiong Peng, Douglas I Kushner, Tobias A Kistler, Laurie A King, and Nemanja Danilovic."Supported Oxygen Evolution Catalysts by Design: Toward Lower Precious Metal Loading and Improved Conductivity in Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers."ACS Catalysis 10.21 (2020) 13125 - 13135. DOI

Regmi, Yagya N, Xiong Peng, Julie C Fornaciari, Max Wei, Deborah J Myers, Adam Z Weber, and Nemanja Danilovic."A low temperature unitized regenerative fuel cell realizing 60% round trip efficiency and 10 000 cycles of durability for energy storage applications."Energy & Environmental Science (2020). DOI