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

Schwartz, Lisa C, Hanna Terwilliger, Joy Wang, and Sean Morash."Integrated Distribution System Planning Workshop, New Mexico PRC." (2023).

Relf, Grace, Joy Wang, Fredrich Kahrl, Paul De Martini, Caitlyn Edmundson, Rob Peterson, Sean Morash, Brad Borum, Tim Woolf, Jennifer Yoshimura, Sarah Hall, Tera Dornfeld, Josh L Bode, Megan Gilman, Robert Peterson, Lisa C Schwartz, James Lester, and Nick Sayen."PUC Peer-Sharing Webinars on Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2023).

2021

Perera, A.T.D, Kavan Javanroodi, Y Wang, and Tianzhen Hong."Urban cells: Extending the energy hub concept to facilitate sector and spatial coupling."Advances in Applied Energy 3 (2021) 100046. DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, Mary Ann Piette, Aditya Khandekar, Jessica Granderson, Natalie Mims Frick, Ryan Hledik, Ahmad Faruqui, Long Lam, Stephanie Ross, Jesse Cohen, Kitty Wang, Daniela Urigwe, Dan Delurey, Monica Neukomm, and David Nemtzow."A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings." (2021).

2019

Luo, Q, Z Guo, H Huang, Q Zou, X Jiang, S Zhang, H Wang, M Song, B Zhang, H Chen, H Gu, G Han, X Yang, X Zou, K.-Y Wang, Z Liu, J Hong, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and L You."Nanoelectromechanical switches by controlled switchable cracking."IEEE Electron Device Letters 40 (2019) 1209-1212. DOI

2016

Tucker, Michael C, David Lambelet, Mohamed Oueslati, Benjamin Williams, Wu-Chieh Jerry Wang, and Adam Z Weber."Improved low-cost, non-hazardous, all-iron cell for the developing world."Journal of Power Sources 332 (2016) 111 - 117. DOI

2014

Gao, P, J Britson, C.T Nelson, J.R Jokisaari, C Duan, M Trassin, S.-H Baek, H Guo, L Li, Y Wang, Y.-H Chu, A.M Minor, C.-B Eom, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L.-Q Chen, and X Pan."Ferroelastic domain switching dynamics under electrical and mechanical excitations."Nature Communications 5 (2014). DOI

2007

Zhang, J.X, Y.L Li, Y Wang, Z.K Liu, L.Q Chen, Y.H Chu, F Zavaliche, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Effect of substrate-induced strains on the spontaneous polarization of epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films."Journal of Applied Physics 101 (2007). DOI

2002

Wang, Y, C Ganpule, B.T Liu, H Li, K Mori, B Hill, M Wuttig, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J Finder, Z Yu, R Droopad, and K Eisenbeiser."Epitaxial ferroelectric Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films on Si using SrTiO3 template layers."Applied Physics Letters 80 (2002) 97-99. DOI