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

Li, Ning, Meiling Sun, Wang Hay Kan, Zengqing Zhuo, Sooyeon Hwang, Sara E Renfrew, Maxim Avdeev, Ashfia Huq, Bryan D McCloskey, Dong Su, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Layered-rocksalt intergrown cathode for high-capacity zero-strain battery operation."Nature Communications 12.1 (2021). DOI

Zhuo, Zengqing, Kehua Dai, Jinpeng Wu, Liang Zhang, Nobumichi Tamura, Yi- de Chuang, Jun Feng, Jinghua Guo, Zhi-xun Shen, Gao Liu, Feng Pan, and Wanli Yang."Distinct Oxygen Redox Activities in Li2MO3 (M = Mn, Ru, Ir)."ACS Energy Letters 6.10 (2021) 3417 - 3424. 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

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

2020

Dai, Kehua, Jing Mao, Zengqing Zhuo, Yan Feng, Wenfeng Mao, Guo Ai, Feng Pan, Yi-den Chuang, Gao Liu, and Wanli Yang."Negligible voltage hysteresis with strong anionic redox in conventional battery electrode."Nano Energy 74 (2020) 104831. DOI

Wu, Jinpeng, Zengqing Zhuo, Xiaohui Rong, Kehua Dai, Zachary Lebens-Higgins, Shawn Sallis, Feng Pan, Louis F. J Piper, Gao Liu, Yi- De Chuang, Zahid Hussain, Qinghao Li, Rong Zeng, Zhi-xun Shen, and Wanli Yang."Dissociate lattice oxygen redox reactions from capacity and voltage drops of battery electrodes."Science Advances 6.6 (2020) eaaw3871. DOI

2019

2017

Wu, Jinpeng, Jie Song, Kehua Dai, Zengqing Zhuo, L. L Andrew Wray, Gao Liu, Zhi-xun Shen, Rong Zeng, Yuhao Lu, and Wanli Yang."Modification of Transition-Metal Redox by Interstitial Water in Hexacyanometalate Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries."Journal of the American Chemical Society 139.50 (2017) 18358 - 18364. DOI

Zhuo, Zengqing, Paul Olalde-Velasco, Timothy Chin, Vincent S Battaglia, Stephen J Harris, Feng Pan, and Wanli Yang."Effect of excess lithium in LiMn ₂O ₄and Li _1.15Mn _1.85O ₄electrodes revealed by quantitative analysis of soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy."Applied Physics Letters 110.9 (2017) 093902. DOI