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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2023

Zhang, Buyi, Bei Fan, Zhi Huang, Kenneth Higa, Vincent S. Battaglia, and Ravi S. Prasher."A Review of Dispersion Film Drying ResearchAbstract."Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage 20.3 (2023). DOI

Das, Sujit, Heidi Fuchs, Ritu Philip, and Prakash Rao."A review of water valuation metrics: Supporting sustainable water use in manufacturing."Water Resources and Industry 29 (2023) 100199. DOI

Hoen, Ben, Ryan Darlow, Ryan Haac, Joseph Rand, and Ken Kaliski."Effects of land-based wind turbine upsizing on community sound levels and power and energy density."Applied Energy 15 (2023). DOI

Wang, Wenjun, Nina Khanna, Jiang Lin, and Xu Liu."Black carbon emissions and reduction potential in China: 2015–2050."Journal of Environmental Management 329 (2023). DOI

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Joachim Seel, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Fredrich Kahrl, Will Gorman, Ryan H. Wiser, Will Cotton, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in the NYISO Territory." (2023).

Chalise, Divya, Ravi S. Prasher, Venkat Srinivasan, Sean Lubner, and Sumanjeet Kaur."Measurement of entropy change of a half-cell electrochemical reaction using Multi-harmonic ElectroThermal Spectroscopy (METS)." (2023).

Bolinger, Mark, Dev Millstein, Will Gorman, Patrick Dobson, and Seongeun Jeong."Mind the gap: Comparing the net value of geothermal, wind, solar, and solar+storage in the Western United States."Renewable Energy 205 (2023) 999-1009. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Hongyou Lu, and Nan Zhou."Net-Zero Roadmap for China’s Steel Industry." (2023).

Tucker, Michael C., Fengyu Shen, and Martha Welander."Oxidation of Porous Stainless Steel Supports for Metal-Supported Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2023).

Abhyankar, Nikit, Priyanka Mohanty, Shruti M. Deorah, Nihan Karali, Umed Paliwal, Jessica Kersey, and Amol A. Phadke."Pathways to Atmanirbhar Bharat: Harnessing India's Renewable Edge for Cost-Effective Energy Independence by 2047." (2023).

Elmallah, Salma, Ben Hoen, K. Sydny Fujita, Dana Robson, and Eric Brunner."Shedding light on large-scale solar impacts: An analysis of property values and proximity to photovoltaics across six U.S. states."Energy Policy (2023). DOI

Zuberi, Jibran, Ali Hasanbeigi, and William R. Morrow III."Techno-economic evaluation of industrial heat pump applications in US pulp and paper, textile, and automotive industries."Energy Efficiency 16.3 (2023). 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

Shiraishi, Kenji, Won Young Park, Nikit Abhyankar, Umed Paliwal, Nina Khanna, Toru Morotomi, Jiang Lin, and Amol A. Phadke."The 2035 Japan Report: Plummeting Costs of Solar, Wind, and Batteries Can Accelerate Japan’s Clean and Independent Electricity Future." (2023).

Hanus, Nichole L, Jay Barlow, Andrew Satchwell, and Peter Cappers."Assessing the Current State of U.S. Energy Equity Regulation and Legislation." (2023).

Wang, Yan, Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, and Corinne D. Scown."Co-Processing Agricultural Residues and Wet Organic Waste Can Produce Lower-Cost Carbon-Negative Fuels and Bioplastics."Environmental Science & Technology (2023). DOI

Menon, Akanksha K., Mingxin Jia, Sumanjeet Kaur, Chris Dames, and Ravi S. Prasher."Distributed desalination using solar energy: A technoeconomic framework to decarbonize nontraditional water treatment."iScience 26.2 (2023) 105966. DOI

Murphy, Sean, and Natalie Mims Frick."Estimating the Drivers of the Cost of Saved Electricity in Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs."Energies 16.5 (2023). DOI

Nordahl, Sarah L., Chelsea V. Preble, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Corinne D. Scown."Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions from Composting."Environmental Science & Technology 57.6 (2023) 2235 - 2247. DOI

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H. Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, and Julie Mulvaney Kemp."The Latest Market Data Show that the Potential Savings of New Electric Transmission was Higher Last Year than at Any Point in the Last Decade." (2023).

Huntington, Tyler, Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, Eric R. Sundstrom, and Corinne D. Scown."Machine learning for surrogate process models of bioproduction pathways."Bioresource Technology 370 (2023) 128528. DOI

Zeng, Jian, Xintong Zhang, Ka Man Chung, Tianshi Feng, Haowen Zhang, Ravi S. Prasher, and Renkun Chen."Moisture thermal battery with autonomous water harvesting for passive electronics cooling."Cell Reports Physical Science 4.2 (2023) 101250. DOI

Martin, Andrew, Drew Lilley, Ravi S. Prasher, and Sumanjeet Kaur."Particle Size Optimization of Thermochemical Salt Hydrates for High Energy Density Thermal Storage."ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS (2023). DOI

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).

Satchwell, Andrew, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Peter Cappers, James Milford, and Hadi Eshraghi."Quantifying the Financial Impacts of Electric Vehicles on Utility Ratepayers and Shareholders." (2023).

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