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)

2024

Casillas, Armando, Jessica Granderson, Yimin Chen, John House, Guanjing Lin, Weiping Huang, Guhan Velmurugan, and Marco Pritoni."Innovating the next generation of commercial smart building software."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Wiser, Ryan H, Dev Millstein, Ben Hoen, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Galen L Barbose, Anna Cheyette, Naïm R Darghouth, Seongeun Jeong, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Eric O'Shaughnessy, Bentham Paulos, and Joachim Seel."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2024 Edition." (2024).

Ham, Sang woo, Lazlo Paul, Armando Casillas, Anand Prakash, Donghun Kim, Richard E Brown, Marco Pritoni, and Peter Grant."Practical challenges of model predictive control (MPC) for grid interactive small and medium commercial buildings."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Casquero-Modrego, Nuria, M Venkatraman, and Iain S Walker."The Costs of Decarbonizing Multifamily Buildings in DACs and Rural Areas."2024 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) (2024).

Miller, Cesca, Andrew Satchwell, and Jenya Kahn-Lang."The Customer Bill Impacts of Efficient Building Electrification."2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2024).

Murphy, Sean, Cesca Miller, Jeff Deason, Diana Dombrowski, and Portia Awuah."The State of Demand Flexibility Programs and Rates." (2024).

Agarwal, Shreya, Marco Pritoni, Jessica Collier, Jeff Wanner, Ruth Taylor, Meghan McNulty, and Mary M Bryan."Through the looking glass: analyzing barriers to adoption of advanced rooftop unit controls through human-centered observational research."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Barbose, Galen L, Naïm R Darghouth, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Sydney Forrester."Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States, 2024 Edition." (2024).

Barbose, Galen L."U.S. State Renewables Portfolio & Clean Electricity Standards: 2024 Status Update." (2024).

Fujita, K Sydny, Zach Ancona, Louisa Kramer, James Diffendorfer, Mary Straka, Tandie E Gautreau, Dana Robson, Ben Hoen, and Chris Garrity."US Large-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Database Files." (2024).

Fornaciari, Julie C, Shannon W Boettcher, Ethan J Crumlin, Ahmet Kusoglu, David G Prendergast, Daniela Ushizima, Iryna V Zenyuk, and Adam Z Weber."Achieving the hydrogen shot: Interrogating ionomer interfaces."MRS Energy & Sustainability (2024). DOI

Xu, Yujie, Pouya Vahmani, Andrew Jones, and Tianzhen Hong."Anthropogenic heat from buildings in Los Angeles County: A simulation framework and assessment."Sustainable Cities and Society 107 (2024) 105468. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sunhee Baik, Mark Bolinger, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Dev Millstein, Sean Murphy, Margaret Pigman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Consumer Benefits of A Clean Energy Transition: Policy Brief." (2024).

Baik, Sunhee, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Consumer Benefits of A Clean Energy Transition: The resilience value of residential solar + storage systems in the continental U.S.." (2024).

Pigman, Margaret, Dev Millstein, Natalie Mims Frick, Wanya Chan, and William W Delp."Consumer Impacts of A Clean Energy Transition: Climate and health benefits from electrifying residential space and water heating." (2024).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sean Murphy, Dimitra Cappers, and Portia Awuah."Consumer Impacts of A Clean Energy Transition: Energy Efficiency." (2024).

Bolinger, Mark, Natalie Mims Frick, and Ryan H Wiser."Consumer Impacts of A Clean Energy Transition: Renewable Energy." (2024).

Krelling, Amanda Fraga, Roberto Lamberts, Jeetika Malik, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Defining weather scenarios for simulation-based assessment of thermal resilience of buildings under current and future climates: A case study in Brazil."Sustainable Cities and Society 107 (2024) 105460. DOI

Kramer, Chris, Greg Leventis, and Jeff Deason."Driving Uptake for Energy Efficiency Financing Programs: Marketing and Outreach, Partnership Networks, and Program Design Considerations." (2024).

Liang, Wei, Han Li, Sicheng Zhan, Adrian Chong, and Tianzhen Hong."Energy flexibility quantification of a tropical net-zero office building using physically consistent neural network-based model predictive control."Advances in Applied Energy 14 (2024) 100167. DOI

McAdams, Jasmine, and Nichole L Hanus."Establishing and Maintaining Engagement for a Distributional Equity Analysis." (2024).

Jain, Anubhav, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, Michael D Sohn, Will Gorman, Alexandre Moreira, Lazlo Paul, Haitam Laarabi, and Maher Alghalayini."Frontiers in Energy Storage: Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence (AI)." (2024).

Schellenberg, Josh A, and Lisa C Schwartz."Grid Resilience Plans: State Requirements, Utility Practices, and Utility Plan Template." (2024).

Leventis, Greg, Sydney Forrester, and Bentham Paulos."Income Verification Strategies for Income-Based Solar Programs." (2024).

Dun, Chaochao, Xinyi Wang, Linfeng Chen, Sichi Li, Hanna Breunig, and Jeffrey J Urban."Nano-enhanced solid-state hydrogen storage: Balancing discovery and pragmatism for future energy solutions."Nano Research (2024). DOI