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)

1992

Schuman, Jennifer E., Francis M. Rubinstein, Konstantinos M. Papamichael, Liliana O. Beltran, Eleanor S. Lee, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Technology Reviews: Glazing Systems." (1992).

Schuman, Jennifer E., Francis M. Rubinstein, Konstantinos M. Papamichael, Liliana O. Beltran, Eleanor S. Lee, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Technology Reviews: Lighting Systems." (1992).

Schuman, Jennifer E., Francis M. Rubinstein, Konstantinos M. Papamichael, Liliana O. Beltran, Eleanor S. Lee, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Technology Reviews: Shading Systems." (1992).

Rojas, Dorys, Robert J. Silva, and Richard E. Russo."Thermal lens spectroscopy using diode laser and optical fibers."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 63 (1992) 2989.

Newman, Nathan, Jennifer T. Ross, and Michael D. Rubin."Thermodynamic and Kinetic Processes Involved in the Growth of Epitaxial GaN Thin Films."Applied Physics Letters 62 (1992) 1242.

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, A. Inam, T. Sands, and C.T. Rogers."Thin film YBaCuO high Tc superconductors: structure-property relationships."Materials Science and Engineering B 14 (1992) 188-213. DOI

Berman, Sam M.."Tuning Light Spectrum to Improve Energy Efficiency."International Association of Energy-Efficient Lighting 2 (1992).

Kostecki, Robert, and Jan Augustynski."Unusually strong cathodic photoeffect at silver in contact with aqueous solutions containing carbon dioxide."Chemical Physics Letters 194 (1992) 386-390.

Arasteh, Dariush K.."Window 4.0: PC Program for Analyzing Window Thermal Performance." (1992).

1991

Ross, Jennifer T., Michael D. Rubin, and Ture K. Gustafson."Single Crystal Wurtzite GaN on (111) GaAs with AIN Buffer Layers Grown by Reactive Magnetron Sputter Deposition."Journal of Materials Research 8.10 (1991) 2613-2616.

Franconi, Ellen M., and Francis M. Rubinstein."Considering Lighting System Performance and HVAC Interactions in Lighting Retrofit Analysis."IEEE-IAS Annual Conference (1991).

Yin, E., Michael D. Rubin, and C. Bradford Hopper."On-Axis Shielded Sputtering of Y-Ba-Cu-O."Materials Letters 13.2-3 (1991) 89-92. DOI

Krause, Florentin, and Joseph H Eto."Least Cost Utility Planning: Ein Handbuch fur Regulierungsbeauftragte uber Energieversorgungsunternehmen."Den Wettbewerb im Energiesektor planen (1991). DOI

Kuhn, , Peter, and Arlon J. Hunt."A new solar simulator to study high temperature solid-state reactions with highly concentrated radiation."Solar Energy Materials 24.1-4 (1991) 742-750. DOI

Mao, Xianglei, Paul H. Berdahl, Richard E. Russo, H. B. Liu, and James C. Ho."Bi-Pb-Sb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Superconducting Thin-Films Deposited on Ni-Based Alloy with Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Intermediate Layers."Physica C: Superconductivity 183.1-3 (1991) 167-171. DOI

Traynor, Gregory W., Michael G. Apte, Richard C. Diamond, and Alicia L. Woods."A Carbon Monoxide Passive Sampler: Research and Development Needs." (1991).

Diamond, Richard C., Joseph A. McAllister, and Leo I. Rainer."Multifamily Energy Audit for HUD-Insured Multifamily Properties."Document prepared for the Office of Multifamily Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1991).

Griffith, Brent T., Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Gas-Filled Panel High-Performance Thermal Insulation."Insulation Materials: Testing and Applications 2 (1991).

Eto, Joseph H, and Florentin Krause."Least-Cost Planning Handbook: Planowawanie Wedlug Najmniejszych Koztow." (1991).

Kahn, Edward P, and Charles A. Goldman."The Role of Competitive Forces in Integrated Resource Planning." (1991) 49.

Eto, Joseph H, and Charles A. Goldman."The Business of Delivering Energy Services in California." (1991).

Rojas, Dorys, Robert J. Silva, Jonathan D. Spear, and Richard E. Russo."Dual beam optical fiber thermal lens spectrometry."Analytical Chemistry 63.18 (1991) 1927-1932. DOI

Weaver, , Jeffrey K., Frank R. McLarnon, and Elton J. Cairns."Experimental and Theoretical Study of Concentration Distributions in a Model Pore Electrode I. Measurement of Two-Dimensional Concentration Gradients in a Zinc Model Pore."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 138 (1991) 2572-2579. DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Joseph H Eto, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Office Equipment Energy Use and Trends." (1991).

Reade, Ronald P., Xianglei Mao, and Richard E. Russo."Characterization of Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin-Films and Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Intermediate Layers on Metal-Alloys Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition."Applied Physics Letters 59.6 (1991) 739-741. DOI