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

Heleno, Miguel, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Alan Valenzuela, Greg Leventis, Cesca Miller, and Jeff Deason."Distribution Grid Impacts of Community Solar." (2023).

Brown, Richard E, Aditya Khandekar, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, Jaime Kolln, Steve Widergren, David Narang, Ted Bohn, and Yaosuo Xue."Energy Services Interface: Requirements Document." (2023). DOI

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

Arroyo, Javier, Lucas Verleyen, Lucas Bex, Louis Hermans, Muhammad Hafeez Saeed, Yucun Lu, Joris Depoortere, Attila Bálint, Erik Delarue, Johan Driesen, Geert Deconinck, David Blum, and Lieve Helsen."Prototyping the DOPTEST Framework for Simulation-Based Testing of System Integration Strategies in Districts."Building Simulation 2023: 18th Conference of IBPSA 18 (2023). DOI

Karki, Unique, and Prakash Rao."Techno-economic analysis of the water, energy, and greenhouse gas emissions impacts from the adoption of water efficiency practices in the U.S. manufacturing sector."Resources, Conservation and Recycling 196 (2023) 107054. DOI

Forrester, Sydney, Cole Triedman, Sam Kozel, Cameron Brooks, and Peter Cappers."Third-Party Aggregation Rulemaking in MISO and SPP Footprints." (2023).

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, 2023 Edition." (2023).

Bavaresco, Mateus Vinicius, Rayner Mauricioe Machado, Amanda Fraga Krelling, Won Young Park, Ana Paula Melo, and Roberto Lamberts."Using Building Performance Simulation to Enhance Energy Efficiency Evaluations of Room Air Conditioners."Proceedings of Building Simulation 2023: 18th Conference of IBPSA (2023). DOI

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

Laarabi, Haitam, Zachary Needell, Rashid Waraich, Cristian Poliziani, and Thomas P Wenzel."BEAM: The Modeling Framework for Behavior, Energy, Autonomy & Mobility - The Open-Source Agent-Based Regional Transportation Model Unpacked: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Inner Dynamics." (2023).

Hernandez, Victor, Robert S Jordan, Ian M Hill, Bohao Xu, Chenxi Zhai, Di Wu, Hansong Lee, John Misiaszek, Kiana Shirzad, Miguel F Martinez, Ahmet Kusoglu, Jingjie Yeo, and Yue Wang."Deformation Rate‐Adaptive Conducting Polymers and Composites."Small 19.35 (2023). DOI

Langevin, Jared, Aven Satre-Meloy, Andrew Satchwell, Ryan Hledik, Julia Olszewski, Kate Peters, and Handi Chandra-Putra."Demand-side solutions in the U.S. building sector could achieve deep emissions reductions and avoid over $100 billion in power sector costs."One Earth 6.8 (2023) 1005-2031. DOI

Forrester, Sydney, and Andrew Satchwell."Developing an Equity Framework for State Regulatory Decision-Making." (2023).

Shackelford, Jordan, Alastair Robinson, Cynthia Regnier, and Sang Hoon Lee."Getting Beyond Widgets: Performance of Efficient Indoor Air Quality System Retrofit Packages for Schools." (2023).

Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, and Seongeun Jeong."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2023 Edition." (2023).

Singhal, Nikita G, Rajni Kant Bansal, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Erik Ela, and Miguel Heleno."Integration of Hybrids into Wholesale Power Markets." (2023).

Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L Barbose, Naïm R Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Bentham Paulos."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2023 Edition." (2023).

Larsen, Peter H, Lisa C Schwartz, and Joe Paladino."Resilience Training for the Public Utility Commission of Texas." (2023).

Mohanty, Priyanka, Emilia Chojkiewicz, Epica Mandal Sarkar, Rohit Laumas, Akash Saraf, Avanthika Satheesh, and Nikit Abhyankar."Review of Grid-Scale Energy Storage Technologies Globally and in India." (2023).

Sparti, Chelsi, Peter H Larsen, and Tyler Huntington."The Value of Sharing and Consolidating Critical Community, Electricity, and Natural Hazard Information." (2023).

Hu, shan, Xin Zhou, Da Yan, Fei Guo, Tianzhen Hong, and Yi Jiang."A systematic review of building energy sufficiency towards energy and climate targets."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 181 (2023) 113316. DOI

Wei, Max, Catherine Foster, Tia Tyler, Julia Kim, and Ryan Bodanyi."An Action Plan for Greater Climate Equity for Disadvantaged Communities in Fresno." (2023).

Peng, Peng, Ji Su, and Hanna Breunig."Benchmarking plasma and electrolysis decomposition technologies for ammonia to power generation."Energy Conversion and Management 288 (2023) 117166. DOI

Demarteau, Jérémy, Benjamin Cousineau, Zilong Wang, Baishakhi Bose, Seokjung Cheong, Guangxu Lan, Nawa Raj Baral, Simon J Teat, Corinne D Scown, Jay D Keasling, and Brett A Helms."Biorenewable and circular polydiketoenamine plastics."Nature Sustainability (2023). DOI