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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.
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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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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.

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2024

Bracho, Riccardo, Julie Doherty Kowalski, Nina Khanna, Virginie E Letschert, Nicholas DeForest, Rongxin Lin, Keith Kline, Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Loreta Lancellotti, Natalie Kempkey, and Mijal Brady Berkowitz."Leadership and Community Engagement in Chile: Deploying Net-Zero Technologies and Solutions." (2024).

Breunig, Hanna, Patricia Fox, Jeremy Domen, R Kumar, Ricardo Jorge Eloy Alves, Kateryna Zhalnina, Anne Voigtländer, Hang Deng, Bhavna Arora, and Peter Nico."Life cycle impact and cost analysis of quarry materials for land-based enhanced weathering in Northern California."Journal of Cleaner Production (2024) 143757. DOI

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

Rosner, Fabian, Boxun Hu, Michael C Tucker, and Hanna Breunig."Prospects of hydrogen cogeneration and carbon dioxide utilization in electrochemical refineries for ethylene production via oxidative coupling of methane: A techno-economic assessment." (2024).

Lu, Hongyou, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Virginie E Letschert, Hon LeungCurt Wong, Nan Zhou, Farid Wijaya, Faricha Hidayati, and Dwi Cahyo Husodo."Industry Decarbonization Roadmaps for Indonesia: Opportunities and challenges to net-zero emissions." (2024).

Arthurs, Claire R, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Mechanical Characterization of Electrolyzer Membranes and Components Under Compression."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 171.9 (2024) 094510. DOI

2023

Wei, Max, and Nihar Shah."Costs and benefits of improving cooling equipment efficiency including a novel improvement-linked incentive approach: Quantifying the opportunity for combining aggressive energy efficiency with Montreal Protocol refrigerant transition." (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

Lu, Hongyou, Tianqi Zhou, and Nan Zhou."Industrial Energy Intensity Benchmarking and Energy Transition in Inner Mongolia." (2023).

Deng, Hang, Eric Sonnenthal, Bhavna Arora, Hanna Breunig, Eoin Brodie, Markus Kleber, Nicolas Spycher, and Peter Nico."The environmental controls on efficiency of enhanced rock weathering in soils."Scientific Reports 13.1 (2023). DOI

Hu, Boxun, Fabian Rosner, Hanna Breunig, Asia Sarycheva, Robert Kostecki, and Michael C Tucker."Electrochemical conversion of methane to ethylene, olefins, and paraffins using metal-supported solid oxide cells."International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (2023). DOI

Rosner, Fabian, Michael C Tucker, Boxun Hu, and Hanna Breunig."Techno-Economic Analysis of Electrochemical Refineries Using Solid Oxide Cells for Oxidative Coupling of Methane."ECS Transactions 111.6 (2023) 2049 - 2055. DOI

Breunig, Hanna, Fabian Rosner, Tae-Hwan Lim, and Peng Peng."Emerging concepts in intermediate carbon dioxide emplacement to support carbon dioxide removal."Energy & Environmental Science 16.5 (2023) 1821 - 1837. DOI

Rosner, Fabian, Alexander Schamberger, and Hanna Breunig."Techno-economic analysis of a CO2 direct air capture-cooling tower hybrid process at a geothermal facility."ChemRxiv (2023).

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

2022

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Kenji Shiraishi, and Edward L Vine."Improving energy performance metrics to maximize the benefits of disruptive technologies."Energy Research & Social Science 89 (2022). DOI

2021

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Chao Ding, Brian Holuj, and Marco Duran."Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Commercial Refrigeration Equipment." (2021).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, Tabeel A Jacob, Chao Ding, Nihan Karali, Brian Holuj, and Marco Duran."Model Regulation Guidelines for Energy-Efficient and Climate-Friendly Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Supporting Information." (2021).

Touzani, Samir, Marc Wudunn, Samuel Fernandes, Avideh Zakhor, Rohullah Najibi, and Jessica Granderson."A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO ESTIMATE WINDOWS-TO-WALL RATIO USING DRONE IMAGER." (2021).

Luo, Na, Marco Pritoni, and Tianzhen Hong."An overview of data tools for representing and managing building information and performance data."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 147 (2021) 111224. DOI

Chen, Yimin, Guanjing Lin, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Development of a Unified Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults."Energies 14 (2021).

Granderson, Jessica, Mrinalini Sharma, Eliot Crowe, David A Jump, Samuel Fernandes, Samir Touzani, and Devan Johnson."Assessment of Model-Based Peak Electric Consumption Prediction for Commercial Buildings."Energy and Building 245 (2021). DOI

Nilsson, Lars J, Fredric Bauer, Max Ahman, Fredrik N.G Andersson, Chris Bataille, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Karin Ericsson, Teis Hansen, Bengt Johansson, Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Mariësse van Sluisveld, and Valentin Vogl."An industrial policy framework for transforming energy and emissions intensive industries towards zero emissions."Climate Policy 21.8 (2021). DOI

Touzani, Samir, and Jessica Granderson."Open Data and Deep Semantic Segmentation for Automated Extraction of Building Footprints."Remote Sensing Vol.13 No..2578 (2021). DOI