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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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2013

Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z. Weber."Role of Chemical-Mechanical Energies in Understanding Structure and Properties of Aged and Degraded Membranes."ECS Transactions 50.2 (2013) 961 - 965. DOI

2012

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Alexander Hexemer, Ruichun Jiang, Craig S. Gittleman, and Adam Z. Weber."Effect of compression on PFSA-ionomer morphology and predicted conductivity changes."Journal of Membrane Science 421-422 (2012) 283 - 291. DOI

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Suchol Savagatrup, Kyle Clark, and Adam Z. Weber."Role of Mechanical Factors in Controlling the Structure–Function Relationship of PFSA Ionomers."Macromolecules 45.18 (2012) 7467 - 7476. DOI

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N. Price."Evaluation of the Predictive Accuracy of Five Whole-Building Baseline Models." (2012).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Responsive and Intelligent Building Information and Control for Low-Energy and Optimized Grid Integration."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Intelligent Building Energy Information and Control Systems for Low-Energy Operations and Optimal Demand Response."IEEE Design and Test of Computers 29.4 (2012) 8-16. DOI

Mills, Evan, and Paul A. Mathew."Monitoring-Based Commissioning: Benchmarking Analysis of 24 University Buildings in California."Energy Engineering (2012).

2011

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Ben Rosenblum, R. Lily Hu, Daniel Harris, Paul A. Mathew, Phillip N. Price, Geoffrey C. Bell, Srinivas Katipamula, and Michael Brambley."Energy Information Handbook: Applications for Energy-Efficient Building Operations." (2011).

Mills, Evan."Building Commissioning: A Golden Opportunity for Reducing Energy Costs and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States.."Energy Efficiency (2011). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, and Girish Ghatikar."Building Energy Information Systems: User Case Studies."Energy Efficiency 4.1 (2011) 17-30. DOI

Marini, Kyle, Girish Ghatikar, and Richard C. Diamond."Using Dashboards to Improve Energy and Comfort in Federal Buildings." (2011).

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Ruichun Jiang, Craig S. Gittleman, and Adam Z. Weber."Effect of Compression on Conductivity and Morphology of PFSA Membranes."242nd ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Denver (2011). LBNL-5383E-Ex-Abs. (2011).

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Brian L. Kienitz, and Adam Z. Weber."Understanding the Effects of Compression and Constraint on Water Uptake of Fuel-Cell Membranes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 158.12 (2011) B1504-B1514. DOI

2010

Kircher, Kevin, Girish Ghatikar, Steve E. Greenberg, David S. Watson, Richard C. Diamond, Dale A. Sartor, Clifford C. Federspiel, Alex McEachern, and Tom Owen."Toward the Holy Grail of Perfect Information: Lessons Learned Implementing an Energy Information System in a Commercial Building."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

2008

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, and Lynn K. Price."Sectoral trends in global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions."Energy Policy (2008). DOI

2001

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar T. Khalsa, and Philip Haves."Analysis of an Information Monitoring and Diagnostic System to Improve Building Operations."Energy and Buildings 33.8 (2001) 783-792. DOI