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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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2019

Spurlock, C. Anna, James Sears, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Victor Walker, Ling Jin, Margaret Taylor, Andrew Duvall, Anand R. Gopal, and Annika Todd."Describing the users: Understanding adoption of and interest in shared, electrified, and automated transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area."Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 71 (2019) 283-301. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P., Clement Rames, Eleftheria Kontou, and Alejandro Henao."Travel and energy implications of ridesourcing service in Austin, Texas."Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 70 (2019) 18 - 34. DOI

2018

Wu, Lipeng, Amit A. Gokhale, Konstantinos Goulas, John E. Myers, F. Dean Toste, and Corinne D. Scown."Hybrid Biological–Chemical Approach Offers Flexibility and Reduces the Carbon Footprint of Biobased Plastics, Rubbers, and Fuels."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 6.11 (2018) 14523 - 14532. DOI

Fingerman, Kevin, Colin Sheppard, and Andrew Harris."California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Modeling financial least-cost pathways to compliance in Northwest California."Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 63 (2018) 320 - 332. DOI

Shladover, Steven E., and Jeffery B. Greenblatt."Connected and Automated Vehicle Concept Dimensions and Examples." (2018).

Wang, Dai, Matteo Muratori, Joshua Eichman, Max Wei, Samveg Saxena, and Cong Zhang."Quantifying the flexibility of hydrogen production systems to support large-scale renewable energy integration."Journal of Power Sources 399 (2018) 383 - 391. DOI

2017

Lazar, Alina, Ling Jin, C. Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd, Kesheng Wu, and Alex Sim."Data quality challenges with missing values and mixed types in joint sequence analysis."2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (2017). DOI

de la Rue du Can, Stephane, David Pudleiner, David Jones, and Aleisha Khan."Energy Efficiency Roadmap for Uganda, Making Energy Efficiency Count." (2017).

2016

Sheppard, Colin, Andrew Harris, and Anand R. Gopal."Cost-Effective Siting of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure With Agent-Based Modeling."IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification 2.2 (2016) 174 - 189. DOI

2014

Phadke, Amol A., Nikit Abhyankar, and Poorvi Rao."Empirical Analysis of the Variability of Wind Generation in India: Implications for Grid Integration." (2014).

2008

Shehabi, Arman, Arpad Horvath, William F. Tschudi, Ashok J. Gadgil, and William W. Nazaroff."Particle Concentrations in Data Centers."Atmospheric Environment 42.24 (2008) 5978 - 5990. DOI