Energy Technologies Area

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 by Research Area

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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1990

Diamond, Richard C."A Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Two Energy-Efficient Office Buildings."Performance of Buildings and Serviceability of Facilities, ASTM STP 1029 (1990).

Sherman, Max H."Air Change Rate and Air Tightness in Buildings."Performance of Building Constructions and its Subcommittee E06.41 on Infiltration Performances, April 16-17, 1989 STP 1067 (1990) 302. DOI

Selkowitz, Stephen E, and Carl M Lampert."Application of Large-Area Chromogenics to Architectural Glazings."Large Area Chromogenics: Materials and Devices for Transmittance Control (1990).

Koomey, Jonathan G, Arthur H Rosenfeld, and Ashok J Gadgil."Conservation Screening Curves to Compare Efficiency Investments to Power Plants: Applications to Commercial Sector Conservation Programs."1990 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 5 (1990) 5.115-5.124.

Byars, Nan, and Dariush K Arasteh."Design Options for Low-Conductivity Window Frames."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 25 (1990) 143-148.

Wray, Craig P."Development and Application of a Multizone Airflow and Contaminant Dispersal Analysis Microcomputer Program for Simulating Radon and Radon Progeny Transport and Accumulation in Soils and House with Basements."Department of Mechanical Engineering Master of Science (1990).

Wray, Craig P, and G.K Yuill and Associates Ltd."Development of a Microcomputer Program to Simulate the Transport and Accumulation of Radon Gas and Its Progeny in Houses." (1990).

Forest, Tom W, and Iain S Walker."Drying of Walls - Prairie Region." (1990).

Diamond, Richard C, Jeffrey P Harris, Mary Ann Piette, Odon D Buen, and Bruce Nordman."Energy Edge Impact Evaluation: Early Overview."Prepared for the Bonneville Power Administration (1990).

Walker, Iain S, and David J Wilson."Including Furnace Flue Leakage in a Simple Air Infiltration Model."Air Infiltration Review 11.4 (1990).

Walker, Iain S, and David J Wilson."The Alberta Infiltration Model, AIM - 2."Report #71. (1990).

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."The Effect of Instructions on Visual and Task Performance."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 20 (1990) 108-116.

Reilly, M. M Susan, Dariush K Arasteh, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Thermal and Optical Analysis of Switchable Window Glazings."Solar Energy Materials 22 (1990).

Ward, Gregory J."Visualization."Lighting Design + Application 20 (1990).

Klems, Joseph H, and M. M Susan Reilly."Window Nighttime U-Values: A Comparison Between Computer Calculations and MoWiTT Measurements."ASHRAE Transactions 96 (1990).

Klems, Joseph H."X-Ray Inverse Florescence Allowed by Molecular Excitation (XIFAME) as a Possible Contrast Mechanism for Chemically-Sensitive Imaging & Spectroscopy."Physical Review A-15 (1990).

1989

Arasteh, Dariush K, and Stephen E Selkowitz."A Superwindow Field Demonstration Program in Northwest Montana."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings IV Conference (1989).

Arasteh, Dariush K."An Analysis of Frame and Edge Heat Transfer in Residential Windows."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings IV Conference (1989).

Wruck, David A, S Ramamurthi, and Michael D Rubin."Sputtered Electrochromic V2O5 Films."Thin Solid Films 182.1-2 (1989) 79-85. DOI

Sherman, Max H."Air Infiltration Measurement Techniques."10th Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre Conference (1989).

Koomey, Jonathan G, Arthur H Rosenfeld, and Ashok J Gadgil."Conservation Screening Curves to Compare Efficiency Investments to Power Plants." (1989) 20.

Rubin, Michael D, Ian G Brown, E Yin, and David A Wruck."Ion Implantation of Sputtered Y-Ba-Cu-O Films."Journal of Applied Physics 66 (1989) 3940-3942. DOI

Crawford, Douglas G, Rudolph R Verderber, and Michael J Siminovitch."Maintaining Optimum Light Output with a Thermally Conductive Heat Pipe."IEEE-IAS Annual Conference (1989).

Rubinstein, Francis M, and Michael Packer."The Effect of Luminaire Type and Spacing on Visibility Levels in Unobstructed Spaces."IEEE-IAS Annual Conference (1989).

Siminovitch, Michael J, Francis M Rubinstein, Rudolph R Verderber, and Douglas G Crawford."The Energy Conservation Potential Associated with Thermally Efficient Fluorescent Fixtures."AEE-World Energy Engineering Congress (1989).