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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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2012

Chan, Wanyu R., Meera A. Sidheswaran, Douglas P. Sullivan, Sebastian Cohn, and William J. Fisk."Contaminant levels and source strengths in U.S. retail stores — A pilot study."Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International Conference (2012).

Logue, Jennifer M., William J. N. Turner, Iain S. Walker, and Brett C. Singer."Evaluation of an Incremental Ventilation Energy Model for Estimating Impacts of Air Sealing and Mechanical Ventilation." (2012).

Williams, Christopher J., and Mark D. Levine."Gauging Improvements in Urban Building Energy Policy in India."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Building (2012).

Williams, Christopher J., Nan Zhou, Gang He, and Mark D. Levine."Measuring in All the Right Places: Themes in International Municipal Eco-City Index Systems."2012 ACEEE Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Singer, Brett C., William W. Delp, Michael G. Apte, and Phillip N. Price."Performance of Installed Cooking Exhaust Devices."Indoor Air 22.3 (2012) 224-234. DOI

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, and Nina Khanna."Urban RAM: Assessing the Energy Impact of Having People in Cities."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Fisk, William J., Mark J. Mendell, Molly Davies, Ekaterina Eliseeva, David Faulkner, Tianzhen Hong, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Demand Controlled Ventilation and Classroom Ventilation." (2012).

Mathieu, Johanna L.."Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Demand Response Resources."Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Doctor of Philosophy in (2012).

White, Richard M., Igor Paprotny, Frederick Doering, Wayne E. Cascio, Paul A. Solomon, and Lara A. Gundel."Sensors and ‘apps’ for community-based atmospheric monitoring."EM: The Magazine for Environmental Managers May (2012) 36-40.

Zhou, Nan, and Lixuan Hong."Urban RAM User Guide (in Chinese)." (2012).

Kibanova, Daria, Mohamad Sleiman, Javiera Cervini-Silva, and Hugo Destaillats."Adsorption and photocatalytic oxidation of formaldehyde on a clay-TiO2 composite."Journal of Hazardous Materials 212-212 (2012) 233-239. DOI

Xu, Tengfang T., Joris Flapper, Jing Ke, Klaas Jan Kramer, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program Development of a Computer-based Benchmarking and Analytical Tool: Benchmarking and Energy & Water Savings Tool in Dairy Plants (BEST-Dairy)." (2012).

Stratton, J. Chris, and Iain S. Walker."Health and Safety Guide for Home Performance Contractors." (2012).

Fisk, William J., Douglas R. Black, and Gregory Brunner."Changing Ventilation Rates in U.S. Offices: Implications for Health, Work Performance, Energy, and Associated Economics."Building and Environment 47 (2012) 368-372. DOI

Price, Lynn K., Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Stephanie Ohshita, Hongyou Lu, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, and Nina Khanna."Development of a Low-Carbon Indicator System for China."Habitat International (2012).

Sidheswaran, Meera A., Hugo Destaillats, Douglas P. Sullivan, Sebastian Cohn, and William J. Fisk."Energy efficient indoor VOC air cleaning with activated carbon fiber (ACF) filters."Building and Environment 47 (2012) 368-372. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Nicholas DeForest, and Judy Lai."A Green Prison: The Santa Rita Jail Campus Microgrid." (2012).

Holder, Amara L., Brietta J. Carter, Regine Goth-Goldstein, Donald Lucas, and Catherine P. Koshland."Increased Cytotoxicity of Oxidized Flame Soot."Atmospheric Pollution Research 3.1 (2012) 25-31. DOI

Scown, Corinne D., William W. Nazaroff, Umakant Mishra, Bret Strogen, Agnes B. Lobscheid, Eric R. Masanet, Nicholas J Santero, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E. McKone."Lifecycle greenhouse gas implications of US national scenarios for cellulosic ethanol production."Environmental Research Letters 7.1 (2012) 014011. DOI

Hu, Tianchao, Brett C. Singer, and Jennifer M. Logue."Compilation of Published PM2.5 Emission Rates for Cooking, Candles and Incense for Use in Modeling of Exposures in Residences." (2012).

Kirchstetter, Thomas W., and Tracy L. Thatcher."Contribution of organic carbon to wood smoke particulate matter absorption of solar radiation."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12.14 (2012) 6067-6072. DOI

Walker, Iain S., Max H. Sherman, and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Development of a Residential Integrated Ventilation Controller." (2012).

Wang, Yungang, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Effect of Change in Cookstove Types on Visibility - Case Study of the Berkeley-Darfur Stove and Three-Stone Fire." (2012).

Booker, Kayje, Ashok J. Gadgil, and David Winickoff."Engineering for the Global Poor: The Role of Intellectual Property."Science and Public Policy 39.6 (2012) 775-786. DOI

Brunswick, Samuel L., Spencer M. Dutton, David W. Banks, K. Adams, and Philip Haves."A Framework for Estimating the Technical Potential of Natural Ventilation Renovations of Existing Commercial Buildings in California."SimBuild 2012, 5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA, August 1-3, 2012 (2012).