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

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2003

Gao, Song, Dean A. Hegg, Peter V. Hobbs, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Brian I. Magi, and Martin Sadilek."Water-soluble organic components in aerosols associated with savanna fires in southern Africa: identification, evolution, and distribution."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 108.D13 (2003).

Fisk, William J., Phillip N. Price, David Faulkner, Douglas P. Sullivan, Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, Clifford C. Federspiel, Gao Liu, and Maureen Lahiff."Worker productivity and ventilation rate in a call center: Analyses of time-series data for a group of registered nurses." (2003).

2002

Pang, Yanbo, Lara A. Gundel, Timothy Larson, Dennis Finn, Sally L.-J. Liu, and Candis S. Claiborn."Development and evaluation of a personal particulate organic and mass sampler."Environmental Science and Technology 36 (2002) 5205-5210. DOI

Fisk, William J., David Faulkner, Jari Palonen, and Olli Seppänen."Performance and Cost of Particle Air Filtration Technologies."Indoor Air 12.4 (2002) 223-234. DOI

Hodgson, Alfred T., David Beal, and Janet E.R. McIlvaine."Sources of Formaldehyde, Other Aldehydes and Terpenes in a New Manufactured House."Indoor Air 12.4 (2002) 235-242. DOI

Craig, Paul P., Ashok J. Gadgil, and Jonathan G. Koomey."What can history teach us?: A retrospective analysis of long-term energy forecasts for the U.S."Annual Reviews of Energy and the Environment 27 (2002) 83-118. DOI

Apte, Michael G., and Christine A. Erdmann."Indoor Carbon Dioxide Concentrations, VOCs, Environmental Sensitivity Association with Mucous Membrane and Lower Respiratory Sick Building Syndrome Symptoms in the Base Study: Analyses of the 100 Building Dataset." (2002).

Wenzel, Thomas P., and Marc Ross."Are SUVS Really Safer Than Cars?."Access Magazine (2002).

Mendell, Mark J., William J. Fisk, Kathleen Kreiss, Hal Levin, Darryl Alexander, William S. Cain, John R. Girman, Cynthia J. Hines, Paul A. Jensen, Donald K. Milton, Larry P. Rexroat, and Kenneth M. Wallingford."Improving the health of workers in indoor environments: priority research needs for a national occupational research agenda."Am J Public Health 92.9 (2002) 1430-1440.

Novakov, Tihomir, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Jonathan E. Sinton, Jayant A. Sathaye, and James E. Hansen."Large historical changes of fossil-fuel black carbon aerosols."Geophysical Research Letters 30.6 (2002). DOI

Sippola, Mark R.."Particle Deposition in Ventilation Ducts."Civil and Environmental Engineering (2002) 537.

Maddalena, Randy L., Thomas E. McKone, and Norman Y. Kado."Exposure chamber measurements of mass transfer and partitioning at the plant/air interface."Environmental Science & Technology 36.16 (2002) 3577-3585. DOI

Kumar, Satish, and William J. Fisk."IEQ and the Impact on Employee Sick Leave."ASHRAE Journal 44 (2002) 97-98.

Mendell, Mark J., William J. Fisk, Marty R. Petersen, Cynthia J. Hines, Maxia Dong, David Faulkner, James A. Deddens, Avima M. Ruder, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Mark F. Boeniger."Indoor Particles and Symptoms Among Office Workers: Results from a Double-Blind Cross-Over Study."Epidemiology 13.3 (2002) 296-304.

Thatcher, Tracy L., Alvin C.K. Lai, Rosa Moreno-Jackson, Richard G. Sextro, and William W. Nazaroff."Effects of Room Furnishings and Air Speed on Particle Deposition Rates Indoors."Atmospheric Environment 36.11 (2002) 1811-1819. DOI

Kumar, Satish, and William J. Fisk."IEQ and the Impact on Building Occupants."ASHRAE Journal 44 (2002) 50-52.

Wenzel, Thomas P., and Marc Ross."An Analysis of Traffic Deaths by Vehicle Type and Model." (2002).

Holman, Hoi-Ying N., Regine Goth-Goldstein, David Aston, Mao Yun, and Jenny Kengsoontra."Evaluation of gastrointestinal solubilization of petroleum hydrocarbon residues in soil using an in vitro physiologically- based model."Environmental Science & Technology 36.6 (2002) 1281-1286. DOI

Singer, Brett C., Alfred T. Hodgson, Karla S. Guevarra, Elisabeth L. Hawley, and William W. Nazaroff."Gas-Phase Organics in Environmental Tobacco Smoke. 1. Effects of Smoking Rate, Ventilation, and Furnishing Level on Emission Factors."Environmental Science & Technology 36.5 (2002) 846-853. DOI

Cox, Steven S., John C. Little, and Alfred T. Hodgson."Predicting the emission rate of volatile organic compounds from vinyl flooring."Environmental Science & Technology 36.4 (2002) 709-714. DOI

De Martinis, Bruno S, Robert A. Okamoto, Norman Y. Kado, Lara A. Gundel, and Lilian R.F. Carvalho."Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a bioassay-directed fractionated extract of PM10 collected in São Paulo, Brazil."Atmospheric Environment 36.2 (2002) 307-314. DOI

Goth-Goldstein, Regine, Marion L. Russell, Bhama Parimoo, and Eric H. Weyand."7H-Benzo[c]fluorene DNA adduct formation in different human cells in culture." (2002).

Bodnar, Agnes, Randy L. Maddalena, and Thomas E. McKone."Addressing locally grown foods in cumulative exposure assessments."Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 14 (2002) 60-73.

Price, Phillip N., William W. Delp, Michael D. Sohn, Tracy L. Thatcher, David M. Lorenzetti, Richard G. Sextro, Ashok J. Gadgil, Elisabeth A. Derby, and Sondra A. Jarvis."Advice for first responders to a building during a chemical or biological attack." (2002).

Castorina, Rosemary, Asa Bradman, and Thomas E. McKone."Assessing cumulative organophosphate pesticide exposure and risk among pregnant women living in an agricultural community."Environmental Health Perspectives 111 (2002) 1640-1648.