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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2001

Vuilleumier, Laurent, Jeffrey T. Bamer, Robert A. Harley, and Nancy J. Brown."Evaluation of nitrogen dioxide photolysis rates in an urban area using data from the 1997 Southern California Ozone Study."Atmospheric Environment 35.36 (2001) 6525 - 6537. DOI

Thatcher, Tracy L., Thomas E. McKone, William J. Fisk, Michael D. Sohn, William W. Delp, William J. Riley, and Richard G. Sextro."Factors Affecting the Concentration of Outdoor Particles Indoors (COPI): Identification of Data Needs and Existing Data." (2001).

Apte, Michael G., William J. Fisk, Alfred T. Hodgson, Marion L. Russell, and Derek G. Shendell."California Demonstration Energy Efficiency-Indoor Environmental Quality Project: Predicted Relocatable Classroom Indoor Air Quality due to Low-Emitting Interior Materials and Enhanced Ventilation."11th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Analysis, November 4-8, 2001 (2001).

Drescher, Anushka C., D.M. Greene, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Cryptosporidium Inactivation by Low-Pressure UV in a Water Disinfection Device."Journal of Environmental Health 64.3 (2001) 31-35.

Shendell, Derek G., Michael G. Apte, Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, William J. Fisk, Alfred T. Hodgson, Satish Kumar, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Leo I. Rainer."Linking Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality to Provide Thermal Comfort and Reduce Children's Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds: Demonstration Project in New Relocatable Classrooms at Northern California Public Schools."11th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Analysis, November 4-8, 2001 (2001) 148.

Liu, De-Ling, and William W. Nazaroff."Modeling pollutant penetration across building envelopes."Atmospheric Environment 35.26 (2001) 4451-4462.

Wenzel, Thomas P., and Marc Ross."Losing Weight to Save Lives: A Review of the Role of Automobile Weight and Size in Traffic Fatalities." (2001).

Klepeis, Neil E., William C. Nelson, Wayne R. Ott, John P. Robinson, Andy M. Tsang, Paul Switzer, Joseph V. Behar, Stephen C. Hern, and William H. Engelmann."The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): A Resource for Assessing Exposure to Environmental Pollutants."Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 11 (2001) 231-252. DOI

Hodgson, Alfred T., William J. Fisk, Derek G. Shendell, and Michael G. Apte."Predicted Concentrations in New Relocatable Classrooms of Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted from Standard and Alternate Interior Finish Materials." (2001).

Price, Phillip N., Marc L. Fischer, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Richard G. Sextro."An algorithm for real-time tomography of gas concentrations, using prior information about spatial derivatives."Atmospheric Environment 35.16 (2001) 2827 - 2835. DOI

McKone, Thomas E., and Edgar G. Hertwich."The Human Toxicity Potential and a Strategy for Evaluating Model Performance in Life-Cycle Impact Assessment."International Journal of Life-Cycle Assessment 6.2 (2001) 106-109. DOI

Maddalena, Randy L., Thomas E. McKone, Dennis P.H. Hsieh, and Shu Geng."Influential input classification in probabilistic multimedia models."Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 15.1 (2001) 1-17. DOI

Lorenzetti, David M.."Assessing Multizone Airflow Software." (2001).

Macleod, Matthew, David G. Woodﬁne, Donald Mackay, Thomas E. McKone, Deborah H. Bennett, and Randy L. Maddalena."BETR North America: A regionally segmented multimedia contaminant fate model for North America."Environmental Science & Pollution Research 8 (2001) 156-163.

Lunden, Melissa M., Tracy L. Thatcher, David Littlejohn, Marc L. Fischer, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Nancy J. Brown, Susanne V. Hering, and Mark Stolzenburg."Building a predictive model of indoor concentrations of outdoor PM-2.5 in homes." (2001).

Bennett, Deborah H., Thomas E. McKone, William E. Kastenberg, Carrie A. Schwalbe, and Dennis J. Paustenbach."Characteristic time, characteristic travel distance, and population based dose in a multimedia environment: A case study."Human & Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice Chapter 11 (2001) 619-643.

Lewtas, Joellen, Yanbo Pang, Derrick Booth, Steve Reimer, Delbert J. Eatough, and Lara A. Gundel."Comparison of sampling methods for semi-volatile organic carbon (SVOC)."Aerosol Science and Technology 34 (2001) 9-22.

McKone, Thomas E., Agnes Bodnar, and Edgar G. Hertwich."Development and evaluation of state-specific landscape data sets for multimedia source-to-dose models." (2001).

Apte, Michael G., and Allen S. Lefohn."Letters to the Editor."Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 51.3 (2001) 322-338. DOI

Cox, Steven S., Alfred T. Hodgson, and John C. Little."Measuring Concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds in Vinyl Flooring."Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 51 (2001) 174-185.

Bennett, Deborah H., Martin Scheringer, Thomas E. McKone, and Konrad Hungerbühler."Predicting Long Range Transport: A Systematic Evaluation of Two Multimedia Transport Models."Environmental Science & Technology 35 (2001) 1181-1189.

Fischer, Marc L., Phillip N. Price, Tracy L. Thatcher, Carrie A. Schwalbe, Mathias J. Craig, Emily E. Wood, Richard G. Sextro, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Rapid Measurement and Mapping of Tracer Gas Concentrations in a Large Indoor Space."Atmospheric Environment 35 (2001) 2837-2844. DOI

Sohn, Michael D., Thomas E. McKone, Mark L. Rigas, Jerry N. Blancato, and Frederick W. Power."Reconstructing exposure scenarios using dose biomarkers: An application of Bayesian uncertainty analysis." (2001).

Apte, Michael G., William W. Delp, Richard C. Diamond, Alfred T. Hodgson, Satish Kumar, Derek G. Shendell, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."Report on HVAC Option Selections for a Relocatable Classroom Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Field Study." (2001).

Shendell, Derek G., Michael G. Apte, Richard L. Corsi, Peggy L. Jenkins, Janice J. Kim, Svetlana Smorodinsky, Vince Torres, and Jed M. Waldman."Studying the Public School Environment and Classroom Indoor Air Quality: Community-based Exposure Assessments Through Public-Private-Government Partnerships, Examples from CA and TX." (2001).