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

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)

2011

Mendell, Mark J, Anna G Mirer, Kerry Cheung, My Tong, and Jeroen Douwes."Respiratory and Allergic Health Effects of Dampness, Mold, and Dampness-Related Agents: A Review of the Epidemiologic Evidence."Environmental Health Perspectives 119.6 (2011) 748-756. DOI

2009

Mendell, Mark J, Anna G Mirer, Kerry Cheung, Jeroen Douwes, Torben Sigsgaard, Maija-Riitta Hirvonen, Marjut Roponen, Elisabeth Heseltine, and Jerome Rosen."Health Effects Associated with Dampness and Mould."WHO Guidelines for Indoor Air Quality: Dampness and Mould (2009) 63-92.

Mendell, Mark J, and Anna G Mirer."Indoor Thermal Factors and Symptoms in Office Workers: Findings from the U.S. EPA BASE Study."Indoor Air 19.4 (2009) 291-302.

Singer, Brett C, Michael G Apte, Douglas R Black, Toshifumi Hotchi, Donald Lucas, Melissa M Lunden, Anna G Mirer, Michael Spears, and Douglas P Sullivan."Natural Gas Variability in California: Environmental Impacts and Device Performance - Experimental Evaluation of Pollutant Emissions from Residential Appliances." (2009).

Fisk, William J, Anna G Mirer, and Mark J Mendell."Quantitative relationship of sick building syndrome symptoms with ventilation rates."Indoor Air 19 (2009) 159-165.

2008

Buchanan, Ian S, Mark J Mendell, Anna G Mirer, and Michael G Apte."Air Filter Materials, Outdoor Ozone and Building-Related Symptoms in the BASE Study."Indoor Air 18 (2008) 144-155.

Fisk, William J, Anna G Mirer, and Mark J Mendell."Quantification of the association of ventilation rates with sick building syndrome symptoms."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2008 (2008).

Mendell, Mark J, Quanhong Lei-Gomez, Anna G Mirer, Olli Seppänen, and Gregory Brunner."Risk factors in heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems for occupant symptoms in U.S. office buildings: the U.S. EPA BASE study."Indoor Air 18 (2008) 1.2, 1.7.

2007

Mendell, Mark J, Anna G Mirer, and Quanhong Lei-Gomez."Contaminants in Buildings and Occupied Spaces as Risk Factors for Occupant Symptoms in U.S. Office Buildings: Findings from the U.S. EPA BASE Study." (2007).