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)

2014

Logue, Jennifer M, and Brett C Singer."Energy impacts of effective range hood use for all U.S. residential cooking."HVAC&R Research 20.2 (2014) 264 - 275. DOI

Logue, Jennifer M, Max H Sherman, and Brett C Singer."A Method for Quantifying the Acute Health Impacts of Residential Non-Biological Exposure Via Inhalation." (2014).

Stratton, J Chris, and Brett C Singer."Addressing Kitchen Contaminants for Healthy, Low-Energy Homes." (2014).

Logue, Jennifer M, Melissa M Lunden, and Brett C Singer."Development and Application of a Physics-Based Simulation Model to Investigate Residential PM_2.5 Composition and Size Distribution Across the US." (2014).

Rapp, Vi H, and Brett C Singer."Effect of Fuel Wobbe Number on Pollutant Emissions from Advanced Technology Residential Water Heaters: Results of Controlled Experiments." (2014).

Hult, Erin L, Henry Willem, Phillip N Price, Toshifumi Hotchi, Marion L Russell, and Brett C Singer."Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde exposure mitigation in US residences: In-home measurements of ventilation control and source control." (2014).

Logue, Jennifer M, Neil E Klepeis, Agnes B Lobscheid, and Brett C Singer."Pollutant Exposures from Natural Gas Cooking Burners: A Simulation-Based Assessment for Southern California." (2014). DOI

2013

Mullen, Nasim A, Marion L Russell, Melissa M Lunden, and Brett C Singer."Investigation of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde sampling rate and ozone interference for passive deployment of Waters Sep-Pak XPoSure samplers."Atmospheric Environment 80 (2013) 184-189. DOI

Fisk, William J, Federico Noris, and Brett C Singer."Energy impacts of energy and indoor environmental quality retrofits of apartments." (2013).

Fisk, William J, Federico Noris, Brett C Singer, William W Delp, Marion L Russell, Michael Spears, Gary Adamkiewicz, and Kimberly Vermeer."Integrating Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Retrofits in Apartments." (2013).

Noris, Federico, Gary Adamkiewicz, William W Delp, Toshifumi Hotchi, Marion L Russell, Brett C Singer, Michael Spears, Kimberly Vermeer, and William J Fisk."Indoor environmental quality benefits of apartment energy retrofits."Building Environment 68 (2013) 170–178. DOI

Mullen, Nasim A, Jina Li, and Brett C Singer."Participant Assisted Data Collection Methods in the California Healthy Homes Indoor Air Quality Study of 2011-13." (2013).

Maddalena, Randy L, Na Li, Alfred T Hodgson, Francis J Offermann, and Brett C Singer."Maximizing Information from Residential Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds."Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International Conference (2013).

Noris, Federico, William W Delp, Kimberly Vermeer, Gary Adamkiewicz, Brett C Singer, and William J Fisk."Protocol for maximizing energy savings and indoor environmental quality improvements when retrofitting apartments."Energy and Buildings 61 (2013) 378-386. DOI

Rapp, Vi H, Albert Pastor-Perez, Brett C Singer, and Craig P Wray."Predicting Backdrafting and Spillage for Natural-Draft Gas Combustion Appliances: Validating VENT-II." (2013). DOI

Bhangar, Seema, Brett C Singer, and William W Nazaroff."Calibration of the Ogawa Ozone Passive Sampler for Aircraft Cabins."Atmospheric Environment 65 (2013) 21-24. DOI

Logue, Jennifer M, Max H Sherman, Iain S Walker, and Brett C Singer."Energy Impacts of Envelope Tightening and Mechanical Ventilation for the U.S. Residential Sector."Energy and Building 65 (2013) 281-291. DOI

Black, Douglas R, Steven Lanzisera, Judy Lai, Richard E Brown, and Brett C Singer."Evaluation of Miscellaneous and Electronic Device Energy Use in Hospitals."World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development 10.1/2/3 (2013) 113-128. DOI

Willem, Henry, Erin L Hult, Toshifumi Hotchi, Marion L Russell, Randy L Maddalena, and Brett C Singer."Ventilation Control of Volatile Organic Compounds in New U.S. Homes: Results of a Controlled Field Study in Nine Residential Units." (2013).

2012

Lunden, Melissa M, David Faulkner, Elizabeth Heredia, Sebastian Cohn, Darryl J Dickerhoff, Federico Noris, Jennifer M Logue, Toshifumi Hotchi, Brett C Singer, and Max H Sherman."Experiments to Evaluate and Implement Passive Tracer Gas Methods to Measure Ventilation Rates in Homes." (2012).

Offermann, Francis J, Randy L Maddalena, Francis J Offermann, Brett C Singer, and Henry Willem."The impact of ventilation rate on the emission rates of volatile organic compounds in residences."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).

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

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).

Mullen, Nasim A, Jina Li, and Brett C Singer."Impact of Natural Gas Appliances on Pollutant Levels in California Homes." (2012).