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)

2006

Mendell, Mark J, Quanhong Lei-Gomez, Myrna Cozen, Howard S Brightman, Michael G Apte, Christine A Erdmann, Gregory Brunner, and John R Girman."Indoor Environmental Risk Factors for Occupant Symptoms in 100 U.S. Office Buildings: Summary of Three Analyses from the EPA BASE Study."Healthy Buildings 2006 Conference 111 (2006) 371-376.

2005

Mendell, Mark J, Myrna Cozen, Quanhong Lei-Gomez, Howard S Brightman, Christine A Erdmann, John R Girman, Susan E Womble, and Quanhong Lei."Indicators Of Moisture And Ventilation System Contamination In U.S. Office Buildings as Risk Factors for Respiratory and Mucous Membrane Symptoms: Analyses of the EPA Base Data."10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 5(6) (2005) 3763-3767.

Kalantzi, Olga I, F. F Reber Brown, Christine A Erdmann, Maira Caleffi, Regine Goth-Goldstein, and Myrto Petreas."Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in human breast adipose tissue samples from Brazil."Organohalogen Compounds 67 (2005) 479-481.

2004

Erdmann, Christine A, and Michael G Apte."Associations of Indoor Carbon Dioxide Concentrations and Environmental Susceptibilities with Mucous Membrane and Lower Respiratory Building Related Symptoms in the BASE Study: Analyses of the 100 Building Dataset."Indoor Air 14.Suppl 8 (2004) 127-134. DOI

2003

Erdmann, Christine A, William A Satariano, and Ying Qing Chen."Traditional risk factor study (TRiFS): Preliminary report on risk factor prevalence and population attributable fraction estimates for breast cancer in Marin County, California." (2003).

Erdmann, Christine A, Georgianna Farren, Kimberly Baltzell, Terri Chew, Cynthia Clarkson, Ruth Fleshman, Colin Leary, Mary Mizroch, Fern Orenstein, Marion L Russell, Virginia Souders-Mason, and Margaret Wrensch."Breast Cancer and Personal Environmental Risk Factors in Marin County -- Pilot Study." (2003).

2002

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).

Erdmann, Christine A, Kate C Steiner, and Michael G Apte."Indoor Carbon Dioxide Concentrations and Sick Building Syndrome Symptoms in the Base Study Revisited: Analyses of the 100 Building Dataset."Indoor Air 2002, June 30 - July 5, 2002 3 (2002) 443-448.