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)

2010

Kircher, Kevin, Girish Ghatikar, Steve E Greenberg, David S Watson, Richard C Diamond, Dale A Sartor, Clifford C Federspiel, Alex McEachern, and Tom Owen."Toward the Holy Grail of Perfect Information: Lessons Learned Implementing an Energy Information System in a Commercial Building."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

2009

Bell, Geoffrey C, and Clifford C Federspiel."Demonstration of Datacenter Automation Software and Hardware (DASH) at the California Franchise Tax Board." (2009).

2008

Wray, Craig P, Max H Sherman, Iain S Walker, Darryl J Dickerhoff, and Clifford C Federspiel."Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning: Recent Advances in Diagnostics and Controls to Improve Air-Handling System Performance."American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings 1044 (2008) 149-162.

2007

Federspiel, Clifford C."Wireless Demand Response Controls for HVAC Systems." (2007).

2004

Federspiel, Clifford C, William J Fisk, Phillip N Price, Gao Liu, David Faulkner, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Douglas P Sullivan, and Maureen Lahiff."Worker Performance and Ventilation in a Call Center: Analyses of Work Performance Data for Registered Nurses."Indoor Air 14.Supplement s8 (2004) 41-50. DOI

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

Federspiel, Clifford C, Huilin Li, David M Auslander, David M Lorenzetti, and Ashok J Gadgil."Modeling Transient Contaminant Transport in HVAC Systems and Buildings."Indoor Air 2002, June 30 - July 5, 2002 (2002) 217-222.

Federspiel, Clifford C, Gao Liu, Maureen Lahiff, David Faulkner, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, William J Fisk, Phillip N Price, and Douglas P Sullivan."Worker Performance and Ventilation: Analyses of Individual Data for Call-Center Workers."Indoor Air 2002, June 30 - July 5, 2002 1 (2002) 796-801.

Fisk, William J, Phillip N Price, David Faulkner, Douglas P Sullivan, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Clifford C Federspiel, De-Ling Liu, and Maureen Lahiff."Worker Performance and Ventilation: Analyses of Time-Series Data for a Group of Call-Center Workers."Indoor Air 2002, June 30 - July 5, 2002 1 (2002) 790-795.

Fisk, William J, Phillip N Price, David Faulkner, Douglas P Sullivan, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Clifford C Federspiel, Gang Liu, and Maureen Lahiff."Worker Productivity and Ventilation Rate in a Call Center: Analyses of Time-Series Data for a Group of Workers."Indoor Air 2002, June 30 - July 5, 2002 (2002) 790-795.