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

Shin, Hyeong-Moo, Thomas E. McKone, Michael D. Sohn, Deborah H. Bennett, and Alok Deoraj."Tracking Contributions to Human Body Burden of Environmental Chemicals by Correlating Environmental Measurements with Biomarkers."PLoS ONE 9.3 (2014) e93678. DOI

2012

Bennett, Deborah H., William J. Fisk, Michael G. Apte, X. Wu, Amber L. Trout, David Faulkner, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Ventilation, temperature, and HVAC characteristics in small and medium commercial buildings in California."Indoor Air 22.4 (2012) 309-320. DOI

2009

Apte, Michael G., Deborah H. Bennett, David Faulkner, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, Michael Spears, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Amber L. Trout."Indoor Air Quality Assessment of the San Francisco Federal Building." (2009).

2004

Macleod, Matthew, Deborah H. Bennett, Merike Perem, Randy L. Maddalena, Thomas E. McKone, and Donald Mackay."Dependence of Intake Fraction on Release Location in a Multimedia Framework - A Case Study of Four Contaminants in North America."Journal of Industrial Ecology 8.3 (2004) 89-102. DOI

2003

McKone, Thomas E., and Deborah H. Bennett."Chemical-specific representation of air-soil exchange and soil penetration in regional multimedia models."Environmental Science and Technology 37.14 (2003) 3123-3132. DOI

2002

Bennett, Deborah H., Thomas E. McKone, John S. Evans, William W. Nazaroff, Manuele D. Margni, Olivier Jolliet, and Kirk R. Smith."Defining intake fraction."Environmental Science & Technology 36 (2002) 207A-211A.

Bennett, Deborah H., Edwin J. Furtaw Jr, and Thomas E. McKone."A fugacity-based indoor residential pesticide fate model."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 1 (2002) 261-266.

Bennett, Deborah H., Manuele D. Margni, Thomas E. McKone, and Olivier Jolliet."Intake Fraction for Multimedia Pollutants: A Tool for Life Cycle Analysis and Comparative Risk Assessment."Risk Analysis 22 (2002) 903-916.

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.

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.

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.

2000

Bennett, Deborah H., Thomas E. McKone, William E. Kastenberg, Robert L. Lipnick, Bo Janson, Donald Mackay, and Myrto Petreas."CART screening level analysis of characteristic time — a case study. ACS Symposium Series 773."Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic Chemicals II Assessment and New Chemicals (2000).

Bennett, Deborah H., Thomas E. McKone, William E. Kastenberg, Robert L. Lipnick, Bo Janson, Donald Mackay, and Myrto Petreas."CART screening level analysis of characteristic time -- a case study. ACS Symposium Series 773."Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic Chemicals II Assessment and New Chemicals (2000).

Bennett, Deborah H., Thomas E. McKone, and William E. Kastenberg."Evaluating multimedia chemical persistence in a multimedia environment: A CART analysis."Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 19 (2000) 810-819.

van de Meent, Dik, Thomas E. McKone, Thomas F. Parkerton, Michael Matthies, Martin Scheringer, Frank Wania, Rich Purdy, Deborah H. Bennett, Gary M. Klečka, Robert S. Boethling, Diana Graham, Les Grady Jr., James G.M. Franklin, Philip H. Howard, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Robert J. Larson, Donald Mackay, and Derek Muir."Persistence and Transport Potential of Chemicals In A Multimedia Environment."Persistence and Long-Range Transport of Organic Chemicals in the Environment:Guidelines and Criteria for Evaluation and Assessment (2000).

Bennett, Deborah H.."Population based dose models for multimedia chemicals with the potential for long range transport, May 2000." (2000).

Scheringer, Martin, Deborah H. Bennett, Thomas E. McKone, Konrad Hugerbuhler, Robert L. Lipnick, Bo Janson, Donald Mackay, and Myrto Petreas."Relationship between Persistence and Spatial Range of Environmental Chemicals. ACS Symposium Series 773."Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic Chemicals II Assessment and New Chemicals (2000) 52-63.

1999

Bennett, Deborah H., William E. Kastenberg, and Thomas E. McKone."A multimedia, multiple pathway exposure assessment of atrazine: the impact of age differentiated exposure including joint uncertainty and variability."Reliability Engineering and System Safety 63.2 (1999) 185-198.

1998

Bennett, Deborah H., A. L. James, Thomas E. McKone, and Curtis M. Oldenburg."On uncertainty in remediation analysis: variance propagation for subsurface transport to exposure modeling."Reliability Engineering and System Safety 62.1-2 (1998) 117-129. DOI

Bennett, Deborah H., Thomas E. McKone, Michael Matthies, and William E. Kastenberg."General formulation of characteristic travel distance for semivolatile chemicals in a multimedia environment."Environmental Science and Technology 32 (1998) 4023-4030. DOI