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)

2005

Apte, Michael G, Michael Spears, Chi-Ming Lai, and Derek G Shendell."Improving Indoor Environmental Quality and Energy Performance of Modular Classroom HVAC Systems."Proceedings of Sustainable Buildings 2005 Conference (2005) 1432-1437.

2004

Shendell, Derek G, Richard J Prill, William J Fisk, Michael G Apte, David Blake, and David Faulkner."Associations between classroom CO₂ concentrations and student attendance in Washington and Idaho."Indoor Air 2004 14 (2004) 333-341.

Hodgson, Alfred T, Derek G Shendell, William J Fisk, and Michael G Apte."Comparison of predicted and derived measures of volatile organic compounds inside four relocatable classrooms due to identified interior finish sources."Indoor Air (Supplement 8) 14 (2004) 135-144.

Apte, Michael G, Alfred T Hodgson, Derek G Shendell, Leo I Rainer, and Marc A Hoeschele."Designing Building Systems to Save Energy and Improve Indoor Environments: A Practical Demonstration."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 3 (2004) 13-27.

Rainer, Leo I, Marc A Hoeschele, Michael G Apte, Derek G Shendell, and William J Fisk."Energy savings estimates and cost benefit calculations for high performance relocatable classrooms." (2004).

2003

Apte, Michael G, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Toshifumi Hotchi, Alfred T Hodgson, Seung-Min Lee, Shawna M Liff, Leo I Rainer, Derek G Shendell, Douglas P Sullivan, and William J Fisk."Simultaneous Energy Savings and IEQ Improvements in Relocatable Classrooms." (2003) 13. DOI

Shendell, Derek G."Assessment of organic compound exposures, thermal comfort parameters, and HVAC system-driven air exchange rates in public school portable classrooms in California." (2003).

Shendell, Derek G."Assessment of organic compound exposures, thermal comfort parameters, and HVAC system-driven air exchange rates in public school portable classrooms in California." (2003).

Mendell, Mark J, Quanhong Lei-Gomez, Myrna Cozen, Derek G Shendell, and Quanhong Lei."Association of Airborne Moisture-Indicating Microorganisms with Building-Related Symptoms and Water Damage in 100 U.S. Office Buildings: Analyses of the U.S. EPA BASE Data." (2003).

Shendell, Derek G, Richard J Prill, William J Fisk, Michael G Apte, David Blake, and David Faulkner."Associations between classroom CO₂ concentrations and student attendance." (2003).

Shendell, Derek G, Michael G Apte, Janice J Kim, and Svetlana Smorodinsky."School Indoor Environmental Quality Assessments and Interventions: Benefits of Effective Partnerships in California." (2003).

Apte, Michael G, Alfred T Hodgson, Derek G Shendell, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Toshifumi Hotchi, Seung-Min Lee, Shawna M Liff, Leo I Rainer, Douglas P Sullivan, and William J Fisk."Simultaneous Improvements in Relocatable Classrooms."ASHRAE IAQ Applications (2003) 7-10.

2002

Apte, Michael G, Alfred T Hodgson, Derek G Shendell, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Toshifumi Hotchi, Satish Kumar, Seung-Min Lee, Shawna M Liff, Leo I Rainer, Richard C Schmidt, Douglas P Sullivan, Richard C Diamond, and William J Fisk."Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality in Relocatable Classrooms."Indoor Air 2002, 9th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate II (2002) 62-69.

Shendell, Derek G, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, William J Fisk, Alfred T Hodgson, Toshifumi Hotchi, Seung-Min Lee, Douglas P Sullivan, Michael G Apte, and Leo I Rainer."Final methodology for a field study of indoor environmental quality and energy efficiency in new relocatable classrooms in Northern California." (2002).

Hodgson, Alfred T, Michael G Apte, Derek G Shendell, David Beal, and Janet E.R McIlvaine."Implementation of VOC Source Reduction Practices in a Manufactured House and in School Classrooms."Indoor Air 2002, June 30 - July 5, 2002 3 (2002) 576-581.

2001

Apte, Michael G, William J Fisk, Alfred T Hodgson, Marion L Russell, and Derek G Shendell."California Demonstration Energy Efficiency-Indoor Environmental Quality Project: Predicted Relocatable Classroom Indoor Air Quality due to Low-Emitting Interior Materials and Enhanced Ventilation."11th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Analysis, November 4-8, 2001 (2001).

Shendell, Derek G, Michael G Apte, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, William J Fisk, Alfred T Hodgson, Satish Kumar, Douglas P Sullivan, and Leo I Rainer."Linking Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality to Provide Thermal Comfort and Reduce Children's Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds: Demonstration Project in New Relocatable Classrooms at Northern California Public Schools."11th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Analysis, November 4-8, 2001 (2001) 148.

Hodgson, Alfred T, William J Fisk, Derek G Shendell, and Michael G Apte."Predicted Concentrations in New Relocatable Classrooms of Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted from Standard and Alternate Interior Finish Materials." (2001).

Apte, Michael G, William W Delp, Richard C Diamond, Alfred T Hodgson, Satish Kumar, Derek G Shendell, Douglas P Sullivan, and William J Fisk."Report on HVAC Option Selections for a Relocatable Classroom Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Field Study." (2001).

Shendell, Derek G, Michael G Apte, Richard L Corsi, Peggy L Jenkins, Janice J Kim, Svetlana Smorodinsky, Vince Torres, and Jed M Waldman."Studying the Public School Environment and Classroom Indoor Air Quality: Community-based Exposure Assessments Through Public-Private-Government Partnerships, Examples from CA and TX." (2001).