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)

2009

McKone, Thomas E, Louis J Thibodeaux, and Donald Mackay."Mass Transport within Soils."Environmental Mass Transfer Handbook (2009).

2006

Foster, Karen L, Steven Sharpe, Eva Webster, Donald Mackay, and Randy L Maddalena."The role of multimedia mass balance models for assessing the effects of volatile organic compound emissions on urban air quality."Atmospheric Environment 40.16 (2006) 2986-2994. DOI

Macleod, Matthew, Thomas E McKone, and Donald Mackay."A Mass Balance for Mercury in the San Francisco Bay Area."Environmental Science and Technology 39 (2006) 6721-6729.

2005

Macleod, Matthew, Thomas E McKone, Kathrin Fenner, Martin Scheringer, Michael Matthies, Maximilian Stroebe, Andreas Beyer, Mark Bonnell, Anne Christine Le Gall, Jörg Klasmeier, Donald Mackay, Dik van de Meent, David Pennington, Bernd Scharenberg, Noriyuki Suzuki, and Frank Wania."Comparing estimates of persistence and long-range transport potential among multimedia models."Environmental Science & Technology 39 (2005) 1932 -1942. DOI

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

Toose, Liisa, David G Woodﬁne, Matthew Macleod, Donald Mackay, and Jennifer Gouin."BETR-World: a geographically explicit model of chemical fate: application to transport of α-HCH to the Arctic."Environmental Pollution 128.1-2 (2004) 223-240. DOI

Macleod, Matthew, Thomas E McKone, Karen L Foster, Randy L Maddalena, Thomas F Parkerton, and Donald Mackay."Applications of contaminant fate and bioaccumulation models in assessing ecological risks of chemicals: A case study for gasoline hydrocarbons."Environmental Science & Technology 38.23 (2004) 6225 -6233. DOI

Macleod, Matthew, and Donald Mackay."Modeling transport and deposition of contaminants to ecosystems of concern: A case study for the Laurentian Great Lakes."Environmental Pollution 128 (2004) 241-250.

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.

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).

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).

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

Klečka, Gary M, Donald Mackay, Robert S Boethling, and Thomas E McKone."Evaluation of persistence and long-range transport of organic chemicals in the environment: summary of a SETAC Pellston workshop."Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18 (1999).