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)

2007

Singer, Brett C, Alfred T Hodgson, Toshifumi Hotchi, Katherine Y Ming, Richard G Sextro, Emily E Wood, and Nancy J Brown."Sorption of organic gases in residential rooms."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 3251-3265.

2006

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Michael D Sohn, Tracy L Thatcher, Phillip N Price, Emily E Wood, Richard G Sextro, and Ashok J Gadgil."Tracer Gas Transport under Mixed Convection Conditions in an Experimental Atrium: Comparison Between Experiments and CFD Predictions."Atmospheric Environment 40 (2006) 5236-5250.

2005

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Emily E Wood, Tracy L Thatcher, Phillip N Price, Richard G Sextro, and Ashok J Gadgil."Comparison between experiments and CFD predictions of mixed convection flows in an atrium."Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 3(3) (2005) 2849-2853.

Thatcher, Tracy L, Emily E Wood, Eve Edelson, and Richard G Sextro."Simplifying the assessment of building vulnerability to chemical, biological and radiological releases." (2005).

Singer, Brett C, Alfred T Hodgson, Toshifumi Hotchi, Katherine Y Ming, Richard G Sextro, Emily E Wood, and Nancy J Brown."Sorption of organic gases in residential bedrooms and bathrooms."Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate - Indoor Air 2005 2(9) (2005) 2314-2319.

2004

Black, Douglas R, Tracy L Thatcher, Richard G Sextro, William W Delp, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Emily E Wood, Jean C Deputy, Toshifumi Hotchi, Mark R Sippola, and Douglas P Sullivan."Joint Urban 2003: Indoor Measurements Final Data Report." (2004).

2003

Thatcher, Tracy L, David J Wilson, Emily E Wood, Mathias J Craig, and Richard G Sextro."Pollutant Dispersion in a Large Indoor Space: Part 1 -- Scaled experiments using a water-filled model with occupants and furniture."Indoor Air 14 (2003) 258-271.

2001

Fischer, Marc L, Phillip N Price, Tracy L Thatcher, Carrie A Schwalbe, Mathias J Craig, Emily E Wood, Richard G Sextro, and Ashok J Gadgil."Rapid Measurement and Mapping of Tracer Gas Concentrations in a Large Indoor Space."Atmospheric Environment 35 (2001) 2837-2844. DOI

2000

Gadgil, Ashok J, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Marc L Fischer, Phillip N Price, Tracy L Thatcher, Mathias J Craig, Ki-Hyuck Hong, J Housman, Carrie A Schwalbe, David J Wilson, Emily E Wood, and Richard G Sextro."Pollutant transport and dispersion in large indoor spaces: A status report for the large space effort of the Interiors Project." (2000).