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

Walker, Iain S, Brennan Less, and Jeremy Fisher."Deep Energy Retrofit Performance Metric Comparison: Eight California Case Studies." (2014).

Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, and Yihuan Tang."Development of an Outdoor Temperature-Based Control Algorithm for Residential Mechanical Ventilation Control." (2014).

Walker, Iain S, and Max H Sherman."Duct Leakage Repeatability Testing." (2014).

Walker, Iain S, Max H Sherman, and Brennan Less."Houses are Dumb without Smart Ventilation." (2014).

Less, Brennan, and Iain S Walker."Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation in Residential Deep Energy Retrofits." (2014).

Turner, William J. N, Jordan Roux, and Iain S Walker."Reducing Residential Peak Electricity Demand with Mechanical Pre-Cooling of Building Thermal Mass." (2014).

Turner, William J. N, and Iain S Walker."Using a Ventilation Controller to Optimize Residential Passive Ventilation For Energy and Indoor Air Quality." (2014).

2013

Hult, Erin L, Max H Sherman, and Iain S Walker."Blower-door techniques for measuring interzonal leakage."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings XII International Conference (2013).

Walker, Iain S, Max H Sherman, Jeffrey Joh, and Wanyu R Chan."Applying Large Datasets to Developing a Better Understanding of Air Leakage Measurement in Homes."International Journal of Ventilation 11.4 (2013) 323-338.

Walker, Iain S, Darryl J Dickerhoff, David Faulkner, and William J. N Turner."System Effects of High Efficiency Filters in Homes."ASHRAE Annual Conference (2013).

Walker, Iain S, and Max H Sherman."Effect of Ventilation Strategies on Residential Ozone Levels."Building and Environment 59 (2013) 456–465. DOI

Logue, Jennifer M, Max H Sherman, Iain S Walker, and Brett C Singer."Energy Impacts of Envelope Tightening and Mechanical Ventilation for the U.S. Residential Sector."Energy and Building 65 (2013) 281-291. DOI

Walker, Iain S, Darryl J Dickerhoff, David Faulkner, and William J. N Turner."Energy Implications of In-‐Line Filtration in California." (2013).

Sherman, Max H, Iain S Walker, and Melissa M Lunden."Uncertainties in Air Exchange using Continuous-Injection, Long-Term Sampling Tracer-Gas Methods." (2013).

2012

Turner, William J. N, and Iain S Walker."Advanced Controls and Sustainable Systems for Residential Ventilation." (2012).

Walker, Iain S, Darryl J Dickerhoff, David Faulkner, and William J. N Turner."Energy Implications of In-Line Filtration in California Homes."ASHRAE Transactions 19.2 (2012) 99-417.

Stratton, J Chris, William J. N Turner, Craig P Wray, and Iain S Walker."Measuring Residential Ventilation System Airflows: Part 1 – Laboratory Evaluation of Airflow Meter Devices." (2012).

Less, Brennan, Jeremy Fisher, and Iain S Walker."Deep Energy Retrofits—Eleven California Case Studies." (2012).

Logue, Jennifer M, William J. N Turner, Iain S Walker, and Brett C Singer."Evaluation of an Incremental Ventilation Energy Model for Estimating Impacts of Air Sealing and Mechanical Ventilation." (2012).

Sherman, Max H, and Iain S Walker."Philosophy and Approaches for Airtightness Requirements in the USA."International Airtightness Workshop (2012).

Stratton, J Chris, and Iain S Walker."Health and Safety Guide for Home Performance Contractors." (2012).

Walker, Iain S, Max H Sherman, and Darryl J Dickerhoff."Development of a Residential Integrated Ventilation Controller." (2012).

Stratton, J Chris, Iain S Walker, and Craig P Wray."Measuring Residential Ventilation System Airflows: Part 2 - Field Evaluation of Airflow Meter Devices and System Flow Verification." (2012).

2011

Walker, Iain S, and Darryl J Dickerhoff."Development of a Residential Integrated Ventilation Controller." (2011).

Mortensen, Dorthe Kragsig, Iain S Walker, and Max H Sherman."Optimization of Occupancy Based Demand Controlled Ventilation in Residences."International Journal of Ventilation 10.1 (2011) 49-60.