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)

2003

Daisey, Joan M, Michael G Apte, and William J Angell."Indoor air quality, ventilation and health symptoms in schools: An analysis of existing information."Indoor Air 13 (2003) 53-64.

Sohn, Michael D, Richard G Sextro, Ashok J Gadgil, and Joan M Daisey."Responding to Sudden Pollutant Releases in Office Buildings: 1. Framework and Analysis Tools."Indoor Air 13 (2003) 267-276.

2000

Apte, Michael G, William J Fisk, and Joan M Daisey."Indoor Carbon Dioxide Concentrations and SBS in Office Workers."Healthy Buildings 2000, August 6-10, 2000 (2000).

Apte, Michael G, William J Fisk, and Joan M Daisey."Associations between Indoor CO₂ Concentrations and Sick Building Syndrome Symptoms in US Office Buildings: An Analysis of the 1994-1996 BASE Study Data."Indoor Air 10.4 (2000) 246-257. DOI

Tsai, Feng C, Michael G Apte, and Joan M Daisey."An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship between Mortality and the Chemical Composition of Airborne Particulate Matter."Inhalation Toxicology 12.Supplement 2 (2000) 121-135. DOI

Thatcher, Tracy L, and Joan M Daisey."Reducing mortality from urban terrorist releases of chemical and biological agents: I. Filtration for ventilation systems in commercial buildings." (2000).

1999

Apte, Michael G, and Joan M Daisey."VOCs and "Sick Building Syndrome": Application of a New Statistical Approach for SBS Research to U.S. EPA BASE Study Data."Indoor Air '99, August 8-13, 1999 1 (1999) 117-112.

Sohn, Michael D, Joan M Daisey, and Helmut E Feustel."Characterizing indoor airflow and pollutant transport using simulation modeling for prototypical buildings. 1. Office buildings."Proceedings of the Indoor Air '99, Edinburgh, Scotland 4 (1999) 719-724.

1998

Brinke, Joann Ten, Steve Selvin, Alfred T Hodgson, William J Fisk, Mark J Mendell, Catherine P Koshland, and Joan M Daisey."Development of new VOC exposure metrics and their relationship to sick building syndrome symptoms."Indoor Air 8.3 (1998) 140-152. DOI

Daisey, Joan M."A Report on the Workshop on Improving Exposure Analysis for DOE Sites September 1996, San Francisco, CA."Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 8 (1998) 3-7.

Brinke, Joann Ten, Steve Selvin, Alfred T Hodgson, William J Fisk, Mark J Mendell, Catherine P Koshland, and Joan M Daisey."Development of new volatile organic compound (VOC) exposure metrics and their relationship to "sick building syndrome" symptoms."Indoor Air 8.3 (1998) 140-152. DOI

Van Loy, Michael D, William W Nazaroff, and Joan M Daisey."Nicotine as a Marker for Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Implications of Sorption on Indoor Surface Materials."Journal of Air and Waste Management Association 48 (1998) 959-968.

Daisey, Joan M, and William J Angell."Survey and Critical Review of the Literature on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Health Symptoms in Schools." (1998).

1997

Hering, Susanne V, Lara A Gundel, and Joan M Daisey."A microslot impactor for organic aerosol sampling."Journal of Aerosol Science 28.7 (1997) 1283-1290. DOI

Van Loy, Michael D, Victor C Lee, Lara A Gundel, Joan M Daisey, Richard G Sextro, and William W Nazaroff."Dynamic Behavior of Semivolatile Organic Compounds in Indoor Air. 1. Nicotine in a Stainless Steel Chamber."Environmental Science and Technology 31.9 (1997) 2554-2561. DOI

Daisey, Joan M, and William W Nazaroff."Implications of nicotine sorption on indoor surfaces on its use as a marker for environmental tobacco smoke."Proceedings of the A&WMA/EPA Symposium: Engineering Solutions to IAQ Problems, Research Triangle Park, NC (1997).

Van Loy, Michael D, William W Nazaroff, and Joan M Daisey."Sorptive interactions of gas-phase environmental tobacco smoke components with carpet, Paper No. 97-MP3.05."Proceedings of the Air & Waste Management Association's 90th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1997).

Daisey, Joan M, Kariyawasam R. R Mahanama, and Alfred T Hodgson."Toxic volatile organic compounds in simulated environmental tobacco smoke: Emission factors for exposure assessment."Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 8 (1997) 313-334.

Daisey, Joan M, Kariyawasam R. R Mahanama, and Alfred T Hodgson."Toxic volatile organic compounds in simulated environmental tobacco smoke: Emission factors for exposure assessment."Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 8 (1997) 313-334.

1996

Mendell, Mark J, William J Fisk, James A Deddens, William G Seavey, Allan H Smith, Daniel F Smith, Alfred T Hodgson, Joan M Daisey, and Lynn R Goldman."Elevated Symptom Prevalence Associated with Ventilation Type in Office Buildings."Epidemiology 7.6 (1996) 583-589.

Daisey, Joan M, and J Lee."Total Exposure — Indoor and Outdoor Air in Residential and Occupational Settings."Proceedings of the 2nd Colloquium on Particulate Air Pollution and Human Health, May 1-3, 1996 (1996).

Hodgson, Alfred T, Joan M Daisey, Kariyawasam R. R Mahanama, Joann Ten Brinke, and Leon E Alevantis."Use of Volatile Tracers to Determine the Contribution of Environmental Tobacco Smoke to Concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds in Smoking Environments."Environmental International 22.3 (1996) 295-307. DOI

Fischer, Marc L, Abra J Bentley, Kristie A Dunkin, Alfred T Hodgson, William W Nazaroff, Richard G Sextro, and Joan M Daisey."Factors Affecting Indoor Air Concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds at a Site of Subsurface Gasoline Contamination."Environmental Science and Technology 30.10 (1996) 2948-2957. DOI

Van Loy, Michael D, William W Nazaroff, Victor C Lee, Lara A Gundel, Richard G Sextro, and Joan M Daisey."Investigation of the fate of nicotine in a stainless-steel chamber."Proceedings of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Air and Waste Management Association, Nashville, TN (1996).

Mahanama, Kariyawasam R. R, and Joan M Daisey."Volatile N-nitrosamines in Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Sampling, Analysis, Emission Factors and Indoor Air Exposures."Environmental Science and Technology 30 (1996) 1477-1484.