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)

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

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

Maddalena, Randy L, Thomas E McKone, and Michael D Sohn."Standardized Approach for Developing Probabilistic Exposure Factor Distributions."Risk Analysis 24 (2004) 1185-1199.

2003

Maddalena, Randy L, and Thomas E McKone."Is there a "forest filter effect" for organic pollutants?."Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 17.4 (2003) 231-234. DOI

2002

Maddalena, Randy L, Thomas E McKone, and Norman Y Kado."Exposure chamber measurements of mass transfer and partitioning at the plant/air interface."Environmental Science & Technology 36.16 (2002) 3577-3585. DOI

Bodnar, Agnes, Randy L Maddalena, and Thomas E McKone."Addressing locally grown foods in cumulative exposure assessments."Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 14 (2002) 60-73.

Mattinson, Bill, Ross DePaola, and Dariush K Arasteh."What Should I Do About My Windows?."Home Energy Magazine (2002) 24-31.

2001

Maddalena, Randy L, Thomas E McKone, Dennis P.H Hsieh, and Shu Geng."Influential input classification in probabilistic multimedia models."Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 15.1 (2001) 1-17. DOI

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

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).

1999

Maddalena, Randy L, Thomas E McKone, Agnes Bodnar, and Janet Jacobson."Development and Evaluation of Probability Density Functions for a Set of Human Exposure Factors." (1999).

1998

Bennett, Deborah H, Thomas E McKone, Michael Matthies, and William E Kastenberg."General formulation of characteristic travel distance for semivolatile chemicals in a multimedia environment."Environmental Science and Technology 32 (1998) 4023-4030. DOI

1997

McKone, Thomas E, and Randy L Maddalena."Soil Contamination and Human Exposure: A Comprehensive Assessment Framework."International Journal of Toxicology 16 (1997) 319-337.

1996

Wen, Shi-Jie, Thomas J Richardson, L Ma, Kathryn A Striebel, Philip N Ross, and Elton J Cairns."FTIR Spectroscopy of Metal Oxide Insertion Electrodes: A New Diagnostic Tool for Analysis of Capacity Fading in Secondary LiMn₂O₄ Cells."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 143.6 (1996) L136-L138. DOI