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)

2011

Mathieu, Johanna L., Phillip N. Price, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Quantifying Changes in Building Electricity Use, with Application to Demand Response."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2.3 (2011) 507-518. DOI

Price, Phillip N., Johanna L. Mathieu, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Using Whole-Building Electric Load Data in Continuous or Retro-Commissioning."19th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2011).

Malone, Elizabeth L., Tom Sanquist, Amy K. Wolfe, Richard C. Diamond, Christopher T. Payne, and Jerry Dion."Evidence-Based Background Material Underlying Guidance for Federal Agencies in Implementing Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans Implementing Sustainability: The Institutional-Behavioral Dimension." (2011).

Maddalena, Randy L.."Effect of Environmental Factors on Sulfur Gas Emissions from Problem Drywall." (2011).

Soto-García, Lydia L., Meinrat O. Andreae, Tracey W. Andreae, Paulo Artaxo, Willy Maenhaut, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Tihomir Novakov, Judith C. Chow, and Olga L. Mayol-Bracero."Evaluation of the carbon content of aerosols from the burning of biomass in the Brazilian Amazon using thermal, optical and thermal-optical analysis methods."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 11 (2011) 4425-4444. DOI

Mathieu, Johanna L., Duncan S. Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Examining Uncertainty in Demand Response Baseline Models and Variability in Automated Response to Dynamic Pricing."2011 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (2011). DOI

2010

Ortiz, Anna C., Marion L. Russell, Wen-Yee Lee, Michael G. Apte, and Randy L. Maddalena."Identifying Sources of Volatile Organic Compounds and Aldehydes in a High Performance Building." (2010) 29.

Mathieu, Johanna L., Ashok J. Gadgil, Susan E. Addy, Kristin Kowolik, and Susan Amrose."Arsenic remediation of drinking water using iron‐oxide coated coal bottom ash."Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A 45.11 (2010) 1446-1460. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Johanna L. Mathieu, Mary Ann Piette, Edward Koch, and Dan Hennage."Open Automated Demand Response Dynamic Pricing Technologies and Demonstration." (2010).

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, and Michael G. Apte."Field Derived Emission Factors For Formaldehyde and other Volatile Organic Compounds in FEMA Temporary Housing Units." (2010).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, Johanna L. Mathieu, and Kristen Parrish."Findings from Seven Years of Field Performance Data for Automated Demand Response in Commercial Buildings."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, Michael Spears, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, and Michael G. Apte."A Formaldehyde Exposure Assessment Tool for Occupants of FEMA Temporary Housing Units." (2010).

Ghatikar, Girish, Johanna L. Mathieu, Mary Ann Piette, and Sila Kiliccote."Open Automated Demand Response Technologies for Dynamic Pricing and Smart Grid."Grid-Interop Conference 2010 (2010).

Maddalena, Randy L., Marion L. Russell, Moya Melody, and Michael G. Apte."Small‐Chamber Measurements of Chemical‐Specific Emission Factors for Drywall." (2010).

2009

Mathieu, Johanna L., and Ashok J. Gadgil."Design of a rural water provision system to decrease arsenic exposure in Bangladesh."Mechanical Engineering (2009) 82.

Mathieu, Johanna L., Ashok J. Gadgil, Kristin Kowolik, Shefah Qazi, and Alice M. Agogino."Design Strategies and Preliminary Prototype for a Low-Cost Arsenic Removal System for Rural Bangladesh." (2009).

Maddalena, Randy L., Marion L. Russell, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Michael G. Apte."Formaldehyde and Other Volatile Organic Chemical Emissions in Four FEMA Temporary Housing Units."Environmental Science and Technology 43 (2009) 5626-5632.

Apte, Michael G., Deborah H. Bennett, David Faulkner, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, Michael Spears, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Amber L. Trout."Indoor Air Quality Assessment of the San Francisco Federal Building." (2009).

Sleiman, Mohamad, Randy L. Maddalena, Lara A. Gundel, and Hugo Destaillats."Rapid and sensitive gas chromatography ion-trap mass spectrometry method for the determination of tobacco specific N-nitrosamines in secondhand smoke."Journal of Chromatography A 1216 (2009) 7899-7905.

Mathieu, Johanna L., Ashok J. Gadgil, Kristin Kowolik, Susan E. Addy, and Susan Amrose."Removing Arsenic from Contaminated Drinking Water in Rural Bangladesh: Recent Fieldwork Results & Policy Implications." (2009).

2008

Schenker, Urs, Martin Scheringer, Michael D. Sohn, Randy L. Maddalena, Thomas E. McKone, and Konrad Hungerbühler."Using Information on Uncertainty to Improve Environmental Fate Modeling: A Case Study on DDT."Environmental Science and Technology 43.1 (2008) 128-134.

Maddalena, Randy L., Hugo Destaillats, Marion L. Russell, Alfred T. Hodgson, and Thomas E. McKone."Indoor pollutants emitted by electronic office equipment."Indoor Air 2008 (2008).

Destaillats, Hugo, Randy L. Maddalena, Brett C. Singer, Alfred T. Hodgson, and Thomas E. McKone."Indoor pollutants emitted by office equipment: A review of reported data and information needs."Atmospheric Environment 42 (2008) 1371-1388.

Maddalena, Randy L., and Thomas E. McKone."Insecticide Exposures on Commercial Aircraft: A Literature Review and Screening Level Assessment." (2008).

Kobayashi, Reiko, Robert A. Okamoto, Randy L. Maddalena, and Norman Y. Kado."Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in edible grain: A pilot study of agricultural crops as a human exposure pathway for environmental contaminants using wheat as a model crop."Environmental Research 107 (2008) 145-151.