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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

1998

Walker, Iain S., Jeffrey A. Siegel, Karl A. Brown, and Max H. Sherman."Saving Tons at the Register."Proceedings of the 1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Effciency in Buildings, Pacific Grove, CA 1 (1998) 367-383.

1997

Sherman, Max H., and Nance Matson."Residential Ventilation and Energy Characteristics."ASHRAE Transactions 103.1 (1997) 717-730.

Sherman, Max H., and David A. Jump."Energy Conservation in Buildings."CRC Handbook of Conservation and Renewable Energy Systems (1997) 269-304.

1996

Koles, Gretchen M., Robert J. Hitchcock, and Max H. Sherman."Metrics for Building Performance Assurance." (1996).

Sherman, Max H., and Hal Levin."Renewables in Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality."World Renewable Energy Conference; Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and the Environment 1 (1996) 236-240.

1995

Tuluca, Adrian, and Max H. Sherman."Simplified Multizone Blower Door Techniques for Multifamily Buildings."NYSERDA Report 95.16 (1995).

Olken, Frank, Evan Mills, Mary Ann Piette, Dale A. Sartor, Stephen E. Selkowitz, and Max H. Sherman."The Role of Building Life-Cycle Information Systems in the Delivery of Energy Services."Proceedings. NIST/EPRI: ATP: Information and Telecommunications for the U.S. Utilities Industry Focused Program Development (1995) 01/1995.

Sherman, Max H.."The Use of Blower-Door Data."Indoor Air 5 (1995) 215-224.

Sherman, Max H.."Utility-Related Research." (1995).

1994

Sherman, Max H., and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Air Tightness of U.S. Dwellings."Proceedings 15th Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre Conference (1994).

Palmiter, Larry, and Max H. Sherman."Airflow Performance of Envelopes, Components and Systems."Airflow Performance of Envelopes, Components and Systems STP 1255 (1994) 7-22.

Sherman, Max H., and John L. Stoops."ACEEE 1994 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings." 10 (1994).

Sherman, Max H., and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Monitoring Ventilation and Air Leakage in a Low-Rise Commercial Building."Solar Engineering (Klett, Hogan, Tanaka Eds.) G00837 (1994) 291-297.

Sherman, Max H., Larry Palmiter, Mark P. Modera, and Andrew K. Persily."Uncertainty in Fan Pressurization Measurements."Airflow Performance of Envelopes, Components and Systems STP 1255 (1994) 262-283.

1993

Sherman, Max H., and Nance Matson."Ventilation-Energy Liabilities in U.S. Housing."Proceedings 14th Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre Conference (1993).

1992

Diamond, Richard C., Darryl J. Dickerhoff, Helmut E. Feustel, Richard Jansky, and Max H. Sherman."Chelsea Public Housing Study: Ventilation and Infiltration Survey. Interim Report to DOE on DOE-HUD Initiative." (1992).

Sextro, Richard G., Helmut E. Feustel, Mark P. Modera, Kenneth L. Revzan, and Max H. Sherman."A Coupled Multi-zone Flow and Radon Transport Model of Radon Entry and Concentrations in a Crawlspace House." (1992).

Sherman, Max H.."A Power-Law Formulation of Laminar Flow in Short Pipes."Journal of Fluids Engineering 114 (1992) 601-605.

Sherman, Max H.."Simplified Modeling for Infiltration and Radon Entry."ASHRAE/ DOE/BTECC Conference, Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings Conference V (addendum) (1992).

Sherman, Max H.."Single-Zone Stack-Dominated Infiltration Modeling."Indoor Air 2.4 (1992).

Sherman, Max H.."Superposition in Infiltration Modeling."Indoor Air 2 (1992) 101-114.

1991

Sherman, Max H., and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."ACT2 Project Report: Ventilation and Air Tightness Measurements of the Sunset Building."ventilation, air tightness (1991).

1990

Feustel, Helmut E., and Max H. Sherman."The COMIS Infiltration Model a Tool for Multizone Applications."Heat and Mass Transfer in Building Materials and Structures (Chaddock and Todorivic Eds.) (1990) 771-779.

Sherman, Max H., Helmut E. Feustel, and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Description of a System for Measuring In-terzonal Air Flows using Multiple Tracer Gases."Heat and Mass Transfer in Building Materials and Structures (Chaddock and Todorivic Eds) (1990) 781-790.

Sherman, Max H.."A Multi-Tracer System for Multizone Ventilation Measurements."Review of Scientific Instruments 61.9 (1990) 2457-2461.