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)

1984

Modera, Mark P, Max H Sherman, and Robert C Sonderegger."Heat-Flow Measurements in Buildings." (1984).

1983

Lipschutz, Ronnie D, Richard C Diamond, and Robert C Sonderegger."Some Technical and Behavioral Aspects of Energy Use in a High-Rise Apartment Building." (1983).

Lipschutz, Ronnie D, Richard C Diamond, and Robert C Sonderegger."Energy Use in a High-Rise Apartment Building." (1983).

Grimsrud, David T, Max H Sherman, and Robert C Sonderegger."Calculating Infiltration: Implications for a Construction Quality Standard." (1983).

Sherman, Max H, J.W Adams, Robert C Sonderegger, Francis A Govan, David M Greason, and John D McAllister."Simplified Thermal Parameters: A Model of the Dynamic Performance of Walls."Thermal Insulation, Materials, and Systems for Energy Conservation in the '80s: A Conference ASTM STP 789 (1983) 355-372.

1982

Grimsrud, David T, Max H Sherman, and Robert C Sonderegger."Prediction and Measurement of Infiltration in Residential Buildings: in Application to a Construction Quality Standard."Proceedings Third Joint Symposium on the Performance Concept in Buildings (1982).

Sherman, Max H, Robert C Sonderegger, and J.W Adams."The Determination of the Dynamic Performance of Walls."ASHRAE Transactions 88.1 (1982) 689.

Sonderegger, Robert C, Max H Sherman, and J.W Adams."The Envelope Thermal Test Unit (ETTU): Field Measurement of Wall Performance."Proceedings Third International Symposium on Energy Conservation in the Built Environment (1982).

1981

Grimsrud, David T, Robert C Sonderegger, and Max H Sherman."Infiltration Measurements in Audit and Retrofit Programs."Proceedings IEA Energy Audit Workshop (1981).

1979

Grimsrud, David T, Max H Sherman, Richard C Diamond, and Robert C Sonderegger."Air Leakage, Surface Pressures and Infiltration Rates in Houses."Second International CIB, Symposium on Energy Conservation in the Built Environment (1979).

Sherman, Max H, David T Grimsrud, and Robert C Sonderegger."The Low Pressure Leakage Function of a Building."Proceedings ASHRAE-DOE Conference on Thermal Performance of Exterior Envelopes of Buildings SP 28, (1979).