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)

2006

Lobscheid, Agnes B., and Thomas E. McKone."Public Health Benefits of End-Use Electrical Energy Efficiency in California." (2006).

2005

Macleod, Matthew, William J. Riley, and Thomas E. McKone."Assessing the Influence of Climate Variability on Atmospheric Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants Using a Global-Scale Mass Balance Model (BETR-Global)."Environmental Science & Technology 39 (2005) 6749-6756.

McKone, Thomas E., and Ashok W. Deshpande."Can Fuzzy Logic Bring Complex Problems into Focus?."Environmental Science and Technology 39 (2005) 42A-47A.

Macleod, Matthew, Thomas E. McKone, Kathrin Fenner, Martin Scheringer, Michael Matthies, Maximilian Stroebe, Andreas Beyer, Mark Bonnell, Anne Christine Le Gall, Jörg Klasmeier, Donald Mackay, Dik van de Meent, David Pennington, Bernd Scharenberg, Noriyuki Suzuki, and Frank Wania."Comparing estimates of persistence and long-range transport potential among multimedia models."Environmental Science & Technology 39 (2005) 1932 -1942. DOI

Macleod, Matthew, and Thomas E. McKone."Identifying POP-Like Behavior in Screening Assessments of Organic Chemicals."Environmental Science & Technology 40 (2005) 53-60.

Marshall, Julian D., Thomas E. McKone, and William W. Nazaroff."Inhalation of motor vehicle emissions: Effects of urban population and area."Atmospheric Environment 39 (2005) 283-295.

Macleod, Matthew, William J. Riley, and Thomas E. McKone."Modeling transport and deposition of level 1 substances to the great lakes." (2005).

McKone, Thomas E., and Philip Wexler."Pollution, Soil."Encylopedia of Toxicology (2005) 489-495.

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

Lobscheid, Agnes B., and Thomas E. McKone."Constraining uncertainties about the sources and magnitude of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)levels in ambient air: the State of Minnesota as a case study."Atmospheric Environment 38 (2004) 5501-5515.

Sohn, Michael D., Thomas E. McKone, and Jerry N. Blancato."Reconstructing Population Exposures from Dose Biomarkers: Inhalation of Trichloroethylene (TCE) as a Case Study."Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 14 (2004) 204-213. 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

McKone, Thomas E., and Max H. Sherman."Residential Ventilation Standards Scoping Study." (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

McKone, Thomas E., and Deborah H. Bennett."Chemical-specific representation of air-soil exchange and soil penetration in regional multimedia models."Environmental Science and Technology 37.14 (2003) 3123-3132. DOI

Marshall, Julian D., William J. Riley, Thomas E. McKone, and William W. Nazaroff."Intake fraction of primary pollutants: Motor vehicle emissions in the South Coast Air Basin."Atmospheric Environment 37 (2003) 3455-3468.

Scheringer, Martin, and Thomas E. McKone."Is there a "forest filter effect" for airborne organic pollutants? A SERRA journal forum."Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 17 (2003) 229-230.

McKone, Thomas E., and Matthew Macleod."Tracking Multiple Pathways of Human Exposure to Persistent Multimedia Pollutants: Regional, Continental, and Global Scale Models."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 28 (2003) 11.

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.

Castorina, Rosemary, Asa Bradman, and Thomas E. McKone."Assessing cumulative organophosphate pesticide exposure and risk among pregnant women living in an agricultural community."Environmental Health Perspectives 111 (2002) 1640-1648.

Bennett, Deborah H., Thomas E. McKone, John S. Evans, William W. Nazaroff, Manuele D. Margni, Olivier Jolliet, and Kirk R. Smith."Defining intake fraction."Environmental Science & Technology 36 (2002) 207A-211A.

McKone, Thomas E., Tracy L. Thatcher, William J. Fisk, Richard G. Sextro, Michael D. Sohn, William W. Delp, and William J. Riley."Factors affecting the concentration of outdoor particles indoors: existing data and data needs."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 1 (2002) 176-181.

Bennett, Deborah H., Edwin J. Furtaw Jr, and Thomas E. McKone."A fugacity-based indoor residential pesticide fate model."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 1 (2002) 261-266.