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)

2014

Thatcher, Tracy L., Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Christopher J. Malejan, and Courtney E. Ward."Infiltration of Black Carbon Particles from Residential Woodsmoke into Nearby Homes."Open Journal of Air Pollution 03.04 (2014) 111 - 120. DOI

Thatcher, Tracy L., Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Stella H. Tan, Christopher J. Malejan, and Courtney E. Ward."Near-Field Variability of Residential Woodsmoke Concentrations."Atmospheric and Climate Sciences 04.04 (2014) 622 - 635. DOI

2012

Kirchstetter, Thomas W., and Tracy L. Thatcher."Contribution of organic carbon to wood smoke particulate matter absorption of solar radiation."Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12.14 (2012) 6067-6072. DOI

2007

Lunden, Melissa M., Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Tracy L. Thatcher, Susanne V. Hering, and Nancy J. Brown."Factors affecting the indoor concentrations of carbonaceous aerosols of outdoor origin."Atmospheric Environment 42.22 (2007) 5660-5671. DOI

Hering, Susanne V., Melissa M. Lunden, Marc L. Fischer, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Tracy L. Thatcher, and Nancy J. Brown."Using Regional Data and Building Leakage to Assess Indoor Concentrations of Particles of Outdoor Origin."Aerosol Science and Technology 41 (2007) 639-654.

2006

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Michael D. Sohn, Tracy L. Thatcher, Phillip N. Price, Emily E. Wood, Richard G. Sextro, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Tracer Gas Transport under Mixed Convection Conditions in an Experimental Atrium: Comparison Between Experiments and CFD Predictions."Atmospheric Environment 40 (2006) 5236-5250.

2005

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Emily E. Wood, Tracy L. Thatcher, Phillip N. Price, Richard G. Sextro, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Comparison between experiments and CFD predictions of mixed convection flows in an atrium."Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 3(3) (2005) 2849-2853.

Thatcher, Tracy L., Emily E. Wood, Eve Edelson, and Richard G. Sextro."Simplifying the assessment of building vulnerability to chemical, biological and radiological releases." (2005).

2004

Black, Douglas R., Tracy L. Thatcher, Richard G. Sextro, William W. Delp, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Emily E. Wood, Jean C. Deputy, Toshifumi Hotchi, Mark R. Sippola, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Joint Urban 2003: Indoor Measurements Final Data Report." (2004).

Finlayson, Elizabeth U., Ashok J. Gadgil, Tracy L. Thatcher, and Richard G. Sextro."Pollutant Dispersion in a Large Indoor Space Part 2 -- Computational Fluid Dyamics (CF) Predictions and Comparisons with a Model Experiment for Isothermal Flow."Indoor Air 14 (2004) 272-283.

2003

Lunden, Melissa M., Tracy L. Thatcher, Susanne V. Hering, and Nancy J. Brown."Use of Time- and Chemically Resolved Particulate Data To Characterize the Infiltration of Outdoor PM_2.5 into a Residence in the San Joaquin Valley."Environmental Science and Technology 37.20 (2003) 4724-4732. DOI

Thatcher, Tracy L., Melissa M. Lunden, Kenneth L. Revzan, Richard G. Sextro, and Nancy J. Brown."A concentration rebound method for measuring particle penetration and deposition in the indoor environment."Aerosol Science & Technology 37 (2003) 847-864.

Black, Douglas R., Tracy L. Thatcher, William W. Delp, Elisabeth A. Derby, Sheng-Chieh Chang, and Richard G. Sextro."Data summary report of commercial building experiments in Salt Lake City, UT from May 17 to June 10, 2002." (2003).

Thatcher, Tracy L., David J. Wilson, Emily E. Wood, Mathias J. Craig, and Richard G. Sextro."Pollutant Dispersion in a Large Indoor Space: Part 1 -- Scaled experiments using a water-filled model with occupants and furniture."Indoor Air 14 (2003) 258-271.

Price, Phillip N., Michael D. Sohn, Ashok J. Gadgil, William W. Delp, David M. Lorenzetti, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Tracy L. Thatcher, Richard G. Sextro, Elisabeth A. Derby, and Sondra A. Jarvis."Protecting Buildings From a Biological or Chemical Attack: actions to take before or during a release." (2003).

Lunden, Melissa M., Kenneth L. Revzan, Marc L. Fischer, Tracy L. Thatcher, David Littlejohn, Susanne V. Hering, and Nancy J. Brown."The Transformation of Outdoor Ammonium Nitrate Aerosols in the Indoor Environment."Atmospheric Environment 37 (2003) 5633-5644.

2002

Thatcher, Tracy L., Alvin C.K. Lai, Rosa Moreno-Jackson, Richard G. Sextro, and William W. Nazaroff."Effects of Room Furnishings and Air Speed on Particle Deposition Rates Indoors."Atmospheric Environment 36.11 (2002) 1811-1819. DOI

Price, Phillip N., William W. Delp, Michael D. Sohn, Tracy L. Thatcher, David M. Lorenzetti, Richard G. Sextro, Ashok J. Gadgil, Elisabeth A. Derby, and Sondra A. Jarvis."Advice for first responders to a building during a chemical or biological attack." (2002).

Fischer, Marc L., Melissa M. Lunden, Tracy L. Thatcher, David Littlejohn, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Susanne V. Hering, Richard G. Sextro, and Nancy J. Brown."Building a predictive model of indoor concentrations of outdoor PM-2.5 for a residential research house in Clovis, California." (2002).

Thatcher, Tracy L., Melissa M. Lunden, Richard G. Sextro, Susanne V. Hering, and Nancy J. Brown."The effect of penetration factor, deposition, and environmental factors on the indoor concentration of pm2.5 sulfate, nitrate, and carbon."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 1 (2002) 846-851.

Thatcher, Tracy L., Melissa M. Lunden, Kenneth L. Revzan, Richard G. Sextro, and Nancy J. Brown."Experimental investigation of the effect of changes in house environment on the indoor concentration of particles of outdoor origin within a residence." (2002).

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.

Hering, Susanne V., Melissa M. Lunden, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Tracy L. Thatcher, Kenneth L. Revzan, Richard G. Sextro, Nancy J. Brown, John G. Watson, and Judith C. Chow."Indoor, Outdoor And Regional Profiles Of Pm2.5 Sulfate, Nitrate And Carbon."9th International Conference on Indoor Air 2002 1 (2002) 874-879.

Sextro, Richard G., David M. Lorenzetti, Michael D. Sohn, and Tracy L. Thatcher."Modeling the spread of anthrax in buildings."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 4 (2002) 506-511.

Fischer, Marc L., Melissa M. Lunden, Tracy L. Thatcher, Richard G. Sextro, and Nancy J. Brown."Predicting Indoor PM2.5 Of Outdoor Origin: Testing a transient size-resolved Model Using Intensive Measurements From A Residence."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 1 (2002) 152-157.