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)

2017

Piette, Mary Ann, Tianzhen Hong, William J. Fisk, Norman Bourassa, Wanyu R. Chan, Yixing Chen, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Toshifumi Hotchi, Margarita Kloss, Sang Hoon Lee, Phillip N. Price, Oren Schetrit, Kaiyu Sun, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Rongpeng Zhang."Small and Medium Building Efficiency Toolkit and Community Demonstration Program." (2017). DOI

Walker, Iain S., Yang-Seon Kim, Brett C. Singer, and Wanyu R. Chan."Assessing Occupant and Outdoor Air Impacts on Indoor Air Quality in New California Homes."AIVC Conference (2017). DOI

2016

Fisk, William J., and Wanyu R. Chan."Health benefits and costs of filtration interventions that reduce indoor exposure to PM2.5 during wildfires."Indoor Air 27.1 (2016) 191 - 204. DOI

Chan, Wanyu R., Yang-Seon Kim, Brett C. Singer, Iain S. Walker, and Max H. Sherman."Healthy Efficient New Gas Homes (HENGH) Field Study Protocol." (2016).

Chan, Wanyu R., Randy L. Maddalena, J. Chris Stratton, Toshifumi Hotchi, Brett C. Singer, Iain S. Walker, and Max H. Sherman."Healthy Efficient New Gas Homes (HENGH) Pilot Test Results." (2016).

2015

Mendell, Mark J., Ekaterina Eliseeva, Michael Spears, Wanyu R. Chan, Sebastian Cohn, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."A longitudinal study of ventilation rates in California office buildings and self-reported occupant outcomes including respiratory illness absence." 92 (2015). DOI

Maddalena, Randy L., Mark J. Mendell, Ekaterina Eliseeva, Wanyu R. Chan, Douglas P. Sullivan, Marion L. Russell, Usha Satish, and William J. Fisk."Effects of ventilation rate per person and per floor area on perceived air quality, sick building syndrome symptoms, and decision-making."Indoor Air 25.4 (2015) 362-370. DOI

Chan, Wanyu R., Meera A. Sidheswaran, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."Cooking-related PM2.5 and acrolein measured in grocery stores and comparison with other retail types."Indoor Air 26.3 (2015) 489-500. DOI

Mills, Evan, Jessica Granderson, Wanyu R. Chan, Richard C. Diamond, Philip Haves, Bruce Nordman, Paul A. Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Gerald Robinson, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Green, Clean, & Mean: Pushing the Energy Envelope in Tech Industry Buildings." (2015).

Chan, Wanyu R., Srinandini Parthasarathy, William J. Fisk, and Thomas E. McKone."Estimated effect of ventilation and filtration on chronic health risks in U.S. offices, schools, and retail stores." (2015). DOI

Chan, Wanyu R., Iain S. Walker, and Max H. Sherman."Durable Airtightness in Single-Family Dwellings: Field Measurements and Analysis." (2015).

Fisk, William J., Wanyu R. Chan, and Toshifumi Hotchi."Prototype Systems for Measuring Outdoor Air Intake Rates in Rooftop Air Handlers." (2015).

2014

Chan, Wanyu R., Sebastian Cohn, Meera A. Sidheswaran, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."Contaminant levels, source strengths, and ventilation rates in California retail stores."Indoor Air 25.4 (2014) 381-392. DOI

Dutton, Spencer M., Mark J. Mendell, Wanyu R. Chan, Marcella Barrios, Meera A. Sidheswaran, Douglas P. Sullivan, Ekaterina Eliseeva, and William J. Fisk."Evaluation of the Indoor Air Quality Minimum Ventilation Rate Procedure for Use in California Retail Buildings."Indoor Air 25 (2014) 93-104. DOI

Chan, Wanyu R., and Brett C. Singer."Measurement-Based Evaluation of Installed Filtration System Performance in Single-Family Homes." (2014).

Chan, Wanyu R., Meera A. Sidheswaran, Sebastian Cohn, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."Healthy Zero Energy Buildings (HZEB) Program – Cross-Sectional Study of Contaminant Levels, Source, Strengths, and Ventilation Rates in Retail Stores." (2014).

Mendell, Mark J., Ekaterina Eliseeva, Michael Spears, Wanyu R. Chan, Sebastian Cohn, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."A Prospective Study of Ventilation Rates and Illness Absence in California Office Buildings." (2014).

2013

Maddalena, Randy L., Mark J. Mendell, Ekaterina Eliseeva, Wanyu R. Chan, Douglas P. Sullivan, Marion L. Russell, Michael G. Apte, Usha Satish, and William J. Fisk."Impact of Independently Controlling Ventilation Rate per Person and Ventilation Rate per Floor Area on Perceived Air Quality, Sick Building Symptoms and Decision Making." (2013).

Chan, Wanyu R., Jeffrey Joh, and Max H. Sherman."Analysis of Air Leakage Measurements of US Houses."Energy and Buildings (2013) 616-625. DOI

Fisk, William J., Spencer M. Dutton, Mark J. Mendell, and Wanyu R. Chan."Should Title 24 Ventilation Requirements Be Amended to include an Indoor Air Quality Procedure?." (2013).

Walker, Iain S., Max H. Sherman, Jeffrey Joh, and Wanyu R. Chan."Applying Large Datasets to Developing a Better Understanding of Air Leakage Measurement in Homes."International Journal of Ventilation 11.4 (2013) 323-338.

Dutton, Spencer M., Wanyu R. Chan, Mark J. Mendell, Marcella Barrios, Srinandini Parthasarathy, Meera A. Sidheswaran, Douglas P. Sullivan, Ekaterina Eliseeva, and William J. Fisk."Evaluation of the Indoor Air Quality Procedure for Use in Retail Buildings." (2013).

Chan, Wanyu R., and Max H. Sherman."Improving Building Envelope and Duct Airtightness of US Dwellings - the Current State of Energy Retrofits." (2013).

2012

Chan, Wanyu R., Jeffrey Joh, and Max H. Sherman."Air Leakage of US Homes: Regression Analysis and Improvements from Retrofit." (2012).

Chan, Wanyu R., Jeffrey Joh, and Max H. Sherman."Analysis of Air Leakage Measurements from Residential Diagnostics Database." (2012).