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)

2012

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, Wanyu R. Chan, William J. Fisk, and Thomas E. McKone."Modeling indoor exposures to VOCs and SVOCs as ventilation rates vary."Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International Conference (2012).

Chan, Wanyu R., Meera A. Sidheswaran, Douglas P. Sullivan, Sebastian Cohn, and William J. Fisk."Contaminant levels and source strengths in U.S. retail stores — A pilot study."Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International Conference (2012).

Chan, Wanyu R., Meera A. Sidheswaran, Douglas P. Sullivan, Sebastian Cohn, and William J. Fisk."Healthy Zero Energy Buildings (HZEB) Program– Interim Report on Cross‐Sectional Study of Contaminant Levels, Source Strengths, and Ventilation Rates in Retail Stores." (2012).

2011

Chan, Wanyu R., and Max H. Sherman."Preliminary Analysis of U.S. Residential Air Leakage Database v.2011."2011 32nd AIVC Conference and 1st TightVent Conference: Towards Optimal Airtightness Performance (2011).

Chan, Wanyu R., and Federico Noris."Side‐by‐Side Comparison of Particle Count and Mass Concentration Measurements in a Residence." (2011).

2008

Chan, Wanyu R., William W. Nazaroff, Phillip N. Price, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Effectiveness of Urban Shelter-in-Place III: Urban Districts."Building Simulation 1 (2008) 144-157.

2007

Chan, Wanyu R., William W. Nazaroff, Phillip N. Price, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Effectiveness of Urban Shelter-in-Place I: Idealized Conditions."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 4962-4976.

Chan, Wanyu R., William W. Nazaroff, Phillip N. Price, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Effectiveness of urban shelter-in-place. II: Residential Districts."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 7082-7095.

2006

Chan, Wanyu R.."Assessing the effectiveness of shelter-in-place as an emergency response to large-scale outdoor chemical releases."Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2006).

Price, Phillip N., Arman Shehabi, Wanyu R. Chan, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Indoor-Outdoor Air Leakage of Apartments and Commercial Buildings." (2006).

2005

Chan, Wanyu R., William W. Nazaroff, Phillip N. Price, Michael D. Sohn, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Analyzing a database of residential air leakage in the United States."Atmospheric Environment 39.19 (2005) 3445 - 3455. DOI

Chan, Wanyu R., William W. Nazaroff, Phillip N. Price, Michael D. Sohn, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Analyzing a Database of Residential Air Leakage in the United States."Atmospheric Environment 39.19 (2005) 3445-3455. DOI

Chan, Wanyu R., Phillip N. Price, William W. Nazaroff, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Distribution Of Residential Air Leakage: Implications For Health Consequences Of An Outdoor Toxic Release."Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate - Indoor Air 2005 2(6) (2005) 1729-1733.

2004

Chan, Wanyu R., Phillip N. Price, Ashok J. Gadgil, William W. Nazaroff, Gwen Loosmore, and Gayle Sugiyama."Modeling shelter-in-place including sorption on indoor surfaces."84th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 11-14, 2004 PNFUZ Session 6.5 (2004).

Chan, Wanyu R., Phillip N. Price, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Sheltering in buildings from large-scale outdoor releases." (2004).

2003

Sherman, Max H., and Wanyu R. Chan."Building Airtightness: Research and Practice."State of the Art in Ventilation (2003) 8-12.