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)

2013

Coles, Henry C, Steve E Greenberg, and William F Tschudi."Demonstration of Data Center Energy Use Prediction Software." (2013).

2012

Cheung, H.Y Iris, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Steve E Greenberg, Richard E Brown, William F Tschudi, Pierre Delforge, and Joyce Dickerson."Fact Sheet: Improving Energy Efficiency for Server Rooms and Closets." (2012).

Mahdavi, Roozbeh, and William F Tschudi."Wireless Sensor Network for Improving the Energy Efficiency of Data Centers." (2012).

2011

Coles, Henry C, Tae Won Han, Phillip N Price, Ashok J Gadgil, and William F Tschudi."Air Corrosivity in U.S. Outdoor-Air-Cooled Data Centers is Similar to That in Conventional Data Centers." (2011).

2010

Mathew, Paul A, William F Tschudi, Dale A Sartor, and James Beasley."Cleanroom Energy Efficiency: Metrics and Benchmarking."ASHRAE Journal 52 (2010).

Shehabi, Arman, Srirupa Ganguly, Lara A Gundel, Arpad Horvath, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Melissa M Lunden, William F Tschudi, Ashok J Gadgil, and William W Nazaroff."Can combining economizers with improved filtration save energy and protect equipment in data centers?."Building and Environment 45.3 (2010) 718-726. DOI

2009

Singer, Brett C, Paul A Mathew, Steve E Greenberg, William F Tschudi, Dale A Sartor, Susan Strom, and Walter Vernon."Hospital Energy Benchmarking Guidance." (2009) 32.

Singer, Brett C, and William F Tschudi."High Performance Healthcare Buildings: A Roadmap to Improved Energy Efficiency." 515 (2009) 5264-69.

Mathew, Paul A, Steve E Greenberg, Srirupa Ganguly, Dale A Sartor, and William F Tschudi."How Does Your Data Center Measure Up? Energy Efficiency Metrics and Benchmarks for Data Center Infrastructure Systems."HPAC Journal (2009).

Mathew, Paul A, Dale A Sartor, and William F Tschudi."Self-benchmarking Guide for Cleanrooms: Metrics, Benchmarks, Actions." (2009).

2008

Shehabi, Arman, Arpad Horvath, William F Tschudi, Ashok J Gadgil, and William W Nazaroff."Particle Concentrations in Data Centers."Atmospheric Environment 42.24 (2008) 5978 - 5990. DOI

Brown, Richard E, Eric R Masanet, Bruce Nordman, William F Tschudi, Arman Shehabi, John Stanley, Jonathan G Koomey, Dale A Sartor, and Peter T Chan."Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency: Public Law 109-431." (2008).

2007

Tschudi, William F, and Charles H Williams."Power Supply Options for Data Centers." (2007).

Shehabi, Arman, William F Tschudi, and Ashok J Gadgil."Data Center Economizer Contamination and Humidity Study." (2007).

2006

Tschudi, William F, and Stephen Fok."Best Practices for Energy Efficient Data Centers Identified Through Case Studies and Demonstration Projects."2007 ASHRAE Winter Meeting (2006).

2005

Tschudi, William F, David Faulkner, and Allen Hebert."Energy Efficiency Strategies for Cleanrooms without Compromising Environmental Conditions."ASHRAE Symposium 3 (2005).

2004

Tschudi, William F, Tengfang T Xu, Dale A Sartor, Jonathan G Koomey, Bruce Nordman, and Osman Sezgen."Energy Efficient Data Centers." (2004).

Tschudi, William F, Tengfang T Xu, Dale A Sartor, and Jay Stein."High-Performance Data Centers: A Research Roadmap." (2004).

2002

Tschudi, William F, Dale A Sartor, Evan Mills, and Tengfang T Xu."High-Performance Laboratories and Cleanrooms." (2002).

2001

Tschudi, William F, and Tengfang T Xu."Cleanroom Energy Benchmarking Results."ASHRAE Transactions 109, part 2 (2001) 733-739.

Xu, Tengfang T, and William F Tschudi."Energy Performance of Cleanroom Environmental Systems."Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (IEST) 48th Annual Technical Meeting (2001).

Tschudi, William F, Kathleen Benschine, Stephen Fok, and Peter Rumsey."Cleanroom Energy Benchmarking in High-Tech and Biotech Industries."2001 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2001).

Tschudi, William F, Tengfang T Xu, and Dale A Sartor."Cleanroom Energy Programming Guide - An Energy Efficiency Guide for Use in Cleanroom Programming." (2001).

Xu, Tengfang T, William F Tschudi, and Dale A Sartor."Energy Benchmarking for Fourteen Classrooms." (2001).