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

Fisk, William J, Federico Noris, Brett C Singer, William W Delp, Marion L Russell, Michael Spears, Gary Adamkiewicz, and Kimberly Vermeer."Integrating Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Retrofits in Apartments." (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).

Noris, Federico, Gary Adamkiewicz, William W Delp, Toshifumi Hotchi, Marion L Russell, Brett C Singer, Michael Spears, Kimberly Vermeer, and William J Fisk."Indoor environmental quality benefits of apartment energy retrofits."Building Environment 68 (2013) 170–178. DOI

Dutton, Spencer M, David W Banks, Samuel L Brunswick, and William J Fisk."Health and economic implications of natural ventilation in California offices."Building and Environment 67 (2013) 34-45. DOI

Fisk, William J, Sebastian Cohn, Hugo Destaillats, Victor Henzel, Meera A Sidheswaran, and Douglas P Sullivan."Integrated Technology Air Cleaners (ITAC): Design and Evaluation." (2013).

Noris, Federico, William W Delp, Kimberly Vermeer, Gary Adamkiewicz, Brett C Singer, and William J Fisk."Protocol for maximizing energy savings and indoor environmental quality improvements when retrofitting apartments."Energy and Buildings 61 (2013) 378-386. 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).

Sidheswaran, Meera A, Wenhao Chen, Agatha Chang, Robert Miller, Sebastian Cohn, Douglas P Sullivan, William J Fisk, Kazukiyo Kumagai, and Hugo Destaillats."Formaldehyde Emissions from Ventilation Filters Under Different Relative Humidity Conditions."Environmental Science and Technology 47.10 (2013) 5336-5343. DOI

Fisk, William J, Usha Satish, Mark J Mendell, Toshifumi Hotchi, and Douglas P Sullivan."Is CO₂ an Indoor Pollutant? Higher Levels of CO₂ May Diminish Decision Making Performance."ASHRAE Journal 55.3 (2013) 84-85.

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, William J Fisk, and Thomas E McKone."Effect Of Ventilation On Chronic Health Risks In Schools And Offices." (2013).

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).

Fisk, William J."Health benefits of particle filtration."Indoor Air (2013). DOI

Dutton, Spencer M, David W Banks, Samuel L Brunswick, and William J Fisk."Natural Ventilation in California Offices: Estimated Health Effects and Economic Consequences."ASHRAE IAQ 2013: Environmental Health in Low Energy Buildings, Oct. 15-18 (2013).

2012

Satish, Usha, Mark J Mendell, Krishnamurthy Shekhar, Toshifumi Hotchi, Douglas P Sullivan, Siegfried Streufert, and William J Fisk."Is CO₂ an Indoor Pollutant? Direct Effects of Low-to-Moderate CO₂ Concentrations on Human Decision-Making Performance."Environmental Health Perspectives 120.12 (2012) 1671-1677. DOI

Bennett, Deborah H, William J Fisk, Michael G Apte, X Wu, Amber L Trout, David Faulkner, and Douglas P Sullivan."Ventilation, temperature, and HVAC characteristics in small and medium commercial buildings in California."Indoor Air 22.4 (2012) 309-320. DOI

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).

Fisk, William J, Mark J Mendell, Molly Davies, Ekaterina Eliseeva, David Faulkner, Tianzhen Hong, and Douglas P Sullivan."Demand Controlled Ventilation and Classroom Ventilation." (2012).

Fisk, William J, Douglas R Black, and Gregory Brunner."Changing Ventilation Rates in U.S. Offices: Implications for Health, Work Performance, Energy, and Associated Economics."Building and Environment 47 (2012) 368-372. DOI

Sidheswaran, Meera A, Hugo Destaillats, Douglas P Sullivan, Sebastian Cohn, and William J Fisk."Energy efficient indoor VOC air cleaning with activated carbon fiber (ACF) filters."Building and Environment 47 (2012) 368-372. DOI

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

Sidheswaran, Meera A, Douglas P Sullivan, Hugo Destaillats, and William J Fisk."Active and passive methods for indoor formaldehyde elimination."Indoor Air 2011 (2011).

Fisk, William J, Gregory Brunner, and Douglas R Black."Benefits and costs of increasing ventilation rates in U.S. offices."Proceedings of Indoor Air 2011, a219 2 (2011).

Sidheswaran, Meera A, Regina N Williams, Lara A Gundel, Melissa M Lunden, William J Fisk, Michael G Apte, and Hugo Destaillats."Characterization Of Reaction Products And Ultrafine Particles From Ozone-initiated Chemistry On Filters From Ventilation Systems In Commercial Buildings."12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, June 5-10, 2011 (2011).

Sidheswaran, Meera A, Douglas P Sullivan, Hugo Destaillats, and William J Fisk."Energy-efficient indoor volatile organic compound air cleaning using activated carbon fiber media with nightly regeneration."Indoor Air 2011 (2011).