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)

2010

Schwalm, Christopher R, Christopher A Williams, Kevin Schaefer, Ryan Anderson, M. M Altaf Arain, Ian Baker, Alan Barr, T. T Andrew Black, Guangsheng Chen, Jing Ming Chen, Philippe Ciais, Kenneth J Davis, Ankur R Desai, Michael Dietze, Danilo Dragoni, Marc L Fischer, Lawrence B Flanagan, Robert Grant, Lianhong Gu, David Y Hollinger, R. R César Izaurralde, Chris Kucharik, Peter Lafleur, Beverly E Law, Longhui Li, Zhengpeng Li, Shuguang Liu, Erandathie Lokupitiya, Yiqi Luo, Siyan Ma, Hank Margolis, Roser Matamala, Harry McCaughey, Russell K Monson, Walter C Oechel, Changhui Peng, Benjamin Poulter, David T Price, Dan M Riciutto, William J Riley, Alok Kumar Sahoo, Michael Sprintsin, Jianfeng Sun, Hanqin Tian, Christina Tonitto, Hans Verbeeck, and Shashi B Verma."A model-data intercomparison of CO₂ exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis."Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 115.G3 (2010). DOI

2009

Riley, William J, Sebastien C Biraud, Margaret S Torn, Marc L Fischer, David P Billesbach, and Joseph A Berry."Regional CO₂ and latent heat surface fluxes in the Southern Great Plains: Measurements, modeling, and scaling."Journal of Geophysical Research 114 (2009). DOI

2007

Fischer, Marc L, David P Billesbach, Joseph A Berry, William J Riley, and Margaret S Torn."Spatiotemporal Variations in Growing Season Exchanges of CO₂, H₂O, and Sensible Heat in Agricultural Fields of the Southern Great Plains."Earth Interact 11.17 (2007) 1-21. DOI

2005

Macleod, Matthew, William J Riley, and Thomas E McKone."Assessing the Influence of Climate Variability on Atmospheric Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants Using a Global-Scale Mass Balance Model (BETR-Global)."Environmental Science & Technology 39 (2005) 6749-6756.

Macleod, Matthew, William J Riley, and Thomas E McKone."Modeling transport and deposition of level 1 substances to the great lakes." (2005).

2003

Marshall, Julian D, William J Riley, Thomas E McKone, and William W Nazaroff."Intake fraction of primary pollutants: Motor vehicle emissions in the South Coast Air Basin."Atmospheric Environment 37 (2003) 3455-3468.

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.

Riley, William J, Thomas E McKone, Alvin C.K Lai, and William W Nazaroff."Indoor particulate matter of outdoor origin: importance of size-dependent removal mechanisms."Environmental Science & Technology 36 (2002) 200-207. DOI

2001

Thatcher, Tracy L, Thomas E McKone, William J Fisk, Michael D Sohn, William W Delp, William J Riley, and Richard G Sextro."Factors Affecting the Concentration of Outdoor Particles Indoors (COPI): Identification of Data Needs and Existing Data." (2001).

1999

Riley, William J, Allen L Robinson, Ashok J Gadgil, and William W Nazaroff."Effects of variable wind speed and direction on radon transport from soil into buildings: model development and exploratory results."Atmospheric Environment 33.14 (1999) 2157-2168. DOI

1997

Robinson, Allen L, Richard G Sextro, and William J Riley."Soil-Gas Entry Into Houses Driven By Atmospheric Pressure Fluctuations -- the Influence of Soil Properties."Atmospheric Environment 31 (1997) 1487-1495.

1996

Riley, William J, Ashok J Gadgil, and William W Nazaroff."Wind-Induced Ground-Surface Pressures Around a Single-Family House."Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 61.2-3 (1996) 153 - 167. DOI

Riley, William J, William J Fisk, and Ashok J Gadgil."Regional and National Estimates of the Potential Energy Use, Energy Cost, and CO₂ Emissions Associated with Radon Mitigation by Sub-Slab Depressurization."Energy and Buildings 24 (1996) 203-212.

Riley, William J, Ashok J Gadgil, Yves C Bonnefous, and William W Nazaroff."The Effect of Steady Winds on Radon Entry into Houses."Atmospheric Environment 30 (1996) 1167-1176.

1995

Fisk, William J, Richard J Prill, John D Wooley, William J Fisk, Yves C Bonnefous, Ashok J Gadgil, and William J Riley."New Methods of Energy Efficient Radon Mitigation."Health Physics 68.5 (1995) 689-698.

Riley, William J, Ashok J Gadgil, and William W Nazaroff."Wind-induced Ground Pressures Around a Single-family House."Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 61 (1995) 153-167.