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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

1996

Eto, Joseph H."The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Utility Demand-Side Management Programs." (1996) 31.

Eto, Joseph H, Edward L Vine, Leslie J Shown, Richard Sonnenblick, and Christopher T Payne."The Total Cost and Measured Performance of Utility-Sponsored Energy Efficiency Programs."The Energy Journal 17.1 (1996).

Mendell, Mark J, William J Fisk, James A Deddens, William G Seavey, Allan H Smith, Daniel F Smith, Alfred T Hodgson, Joan M Daisey, and Lynn R Goldman."Elevated Symptom Prevalence Associated with Ventilation Type in Office Buildings."Epidemiology 7.6 (1996) 583-589.

Faulkner, David, William J Fisk, and John T Walton."Energy Savings in Cleanrooms from Demand-Controlled Filtration."Journal of the Institute of Environmental Sciences 39.6 (1996) 21-27.

Selkowitz, Stephen E, Mary Ann Piette, Konstantinos M Papamichael, Dale A Sartor, Robert J Hitchcock, and Frank Olken."Interoperable, Life-Cycle Tools for Assuring Building Performance: An Overview of a Commercial Building Initiative."U.S. Green Buildings Council Third Annual Conference (1996).

Wen, Shi-Jie, John B Kerr, Michael D Rubin, Jonathan L Slack, and Klaus von Rottkay."Analysis of Durability in Lithium Nickel Oxide Electrochromic Materials and Devices."2nd International Meeting on Electrochromism (1996).

Stoft, Steven."Analysis of the California WEPEX Applications to FERC." (1996) 68.

Biermayer, Peter J."Design Options for Clothes Washers." (1996) 19.

Bédat, Benoit, and Robert K Cheng."Effects of buoyancy on premixed flame stabilization."Combustion and Flame 107.1-2 (1996) 13-26. DOI

Wen, Shi-Jie, Klaus von Rottkay, and Michael D Rubin."Electrochromic Lithium Nickel Oxide Thin Film by Pulsed Laser Deposition."Electrochemical Society Meeting 96-24 (1996) 54-63.

Golove, William H, and Joseph H Eto."Energy Efficiency, the Free Market and Rationales for Government Intervention."North American Conference of the USAEE/IAEE, Boston, Massachusetts, October 27-30, 1996 (1996) 10.

Goldman, Charles A, Willett Kempton, Anita Eide, Maithili Iyer, Mindi J Farber, and Richard M Scheer."Impact of Information and Communications Technologies on Residential Customer Energy Services." (1996) 89.

Caetano, Manuel, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Laser ablation solid sampling: Vertical spatial emission intensity profiles in inductively coupled plasma."Spectrochimica Acta Part B-Atomic Spectroscopy 51.12 (1996) 1473-1485. DOI

Shannon, Mark A, Boris Rubinsky, and Richard E Russo."Mechanical stress power measurements during high-power laser ablation."Journal of Applied Physics 80.8 (1996) 4665-4672. DOI

von Rottkay, Klaus, Michael D Rubin, and John B Kerr."Optical Modeling of a Complete Electrochromic Device."2nd International Conference on Electrochromics (1996).

Biermayer, Peter J."Preliminary Engineering Analysis for Clothes Washers." (1996) 34.

Wiser, Ryan H, Steven J Pickle, and Charles A Goldman."California Renewable Energy Policy and Implementation Issues -- An Overview of Recent Regulatory and Legislative Action --." (1996) 32.

Schaeffer, Val H, Bharat Bhooshan, Shing-Bong Chen, Jay S Sonenthal, and Alfred T Hodgson."Characterization of Volatile Organic Chemical Emissions From Carpet Cushions."Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 46 (1996) 813-820. DOI

Özer, Nilgün, Carl M Lampert, and Michael D Rubin."Sol-Gel Deposited Electrochromic Films for Electrochromic Smart Window Glass."International Symposium on Glass Problems, International Commission on Glass (1996).

Sullivan, Robert, Eleanor S Lee, Michael D Rubin, and Stephen E Selkowitz."The Energy Performance of Electrochromic Windows in Heating-Dominated Geographic Locations."SPIE International Symposium on Optical Materials Technology for Energy Efficiency & Solar Energy Conversion XV (1996).

Moeck, Martin, Eleanor S Lee, Michael D Rubin, Robert Sullivan, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Visual Quality Assessment of Electrochromic and Conventional Glazings."SPIE Optical Materials Technology for Energy Efficiency and Solar Energy Conversion XV (1996).

Akbari, Hashem, Ronnen M Levinson, and Paul H Berdahl."ASTM standards for measuring solar reflectance and infrared emittance of construction materials and comparing their steady-state surface temperatures."1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1 (1996) 1-11.

Lee, Eleanor S, Liliana O Beltran, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Demonstration of a Light-Redirecting Skylight System at the Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce."1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Profiting from Energy Efficiency (1996).

Brown, Karl A, Carl Blumstein, Loren Lutzenhiser, Bruce Hackett, and Yu Joe Huang."Does the Air-Conditioning Engineering Rubric Work in Residences?."1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1996).

Koomey, Jonathan G, Mary Ann Piette, Mike Cramer, and Joseph H Eto."Efficiency Improvements In U.S. Office Equipment: Pollution Prevention at a Profit."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1996).