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)

1994

Goldman, Charles A., and M. Suzie Kito."Demand-Side Bidding: Six Years Later and the Results Are Coming In." (1994) 12.

Berman, Sam M.."Implications of Rod Sensitivity to Interior Lighting Practice."CIE Symposium on Advances in Photometry (1994).

Benouarets, Mourad, Arthur L. Dexter, Richard S. Fargus, Philip Haves, Tim I. Salsbury, and Jonathan A. Wright."Model-Based Approaches to Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Air-Conditioning System."System Simulation in Buildings '94 (1994).

Gadgil, Ashok J., Yves C. Bonnefous, and William J. Fisk."Relative Effectiveness of Sub-slab Pressurization and Depressurization Systems for Indoor Radon Mitigation: Studies with an Experimentally Verified Numerical Model."Indoor Air 4.4 (1994) 265 - 275. DOI

Nero, Anthony V., S.M. Leiden, Deborah A. Nolan, Phillip N. Price, S. Rein, Kenneth L. Revzan, H.R. Woolenberg, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Statistically Based Methodologies for Mapping of Radon 'Actual' Concentrations: The Case of Minnesota."Radiation Protection Dosimetry 56.1-4 (1994) 215 - 219. DOI

Heinemeier, Kristin E.."The Use of Energy Management and Control Systems to Monitor the Energy Performance of Commercial Buildings."Department of Architecture (1994).

Berman, Sam M., George Fein, Don L. Jewett, Blaine R. Benson, T.M. Law, and Alan M. Myers."Visual Performance and Light Spectrum: The Inadequacy of Conventional Photometry."CIE Symposium on Advances in Photometry (1994).

Daisey, Joan M., Alfred T. Hodgson, William J. Fisk, Mark J. Mendell, and Joann Ten Brinke."Volatile Organic Compounds in Twelve California Office Buildings: Classes, Concentrations and Sources."Atmospheric Environment 28.22 (1994) 3557-3562. DOI

Litt, , Barbara R.."What Is a Low-Energy House and Who Cares?." (1994).

Fisk, William J., David Faulkner, Mark J. Mendell, Douglas P. Sullivan, Alfred T. Hodgson, Janet M. Macher, Michael Boyle, Katherine Chow, Joan M. Daisey, Francis J. Offermann, and Steven Loiselle."Phase 2 of the California Healthy Building Study: A Status Report." (1994).

Comnes, G. Alan."Review of Performance-Based Ratemaking Plans for U.S. Gas Distribution Companies." (1994) 44.

Comnes, G. Alan."Review of Performance-Based Ratemaking Plans for U.S. Gas Distribution Companies." (1994).

Cao, Wanqing, and Arlon J. Hunt."Improving the visible transparency of silica aerogels."Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 176.1 (1994) 18-25. DOI

Wruck, David A., Richard E. Russo, and Robert J. Silva."Thermal lens spectroscopy of plutonium using laser diode and fiber optics."Journal of Alloys and Compounds 213-214 (1994) 481-483. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S., Stephen E. Selkowitz, Francis M. Rubinstein, Joseph H. Klems, Liliana O. Beltran, and Dennis L. DiBartolomeo."A Comprehensive Approach to Integrated Envelope and Lighting Systems for New Commercial Buildings."ACEEE 1994 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1994).

Group, Windows and Daylighting, and Carl M Lampert."Glazing Material for Solar and Architectural Applications." (1994).

Liu, , Zhiping, Jonathan E. Sinton, Fuqiang Yang, Mark D. Levine, and Michael K. Ting."Industrial Sector Energy Conservation Programs in the People's Republic of China during the Seventh Five-Year Plan (1986-1990)." (1994).

Russo, Richard E., G. Ernie Pelkey, Patrick M. Grant, Richard E. Whipple, and Brian D. Andresen."Laser interrogation of latent vehicle registration number."Journal of Forensics Science 39.5 (1994) 1331-1334. DOI

Janda, Kathryn B.."Bounded Decision Making and Analytical Biases in Demand Side Management."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Summer Study 1994 (1994).

Schrock, , Derek W., John L. Stoops, Alan K. Meier, Edward L. Vine, and Barry D. Solomon."Developing Energy and Environmental Reporting Protocols." (1994).

Gasteiger, Hubert A., Nenad Marković, Philip N. Ross, and Elton J. Cairns."Electro-oxidation of small organic molecules on well-characterized Pt-Ru alloys."Electrochimica Acta 39.11-12 (1994) 1825-1832. DOI

DeCicco, John M., Loretta Smith, Richard C. Diamond, Steve Morgan, Janice Debarros, Sandra Nolden, Theo Lubke, and Tom Wilson."Energy Conservation in Multifamily Housing: Review and Recommendations for Future Efforts."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (1994).

Vine, Edward L., Joseph H Eto, Leslie J. Shown, Richard Sonnenblick, and Christopher T. Payne."Evaluation of Commercial Lighting Programs: A DEEP Assessment."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1994).

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard C. Diamond, Bruce Nordman, Odon D. Buen, Jeffrey P. Harris, Kristin E. Heinemeier, and Kathryn B. Janda."Final Report on the Energy Edge Impact Evaluation of 28 New, Low-Energy Commercial Buildings." (1994).

Siminovitch, Michael J., Eric Pankonin, Chad Praul, and Chin Zhang."Improving the Performance of Integral Screw-Base Compact Fluorescent Lamps in a Base-Down Burning Position Using Thermal Bridge Systems."IESNA Annual Conference (1994).