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)

1994

Piette, Mary Ann, Bruce Nordman, Odon de Buen, Richard C. Diamond, and Bruce Cody."Over the Energy Edge: Results from a Seven Year New Commercial Buildings Research and Demonstration Project." (1994) 10.

He, Jiankun, Aling Zhang, Qing Xu, Stephen Meyers, Jayant A. Sathaye, and S. Zhang."Strategies for Energy Conservation in Road Freight Transportation in China." (1994).

Qiu, Taiqing, Chang-Lin Tien, Mark A. Shannon, and Richard E. Russo."Thermal and mechanical response of gold films during nanosecond laser pulse heating."Experimental Heat Transfer: A Journal of Thermal Energy Generation, Transport, Storage, and Conversion 7.3 (1994) 175-188. DOI

Sonnenblick, Richard, and Joseph H Eto."Uncertainty in Site Inspection and Tracking Database Estimates of Saving."1994 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1994).

Litt, , Barbara R., and Alan K. Meier."What is a Low-Energy House?."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Summer Study 1994 (1994).

Rushmeier, Holly, and Gregory J. Ward."Energy Preserving Non-Linear Filters."SIGGRAPH 94 (1994).

Rudnicki, James D., David W. Shoesmith, and Richard E. Russo."Photothermal deflection spectroscopy investigations of uranium dioxide oxidation."Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 372.1-2 (1994) 63-74. DOI

Ward, Gregory J.."The RADIANCE Lighting Simulation and Rendering System."SIGGRAPH 94 (1994).

Gasteiger, Hubert A., Nenad Marković, Philip N. Ross, and Elton J. Cairns."Temperature-Dependent Methanol Electro-Oxidation on Well-Characterized Pt-Ru Alloys."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 141 (1994) 1795-1803. DOI

Beltran, Liliana O., Eleanor S. Lee, Konstantinos M. Papamichael, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."The Design and Evaluation of Three Advanced Daylighting Systems: Light Shelves, Light Pipes and Skylights."Solar 94, Golden Opportunities for Solar Prosperity (1994).

Arasteh, Dariush K., Brent T. Griffith, and Paul LaBerge."Integrated Window Systems: An Advanced Energy-Efficient Residential Fenestration Product."19th National Passive Solar Conference (1994).

Sasse, Antonius G. B. M., Ashok J. Gadgil, and William W. Nazaroff."On the Measurement of ²¹⁸Po Diffusivity Using the Two-Filter Method."Journal of Aerosol Science 25.4 (1994) 689 - 697. DOI

Baughman, A. V., Ashok J. Gadgil, and William W. Nazaroff."Mixing of a Point Source Pollutant by Natural Convection Flow within a Room."Indoor Air 4.2 (1994) 114 - 122. DOI

Johnson, Francis X, James W. Hanford, Richard E. Brown, Alan H. Sanstad, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Residential HVAC Data, Assumptions and Methodology for End-Use Forecasting with EPRI-REEPS 2.1." (1994).

Hanford, James W., Jonathan G. Koomey, Lisa E. Stewart, Matthew E. Lecar, Richard E. Brown, Francis X Johnson, Roland J Hwang, and Lynn K. Price."Baseline Data for the Residential Sector and Development of a Residential Forecasting Database." (1994) 168.

Eto, Joseph H, Edward L. Vine, Leslie J. Shown, Richard Sonnenblick, and Christopher T. Payne."The Cost and Performance of Utility Commercial Lighting Programs." (1994).

Koomey, Jonathan G., Camilla Dunham, and James D. Lutz."The Effect of Efficiency Standars on Water Use and Water Heating Energy Use in the U.S.: A Detailed End-Use Treatment." (1994).

Yost, Michael G., Ashok J. Gadgil, Anushka C. Drescher, Y. Zhou, M.A. Simonds, Steven P. Levine, William W. Nazaroff, and Payam A. Saisan."Imaging Indoor Tracer-Gas Concentrations with Computed Tomography: Experimental Results with a Remote Sensing FTIR System."American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 55.5 (1994) 395 - 402. DOI

Fishman, Beth L., Haider Taha, and Hashem Akbari."Meso-scale cooling effects of high albedo surfaces: Analysis of meteorological data from White Sands National Monument and White Sands Missile Range." (1994).

Kurn, Dan M., Sarah E. Bretz, Benson Huang, and Hashem Akbari."The potential for reducing urban air temperatures and energy consumption through vegetative cooling." (1994). DOI

Hwang, Roland J, Francis X Johnson, Richard E. Brown, James W. Hanford, Alan H. Sanstad, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Residential Appliance Data, Assumptions and Methodology for End-Use Forecasting with EPRI-REEPS 2.1." (1994).

Goldman, Charles A., and M. Suzie Kito."Review of Demand-Side Bidding Programs: Impacts, Costs, and Cost-Effectiveness." (1994) 143.

Sezgen, Osman, Yu Joe Huang, Joseph H Eto, Barbara A. Atkinson, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Technology data characterizing lighting in commercial buildings: Application to end-use forecasting with COMMEND 4.0." (1994).

Sullivan, Robert, Eleanor S. Lee, Konstantinos M. Papamichael, Michael D. Rubin, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Effect of Switching Control Strategies on the Energy Performance of Electrochromic Windows."SPIE International Symposium on Optical Materials Technology for Energy Efficiency and Solar Energy Conversion XIII, April 18-22, 1994 (1994).

Akbari, Hashem, Beth L. Fishman, and Geoffrey Frohnsdorff."Proceedings of the Workshop on Cool Building Materials."Workshop on Cool Building Materials, National Institute of Standards and Technology (1994).