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)

1990

Eto, Joseph H."The HVAC Costs of Increased Fresh Air Ventilation Rates in Office Buildings, Part 2."The 5th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (1990).

Eto, Joseph H, Isaac Turiel, Hashem Akbari, Benoit Lebot, and Kristin E. Heinemeier."An Investigation of the Use of Prototypes for Commercial Sector EUI Analysis."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy 1990 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1990).

Russo, Richard E., Ronald P. Reade, J. M. McMillan, and B. L. Olsen."Metal buffer layers and YBaCuO thin films on Pt and Stainless steel using pulsed laser deposition."Journal of Applied Physics 68.3 (1990) 1354-1356. DOI

Schuman, Jennifer E., and Gregory J. Ward."The Practical Computer in Design."5th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics, and Cybernatics (1990).

Akbari, Hashem, Isaac Turiel, Joseph H Eto, Kristin E. Heinemeier, Benoit Lebot, and Leo I. Rainer."A Review of Existing Commercial Energy Use Intensity and Load Shape Studies."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1990).

Arasteh, Dariush K., Brent T. Griffith, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Super-Insulated Gas-Filled Panels." (1990).

Isaacson, , Mark J., Frank R. McLarnon, and Elton J. Cairns."Zinc Electrode Rest Potentials in Concentrated KOH-K₂Zn(OH)₄ Electrolytes."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 2361-2364. DOI

Wilson, David J., and Iain S. Walker."Combining Air Infiltration and Exhaust Ventilation."Indoor Air '90, (1990) 467-472.

Koomey, Jonathan G.."Comparative Analysis of Monetary Estimates of External Environmental Costs Associated with Combustion of Fossil Fuels." (1990) 42.

Wray, Craig P., and Grenville K. Yuill."Development of Models to Characterize Soil Gas Flow and Radon Entry into Basements."5th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 3 (1990) 537-542.

Cohen, Samuel D., Joseph H Eto, Charles A. Goldman, John A. Beldock, and Geoffrey Crandall."Environmental externalities: What state regulators are doing."The Electricity Journal 3.6 (1990). DOI

Papamichael, Konstantinos M.."Modeling the Building-Design Process and Expertise." 96(2) (1990).

Verderber, Rudolph R.."Electronic High Frequency Fluorescent Ballasts (Past, Present and Future)."Energy Cost Avoidance in Education Buildings Conference (1990).

Eto, Joseph H, Hashem Akbari, Robert G. Pratt, and Steven D. Braithwait."End-Use Load Shape Data Application, Estimation, and Collection: A State-of-the-Art Review."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1990) 30.

Eto, Joseph H, Peter M. Miller, and Howard S. Geller."The Potential for Electricity Conservation in the State of New York, USA."MUSE HT, Sophia Antipolis, June 12-13, 1990. (1990).

Harris, Jeffrey P., Richard C. Diamond, Odon D. Buen, A. Hatcher, Bruce Nordman, and Mary Ann Piette."Energy Edge Impact Evaluation, Findings and Recommendations from the Phase One Evaluation."Prepared for the Bonneville Power Administration (1990).

Cohen, Samuel D., Joseph H Eto, Charles A. Goldman, John A. Beldock, and Geoffrey Crandall."A Survey of State PUC Activities to Incorporate Environmental Externalities into Electric Utility Planning and Regulation." (1990) 110.

Sullivan, Robert, Michael Wilde, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."An Interactive Microcomputer-Based Kiosk Providing Energy Efficient Building Design Information."4th National Conference on Microcomputer Applications in Energy (1990).

Ward, Gregory J., Anat Grynberg, Charles K. Ehrlich, and Francis M. Rubinstein."Using CAD for Lighting Design Helps Predict the Unpredictable."Electrical Systems Design 70 (1990) 26-31.

Marnay, Chris, and G. Alan Comnes."Ratemaking for Conservation: The California ERAM Experience." (1990) 68.

Siminovitch, Michael J., Francis M. Rubinstein, and Richard E. Whiteman."Thermal Performance Characteristics of Compact Fluorescent Fixtures."1990 HVAC and Building Systems Congress, October 7-12, 1990 (1990).

Torres, Richard A., Cynthia E. A. Palmer, Patricia A. Baisden, Robert J. Silva, and Richard E. Russo."Comparison of photoacoustic spectroscopy, conventional absorption spectroscopy, and potentiometry as probes of Lanthanide speciation."Analytical Chemistry 62.3 (1990) 298-303. DOI

Isaacson, , Mark J., Frank R. McLarnon, and Elton J. Cairns."Current Density and ZnO Precipitation-Dissolution Distributions in Zn-ZnO Porous Electrodes and Their Effect on Material Redistribution: A Two-Dimensional Mathematical Model."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 137 (1990) 2014-2021. DOI

Hirst, Eric, and Charles A. Goldman."Key Issues in Integrated Resource Planning for Electric Utilities." (1990) 7.

Akbari, Hashem, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, and Haider Taha."Summer heat islands, urban trees, and white surfaces."Proceedings of the 1990 ASHRAE Winter Conference (1990).