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)

1986

Eto, Joseph H, Jonathan G. Koomey, James E. McMahon, and Peter T. Chan."Financial Impacts on Utilities of Load Shape Changes: The Texas Utility Electric Company." (1986).

Clark, T. Alan, Francis M. Rubinstein, Michael J. Siminovitch, and Rudolph R. Verderber."Maintaining Optimum Fluorescent Lamp Performance Under Elevated Temperature Conditions."Lighting Design + Application 17 (1986) 35-41.

Pignone, Chris, Joseph H Eto, and Edward P Kahn."Corporate Planning Models as Least‑Cost Utility Planning Tools." (1986).

Benton, Charles C., B. Erwine, M. Warren, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Field Measurement of Light Shelf Performance in a Major Office Installation."11th National Passive Solar Conference, June 8-14, 1986 (1986).

Diamond, Richard C.."Determinants of Energy Use in Housing for the Low-Income Elderly."Department of Architecture Ph.D. (1986).

Sherman, Max H., Richard F. Szydlowski, Peter Cleary, Mark P. Modera, and Mark D. Levine."Development and Implementation of Survey Techniques for Assessing In-Situ Appliance Efficiencies." (1986).

Sherman, Max H.."Estimation of Infiltration from Leakage and Climate Indicators."Energy and Buildings 10 (1986) 81-86.

Sherman, Max H.."Infiltration Degree-Days: A Statistic for Infiltration-Related Climate."ASHRAE Transactions 92.2A (1986) 161-181.

Sherman, Max H., and Mark P. Modera."Low Frequency Measurement of the Leakage of Enclosures."Rev. Scientific Instruments 57.7 (1986) 1427.

Goldman, Charles A., and Kathleen M. Greely."Measured Energy Savings in Retrofitted Multifamily Buildings." (1986).

Sherman, Max H., and David J. Wilson."Relating Actual and Effective Ventilation in Determining In-door Air Quality."Building and Environment 21.3/4 (1986) 135-144.

Sherman, Max H., David J. Wilson, and Darwin Kiel."Variability in Residential Air Leakage."Measured Air Leakage Performance of Buildings, (Trechsel/Lagus Ed.) STP:904 (1986) 348-364.

Diamond, Richard C., Mark P. Modera, and Helmut E. Feustel."Ventilation and Occupant Behavior in Two Apartment Buildings."The 7th Air Infiltration Centre Conference on Occupant Interaction with Ventilation Systems (1986).

Sullivan, Robert, Yu Joe Huang, James Bull, Isaac Turiel, Ronald L. Ritschard, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Thermal Analysis of Buildings - Configuration Perturbations and Observed Climate Interface."ASHRAE Transactions 92 (1986).

Sherman, Max H.."Description of ASHRAE's Proposed Air Tightness Standard."5th Air Infiltration Centre Conference: The Implementation and Effectiveness of Air Infiltration Standards in Buildings, October 1-5, 1984 (1986).

Russo, Richard E., and Arlon J. Hunt."Comparison of Ethyl versus methyl sol-gels for silica aerogel using polar nephelometry."J.Non.Cryst.Solids 86 (1986) 219.

Berman, Sam M., and Robert W. Richardson."Determination of the Excited State Density of an Optically Thick Line."Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiation Transfer 37 (1986) 471-475.

Akbari, Hashem, Diego Samano, Atila Mertol, Fred S. Bauman, and Ron C. Kammerud."The effect of variations in convection coefficients on thermal energy storage in buildings Part I - Interior partition walls."Energy and Buildings 9 (1986) 195-211. DOI

Selkowitz, Stephen E., and J.W. Griffith."Effective Daylighting in Buildings - Revisited."Lighting Design + Application (1986).

Modera, Mark P.."Final Report: Residential Air Leakage Database Compilation." (1986).

Gadgil, Ashok J., and S. S. Makkad."Improved Space Heating Stoves for Ladakh."Energy Environment Monitor 2.2 (1986).

Sherman, Max H., and Mark P. Modera."Infiltration Using the LBL Infiltration Model."Measured Air Leakage Performance of Buildings, (Trechsel/Lagus Ed.) STP:904 (1986) 325 - 347.

Goo, E., G. Thomas, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, M. Okada, M. Homma, and K.M. Krishnan."Microstructure of Fe-didymium-B magnets."Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 54-57 (1986) 563-566. DOI

Vine, Edward L., Jayant A. Sathaye, and Arthur H. Rosenfeld."Planning for Oil Overcharge Funds: The California Experience." (1986).

1985

Sherman, Max H., and J. Bruce Dickinson."The Prediction of Air Infiltration."Proceedings CLIMA 2000 Conference (1985).