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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.
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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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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.

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2009

Mathew, Paul A., Srirupa Ganguly, Steve E. Greenberg, and Dale A. Sartor."Self-benchmarking Guide for Data Centers: Metrics, Benchmarks, Actions." (2009).

Mathew, Paul A., Steve E. Greenberg, and Dale A. Sartor."Self-benchmarking Guide for Laboratory Buildings: Metrics, Benchmarks, Actions." (2009).

Singer, Brett C., Jennifer L. Coughlin, and Paul A. Mathew."Summary of Information and Resources Related to Energy Use in Healthcare Facilities - Version 1." 78 (2009).

Coffey, Brian E., Sam Borgeson, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Joshua S. Apte, Paul A. Mathew, and Philip Haves."Towards a Very Low Energy Building Stock: Modeling the U.S. Commercial Building Sector to Support Policy and Innovation Planning."Building Research & Information (2009).

Coffey, Brian E., Sam Borgeson, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Joshua S. Apte, Paul A. Mathew, and Philip Haves."Towards a Very Low Energy Building Stock: Modeling the US Commercial Building Stock to Support Policy and Innovation Planning."Building Research and Information 37:5 (2009).

2008

Hong, Tianzhen, Dale A. Sartor, Paul A. Mathew, and Mehry Yazdanian."Comparisons of HVAC Simulations between EnergyPlus and DOE-2.2 for data centers."ASHRAE Conference 115 Part 1 (2008).

Dickerhoff, Darryl J., and Iain S. Walker."Evaluation of the Repeatability of the Delta Q Duct Leakage Testing Technique Including Investigation of Robust Analysis Techniques and Estimates of Weather Induced Uncertainty." (2008).

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Jessica Granderson, Philip Haves, Paul A. Mathew, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Scale Matters: An Action Plan for Realizing Sector-Wide "Zero-Energy" Performance Goals in Commercial Buildings."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 17-22, 2008 (2008).

Harris, Jeffrey P., Richard C. Diamond, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T. Payne, Carl Blumstein, and Paul Siderius."Towards a sustainable energy balance: progressive efficiency and the return of energy conservation."Energy Efficiency 1.3 (2008) 175-188. DOI

Wray, Craig P., Max H. Sherman, Iain S. Walker, Darryl J. Dickerhoff, and Clifford C. Federspiel."Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning: Recent Advances in Diagnostics and Controls to Improve Air-Handling System Performance."American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings 1044 (2008) 149-162.

Hong, Tianzhen, Walter F. Buhl, and Philip Haves."EnergyPlus Run Time Analysis." (2008).

Coleman, Philip, Christopher T. Payne, and Richard G. White."A Plea for Simpler Electricity Tariffs."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 7 (2008) 60-69.

Mathew, Paul A.."An Estimate of Energy Use in Laboratories, Cleanrooms, and Data Centers in New York." (2008).

Mills, Evan, Paul A. Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Norman Bourassa, and Martha Brook."Action-Oriented Benchmarking: Concepts and Tools."Energy Engineering (2008).

Mathew, Paul A., Evan Mills, Norman Bourassa, and Martha Brook."Action-Oriented Benchmarking: Using the CEUS Database to Benchmarking Commercial Buildings in California."Energy Engineering (2008).

Sherman, Max H., and Iain S. Walker."Air Distribution Effectiveness for Different Mechanical Ventilation Systems."International Journal of Ventilation 6 (2008) 307-314.

Haves, Philip, Brian E. Coffey, and Scott Williams."Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a ‘Big Box’ Retail Chain."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008).

Walker, Iain S.."Comparing Residential Furnace Blowers for Rating and Installed Performance."ASHRAE Transactions 114 (2008) 187-195.

Sherman, Max H., and Iain S. Walker."Energy Impact of Residential Ventilation Standards in California."ASHRAE Journal 114 (2008) 482-493.

Walker, Iain S., and Max H. Sherman."Energy implications of meeting ASHRAE Standard 62.2."ASHRAE Transactions 114 (2008) 505-516.

Walker, Iain S., and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Field and Laboratory Evaluation of a New Ramping Techniques for Duct Leakage Testing."ASHRAE Transactions 114 (2008) 494-504.

Diamond, Richard C., and Christopher T. Payne."Greening the U.S. House of Representatives." (2008).

Mathew, Paul A., Steve E. Greenberg, Dale A. Sartor, and Peter Rumsey."Metrics and Benchmarks for Energy Efficiency in Laboratories."ASHRAE Journal (2008) 40-47.

Walker, Iain S., and Alan K. Meier."Residential Thermostats: Comfort Controls in California Homes." (2008).

2007

Haves, Philip, Moosung Kim, Massieh Najafi, and Peng Xu."A Semi-automated Commissioning Tool for VAV Air Handling Units: Functional Test Analyzer."ASHRAE Transactions 113.Pt. 1 (2007) 380-391.