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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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2007

Meier, Alan K., and Iain S. Walker."Emerging Requirements for Residential Thermostats in North America."The Sixth International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation & Energy Conservation in Buildings 2007 1 (2007) 899-903.

Sherman, Max H., and Iain S. Walker."Energy impact of residential ventilation norms in the United States." (2007).

Walker, Iain S., and Max H. Sherman."Humidity Implications for Meeting Residential Ventilation Requirements."Buildings X Conference - Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings (2007) Air Tightness II–Practices III–A.

2006

Walker, Iain S.."Residential Furnace Blower Performance." (2006).

Walker, Iain S., and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Evaluation of a new ramping technique for duct leakage testing." (2006).

Payne, Christopher T.."The Commercial Energy Consumer: About Whom Are We Speaking?."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Iyer, Maithili, Willett Kempton, and Christopher T. Payne."Comparison groups on bills: Automated, personalized energy information."Energy and Buildings 38.8 (2006) 988-996. DOI

Haves, Philip, Robert J. Hitchcock, Kenneth L. Gillespie, Martha Brook, Christine Shockman, Joseph J Deringer, and Kristopher L. Kinney."Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Walker, Iain S., and Max H. Sherman."Evaluation of existing technologies for meeting residential ventilation requirements." (2006).

Walker, Iain S., and Max H. Sherman."Ventilation requirements in hot, humid climates."15th Symposium on Improving Building Systems in Hot Humid Climates, July 24-26, 2006 Codes, ESL-HH-06/ (2006).

Walker, Iain S., Valerie Claret, and Brian V. Smith."Laser sheet light flow visualization for evaluating room air flows at reduced register air flow rates." (2006).

Harris, Jeffrey P., Richard C. Diamond, Maithili Iyer, Christopher T. Payne, and Carl Blumstein."Don't Supersize Me! Toward a Policy of Consumption-Based Energy Efficiency."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006) 7-100-7-114.

McGrory, Laura Van Wie, Philip Coleman, David Fridley, Jeffrey P. Harris, and Edgar Villasenor Franco."Two Paths to Transforming Markets through Public Sector Energy Efficiency: Bottom Up versus Top Down."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 6 (2006) 265-276.

Walker, Iain S., and Jennifer A. McWilliams."Homeowner Retrofit Guide." (2006).

Walker, Iain S.."Residential Furnace Blower Performance in U.S. Homes."Air Infiltration Review 28 (2006) 3-4.

2005

Payne, Christopher T., and Beverly Dyer."Federal Participation in LEED in 2005."Greenbuild Expo 2005 (2005).

Matson, Nance, and Mary Ann Piette."Review of California and National Methods for Energy Performance Benchmarking of Commercial Buildings." (2005).

Pinckard, Margaret J., Richard E. Brown, Evan Mills, James D. Lutz, Mithra M. Moezzi, Celina S. Atkinson, Christopher A. Bolduc, Gregory K. Homan, and Katie Coughlin."Documentation of Calculation Methodology, Input Data, and Infrastructure for the Home Energy Saver Web Site." (2005) 108.

Walker, Iain S., Tom W. Forest, and David J. Wilson."An Attic-Interior Infiltration and Interzone Transport Model of a House."Building and Environment 40.5 (2005) 701-718.

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, and Joseph J Deringer."A Simulation-Based Testing and Training Environment for Building Controls."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2005).

McWilliams, Jennifer A., and Iain S. Walker."A Systems Approach to Retrofiting Residential HVAC Systems." (2005) 20.

Haves, Philip, David S. Watson, Norman Bourassa, and Robert J. Hitchcock."Case Studies and Needs Assessment for University Campus Energy Monitoring." (2005).

Walker, Iain S., and Max H. Sherman."Duct Tape and Sealant Performance."ASHRAE Journal 47 (2005) 34-41.

Walker, Iain S., and James D. Lutz."Laboratory Evaluation of Residential Furnace Blower Performance." (2005).

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, and Moosung Kim."A Semi-Automated Functional Test Data Analysis Tool."13th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2005).