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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) 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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2002

Motegi, Naoya, and Mary Ann Piette."Web-Based Energy Information Systems for Large Commercial Buildings."10th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2002).

Walker, Iain S., and Max H. Sherman."An Easier Way to Measure Duct Leaks."Home Energy Magazine 19.5 September/October (2002).

Pal, Vineeta, William L. Carroll, and Norman Bourassa."RESEM-CA: Validation and testing." (2002).

Wray, Craig P., Iain S. Walker, and Max H. Sherman."Accuracy of flow hoods in residential applications."Proceedings of the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 18-23, 2002 1 (2002) 339-350.

Walker, Iain S., Darryl J. Dickerhoff, and Max H. Sherman."The Delta Q method of testing the air leakage of ducts."Proceedings of the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 18-23, 2002 1 (2002) 327-338.

Siegel, Jeffrey A., Iain S. Walker, and Max H. Sherman."Dirty air conditioners: Energy implications of coil fouling."Proceedings of the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 18-12, 2002 (2002).

Payne, Christopher T., Anthony Radspieler Jr., and Jack Payne."Hurdling barriers through market uncertainty: Case studies in innovative technology adoption."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Janda, Kathryn B., Christopher T. Payne, Rick Kunkle, and Loren Lutzenhiser."What organizations did (and didn't) do: Three factors that shaped conservation responses to California's 2001 "crisis"."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Hitchcock, Robert J.."Software Interoperability for Energy Simulation."2003 ASHRAE Winter Meeting (2002).

Lutzenhiser, Loren, Kathryn B. Janda, Rick Kunkle, and Christopher T. Payne."Understanding the response of commercial and institutional organizations to the California energy crisis." (2002).

Kinney, Satkartar, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of a California Commercial Building Benchmarking Database."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002) 7.109-7.120.

Bazjanac, Vladimir."Early Lessons from Deployment of IFC Compatible Software."European Community Product and Process Modeling Conference (ECPPM 2003) (2002).

Xu, Peng, and Philip Haves."Field Testing of Component-Level Model-Based Fault Detection Methods for Mixing Boxes and VAV Fan Systems."2002 American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Motegi, Naoya, Mary Ann Piette, and Scott Wentworth."From Design Through Operations-Results from New Construction Performance Contract and Beyond."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar Kinney, Mark S. Levi, David McBride, and Stephen May."GEMnet Status and Accomplishments: GSA's Energy and Maintenance Network."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Piette, Mary Ann, Norman Bourassa, Tudi Hassl, David Sellers, Hannah Friedman, and Kenneth L. Gillespie."A New Guide for Commissioning Air Handling Systems: Using a Model Functional Test."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M., Judy Lai, Daniel Fuller, and Tara Tariq."A Web-Based Virtual Lighting Simulator."ACADIA 2002 Conference (2002).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M., and Vineeta Pal."Barriers in Developing and Using Simulation-Based Decision-Support Software."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002) 7.179.

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar Kinney, Norman Bourassa, Peng Xu, Philip Haves, and Christine Shockman."Early evaluation of a second generation information monitoring and diagnostic system." (2002).

Kawamoto, Kaoru, Jonathan G. Koomey, Bruce Nordman, Richard E. Brown, Mary Ann Piette, Michael K. Ting, and Alan K. Meier."Electricity Used by Office Equipment and Network Equipment in the U.S.."Energy 27.3 (2002) 255-269. DOI

Potter, Amanda, Hannah Friedman, Tudi Haasl, and David Claridge."Investigation of the Persistence of New Building Commissioning."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M., and Vineeta Pal."Bridging the Gap Between Building Science and Design Studios."Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) Conference (2002).

Abushakra, Bass, Iain S. Walker, Darryl J. Dickerhoff, and Max H. Sherman."Laboratory Study of Pressure Losses in Residential Air Distribution Systems." (2002).

Hitchcock, Robert J.."Metracker Version 1.5: Life-Cycle Performance Metrics Tracking." (2002).

Sherman, Max H., and Iain S. Walker."Residential HVAC and Distribution Research Implementation: Final Report." (2002).