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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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1999

Walker, Iain S., Max H. Sherman, and Jeffrey A. Siegel."Distribution Effectiveness and Impacts on Equipment Sizing for Residential Thermal Distribution Systems." (1999).

1998

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar T. Khalsa, Peter Rumsey, Kristopher L. Kinney, Eng Lock Lee, Anthony Sebald, and Christine Shockman."Early Results and Field Tests of an Information Monitoring and Diagnostic System for Commercial Buildings: Phase 2 Project Report." (1998).

Lee, Eleanor S., Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, Edward L. Vine, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Integrated Performance of an Automated Venetian Blind/Electric Lighting System in a Full-Scale Private Office."ASHRAE/DOE/BTECC Conference, Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VII (1998).

Hitchcock, Robert J., Mary Ann Piette, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Documenting Performance Metrics in a Building Life-Cycle Information System."1998 Green Building Challenge Conference (1998).

Sherman, Max H., and Iain S. Walker."Can Duct-Tape Take the Heat?."Home Energy 15 (1998) 14.

Lee, Eleanor S., and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Integrated Envelope and Lighting Systems for Commercial Buildings: A Retrospective."ACEEE 1998 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).

Hitchcock, Robert J., Mary Ann Piette, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Performance Metrics and Life-Cycle Information Management for Building Performance Assurance."1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).

Piette, Mary Ann, Robert J. Hitchcock, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Evaluation and Development of Information Technology and Performance Metrics for Design, Commissioning, and Operations." (1998).

Walker, Iain S., and David J. Wilson."Field Validation of Equations for Stack and Wind Driven Air Infiltration Calculations."ASHRAE HVAC&R Research Journal 4.2 (1998) 119-140.

Sanchez, Marla C., Jonathan G. Koomey, Mithra M. Moezzi, Alan K. Meier, and Wolfgang Huber."Miscellaneous Electricity Use in the U.S. Residential Sector." (1998).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M., Robert J. Hitchcock, Charles K. Ehrlich, and William L. Carroll."New Tools for the Evaluation of Daylighting Strategies and Technologies."International Daylighting Conference '98 (1998).

Iyer, Maithili, Willett Kempton, and Christopher T. Payne."Comparison Groups as a Tool for Evaluating Energy Efficiency Programs: An Analysis of ENERGY STAR@ Billing Comparison Groups."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998) 8.179-8.192.

Sanchez, Marla C., Jonathan G. Koomey, Mithra M. Moezzi, Alan K. Meier, and Wolfgang Huber."Miscellaneous Electricity Use in U.S. Homes."ACEEE 1998 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998) 11.

Coleman, Philip."Reducing ‘Search Cost’ and Risk in Energy-efficiency Investments: Two Success Stories."1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 4 (1998) 91-98.

Papamichael, Konstantinos M.."Application of Information Technologies in Building Design Decisions."Building Research & Information 27 (1998) 20-24.

Walker, Iain S., David J. Wilson, and Max H. Sherman."A Comparison of the Power Law to Quadratic Formulations for Air Infiltration Calculations."Energy and Buildings 27 (1998) 293-299.

Piette, Mary Ann, Lisa M. Gartland, Satkartar T. Khalsa, Peter Rumsey, Eng Lock Lee, Anthony Sebald, and Christine Shockman."Development and Testing of an Information Monitoring and Diagnostics System for Large Commercial Buildings."1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).

Walker, Iain S., and Mark P. Modera."Field Measurements of the Interactions between Furnaces and Forced Air Distribution Systems."ASHRAE Transactions 104 (1998) 1805-1816.

Walker, Iain S., and David J. Wilson."Field Validation of Algebraic Equations for Stack and Wind Driven Air Infiltration Calculations."HVAC&R Research 4 (1998) 119-139.

Walker, Iain S., Max H. Sherman, Mark P. Modera, and Jeffrey A. Siegel."Leakage Diagnostics, Sealant Longevity, Sizing and Technology Transfer in Residential Thermal Distribution Systems." (1998).

Payne, Christopher T.."Organizational Dynamics and Energy Policy."1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).

Walker, Iain S., Jeffrey A. Siegel, Karl A. Brown, and Max H. Sherman."Saving Tons at the Register."Proceedings of the 1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Effciency in Buildings, Pacific Grove, CA 1 (1998) 367-383.

Walker, Iain S.."Technical Background for Default Values used for Forced Air Systems in Proposed ASHRAE Standard 152P."ASHRAE Transactions 104.1A (1998) 1360-1375.

1997

Papamichael, Konstantinos M., John LaPorta, and Hannah L. Chauvet."Building Design Advisor: Automated Integration of Multiple Simulation Tools."Automation in Construction 6.4 (1997) 341-352. DOI

Bazjanac, Vladimir, and Drury B. Crawley."The Implementation of Industry Foundation Classes in Simulation Tools for the Building Industry."Building '97 Simulation Conference (1997).