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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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2014

Phadke, Amol A., Nikit Abhyankar, and Nihar Shah."Avoiding 100 New Power Plants by Increasing Efficiency of Room Air Conditioners in India: Opportunities and Challenges." (2014).

Logue, Jennifer M., Melissa M. Lunden, and Brett C. Singer."Development and Application of a Physics-Based Simulation Model to Investigate Residential PM_2.5 Composition and Size Distribution Across the US." (2014).

Less, Brennan, Iain S. Walker, and Yihuan Tang."Development of an Outdoor Temperature-Based Control Algorithm for Residential Mechanical Ventilation Control." (2014).

Rapp, Vi H., and Brett C. Singer."Effect of Fuel Wobbe Number on Pollutant Emissions from Advanced Technology Residential Water Heaters: Results of Controlled Experiments." (2014).

Hult, Erin L., Henry Willem, Phillip N. Price, Toshifumi Hotchi, Marion L. Russell, and Brett C. Singer."Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde exposure mitigation in US residences: In-home measurements of ventilation control and source control." (2014).

Walker, Iain S., Max H. Sherman, and Brennan Less."Houses are Dumb without Smart Ventilation." (2014).

Less, Brennan, and Iain S. Walker."Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation in Residential Deep Energy Retrofits." (2014).

Logue, Jennifer M., Max H. Sherman, and Brett C. Singer."A Method for Quantifying the Acute Health Impacts of Residential Non-Biological Exposure Via Inhalation." (2014).

Logue, Jennifer M., Neil E. Klepeis, Agnes B. Lobscheid, and Brett C. Singer."Pollutant Exposures from Natural Gas Cooking Burners: A Simulation-Based Assessment for Southern California." (2014). DOI

Mendell, Mark J., Ekaterina Eliseeva, Michael Spears, Wanyu R. Chan, Sebastian Cohn, Douglas P. Sullivan, and William J. Fisk."A Prospective Study of Ventilation Rates and Illness Absence in California Office Buildings." (2014).

Turner, William J. N., and Tianzhen Hong."A Technical Framework to Describe Occupant Behavior for Building Energy Simulations." (2014).

Turner, William J. N., and Iain S. Walker."Using a Ventilation Controller to Optimize Residential Passive Ventilation For Energy and Indoor Air Quality." (2014).

2013

Mendell, Mark J., Ekaterina Eliseeva, Morris G. Davies, Michael Spears, Agnes B. Lobscheid, William J. Fisk, and Michael G. Apte."Association of Classroom Ventilation with Reduced Illness Absence: A Prospective Study in California Elementary Schools."Indoor Air 23.6 (2013) 515-528. DOI

Ma, Ookie, Nasr Alkadi, Peter Cappers, Paul Denholm, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Marissa Hummon, Sila Kiliccote, Jason S. MacDonald, Nance Matson, Daniel Olsen, Cody Rose, Michael D. Sohn, Michael Starke, Brendan J. Kirby, and Mark O'Malley."Demand Response for Ancillary Services."IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid 4 (2013).

Mullen, Nasim A., Marion L. Russell, Melissa M. Lunden, and Brett C. Singer."Investigation of formaldehyde and acetaldehyde sampling rate and ozone interference for passive deployment of Waters Sep-Pak XPoSure samplers."Atmospheric Environment 80 (2013) 184-189. DOI

Fisk, William J., Federico Noris, and Brett C. Singer."Energy impacts of energy and indoor environmental quality retrofits of apartments." (2013).

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, and Mary Ann Piette."Energy information systems (EIS): Technology costs, benefit, and best practice uses." (2013).

Hong, Tianzhen, Wen-Kuei Chang, and Hung-Wen Lin."A Fresh Look at Weather Impact on Peak Electricity Demand and Energy Use of Buildings Using 30-Year Actual Weather Data."Applied Energy 111 (2013) 333-350. DOI

Fisk, William J., Federico Noris, Brett C. Singer, William W. Delp, Marion L. Russell, Michael Spears, Gary Adamkiewicz, and Kimberly Vermeer."Integrating Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality Retrofits in Apartments." (2013).

Campra, Pablo, and Dev Millstein."Mesoscale Climatic Simulation of Surface Air Temperature Cooling by Highly Reflective Greenhouses in SE Spain."Environmental Science & Technology 47.21 (2013) 12284-12290. DOI

Sleiman, Mohamad, Hugo Destaillats, and Lara A. Gundel."Solid-phase supported profluorescent nitroxide probe for the determination of aerosol-borne reactive oxygen species."Talanta 116 (2013) 1033-1039. DOI

Lin, Hung-Wen, and Tianzhen Hong."On Variations of Space-heating Energy Use in Office Buildings."Applied Energy 111 (2013) 515-528. DOI

Maddalena, Randy L., Mark J. Mendell, Ekaterina Eliseeva, Wanyu R. Chan, Douglas P. Sullivan, Marion L. Russell, Michael G. Apte, Usha Satish, and William J. Fisk."Impact of Independently Controlling Ventilation Rate per Person and Ventilation Rate per Floor Area on Perceived Air Quality, Sick Building Symptoms and Decision Making." (2013).

Parrish, Kristen, Jessica Granderson, Andrea C. Mercado, and Paul A. Mathew."Improving Energy Efficiency through Commissioning: Getting Started with Commissioning, Monitoring, and Maintaining Performance." (2013).

Noris, Federico, Gary Adamkiewicz, William W. Delp, Toshifumi Hotchi, Marion L. Russell, Brett C. Singer, Michael Spears, Kimberly Vermeer, and William J. Fisk."Indoor environmental quality benefits of apartment energy retrofits."Building Environment 68 (2013) 170–178. DOI