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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.

Publications: Commercial Building Ventilation and Indoor Environmental Quality

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Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

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2021

de Mesquita, P. Jacob Bueno, William W Delp, Wanyu R Chan, William P Bahnfleth, and Brett C Singer."Control of airborne infectious disease in buildings: evidence and research priorities."Indoor Air (2021). DOI

Singer, Brett C, Haoran Zhao, Chelsea V Preble, William W Delp, Jovan Pantelic, Michael D Sohn, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."Measured Influence of Overhead HVAC on Exposure to Airborne Contaminants from Simulated Speaking in a Meeting and a Classroom."Indoor Air (2021). DOI

2019

Fisk, William J, Pawel Wargocki, and Xiaojing Zhang."Do Indoor CO2 Levels Directly Affect Perceived Air Quality, Health, or Work Performance?."ASHRAE Journal (2019).

Fisk, William J, Wanyu R Chan, and Alexandra L Johnson."Does Dampness and Mold in Schools affect Health? Results of a Meta-Analysis."Indoor Air 2019 (2019). DOI

2016

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Claudine Y Custodio, Michael D Sohn, David A Jump, and Samuel Fernandes."Accuracy of Automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) Techniques for Energy Savings in Commercial Buildings."Applied Energy 173 (2016) 296-308. DOI

2015

Dutton, Spencer M, and William J Fisk."Energy and IAQ Implications of Alternative Minimum Ventilation Rates in California Retail and School Buildings." (2015).

2014

Dutton, Spencer M, Mark J Mendell, Wanyu R Chan, Marcella Barrios, Meera A Sidheswaran, Douglas P Sullivan, Ekaterina Eliseeva, and William J Fisk."Evaluation of the Indoor Air Quality Minimum Ventilation Rate Procedure for Use in California Retail Buildings."Indoor Air 25 (2014) 93-104. DOI

Chan, Wanyu R, and Brett C Singer."Measurement-Based Evaluation of Installed Filtration System Performance in Single-Family Homes." (2014).

2013

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, William J Fisk, and Thomas E McKone."Effect Of Ventilation On Chronic Health Risks In Schools And Offices." (2013).

Dutton, Spencer M, Wanyu R Chan, Mark J Mendell, Marcella Barrios, Srinandini Parthasarathy, Meera A Sidheswaran, Douglas P Sullivan, Ekaterina Eliseeva, and William J Fisk."Evaluation of the Indoor Air Quality Procedure for Use in Retail Buildings." (2013).