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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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2008

Shehabi, Arman, Srirupa Ganguly, Kim Traber, Hillary Price, Arpad Horvath, William W. Nazaroff, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Energy Implications of Economizer Use in California Data Centers." (2008).

Destaillats, Hugo, Randy L. Maddalena, Brett C. Singer, Alfred T. Hodgson, and Thomas E. McKone."Indoor pollutants emitted by office equipment: A review of reported data and information needs."Atmospheric Environment 42 (2008) 1371-1388.

Fisk, William J., and Douglas P. Sullivan."Measuring Outdoor Air Intake Rates Using Electronic Velocity Sensors at Louvers and Downstream of Airflow Straighteners." (2008).

Fisk, William J., Anna G. Mirer, and Mark J. Mendell."Quantification of the association of ventilation rates with sick building syndrome symptoms."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2008 (2008).

Gadgil, Ashok J., Michael D. Sohn, Priya Sreedharan, Carlos Borrego, and Anna Isabel Miranda."Rapid Data Assimilation in the Indoor Environment: theory and examples from real-time interpretation of indoor plumes of airborne chemicals."Air Pollution Modeling and its Applicatiion XIX (2008) 263-277.

2007

Shehabi, Arman, William F. Tschudi, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Data Center Economizer Contamination and Humidity Study." (2007).

Fisk, William J.."Can sorbent-based gas phase air cleaning for VOCs substitute for ventilation in commercial buildings?."IAQ 2007 Healthy and Sustainable Buildings (2007).

Lorenzetti, David M., Astrid H. Kristoffersen, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Effect of room air recirculation delay on the decay rate of tracer gas concentration."Indoor Air (2007) 7.

Chan, Wanyu R., William W. Nazaroff, Phillip N. Price, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Effectiveness of Urban Shelter-in-Place I: Idealized Conditions."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 4962-4976.

Mendell, Mark J., and William J. Fisk."Is health in office buildings related only to psychosocial factors?."Occupational and Environmental Medicine 64.1 (2007) 69-70.

Seppänen, Olli, William J. Fisk, and Pawel Wargocki."Indoor Environment, Productivity in Offices."ASHRAE IAQ Applications 8 (2007) 1-15.

Sreedharan, Priya, Michael D. Sohn, William W. Nazaroff, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Influence of indoor transport and mixing times scales on the performance of sensor systems for characterizing contaminant releases."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 9530-9542.

Sohn, Michael D., Michael G. Apte, Richard G. Sextro, and Alvin C.K. Lai."Predicting Size-Resolved Particle Behavior in Multizone Buildings."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 1473 -1482.

Fisk, William J., and Olli Seppänen."Providing better indoor environmental quality brings economic benefits."REHVA World Congress - CLIMA 2007 (2007).

2006

Fisk, William J., David Faulkner, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Accuracy of CO₂ Sensors in Commercial Buildings: A Pilot Study." (2006).

Mendell, Mark J., Richard C. Diamond, William J. Fisk, Terry Brennan, Lee Hathon, J. David Odom, Francis J. Offermann, Bradley H. Turk, and Kenneth M. Wallingford."Causes and prevention of symptom complaints in office buildings: Distilling the experience of indoor environmental quality investigators."Facilities 24.11/12 (2006) 436-444. DOI

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Astrid H. Kristoffersen, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, and Ashok J. Gadgil."CFD Investigation of Room Ventilation for Improved Operation of a Downdraft Table: Novel Concepts."Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 3 (2006) 583-591.

Seppänen, Olli, William J. Fisk, Quanhong Lei-Gomez, and Quanhong Lei."Effect of temperature on task performance in office environment."5th International Conference on Cold Climate Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (2006) 53-16.

Hotchi, Toshifumi, Alfred T. Hodgson, and William J. Fisk."Indoor Air Quality Impacts of a Peak Load Shedding Strategy for a Large Retail Building." (2006).

Price, Phillip N., Arman Shehabi, Wanyu R. Chan, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Indoor-Outdoor Air Leakage of Apartments and Commercial Buildings." (2006).

Fisk, William J., David Faulkner, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Measuring Outdoor Airflow into HVAC Systems."ASHRAE Journal 48 (2006) 50-57.

Seppänen, Olli, William J. Fisk, and Derek Clements Croome."A procedure to estimate the cost-effectiveness of the indoor environment improvements in office work."Creating the Productive Workplace (2006) 407-433.

Seppänen, Olli, William J. Fisk, Quanhong Lei-Gomez, and Quanhong Lei."Room temperature and productivity in office work."Healthy Buildings 2006 Conference 1 (2006) 243-247.

Seppänen, Olli, and William J. Fisk."Some quantitative relations between Indoor environmental quality and work performance or health."International Journal of HVAC&R Research 12 (2006) 957-973.

Fisk, William J.."Sorbent-based gas phase air cleaning for VOCs in Commercial Buildings." (2006).