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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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2006

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Michael D. Sohn, Tracy L. Thatcher, Phillip N. Price, Emily E. Wood, Richard G. Sextro, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Tracer Gas Transport under Mixed Convection Conditions in an Experimental Atrium: Comparison Between Experiments and CFD Predictions."Atmospheric Environment 40 (2006) 5236-5250.

Seppänen, Olli, William J. Fisk, and Quanhong Lei-Gomez."Ventilation and Work Performance in office work."Indoor Air 16 (2006) 28-36. DOI

2005

Mendell, Mark J., Quanhong Lei-Gomez, Michael G. Apte, William J. Fisk, and Quanhong Lei."Estimated Ventilation Rates and Work-Related Symptoms in U.S. Office Buildings - The Base Study."10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 5(6) (2005) 3758-3762.

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Emily E. Wood, Tracy L. Thatcher, Phillip N. Price, Richard G. Sextro, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Comparison between experiments and CFD predictions of mixed convection flows in an atrium."Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 3(3) (2005) 2849-2853.

Seppänen, Olli, and William J. Fisk."Control of temperature for health and productivity in offices."ASHRAE Transactions 111 (2005) 680-686.

Fisk, William J., Olli Seppänen, David Faulkner, and Yu Joe Huang."Economic benefits of an economizer system: energy savings and reduced sick leave."ASHRAE Transactions 111 (2005) 673-679.

Fisk, William J., David Faulkner, and Douglas P. Sullivan."An Evaluation Of Three Commercially Available Technologies For Real-Time Measurement Of Rates Of Outdoor Airflow Into Hvac Systems."ASHRAE Transactions 111 (2005) 443-455.

Apte, Michael G., David Faulkner, William J. Fisk, Alfred T. Hodgson, Toshifumi Hotchi, Chi-Ming Lai, Michael Spears, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Duo Wang."Improving Relocatable Classroom HVAC For Improved IEQ And Energy Efficiency."Indoor Air 2005 Conference - The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 1 (2005) 1121-1125.

Apte, Michael G., Ian S. Buchanan, David Faulkner, William J. Fisk, Chi-Ming Lai, Michael Spears, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Improving Ventilation and Saving Energy: Laboratory Study in a Modular Classroom Test Bed." (2005).

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Astrid H. Kristoffersen, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Investigation of Room Ventilation for Improved Operation of a Downdraft Table."Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate - Indoor Air 2005 3(1) (2005) 2575-2579.

Seppänen, Olli, and William J. Fisk."A model to estimate the cost effectiveness of indoor environment improvements in office work."ASHRAE Transactions 111 (2005) 663-679.

Mendell, Mark J., Quanhong Lei-Gomez, Michael G. Apte, William J. Fisk, and Quanhong Lei."Outdoor Air Ventilation and Work-Related Symptoms in U.S. Office Buildings - Results from the Base Study." (2005).

Fisk, William J., David Faulkner, Douglas P. Sullivan, Christopher Y.H. Chao, Man-Pun Wan, Leah Zagreus, and Thomas L. Webster."Performance of Underfloor Air Distribution in a Field Setting."International Journal of Ventilation 5 (2005) 291-300.

Fisk, William J., Douglas P. Sullivan, and David Faulkner."Real-Time Measurement of Rates of Outdoor Airflow into HVAC Systems: A Field Study of Three Technologies." (2005).

Fisk, William J., David Faulkner, Douglas P. Sullivan, Christopher Y.H. Chao, Man-Pun Wan, Leah Zagreus, and Thomas L. Webster."Results Of A Field Study Of Underfloor Air Distribution."Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate - Indoor Air 2005 1(7) (2005) 1016 – 1020.

Seppänen, Olli, and William J. Fisk."Some quantitative relations between indoor environment, performance and health."Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate - Indoor Air 2005 I(1) (2005) 40-53.

Fisk, William J., David Faulkner, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Technologies For Measuring Flow Rates Of Outdoor Air Into Hvac Systems: Some Causes And Suggested Cures For Measurement Errors."ASHRAE Transactions 111 (2005) 456-463.

2004

Faulkner, David, William J. Fisk, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Seung-Min Lee."Ventilation Efficiencies and Thermal Comfort Results of a Desk-Edge-Mounted Task Ventilation System."Indoor Air (Supplement 8) 14.Supplement s8 (2004) 92-97. DOI

Federspiel, Clifford C., William J. Fisk, Phillip N. Price, Gao Liu, David Faulkner, Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Maureen Lahiff."Worker Performance and Ventilation in a Call Center: Analyses of Work Performance Data for Registered Nurses."Indoor Air 14.Supplement s8 (2004) 41-50. DOI

Wagner, Jeff, Douglas P. Sullivan, David Faulkner, William J. Fisk, Leon E. Alevantis, Raymond L. Dod, Lara A. Gundel, and Jed M. Waldman."Environmental Tobacco Smoke Leakage from Smoking Rooms."Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 1.2 (2004) 110-118. DOI

Chan, Wanyu R., Phillip N. Price, Ashok J. Gadgil, William W. Nazaroff, Gwen Loosmore, and Gayle Sugiyama."Modeling shelter-in-place including sorption on indoor surfaces."84th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 11-14, 2004 PNFUZ Session 6.5 (2004).

Shendell, Derek G., Richard J. Prill, William J. Fisk, Michael G. Apte, David Blake, and David Faulkner."Associations between classroom CO₂ concentrations and student attendance in Washington and Idaho."Indoor Air 2004 14 (2004) 333-341.

Hodgson, Alfred T., Derek G. Shendell, William J. Fisk, and Michael G. Apte."Comparison of predicted and derived measures of volatile organic compounds inside four relocatable classrooms due to identified interior finish sources."Indoor Air (Supplement 8) 14 (2004) 135-144.

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, David M. Lorenzetti, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Coupled model for simulation of indoor airflow and pollutant transport." (2004).

Rainer, Leo I., Marc A. Hoeschele, Michael G. Apte, Derek G. Shendell, and William J. Fisk."Energy savings estimates and cost benefit calculations for high performance relocatable classrooms." (2004).