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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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About Us +
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

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2006

Turner, William J. N., and Hazim B. Awbi."Solar-driven hybrid ventilation system."WREC (2006).

McGrory, Laura Van Wie, Philip Coleman, David Fridley, Jeffrey P. Harris, and Edgar Villasenor Franco."Two Paths to Transforming Markets through Public Sector Energy Efficiency: Bottom Up versus Top Down."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 6 (2006) 265-276.

Prasher, Ravi S., and Patrick E. Phelan."A Unified Microscopic and Macroscopic Thermal Contact Resistance Model."ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (2006) 525–533. DOI

Kim, , Sarah E, R Scott List, James G Maveety, Alan M. Myers, Quat T Vu, Ravi S. Prasher, Ravi Mahajan, and Gilroy Vandentop."Using external radiators with electroosmotic pumps for cooling integrated circuits." (2006).

Chang, Je-Young, Ravi S. Prasher, Paul J. Gwin, and Ioan Sauciuc."Apparatus and associated method for microelectronic cooling." (2006).

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

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, Thilo Ernst, Peter Schwarz, Mathias Vetter, Andreas Holm, Juergen Leopold, Alexander Mattes, Andre Nordwig, Peter Schneider, Christoph Wittwer, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Gerhardt Schmidt."Advanced modeling and simulation techniques in MOSILAB: A system development case study."5th International Modelica Conference (2006) pp.63-72.

Buchanan, Ian S., and Michael G. Apte."Air Filter Materials and Building Related Symptoms in the BASE Study."Healthy Buildings Conference 2006 4 (2006) 455-460.

Sherman, Max H.."Air Tightness of US Homes: Model Development." (2006).

Hennage, Dan."Akua DRAS and CLIR Development." (2006).

Lasco, Rodel, Florencia Pulhin, and Renesita Sales."Analysis Of Leakage in Carbon Sequestration Projects in Forestry: A Case Study of Upper Magat Watershed, Philippines." (2006).

Van Buskirk, Robert D."Analysis of Long-range Clean Energy Investment Scenarios for Eritrea, East Africa."Energy Policy 34 (2006) 25.

Chan, Wanyu R.."Assessing the effectiveness of shelter-in-place as an emergency response to large-scale outdoor chemical releases."Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2006).

Boer, Rizaldi, Upik Wasrin, Hendri Perinan, Bambang Dasanto, Willy Makundi, and Julius Hero."Assessment of Carbon Leakage in Multiple Carbon-Sink Projects: A Case Study In Jambi Province, Indonesia." (2006).

Maddalena, Randy L., and Peter Kulakow."Background Air Component of Measured Vegetation/Soil Bioconcentration Ratios." (2006).

Brown, Sandra, Myrna Hall, Kenneth Andrasko, Fernando Ruiz, Walter Marzoli, and Gabriela Guerrero."Baselines for Land-Use Change in the Tropics: Application to Avoided Deforestation Projects." (2006).

Prasher, Ravi S., Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Patrick E. Phelan."Brownian Motion Based Convective- Conductive Model for the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids."Journal of Heat Transfer 128 (2006) 588-595.

Ravindranath, Nijavalli H., Indu K. Murthy, Rajiv K. Chaturvedi, Kenneth Andrasko, and Jayant A. Sathaye."Carbon Forestry Economic Mitigation Potential in India, by Land Classification." (2006).

Xu, Peng, and Philip Haves."Case Study of Demand Shifting with Thermal Mass in Two Large Commercial Buildings."ASHRAE Transactions 112.Pt. 1 (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.

Piette, Mary Ann, and Sila Kiliccote."Characterization and Demonstration of Demand Responsive Control Technologies and Strategies in Commercial Buildings." (2006).

Singer, Brett C., Hugo Destaillats, Alfred T. Hodgson, and William W. Nazaroff."Cleaning Products and Air Freshners: Emissions and Resulting Concentrations of Glycol Ethers and Terpenoids."Indoor Air 16.3 (2006) 179-191.

Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle, Larry L. Dale, and Alexander B. Lekov."Comparing price forecast accuracy of natural gas models and futures markets."Energy policy 34 (2006) 4115–4122.

Violette, , Daniel."A Comprehensive / Integrated DR Value Framework." (2006).