Energy Technologies Area

Our pioneering indoor air quality and smart ventilation research identified thirdhand smoke as a health hazard and is making indoor spaces safer and more healthy world wide.

Working closely with other National Labs, the government and industry, our cutting edge battery and energy storage research helps to build better, more energy-efficient batteries.

Our scientists are developing methods of applying fault detection and diagnostics to rapidly diagnose problems in buildings that let human operators know what needs to be fixed.

We work closely with industry to develop technologies for buildings that increase energy efficiency while improving the comfort, health, and safety for building occupants in our Building Tecnology and Urban Systems Division.

We research how buildings use energy, their energy consumption patterns, energy efficiency standards, and indoor air quality in our Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division. 

We're improving grid storage capability for energy from renewable sources, researching smart-grid real-time monitoring and response, and improving electricity distribution reliability in our Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division. 

The Facility for Low Energy eXperiments in Buildings allows users to test energy-efficient building systems, before buildings are built.