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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 scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

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2016

Therkelsen, Peter L, Prakash Rao, Darren Sholes, William Meffert, Randy Green, Sachin Nimbalkar, and Aimee T McKane."The Value of Regression Models in Determining Industrial Energy Savings."Eceee Industrial Summer Study Proceedings 2016-September (2016) 389-399.

2015

Scodel, Anna, and Laurèn DeMates."From Policy to Compliance: Federal Energy Efficient Product Procurement." (2015).

Chiles, Thomas, Kenneth Shutika, and Philip Coleman."Riding the Electricity Market as an Energy Management Strategy: Savings from Real-Time Pricing." (2015).

Therkelsen, Peter L, Prakash Rao, Aimee T McKane, Ridah Sabouni, Yannick Tamm, and Paul Scheihing."Development of an Enhanced Payback Function for the Superior Energy Performance Program."2015 American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).

Rao, Prakash, Aimee T McKane, and Andre de Fontaine."Energy Savings from Industrial Water Reductions."2015 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).

Olsen, Daniel, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California Agricultural Irrigation." (2015).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Craig P Wray, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California Wastewater Treatment Facilities." (2015).

Homan, Gregory K, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California's Dairy Processing Industry." (2015).

Siciliano, Graziella, Aimee T McKane, and Pamela de los Reyes."Promoting Strong ISO 50001 Outcomes with Supportive National Infrastructure."2015 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).

McKane, Aimee T, Paul Sheihing, Tracy Evans, Sandy Glatt, and William Meffert."The Business Value of Superior Energy Performance."2015 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).

Coleman, Philip."Escalation Rates in Energy Savings Performance Contracts."Energy Engineering 112.5 (2015). DOI

Coleman, Philip."Guide to Promoting an Energy Efficient Public Sector (PePS)." (2015).

Wei, Joy, Francis M Rubinstein, Jordan Shackelford, and Alastair Robinson."Wireless Advanced Lighting Controls Retrofit Demonstration." (2015).

Weber, Adam Z, Girish Ghatikar, Dale A Sartor, and Steven Lanzisera."Design and Development of an Integrated Workstation Automation Hub." (2015).

Rapp, Vi H, Brett C Singer, J Chris Stratton, Craig P Wray, and Brennan Less."Assessment of Literature Related to Combustion Appliance Venting Systems." (2015).

Agyeman, Yaw O, and Harley Barnes."Project Manager’s Guide to Managing Impact and Process Evaluation Studies." (2015).

Scheib, Jennifer, Philip Coleman, and Shanti Pless."Realizing High-Performance Buildings." (2015).

Agyeman, Yaw O."Steady Hand at the Wheel: Using an Incremental, Systematic Approach to Promote an Evaluation Culture in a Federal Organization."International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2015).

2014

Earni, Shankar."Advanced Metering Implementations - A Perspective from Federal Sector."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Coleman, Philip, Shankar Earni, and Charles H Williams."Could what that ESCO sales rep said really be true? Savings realization rates in ESPC versus bid-to-spec projects."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Payne, Christopher T, H.Y Iris Cheung, and Emily Fisher."Evolution of Energy Efficiency Programs Over Time: The Case of Standby Power."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Coles, Henry C."Demonstration of Rack-Mounted Computer Equipment Cooling Solutions." (2014).

Coles, Henry C, and Steve E Greenberg."Direct Liquid Cooling for Electronic Equipment." (2014).

Coles, Henry C, Yong Qin, and Phillip N Price."Comparing Server Energy Use and Efficiency Using Small Sample Sizes." (2014).

Rapp, Vi H, and Brett C Singer."Effect of Fuel Wobbe Number on Pollutant Emissions from Advanced Technology Residential Water Heaters: Results of Controlled Experiments." (2014).