Energy Technologies Area

Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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 by Research Area

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2003

Xu, Tengfang T.."Efficient Airflow Design for Cleanrooms Improves Business Bottom Lines."ESTECH 2003 (2003) 108-116.

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Use of remote sensing measurements to evaluate vehicle emission monitoring programs: results from Phoenix, Arizona."Transportation Research Part D 6.2 (2003). DOI

Xu, Tengfang T.."Performance Evaluation of Cleanroom Environmental Systems."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 46 (2003) 66-73.

2002

Xu, Tengfang T.."Airflow Design for Cleanrooms and Its Economic Implications."5th China International Academic Forum and Products Exposition on Contamination Control Technology, Construction Sub-Council of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and Chinese Contamination Control Society (2002).

Payne, Christopher T., Anthony Radspieler Jr., and Jack Payne."Hurdling barriers through market uncertainty: Case studies in innovative technology adoption."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Weale, John, Peter Rumsey, Dale A. Sartor, and Eng Lock Lee."Laboratory Low-Pressure Drop Design."ASHRAE Journal 44.8 (2002) 38-43.

Mauritz, Donald, E. Thomas Morehouse Jr., and John Shugars."A Public Work in Progress: Incorporating Energy Efficiency Into Guide Specifications for New Federal Construction."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Janda, Kathryn B., Christopher T. Payne, Rick Kunkle, and Loren Lutzenhiser."What organizations did (and didn't) do: Three factors that shaped conservation responses to California's 2001 "crisis"."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Lutzenhiser, Loren, Kathryn B. Janda, Rick Kunkle, and Christopher T. Payne."Understanding the response of commercial and institutional organizations to the California energy crisis." (2002).

Tschudi, William F., Dale A. Sartor, Evan Mills, and Tengfang T. Xu."High-Performance Laboratories and Cleanrooms." (2002).

Weale, John, Peter Rumsey, Dale A. Sartor, and Eng Lock Lee."How Low Can You Go? Low Pressure Drop Laboratory Design." (2002).

2001

Tschudi, William F., and Tengfang T. Xu."Cleanroom Energy Benchmarking Results."ASHRAE Transactions 109, part 2 (2001) 733-739.

Webster, Thomas L.."Trends in Energy Management Technology: Trends Affecting Building Control System Development." (2001).

Xu, Tengfang T., and William F. Tschudi."Energy Performance of Cleanroom Environmental Systems."Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (IEST) 48th Annual Technical Meeting (2001).

Webber, Carrie A., Judy A. Roberson, Richard E. Brown, Christopher T. Payne, Bruce Nordman, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Field Surveys of Office Equipment Operating Patterns." (2001).

Tschudi, William F., Kathleen Benschine, Stephen Fok, and Peter Rumsey."Cleanroom Energy Benchmarking in High-Tech and Biotech Industries."2001 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2001).

Webster, Thomas L.."Trends in Energy Management Technology: BCS Integration Technologies - Open Communications Networking." (2001).

Bell, Geoffrey C., Dale A. Sartor, and Evan Mills."The Berkeley Hood: Development and Commercialization of an Innovative High-Performance Laboratory Fume Hood. Progress Report and Research Status: 1995-2001." (2001).

Webster, Thomas L.."Chiller Controls Energy Saving Opportunities in Federal Facilities." (2001).

Tschudi, William F., Tengfang T. Xu, and Dale A. Sartor."Cleanroom Energy Programming Guide - An Energy Efficiency Guide for Use in Cleanroom Programming." (2001).

Piette, Mary Ann, Joseph H Eto, Iain S. Walker, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Craig P. Wray, Bruce Nordman, Alan K. Meier, Philip Haves, Richard C. Diamond, Jeffrey P. Harris, Mithra M. Moezzi, Christopher T. Payne, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Demand-Responsive and Efficient Building Systems as a Resource for Electricity Reliability." (2001).

Xu, Tengfang T., William F. Tschudi, and Dale A. Sartor."Energy Benchmarking for Fourteen Classrooms." (2001).

Xu, Tengfang T., William F. Tschudi, Geoffrey C. Bell, Evan Mills, and Dale A. Sartor."High-Tech Buildings - Market Transformation Project." (2001).

2000

Sartor, Dale A., Mary Ann Piette, William F. Tschudi, and Stephen Fok."Strategies for Energy Benchmarking in Cleanrooms and Laboratory-Type Facilities."2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2000).

Shugars, John, Philip Coleman, Christopher T. Payne, and Laura Van Wie McGrory."Bridging the Efficiency Gap: Commercial Packaged Rooftop Air Conditioners."Proceedings from the 2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 10 (2000) 217-226.