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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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2007

Sherman, Max H, and Iain S Walker."Energy impact of residential ventilation norms in the United States." (2007).

Walker, Iain S, and Max H Sherman."Humidity Implications for Meeting Residential Ventilation Requirements."Buildings X Conference - Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings (2007) Air Tightness II–Practices III–A.

Beard, Daniel P, and Craig P Wray."Preliminary Report: Green the Capitol Initiative." (2007).

Russell, Marion L, Max H Sherman, and Armin F Rudd."Review of Residential Ventilation Technologies."HVAC&R Research 13.2 (2007) 325-348.

Wray, Craig P, and Hashem Akbari."The Effects of Roof Reflectance on Air Temperatures Surrounding a Rooftop Condensing Unit."Energy and Buildings 40 (2007) 11-28.

2006

Walker, Iain S."Residential Furnace Blower Performance." (2006).

Walker, Iain S, and Darryl J Dickerhoff."Evaluation of a new ramping technique for duct leakage testing." (2006).

Haves, Philip, Robert J Hitchcock, Kenneth L Gillespie, Martha Brook, Christine Shockman, Joseph J Deringer, and Kristopher L Kinney."Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Walker, Iain S, and Max H Sherman."Evaluation of existing technologies for meeting residential ventilation requirements." (2006).

Walker, Iain S, and Max H Sherman."Ventilation requirements in hot, humid climates."15th Symposium on Improving Building Systems in Hot Humid Climates, July 24-26, 2006 Codes, ESL-HH-06/ (2006).

Walker, Iain S, Valerie Claret, and Brian V Smith."Laser sheet light flow visualization for evaluating room air flows at reduced register air flow rates." (2006).

Price, Phillip N, and Max H Sherman."Ventilation Behavior and Household Characteristics in New California Houses." (2006).

McWilliams, Jennifer A, and Melanie Jung."Development of a Mathematical Air-Leakage Model from Measured Data." (2006).

Sherman, Max H."Efficacy of Intermittent Ventilation for Providing Acceptable Indoor Air Quality."ASHRAE Transactions 111.1 (2006) 93-101.

Sherman, Max H."Over-ventilating in Hot, Humid Climates."IAQ Applications- ASHRAE 7.1 (2006) 1-4.

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

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

Diamond, Richard C, Mike Opitz, Tom Hicks, Bill Von Neida, and Shawn Herrera."Evaluating the energy performance of the first generation of LEED-certified commercial buildings."ACEEE 2006 Summer Study 3 (2006) 245-257.

Walker, Iain S, and Jennifer A McWilliams."Homeowner Retrofit Guide." (2006).

Wray, Craig P, Hashem Akbari, Ronnen M Levinson, and Tengfang T Xu."Inclusion of Solar Reflectance and Thermal Emittance Prescriptive Requirements for Residential Roofs in Title 24." (2006).

Akbari, Hashem, Craig P Wray, Ronnen M Levinson, and Tengfang T Xu."Inclusion of Solar Reflectance and Thermal Emittance Prescriptive Requirements for Steep-Sloped Nonresidential Roofs in Title 24." (2006).

Walker, Iain S."Residential Furnace Blower Performance in U.S. Homes."Air Infiltration Review 28 (2006) 3-4.

Shaughnessy, Richard J, and Richard G Sextro."What is an Effective Air Cleaning Device? A Review."Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 3.4 (2006) 169-181. DOI

2005

Matson, Nance, and Mary Ann Piette."Review of California and National Methods for Energy Performance Benchmarking of Commercial Buildings." (2005).

McWilliams, Jennifer A, and Max H Sherman."Review of Literature Related to Residential Ventilation Requirements." (2005).