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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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Publications by Research Area

Buildings
Demand Response
Energy Markets & Planning
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
Industrial Energy Analysis
Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis
Transportation

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)
Energy Analysis (EA)
Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)
X Author: Chi-Ming Lai

2005

Apte, Michael G, Michael Spears, Chi-Ming Lai, and Derek G Shendell."Improving Indoor Environmental Quality and Energy Performance of Modular Classroom HVAC Systems."Proceedings of the Sustainable Buildings 2005 Conference (2005) 1432-1437.
Apte, Michael G, David Faulkner, William J Fisk, Alfred T Hodgson, Toshifumi Hotchi, Chi-Ming Lai, Michael Spears, Douglas P Sullivan, and Duo Wang."Improving Relocatable Classroom HVAC For Improved IEQ And Energy Efficiency."Indoor Air 2005 Conference - The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 1 (2005) 1121-1125.
Apte, Michael G, Ian S Buchanan, David Faulkner, William J Fisk, Chi-Ming Lai, Michael Spears, and Douglas P Sullivan."Improving Ventilation and Saving Energy: Laboratory Study in a Modular Classroom Test Bed." (2005).
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