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

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2008

Buchanan, Ian S., Mark J. Mendell, Anna G. Mirer, and Michael G. Apte."Air Filter Materials, Outdoor Ozone and Building-Related Symptoms in the BASE Study."Indoor Air 18 (2008) 144-155.

White, Richard M., Justin Black, Michael G. Apte, and Lara A. Gundel."Development of a Low-Cost Particulate Matter Monitor." (2008).

Apte, Michael G., Norman Bourassa, David Faulkner, Alfred T. Hodgson, Toshifumi Hotchi, Michael Spears, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Duo Wang."Improving Ventilation and Saving Energy: Final Report on Indoor Environmental Quality and Energy Monitoring in Sixteen Relocatable Classrooms." (2008).

Apte, Michael G., Ian S. Buchanan, and Mark J. Mendell."Outdoor Ozone and Building Related Symptoms in the BASE Study."Indoor Air 18 (2008) 156-170.

Huang, Zhuo, Michael G. Apte, and Lara A. Gundel."Thermophoresis and Its Thermal Parameters for Aerosol Collection."U.S. Department of Energy Journal of Undergraduate Research 7 (2008) 37-42.

2007

Sohn, Michael D., Michael G. Apte, Richard G. Sextro, and Alvin C.K. Lai."Predicting Size-Resolved Particle Behavior in Multizone Buildings."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 1473 -1482.

Gundel, Lara A., and Michael G. Apte."Simple Exposure Indicators for ETS Particles." (2007).

2006

Buchanan, Ian S., and Michael G. Apte."Air Filter Materials and Building Related Symptoms in the BASE Study."Healthy Buildings Conference 2006 4 (2006) 455-460.

Mendell, Mark J., Quanhong Lei-Gomez, Myrna Cozen, Howard S. Brightman, Michael G. Apte, Christine A. Erdmann, Gregory Brunner, and John R. Girman."Indoor Environmental Risk Factors for Occupant Symptoms in 100 U.S. Office Buildings: Summary of Three Analyses from the EPA BASE Study."Healthy Buildings 2006 Conference 111 (2006) 371-376.

Apte, Michael G.."A Review of Demand Control Ventilation."Proceedings of Healthy Buildings 2006 IV (2006).

2005

Mendell, Mark J., Quanhong Lei-Gomez, Michael G. Apte, William J. Fisk, and Quanhong Lei."Estimated Ventilation Rates and Work-Related Symptoms in U.S. Office Buildings - The Base Study."10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 5(6) (2005) 3758-3762.

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 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).

Apte, Michael G., David Faulkner, Alfred T. Hodgson, Toshifumi Hotchi, Michael Spears, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Duo Wang."Improving Ventilation and Saving Energy: Relocatable Classroom Field Study Interim Report." (2005).

Mendell, Mark J., Quanhong Lei-Gomez, Michael G. Apte, William J. Fisk, and Quanhong Lei."Outdoor Air Ventilation and Work-Related Symptoms in U.S. Office Buildings - Results from the Base Study." (2005).

Gundel, Lara A., and Michael G. Apte."Particle sensors for the twenty-first century."Conferences on Advanced Technology Needs- Environmental Sentinels 2005 (2005).

2004

Erdmann, Christine A., and Michael G. Apte."Associations of Indoor Carbon Dioxide Concentrations and Environmental Susceptibilities with Mucous Membrane and Lower Respiratory Building Related Symptoms in the BASE Study: Analyses of the 100 Building Dataset."Indoor Air 14.Suppl 8 (2004) 127-134. DOI

Shendell, Derek G., Richard J. Prill, William J. Fisk, Michael G. Apte, David Blake, and David Faulkner."Associations between classroom CO₂ concentrations and student attendance in Washington and Idaho."Indoor Air 2004 14 (2004) 333-341.

Apte, Michael G., David Faulkner, Alfred T. Hodgson, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Classroom HVAC: Improving ventilation and saving energy field study plan." (2004).

Hodgson, Alfred T., Derek G. Shendell, William J. Fisk, and Michael G. Apte."Comparison of predicted and derived measures of volatile organic compounds inside four relocatable classrooms due to identified interior finish sources."Indoor Air (Supplement 8) 14 (2004) 135-144.

Apte, Michael G., Alfred T. Hodgson, Derek G. Shendell, Leo I. Rainer, and Marc A. Hoeschele."Designing Building Systems to Save Energy and Improve Indoor Environments: A Practical Demonstration."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 3 (2004) 13-27.

Rainer, Leo I., Marc A. Hoeschele, Michael G. Apte, Derek G. Shendell, and William J. Fisk."Energy savings estimates and cost benefit calculations for high performance relocatable classrooms." (2004).

Apte, Michael G., Lara A. Gundel, S. Katharine Hammond, Raymond L. Dod, Marion L. Russell, Brett C. Singer, Michael D. Sohn, Douglas P. Sullivan, Gee-Minn Chang, and Richard G. Sextro."Indoor measurements of environmental tobacco smoke." (2004).

Russell, Marion L., Regine Goth-Goldstein, Michael G. Apte, and William J. Fisk."Methods to determine the size distribution of airborne rhinovirus." (2004).