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)

2022

Calderon, Lucia, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, Sharon S. Chen, James E.S. Nolan, Asa Bradman, and Kim G. Harley."Air concentrations of volatile organic compounds associated with conventional and “green” cleaning products in real-world and laboratory settings."Indoor Air 32 (2022). DOI

2021

G.Harley, Kim, Lucia Calderon, James E.S.Nolan, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, Katherine Roman, Stephanie Mayo-Burgos, Jessica Cabrera, Norma Morga, and Asa Bradman."Changes in Latina Women’s Exposure to Cleaning Chemicals Associated with Switching from Conventional to “Green” Household Cleaning Products: The LUCIR Intervention Study."Environmental Health Perspectives (2021). DOI

Tang, Xiaochen, Noelia Ramirez Gonzalez, Marion L. Russell, Randy L. Maddalena, Lara A. Gundel, and Hugo Destaillats."Chemical changes in thirdhand smoke associated with remediation using an ozone generator."Environmental Research 198 (2021). DOI

Tang, Xiaochen, Lucia Cancelada, Vi H. Rapp, Marion L. Russell, Randy L. Maddalena, Marta I. Litter, Lara A. Gundel, and Hugo Destaillats."Emissions from Heated Terpenoids Present in Vaporizable Cannabis Concentrates."Environmental Science and Technology (2021).

Cancelada, Lucia, Xiaochen Tang, Marion L. Russell, Randy L. Maddalena, Marta I. Litter, Lara A. Gundel, and Hugo Destaillats."Volatile aldehyde emissions from “sub-ohm” vaping devices."Environmental Research 197 (2021). DOI

2020

Preble, Chelsea V., Sharon S. Chen, Toshifumi Hotchi, Michael D. Sohn, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, Nancy J. Brown, Corinne D. Scown, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Air Pollutant Emission Rates for Dry Anaerobic Digestion and Composting of Organic Municipal Solid Waste."Environmental Science & Technology (2020). DOI

Fisher, Carolyn L., Pamela D. Lane, Marion L. Russell, Randy L. Maddalena, and Todd W. Lane."Low Molecular Weight Volatile Organic Compounds Indicate Grazing by the Marine Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis on the Microalgae Microchloropsis salina."Metabolites 10 (2020). DOI

2017

Singer, Brett C., Rebecca Zarin Pass, William W. Delp, David M. Lorenzetti, and Randy L. Maddalena."Pollutant concentrations and emission rates from natural gas cooking burners without and with range hood exhaust in nine California homes."Building and Environment 122 (2017) 215 - 229. DOI

2016

Chan, Wanyu R., Randy L. Maddalena, J. Chris Stratton, Toshifumi Hotchi, Brett C. Singer, Iain S. Walker, and Max H. Sherman."Healthy Efficient New Gas Homes (HENGH) Pilot Test Results." (2016).

2015

Maddalena, Randy L., Mark J. Mendell, Ekaterina Eliseeva, Wanyu R. Chan, Douglas P. Sullivan, Marion L. Russell, Usha Satish, and William J. Fisk."Effects of ventilation rate per person and per floor area on perceived air quality, sick building syndrome symptoms, and decision-making."Indoor Air 25.4 (2015) 362-370. DOI

2013

Maddalena, Randy L., Mark J. Mendell, Ekaterina Eliseeva, Wanyu R. Chan, Douglas P. Sullivan, Marion L. Russell, Michael G. Apte, Usha Satish, and William J. Fisk."Impact of Independently Controlling Ventilation Rate per Person and Ventilation Rate per Floor Area on Perceived Air Quality, Sick Building Symptoms and Decision Making." (2013).

Maddalena, Randy L., Na Li, Alfred T. Hodgson, Francis J. Offermann, and Brett C. Singer."Maximizing Information from Residential Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds."Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International Conference (2013).

Maddalena, Randy L., Amanda Parra, Marion L. Russell, and Wen-Yee Lee."Measurement of Passive Uptake Rates for Volatile Organic Compounds on Commercial Thermal Desorption Tubes and the Effect of Ozone on Sampling." (2013).

Willem, Henry, Erin L. Hult, Toshifumi Hotchi, Marion L. Russell, Randy L. Maddalena, and Brett C. Singer."Ventilation Control of Volatile Organic Compounds in New U.S. Homes: Results of a Controlled Field Study in Nine Residential Units." (2013).

2012

Offermann, Francis J., Randy L. Maddalena, Francis J. Offermann, Brett C. Singer, and Henry Willem."The impact of ventilation rate on the emission rates of volatile organic compounds in residences."Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International Conference (2012).

Maddalena, Randy L., Melissa M. Lunden, Daniel L. Wilson, Cristina Ceballos, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Jonathan L. Slack, and Larry L. Dale."Quantifying Stove Emissions Related to Different Use Patterns for the Silver‐mini (Small Turkish) Space Heating Stove." (2012).

2011

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, and Michael G. Apte."Effect of Temperature and Humidity on Formaldehyde Emissions in Temporary Housing Units."Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 61 (2011). DOI

Maddalena, Randy L.."Effect of Environmental Factors on Sulfur Gas Emissions from Problem Drywall." (2011).

2010

Ortiz, Anna C., Marion L. Russell, Wen-Yee Lee, Michael G. Apte, and Randy L. Maddalena."Identifying Sources of Volatile Organic Compounds and Aldehydes in a High Performance Building." (2010) 29.

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, and Michael G. Apte."Field Derived Emission Factors For Formaldehyde and other Volatile Organic Compounds in FEMA Temporary Housing Units." (2010).

Parthasarathy, Srinandini, Michael Spears, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, and Michael G. Apte."A Formaldehyde Exposure Assessment Tool for Occupants of FEMA Temporary Housing Units." (2010).

Maddalena, Randy L., Marion L. Russell, Moya Melody, and Michael G. Apte."Small‐Chamber Measurements of Chemical‐Specific Emission Factors for Drywall." (2010).

2009

Maddalena, Randy L., Marion L. Russell, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Michael G. Apte."Formaldehyde and Other Volatile Organic Chemical Emissions in Four FEMA Temporary Housing Units."Environmental Science and Technology 43 (2009) 5626-5632.

Apte, Michael G., Deborah H. Bennett, David Faulkner, Randy L. Maddalena, Marion L. Russell, Michael Spears, Douglas P. Sullivan, and Amber L. Trout."Indoor Air Quality Assessment of the San Francisco Federal Building." (2009).

Sleiman, Mohamad, Randy L. Maddalena, Lara A. Gundel, and Hugo Destaillats."Rapid and sensitive gas chromatography ion-trap mass spectrometry method for the determination of tobacco specific N-nitrosamines in secondhand smoke."Journal of Chromatography A 1216 (2009) 7899-7905.