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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 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.
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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

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)

1980

Levine, Mark D., and Paul P. Craig."Energy Conservation and Energy Decentralization: Issues and Prospects."American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium, San Francisco, CA, January 7-11, 1980 (1980).

Sherman, Max H., and David T. Grimsrud."Infiltration-Pressurization Correlation: Simplified Physical Modeling."ASHRAE Transactions 86.2 (1980) 778-807.

Sherman, Max H., and David T. Grimsrud."The Measurement of Infiltration using Fan Pressurization and Weather Data."Proceedings First Air Infiltration Centre Conference (1980).

Weidt, John L., and Jenny Weidt."Air Leakage of Newly Installed Residential Windows." (1980).

Condon, Paul E., David T. Grimsrud, Max H. Sherman, and Ron C. Kammerud."An Automated Controlled Flow Air Infiltration Measurement System."Building Air Change Rate and Infiltration Measurements, (Hunt/King/Trechsel Eds.) STP:719 (1980) 60-72.

Bryan, Harvey J., and Robert D. Clear."Calculating Interior Daylight Illumination with a Programmable Hand Calculator."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 07/1981 (1980) 219-227.

Verderber, Rudolph R., and Oliver C. Morse."Cost Effectiveness of Long Life Incandescent Lamps and Energy Buttons."Electrical Construction and Maintenance 80 (1980).

King, William J.."High Performance Solar Control Windows, Final Report." (1980).

Grimsrud, David T., Max H. Sherman, John E. Janssen, A. Noel Pearman, and David T. Harrje."An Intercomparison of Tracer Gases Used for Air Infiltration Measurements."ASHRAE Transactions 86.1 (1980) 258-267.

Rubinstein, Francis M., and Rudolph R. Verderber."Lighting Controls: Survey of the Potential Market."Energy 8.6 (1980) 433-449.

Cairns, Elton J., D.W. Murphy, J. Broadhead, and B.C.H. Steele."Requirements of Battery Systems."Materials for Advanced Batteries 2 (1980) 3-27. DOI

Rubin, Michael D., Richard Creswick, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Transparent Heat Mirrors for Windows: Thermal Performance."5th National Passive Solar Conference (1980) 990-994.

1979

Bryan, Harvey J.."A Simplified Procedure for Calculating the Effects of Daylight from Clear Skies."Illuminating Engineering Society Annual Technical Conference (1979).

Grimsrud, David T., Max H. Sherman, Richard C. Diamond, and Robert C. Sonderegger."Air Leakage, Surface Pressures and Infiltration Rates in Houses."Second International CIB, Symposium on Energy Conservation in the Built Environment (1979).

Sherman, Max H., David T. Grimsrud, and Richard C. Diamond."Infiltration-Pressurization Correlations: Surface Pressures and Terrain Effects."ASHRAE Trans (1979) pp. 458-479;.

Haves, Philip."One Dimensional Representations of the Heat Flow Beneath a Building."US DOE Solar Energy Storage Options Conference (1979).

Sherman, Max H., David T. Grimsrud, and Robert C. Sonderegger."The Low Pressure Leakage Function of a Building."Proceedings ASHRAE-DOE Conference on Thermal Performance of Exterior Envelopes of Buildings SP 28, (1979).

Blomsterberg, A.K., Max H. Sherman, and David T. Grimsrud."A Model Correlating Air Tightness and Air Infiltration in Houses."Proceedings ASHRAE-DOE Conference on Thermal Performance of Exterior Envelopes of Buildings SP 28 (1979).

Akbari, Hashem, and Tom R. Borgers."Free convective laminar flow within the trombe wall channel."Solar Energy 22.2 (1979) 165-174. DOI

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Michael D. Rubin, and Richard Creswick."Average Transmittance Factors for Multiple Glazed Window Systems."4th National Passive Solar Conference (1979) 383-386.

Lampert, Carl M."Coatings for Enhanced Photothermal Energy Collection II: Non-Selective and Energy Control Films."Solar Energy Materials 2 (1979).

Selkowitz, Stephen E.."Daylighting and Passive Solar Buildings."3rd National Passive Solar Conference (1979) 271-281.

Goldstein, David B, Metin Lokmanhekim, and Robert D. Clear."Design Calculations for Passive Solar Buildings by a Programmable Hand Calculator." (1979).

Weidt, John L., Jenny Weidt, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Field Air Leakage of Newly Installed Residential Windows."ASHRAE Transactions 85.1 (1979) 149-159.

Grimsrud, David T., Max H. Sherman, A.K. Blomsterberg, and Arthur H. Rosenfeld."Infiltration and Air- Leakage Comparisons: Conventional and Energy-Efficient Housing Designs."Proceedings of the International Conference on Energy Use Management (1979).