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

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

Kohler, Thomas P.."Electronic Screw-In Ballast and Improved Circline Lamp Phase I: Final Report." (1980).

Goldstein, David B, Mark D. Levine, and Jim Mass."Energy Budgets and Masonry Houses: A Preliminary Analysis of the Comparative Energy Performance of Masonry and Wood-Frama Houses." (1980) 21.

Schipper, Leon J., and Andrea Ketoff."International Residential Energy End Use Data: Analysis of Historical and Present Day Structure and Dynamics."Conference on Consumer Behavior and Energy Use (1980).

Haven, , Kendal F., Vincent Berg, and Yvonne W. Ladson."Local Population Impacts of Geothermal Energy Development in the Geysers - Calistoga Region." (1980).

Diamond, Richard C.."What About Fireplaces?." (1980).

Clear, Robert D., and Sam M. Berman."Cost Effectiveness of Visibility-Based Design Procedures for General Office Lighting."Illuminating Engineering Society Annual Technical Conference (1980).

Haves, Philip, D. Bently, and Gene Clark."Heat Transfer in Passively Cooled Buildings."ASME/AIChE National Heat Transfer Conference (1980).

Schipper, Leon J.."Energy Demand and Conservation in Kenya: Initial Appraisal."Electric Power Research Institute Workshop on Energy and the Developing Nations (1980).

Schipper, Leon J.."Implications of International Comparisons of Energy Use: The Swedish/American Case Reviewed."Workshop on Contemporary Scandinavian-American Issues (1980).

Sherman, Max H., David T. Grimsrud, Paul E. Condon, and Brian V. Smith."Air Infiltration Measurement Techniques."Proceedings First Air Infiltration Centre Conference (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;.