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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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Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2001

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H Wiser, and William H Golove."Revisiting the “Buy versus Build” Decision for Publicly Owned Utilities in California Considering Wind and Geothermal Resources." (2001) 25.

Brown, Richard E, Jiuping Pan, Xiaoming Feng, and Krassimir Koutlev."Siting Distributed Generation to Defer T&D Expansion."Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, 2001 IEEE/PES 2 (2001) 622-627. DOI

Prasher, Ravi S, J Shipley, and Amit Devpura."A simplified modeling scheme for design sensitivity study of thermal solution utilizing heat pipe and vapor chamber technology."ASME-PUBLICATIONS-HTD (2001). DOI

Sherman, Max H."Comments Welcome on 62.2P."IAQ Applications- ASHRAE 2.4 (2001) 10.

Siegel, Jeffrey A, and Iain S Walker."Deposition of Biological Aerosols on HVAC Heat Exchangers." (2001).

Webber, Carrie A, Judy A Roberson, Richard E Brown, Christopher T Payne, Bruce Nordman, and Jonathan G Koomey."Field Surveys of Office Equipment Operating Patterns." (2001).

Siegel, Jeffrey A, and Van P Carey."Fouling of HVAC Fin and Tube Heat Exchangers." (2001).

Liu, De-Ling, and William W Nazaroff."Modeling pollutant penetration across building envelopes."Atmospheric Environment 35.26 (2001) 4451-4462.

Walker, Iain S."Sensitivity of forced air distribution system efficiency to climate, duct location, air leakage and insulation." (2001).

Rubinstein, Francis M, Danielle Neils, and Nesrin Colak."Daylighting, Dimming, and the Electricity Crisis in California."2001 IESNA National Conference (2001).

Heffner, Grayson C, and Charles A Goldman."Demand Responsive Programs - An Emerging Resource for Competitive Electricity Markets?." (2001) 15.

Keith, David M, and Francis M Rubinstein."Effect of Occupancy Sensors on Energy Usage and Peak Demand in Commercial Office Buildings: Part 1."2001 Conference of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) (2001).

Marnay, Chris, Joseph S Chard, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Timothy E Lipman, Mithra M Moezzi, Boubékeur Ouaglal, and Afzal S Siddiqui."Modeling of customer adoption of distributed energy resources." (2001) 121.

Rees, Simon J, James J McGuirk, and Philip Haves."Numerical Investigation of Transient Buoyant Flow in a Room with a Displacement Ventilation and Chilled Ceiling System."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 44.16 (2001) 3067-3080. DOI

Osborn, Julie G, and Cornelia Kawann."Reliability of the U.S. Electricity System: Recent Trends and Current Issues." (2001) 58.

Ehrlich, Charles K, Konstantinos M Papamichael, Judy Lai, and Kenneth L Revzan."Simulating the Operation of Photosensor-Based Lighting Controls."2001 Building Simulation 7th International Building Performance Simulation Association Conference (2001).

Zhai, Zhiqiang, Qingyan Chen, Joseph H Klems, and Philip Haves."Strategies for Coupling Energy Simulation Programs and Computational Fluid Dynamics Programs."Building Sim 2001 1 (2001) 59-66.

Haves, Philip, Tim I Salsbury, David Claridge, and Mingsheng Liu."Use of Whole Building Simulation in On-Line Performance Assessment: Modeling and Implementation Issues."Building Simulation ’01 (2001).

Tucker, Michael C, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Elton J Cairns."A ⁷Li Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Metal-Substituted Lithium Manganese Oxide Spinels."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 148 (2001) A951-A959. DOI

Weller, G.H."A Case Study Review of Technical and Technological Issues for Transition of a Utility Load Management Program to Provide System Reliability Resources in Restructured Electricity Markets." (2001) 66.

Rees, Simon J, and Philip Haves."A Nodal Model for Displacement Ventilation and Chilled Ceiling Systems in Office Spaces."Building and Environment 36.6 (2001) 753-762. DOI

Yinger, Robert J."Behavior of Capstone and Honeywell Microturbine Generators During Load Changes."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2001) 38.

Laine, Tuomas, Risto Kosonen, Kim Hagström, Panu Mustakallio, De-Wei Yin, Philip Haves, and Qingyan Chen."Better IAQ through Integrating Design Tools for the HVAC Industry."Healthy Buildings 2000 Conference 4 (2001) 279-284.

Tschudi, William F, Kathleen Benschine, Stephen Fok, and Peter Rumsey."Cleanroom Energy Benchmarking in High-Tech and Biotech Industries."2001 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2001).

Sreedharan, Priya, and Philip Haves."Comparison of Chiller Models for use in Model-Based Fault Detection."International Conference for Enhancing Building Operations (2001).