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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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Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2012

Lin, Hung-Wen, and Tianzhen Hong."An In-Depth Analysis of Space Heating Energy Use in Office Buildings."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study (2012).

Chan, Wanyu R, Jeffrey Joh, and Max H Sherman."Analysis of Air Leakage Measurements from Residential Diagnostics Database." (2012).

Dutton, Spencer M, Hui Zhang, Yongchao Zhai, Edward A Arens, Youness Bennani Smires, Samuel L Brunswick, Kyle S Konis, and Philip Haves."Application of a stochastic window use model in EnergyPlus."SimBuild 2012, 5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA, August 1-3, 2012 (2012).

Najafi, Massieh, David M Auslander, Peter L Bartlett, Philip Haves, and Michael D Sohn."Application of machine learning in the fault diagnostics of air handling units."Applied Energy 96 (2012) 347 - 358. DOI

Aieta, Niccolo V, Prodip K Das, Andrew Perdue, Guido Bender, Andrew M Herring, Adam Z Weber, and Michael J Ulsh."Applying infrared thermography as a quality-control tool for the rapid detection of polymer-electrolyte-membrane-fuel-cell catalyst-layer-thickness variations."Journal of Power Sources 211 (2012) 4 - 11. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P."Assessment of NHTSA’s Report “Relationships Between Fatality Risk, Mass, and Footprint in Model Year 2000-2007 Passenger Cars and LTVs” - Final Report." (2012).

Feng, Wei, Nan Zhou, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."Building Distributed Energy Performance Optimization for China - a Regional Analysis of Building Energy Costs and CO₂ Emissions."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Fridley, David, Nina Zheng, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, Ali Hasanbeigi, William R Morrow III, Lynn K Price, and Nina Khanna."China Energy and Emissions Paths to 2030 (2nd Edition)." (2012).

Cabana, Jordi, Montserrat Casas-Cabanas, Fredrick O Omenya, Natasha A Chernova, Dongli Zeng, M. M Stanley Whittingham, and Clare P Grey."Composition-structure relationships in the Li-ion battery electrode material LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄."Chemistry of Materials 24 (2012) 2952-2964. DOI

Price, Lynn K, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Nina Zheng, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Stephanie Ohshita, and Nina Khanna."Development of an End-Use Sector- Based Low-Carbon Indicator System for Cities in China."ACEEE’s 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Kam, Kinson C, Apurva Mehta, John T Heron, and Marca M Doeff."Electrochemical and physical properties of Ti-substituted layered nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) cathode materials."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.8 (2012) A1383-A1392. DOI

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N Price."Evaluation of the Predictive Accuracy of Five Whole-Building Baseline Models." (2012).

Regnier, Cynthia."Guide to Setting Thermal Comfort Criteria and Minimizing Energy Use in Delivering Thermal Comfort." (2012).

Wen, Sy-Bor, Chien-Fen Chen, Xianglei Mao, and Richard E Russo."Guiding and focusing of a nanosecond infrared laser within transient hollow plasma femtosecond filament channels."Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 45.35 (2012). DOI

Larsen, Peter H, Charles A Goldman, Donald Gilligan, and Terry E Singer."Incorporating Non-energy Benefits into Energy Savings Performance Contracts."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Lee, Eunseok, and Kristin A Persson."Li absorption and intercalation in single layer graphene and few layer graphene by first principles."Nano letters 12.9 (2012) 4624-4628. DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee."Microgrid Dispatch for Macrogrid Peak-Demand Mitigation."2011 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Mendes, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, Paulo Ferrão, and Chistos Loakimidis."Modeling of Plug-in Electric Vehicles' Interactions with a Sustainable Community Grid in the Azores."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Wenzel, Thomas P."Peer Review of LBNL Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Vehicle Mass & Footprint Reduction on Safety (LBNL Phase 1 and 2 Reports)." (2012).

Liu, Xiaosong, Jun Liu, Ruimin Qiao, Yan Yu, Hong Li, Liumin Suo, Yong-sheng Hu, Yi- De Chuang, Guojiun Shu, Fangcheng Chou, Tsu-Chien Weng, Dennis Nordlund, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Yung J Wang, Hsin Lin, Bernardo Barbiellini, Arun Bansil, Xiangyun Song, Zhi Liu, Shishen Yan, Gao Liu, Shan Qjao, Thomas J Richardson, David G Prendergast, Zahid Hussain, Frank M.F de Groot, and Wanli Yang."Phase Transformation and Lithiation Effect on Electronic Structure of Li_xFePO₄: An In-Depth Study by Soft X-ray and Simulations."Journal of the American Chemical Society 134.33 (2012) 13708-13715. DOI

Greenblatt, Jeffery B, Mia Forbes Pirie, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Sally M Donovan, Clancy Donnelly, Craig Billingsley, and Chris Calwell."Pilot Study: Measurement of Room Illuminance to Assess Automatic Brightness Control in Televisions." (2012) 13.

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Responsive and Intelligent Building Information and Control for Low-Energy and Optimized Grid Integration."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Wang, Yungang, Philip K Hopke, Xiaoyan Xia, Oliver V Rattigan, David C Chalupa, and Mark J Utell."Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter using Inorganic and Organic Species as Tracers."Atmospheric Environment 55 (2012) 525-532. DOI

Norberg, Nick S, and Robert Kostecki."The degradation mechanism of a composite LiMnPO₄ cathode."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.9 (2012) A1431-A1434. DOI

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and John Breshears."The Energy Saving Potential of Membrane-Based Enthalpy Recovery in VAV System for Commercial Office Buildings."SimBuild 2012 (2012).