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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)

2014

Cheung, H.Y Iris, Steve E Greenberg, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Richard E Brown, and William Tscudi."Energy Efficiency in Small Server Rooms: FIeld Surveys and Findings."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Price, Lynn K, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Hongyou Lu, Lixuan Hong, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Jing Ke, Stephanie Ohshita, Hu Min, Yong Zhou, Stephen Hammer, and Hu Xulian."Energy-Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policy Options: Assisting Chinese Cities in Prioritizing and Choosing Strategies to Implement to Become a Sustainable Community." American Council for An Energy-Efficient Economy 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

Feng, Wei, Ke Huang, Mark D Levine, Nan Zhou, and Shicong Zhang."Evaluation of Energy Savings of the New Chinese Commercial Building Energy Standard."The American Council for An Energy-Efficient Economy 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

Payne, Christopher T, H.Y Iris Cheung, and Emily Fisher."Evolution of Energy Efficiency Programs Over Time: The Case of Standby Power."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Kiliccote, Sila, Steven Lanzisera, Anna Liao, Oren Schetrit, and Mary Ann Piette."Fast DR: Controlling Small Loads over the Internet."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, and Girish Ghatikar."Field Experience with and Potential for Multi-time Scale Grid Transactions from Responsive Commercial Buildings."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Meier, Alan K."From Energy Audits to Home Performance: 30 Years of Articles in Home Energy Magazine."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Khanna, Nina, John Romankiewicz, Nan Zhou, Wei Feng, and Qing Ye."From Platinum to Three Stars: Comparative Analysis of U.S. and China Green Building Rating Programs."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Douglas I Kushner, Devproshad K Paul, Kunal Karan, Michael A Hickner, and Adam Z Weber."Impact of Substrate and Processing on Confinement of Nafion Thin Films."Advanced Functional Materials 24.30 (2014) 4763 - 4774. DOI

Cabeza, Luisa F, Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Michael A McNeil, Camila Barreneche, and Susana Serrano."Investigating greenhouse challenge from growing trends of electricity consumption through home appliances in buildings."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 36 (2014) 188-193. DOI

He, Gang, Nan Zhou, Lixuan Hong, David Fridley, and Yong Zhou."Is Your City Really Sustainable? A Tale of Jinan City Using Quantitative Low- Carbon Eco-city Tools." 2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Building (2014) 119-130.

Walker, Iain S, and J Chris Stratton."Laboratory Evaluation Of Air Flow Measurement Methods For Residential HVAC Returns For New Instrument Standards." (2014).

Santamaria, Anthony D, Prodip K Das, James C MacDonald, and Adam Z Weber."Liquid-Water Interactions with Gas-Diffusion-Layer Surfaces."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 161 (2014) F1184-F1193. DOI

Hong, Lixuan, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Wei Feng, and Nina Khanna."Modeling China's Building Floor-Area Growth and the Implications for Building Materials and Energy Demand."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Coughlin, Katie, Aditya Murthi, and Joseph H Eto."Multi-scale analysis of wind power and load time series data."Renewable Energy 68.August 2014 (2014) 494-504. DOI

Castelli, Ivano E, Falco Hüser, Mohnish Pandey, Hong Li, Kristian S Thygesen, Brian Seger, Anubhav Jain, Kristin A Persson, Gerbrand Ceder, and Karsten W Jacobsen."New Light-Harvesting Materials Using Accurate and Efficient Bandgap Calculations."Advanced Energy Materials (2014). DOI

Zimring, Mark, Greg Leventis, Charles A Goldman, Merrian Borgeson, Peter J Thompson, and Ian M Hoffman."On-Bill Finance: From Policy to Promise to Practice."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Granderson, Jessica, David A Jump, Phillip N Price, and Michael D Sohn."Performance Metrics and Objective Testing Methods for Energy Baseline Modeling Software." (2014).

Liao, Anna, Steven Lanzisera, James D Lutz, Christian Fitting, Margarita Kloss, and Christopher Stiles."Performance Monitoring of Residential Hot Water Distribution Systems."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Douglas I Kushner, Devproshad K Paul, Kunal Karan, Michael A Hickner, and Adam Z Weber."Polymer Physics: Impact of Substrate and Processing on Confinement of Nafion Thin Films."Advanced Functional Materials 24 (2014) 4762-4762. DOI

Khanna, Nina, Nan Zhou, Jing Ke, and David Fridley."Quantifying PM2.5 Emissions from China's Building Sector and Co-Benefits of Energy Efficiency."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Huang, Ya-Wei, E.E Andrew, Tianchao Hu, Brett C Singer, Timothy Ding, and Jennifer M Logue."Residential Cooking Behavior in the United States: Data Collected from a Web-Based Survey." (2014).

Scown, Corinne D, Amit A Gokhale, Paul A Willems, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E McKone."Role of Lignin in Reducing Life-Cycle Carbon Emissions, Water Use, and Cost for United States Cellulosic Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 48.15 (2014) 8446 - 8455. DOI

Mills, Evan, Tim Gengnagel, and Philipp Wollburg."Solar-LED Alternatives to Fuel-based Lighting for Night Fishing."Energy and Sustainable Development 21 (2014) 30-41. DOI

Shah, Nihar, Won Young Park, Nicholas Bojda, Michael A McNeil, and Paul Waide."Superefficient Refrigerators: Opportunities and Challenges for Efficiency Improvement Globally."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).