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)

1993

Inc., EIC Laboratories."Solid State Electrochromatic Smart Windows." (1993).

Huang, C.W., Y.H. Chu, Z.H. Chen, J. Wang, T. Sritharan, L. Chen, Q. He, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Strain-driven phase transitions and associated dielectric/piezoelectric anomalies in BiFeO3 thin films."IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 39 (1993) 1049-1053. DOI

Beck, Fredric A., and Dariush K. Arasteh."A Validation of the WINDOW4/FRAME3 Linear Interpolation Methodology."ASHRAE Transactions 100, Part 1 (1993).

Finlayson, Elizabeth U., Dariush K. Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, Michael D. Rubin, and M. Susan Reilly."Window 4.0: Documentation of Calculation Procedures." (1993).

Program, Building Technologies."WINDOW Update." (1993).

Sullivan, Robert, Karl J. Frost, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Window U-Value Effects on Residential Cooling Load." (1993).

1992

Gadgil, Ashok J., Dung Kong, and William W. Nazaroff."Deposition of Unattached Radon Progeny from Enclosure Flows."Radiation Protection Dosimetry 45.1-4 (1992) 337 - 341. DOI

Liu, Kai-Shen, Yu-Lin Chang, Steven B. Hayward, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Anthony V. Nero."Estimating the Distribution of Lifetime Cumulative Radon Exposures for California Residents: A Brief Summary."Radiation Protection Dosimetry 45.1-4 (1992) 561 - 564. DOI

Griffith, Brent T., and Dariush K. Arasteh."Gas-Filled Panels: A Thermally Improved Building Insulation."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings V Conference Proceedings (1992).

Beck, Fredric A., and Dariush K. Arasteh."Improving the Thermal Performance of Vinyl-Framed Windows."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Building V Conference (1992).

Sullivan, Robert, Eleanor S. Lee, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."A Method of Optimizing Solar Control and Daylighting Performance in Commercial Office Buildings."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings V Conference (1992).

Gadgil, Ashok J.."Models of Radon Entry."Radiation Protection Dosimetry 45.1-4 (1992) 373 - 379. DOI

Akbari, Hashem, Sarah E. Bretz, James W. Hanford, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, David J. Sailor, Haider Taha, and Willem Bos."Monitoring peak power and cooling energy savings of shade trees and white surfaces in the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) service area: project design and preliminary results." (1992). DOI

Klems, Joseph H., and Jeffrey L. Warner."A New Method for Predicting the Solar Heat Gain of Complex Fenestration Systems."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelope of Buildings V Conference Proceedings (1992).

Arasteh, Dariush K., R. Christophe Mathis, and William DuPont."The NFRC Window U-Value Rating Procedures."ASHRAE/DOE/BTECC Conference on the Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings V (1992).

Richardson, Robert W., and Sam M. Berman."Variational Theory of the Radiant Emittance of the Mercury Argon Discharge and the Effects of Isotopic Enrichment."Journal of Applied Physics 72.12 (1992) 5571-5578. DOI

Reade, Ronald P., Paul H. Berdahl, Stephen M. Garrison, and Richard E. Russo."Laser deposition of biaxially textured yttria‐stabilized zirconia buffer layers on polycrystalline metallic alloys for high critical current Y‐Ba‐Cu‐O thin films."Applied Physics Letters 61.18 (1992) 2231-2233. DOI

Meyers, Stephen, and Charles Campbell."Trends in Electricity Demand and Supply in the Developing Countries, 1980-1990." (1992).

Wilson, David J., and Iain S. Walker."Feasibility of Passive Ventilation by Constant Area Vents to Maintain Indoor Air Quality in Houses."Indoor Air Quality '92, ASHRAE/ACGIH/AIHA Conf. (1992).

Pert, Evan T., Josephine del Rosario, and Michael J. Siminovitch."Increasing Light Output and Efficacy of Recessed Troffers with Spot Coolers."15th World Energy Engineering and 1992 World Energy Environmental Congress (1992).

Osterhaus, Werner K.E., and Ian L. Bailey."Large Area Glare Sources and Their Effect on Discomfort and Visual Performance at Computer Workstations."1992 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (1992).

Spear, Jonathan D., Richard E. Russo, John E. Andrews, and Patrick M. Grant."Lens correction for the implementation of cylindrical vessels in a spectrophotometer."Review of Scientific Instrumentation 63.10 (1992) 4457. DOI

Klunder, Gregory L., Robert J. Silva, and Richard E. Russo."Photoacoustic spectroscopy and the effect of amplified spontaneous emission."Analytical Chemistry 64.20 (1992) 2429-2433. DOI

Sgro, Lee Ann."The Thermal Gradient."IEEE-IAS (1992).

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Liliana O. Beltran, Werner K.E. Osterhaus, Konstantinos M. Papamichael, Jennifer E. Schuman, Robert Sullivan, and Michael Wilde."Building Performance Analysis Using Interactive Multimedia Concepts."1992 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1992).