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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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2004

Xu, Peng."Results of from Santa Rosa Federal Building." (2004).

Partners, Inc Flexo Hiner &."Summary Report of Pre-Cooling and SCE Energy$mart ThermostSM Focus Groups." (2004).

Braun, James E."Tool Development for Thermal Mass." (2004).

2003

Herter, Karen, Patrick McAuliffe, and Arthur H Rosenfeld."Cost-effectiveness of price response in the residential sector: Preliminary findings from the California experience."3rd International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL) (2003).

Braun, James E."Load Control using Building Thermal Mass."ASME Journal of Solar Engineering 125 (2003) 292-301.

2002

Herter, Karen, Roger Levy, John Wilson, and Arthur H Rosenfeld."Rates and technologies for mass-market demand response."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

2001

Braun, James E, Kent Montgomery, and Nitin Chaturvedi."Evaluating the Performance of Building Thermal Mass Control Strategies."International Journal of Heating, Ventilating, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Research 7.4 (2001) 403-428.

1997

Keeney, Kevin, and James E Braun."Application of Building Precooling to Reduce Peak Cooling Requirements."ASHRAE Transactions 103.1 (1997) 463-469.

1990

Braun, James E."Reducing Energy Costs and Peak Electrical Demand Through Optimal Control of Building Thermal Storage."ASHRAE Transactions 96.2 (1990) 876-887.