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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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2021

Therkelsen, Peter L."Carbon Management Requires Energy Management (ACEEE Energy Efficiency as a Resource)." (2021).

Therkelsen, Peter L."Carbon Management Requires Energy Management (ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry 2021)." (2021).

2020

Earni, Shankar, and Peter L Therkelsen."Non-routine adjustments – towards standardizing M&V approach for quantifying the effects of static factors."eceee Industrial Efficiency 2020 - DECARBONISE INDUSTRY! (2020). DOI

Fuchs, Heidi, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Peter L Therkelsen."Identification of drivers, benefits, and challenges of ISO 50001 through case study content analysis."Energy Policy 142 (2020). DOI

2019

Rapp, Vi H, and Peter L Therkelsen."Novel Heat Generation for Power and Process Systems." (2019).

Chen, Yuting, and Peter L Therkelsen."The effect of linear regression modeling approaches on determining facility wide energy savings." (2019).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, and Peter L Therkelsen."Agricultural demand response for decarbonizing the electricity grid."Journal of Cleaner Production 220 (2019) 827 - 835. DOI

Rao, Prakash, Darren Sholes, and Joe Cresko."Evaluation of U.S. Manufacturing Subsectors at Risk of Physical Water Shortages."Environmental Science & Technology (2019). DOI

Therkelsen, Peter L."50001 Ready "you can’t manage what you can’t measure" [but really, your organization should manage what you measure…]." (2019).

Wrobel, Jay, and Paul Sheaffer."50001 Ready: Disciplined Approach with Data-driven Decisions." (2019).

Therkelsen, Peter L."Strategic Energy Management as a Resource through 50001 Ready." (2019).

Rao, Prakash."Water Efficiency." (2019).

2018

Rao, Prakash, William R Morrow III, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Paul Sheaffer, Caroline Dollinger, Sabine Brueske, and Joe Cresko."Energy considerations associated with increased adoption of seawater desalination in the United States."Desalination 445 (2018) 213 - 224. DOI

Therkelsen, Peter L, Jingjing Liu, Holly Grell-Lawe, and Randy Green."Implementation of ISO 50001 at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort." (2018).

Liu, Jingjing, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Paul Sheaffer, Peter L Therkelsen, and Nathaniel Allen."Accelerating the Uptake of ISO 50001 in Commercial Buildings: Two Early Adopters Utilizing an “Enterprise-wide” Approach to Save Energy and Beyond."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Fuchs, Heidi, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Peter L Therkelsen."Using Industry’s Own Words to Evaluate ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems Adoption." (2018). DOI

Fuchs, Heidi, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Peter L Therkelsen."Using industry’s own words to quantify the benefits and challenges of ISO 50001."eceee Industrial Summer Study 2018 (2018).

Liu, Jingjing, and Paul Sheaffer."ISO 50001 for US Commercial Buildings – Current Status and Opportunities." (2018).

Fischer, Marc L, Wanyu R Chan, William W Delp, Seongeun Jeong, Vi H Rapp, and Zhimin Zhu."An Estimate of Natural Gas Methane Emissions from California Homes."Environmental Science & Technology (2018). DOI

Wrobel, Jay, and Prakash Rao."Using 50001 Ready to Help Meet Your Energy Goals." (2018).

Fuchs, Heidi, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Peter L Therkelsen."Using Industry’s Own Words to Quantify the Benefits and Challenges of ISO 50001." (2018).

2017

Wilson, Daniel L, Vi H Rapp, Julien J Caubel, Sharon S Chen, and Ashok J Gadgil."Verifying mixing in dilution tunnels: How to ensure cookstove emissions samples are unbiased." (2017).

Rao, Prakash, Robert Kostecki, Larry L Dale, and Ashok J Gadgil."Technology and Engineering of the Water-Energy Nexus."Annual Review of Environment and Resources 42.1 (2017) 407 - 437. DOI

Rao, Prakash, Michael R Muller, and Garan Gunn."Conducting a metering assessment to identify submetering needs at a manufacturing facility."CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology 18 (2017) 107-114. DOI