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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

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

Liu, Jingjing, Prakash Rao, Peter L Therkelsen, Paul Sheaffer, Paul Scheihing, and Yannick Tamm."ISO 50001 and SEP Faster and Cheaper - Exploring the Enterprise-Wide Approach." (2017).

Liu, Jingjing, and Aimee T McKane."Guide for Determining Energy Savings from Changes in Operations, Behavior, and Maintenance Procedures." (2017).

Rapp, Vi H, Robert K Cheng, and Peter L Therkelsen."A high turndown, ultra low emission low-swirl burner for natural gas, on-demand water heaters." (2017).

Goldstein, David B, and Peter L Therkelsen."A Structure for Incentivizing Greater Achievements in Strategic Energy Management." (2017).

2016

Rao, Prakash, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Paul Sheaffer, William R Morrow III, Sabine Brueske, Caroline Dollinger, Kevin Price, Prateeti Sarker, Nicholas Ward, and Joe Cresko."Volume 1: Survey of Available Information in Support of the Energy-Water Bandwidth Study of Desalination Systems." (2016).

Therkelsen, Peter L, Robert K Cheng, and Darren Sholes."Research and Development of Natural Draft Ultra-Low Emissions Burners for Gas Appliances." (2016).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Peter L Therkelsen, Prakash Rao, and Aimee T McKane."Global Impact Estimation of ISO 50001 Energy Management System for Industrial and Service Sectors." (2016).

Therkelsen, Peter L, Prakash Rao, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T McKane."The ISO 50001 Impact Estimator Tool (IET 50001 V1.1.4) - User Guide and Introduction to the ISO 50001 Impacts Methodology." (2016).

Rapp, Vi H, Julien J Caubel, Daniel L Wilson, and Ashok J Gadgil."Reducing Ultrafine Particle Emissions Using Air Injection in Wood-Burning Cookstoves."Environmental Science & Technology 50 (2016) 8368-8374. DOI

Herrlin, Magnus, and Randall C Cole."Air Management in Small Data Centers." (2016).

Therkelsen, Peter L, Prakash Rao, Darren Sholes, William Meffert, Randy Green, Sachin Nimbalkar, and Aimee T McKane."The Value of Regression Models in Determining Industrial Energy Savings."Eceee Industrial Summer Study Proceedings 2016-September (2016) 389-399.

2015

Therkelsen, Peter L, Prakash Rao, Aimee T McKane, Ridah Sabouni, Yannick Tamm, and Paul Scheihing."Development of an Enhanced Payback Function for the Superior Energy Performance Program."2015 American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).

Rao, Prakash, Aimee T McKane, and Andre de Fontaine."Energy Savings from Industrial Water Reductions."2015 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Craig P Wray, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California Wastewater Treatment Facilities." (2015).

Homan, Gregory K, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California's Dairy Processing Industry." (2015).

Siciliano, Graziella, Aimee T McKane, and Pamela de los Reyes."Promoting Strong ISO 50001 Outcomes with Supportive National Infrastructure."2015 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).

McKane, Aimee T, Paul Sheihing, Tracy Evans, Sandy Glatt, and William Meffert."The Business Value of Superior Energy Performance."2015 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2015).