Energy Technologies Area

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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2020

Wang, Zhe, and Tianzhen Hong."Generating realistic building electrical load profiles through the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)."Energy and Buildings 224 (2020) 110299. DOI

Wei, Max, Douglas R Black, John Elliott, Howdy Goudey, Steve E Greenberg, and Adam Z Weber."Improving Energy System Resilience at Berkeley Lab and Beyond." (2020).

Salim, Flora D, Bing Dong, Mohamed Ouf, Qi Wang, Ilaria Pigliautile, Xuyuan Kang, Tianzhen Hong, Wenbo Wu, Yapan Liu, Shakila Khan Rumi, Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman, Jingjing An, Hengfang Deng, Wei Shao, Jakub Dziedzic, Fisayo Caleb Sangogboye, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Meng Kong, Claudia Fabiani, Anna Laura Pisello, and Da Yan."Modelling urban-scale occupant behaviour, mobility, and energy in buildings: A survey."Building and Environment 183 (2020) 106964. DOI

McIlvennie, Claire, Angela Sanguinetti, and Marco Pritoni."Of impacts, agents, and functions: An interdisciplinary meta-review of smart home energy management systems research."Energy Research & Social Science 68 (2020) 101555. DOI

Kramer, Hannah, Claire Curtin, Guanjing Lin, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Proving the Business Case for Building Analytics." (2020). DOI

Picard, Theo, Tianzhen Hong, Na Luo, Sang Hoon Lee, and Kaiyu Sun."Robustness of energy performance of Zero-Net-Energy (ZNE) homes."Energy and Buildings 224 (2020) 110251. DOI

Azar, Elie, William O'Brien, Salvatore Carlucci, Tianzhen Hong, Andrew Sonta, Joyce Jihyun Kim, Maedot S Andargie, Tareq Abuimara, Mounir El Asmar, Rishee Jain, Mohamed Ouf, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Jin Zhou."Simulation-aided occupant-centric building design: A critical review of tools, methods, and applications."Energy and Buildings 224 (2020) 110292. DOI

Drgoňa, Ján, Javier Arroyo, Iago Cupeiro Figueroa, David Blum, Krzysztof Arendt, Donghun Kim, Enric Perarnau Ollé, Juraj Oravec, Michael Wetter, Draguna L Vrabie, and Lieve Helsen."All you need to know about model predictive control for buildings."Annual Reviews in Control (2020). DOI

Shan, Xiaofang, Na Luo, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, Yi-Kuen LEE, and Wei-Zhen Lu."Coupling CFD and building energy modelling to optimize the operation of a large open office space for occupant comfort."Sustainable Cities and Society 60 (2020) 102257. DOI

Zhang, Kun, David Blum, Milica Grahovac, Jianjun Hu, Jessica Granderson, and Michael Wetter."Development and Verification of Control Sequences for Single- Zone Variable Air Volume System Based on ASHRAE Guideline 36."American Modelica Conference 2020 (2020). DOI

Nubbe, Valerie, Kyung Lee, Alejandro Valdez, Ed Barbour, and Jared Langevin."Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Technology Cost, Performance, and Lifetime Characteristics." (2020). DOI

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

Singh, Reshma, Anand Prakash, Mary Ann Piette, and Shreya Agarwal."A Community Energy Operations and Planning System: Concept, Use cases, Metrics, and Benefits."The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (2020).

Pritoni, Marco, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Kun Zhang, Rui Tang, and Jessica Granderson."Advanced control sequences and FDD technology. Just shiny objects, or ready for scale?."ACEEE Summer Study 2020 (2020). DOI

Langevin, Jared, Aven Satre-Meloy, and Lyla Fadali."Attaching public health benefits to building efficiency measures at the national and regional scales."2020 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

Sanguinetti, Angela, Claire McIlvennie, Marco Pritoni, and Susan Schneider."Beyond Curtailment and Efficiency: Identifying Household Energy- and Water-Saving Measure Classes."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Carbonnier, Kevin, Cathy Higgins, Katie Wilson, Michael Mutmansky, John Rossi, and Paul A Mathew."Blind to Blinds: Opening Our Eyes to Savings from New Automated Shading Systems."ACEEE Summer Study in Buildings 2020 (2020). DOI

Lin, Guanjing, Marco Pritoni, Yimin Chen, Jessica Granderson, Ricardo Moromisato, and Stephen Kozlen."Can We Fix It Automatically? Development of Fault Auto-Correction Algorithms for HVAC and Lighting Systems."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Casillas, Armando, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."Curation of Ground-Truth Validated Benchmarking Datasets for Fault Detection & Diagnostics Tools."2020 ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Marco Pritoni, Mary Ann Piette, and Monica Neukomm."Developing and Evaluating Metrics for Demand Flexibility in Buildings: Comparing Simulations and Field Data."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Yoon, Nari, Leslie K Norford, Ali Malkawi, Holly Samuelson, and Mary Ann Piette."Dynamic metrics of natural ventilation cooling effectiveness for interactive modeling."Building and Environment 180.106994 (2020). DOI

Luo, Xuan, Yu-Hang Tang, and Tianzhen Hong."Efficient Computation Of Surface Sunlit Fractions In Urban-Scale Building Modeling Using Ray-Tracing Techniques."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2020). DOI

Zhang, Wanni, Tianzhen Hong, and Xuan Luo."Extract useful information from building permits data to profile a city’s building retrofit history."2020 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2020). DOI

Clark, Callie, Anand Prakash, Marco Pritoni, Margarita Kloss, Pranav Gupta, Bruce Nordman, and Mary Ann Piette."Harvesting the low-hanging fruit of high energy savings -- Virtual Occupancy using Wi-Fi Data."ACEEE Summer Study (2020).