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

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)

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2023

Hong, Tianzhen, Sang Hoon Lee, Wanni Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, Barry Hooper, and Janghyun Kim."Nexus of electrification and energy efficiency retrofit of commercial buildings at the district scale."Sustainable Cities and Society 95 (2023) 104608. DOI

Chen, Zhelun, Zheng O'Neill, Jin Wen, Ojas Pradhan, Tao Yang, Xing Lu, Guanjing Lin, Shohei Miyata, Seungjae Lee, Chou Shen, Roberto Chiosa, Marco Savino Piscitelli, Alfonso Capozzoli, Franz Hengel, Alexander Kuhrer, Marco Pritonic, Wei Liu, John Claub, Yimin Chen, and Terry Herr."A review of data-driven fault detection and diagnostics for building HVAC systems."Applied Energy Vol.339 No..121030 (2023). DOI

Walker, Iain S, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Brennan Less."Challenges and Opportunities for Home Decarbonization." (2023).

Regnier, Cynthia, Luis L Fernandes, Kaiyu Sun, Pia Engel-Moss, Tom Abram, Luke McGuire, and Ruju Rathod."Integrated Whole-Building Zero Net Energy Retrofits for Small Commercial Offices." (2023).

O'Brien, William, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Tianzhen Hong."International review of occupant aspects of building energy codes and standards."ASHRAE 65 (2023).

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Hongyou Lu, and Nan Zhou."Net-Zero Roadmap for China's Steel Industry." (2023).

Sheng, Maggie, Michael Reiner, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Assessing thermal resilience of an assisted living facility during heat waves and cold snaps with power outages."Building and Environment 230 (2023) 110001. DOI

Mata, Omar, Juana Isabel Méndez, Pedro Ponce, Therese Peffer, Alan K Meier, and Arturo Molina."Energy Savings in Buildings Based on Image Depth Sensors for Human Activity Recognition."Energies 16.3 (2023) 1078. DOI

Kramer, Hannah, Nora Hart, Jessica Granderson, and Tom Abram."Framework for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Planning: Building Portfolios." (2023).

Perera, A.T.D, Bingyu Zhao, Zhe Wang, Kenichi Soga, and Tianzhen Hong."Optimal design of microgrids to improve wildfire resilience for vulnerable communities at the wildland-urban interface."Applied Energy 335 (2023) 120744. DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Samuel Fernandes, and Anand Prakash."Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Image Dataset of the Built Environment for 3D reconstruction (UAVID3D)." (2023). DOI

Lin, Guanjing, Marco Pritoni, Yimin Chen, Raphael Vitti, Christopher Weyandt, and Jessica Granderson."Implementation and test of an automated control hunting fault correction algorithm."Energy & Buildings Vol.283 No..112796 (2023). DOI

Coraci, Davide, Silvio Brandi, Tianzhen Hong, and Alfonso Capozzoli."Online transfer learning strategy for enhancing the scalability and deployment of deep reinforcement learning control in smart buildings."Applied Energy 333 (2023) 120598. DOI

Perera, A.T.D, and Tianzhen Hong."Vulnerability and resilience of urban energy ecosystems to extreme climate events: A systematic review and perspectives."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 173 (2023) 113038. DOI

Kim, Donghun, and Sang woo Ham."ActiveBAS: A Low-cost, Scalable Control Solution for Grid-Interactive Small and Medium Sized Commercial Buildings (CRADA Final Report)." (2023). DOI

Lee, Sang Hoon, and Ronnen M Levinson."Cool envelope benefits in future typical weather and heatwave conditions for single-family homes in Los Angeles." (2023). DOI

Hart, Robert, Stephen Fisher, and Stephen Morse."Guidelines for Determining the Load Resistance of Thin-Glass Triple-Pane Insulating Glass Unit Configurations." (2023). DOI

Gautier, Antoine, Michael Wetter, Jianjun Hu, and Hubertus Tummescheit."HVAC and Control Templates for the Modelica Buildings Library."15th International Modelica Conference 2023, Aachen, October 9-11Proceedings of the 15th International Modelica Conference 2023, Aachen, October 9-11 204 (2023). DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M, Mansour Alhazmi, Jackson Becce, Andre Desjarlais, Haley E Gilbert, Greg Kats, Jacob Miller, Emily Morin, David J Sailor, and Sarah Schneider."United States Cool Surfaces Deployment Plan." (2023). DOI

2022

Li, Han, and Tianzhen Hong."A semantic ontology for representing and quantifying energy flexibility of buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100113. DOI

Moudio, Marie Pelagie Elimbi, Richard Bolin, Alberta Carpenter, Samantha Bench Reese, Arman Shehabi, and Prakash Rao."Characterizing manufacturing sector disruptions with targeted mitigation strategiesAbstract."Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability 2.4 (2022) 042001. DOI

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Lili Yu, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Jiarong Xie, Tianzhen Hong, Monica Neukomm, and Peter Schwartz."Defining and applying an electricity demand flexibility benchmarking metrics framework for grid-interactive efficient commercial buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100107. DOI

Mathew, Paul A, Jordan Shackelford, Cynthia Regnier, Sang Hoon Lee, and Travis Walter."Energy efficiency package for rooftop unit replacement: laboratory testing and validation of energy savings."Science and Technology for the Built Environment (2022). DOI

Zhou, Nan, Reshma Singh, Carolyn Szum, and Mary Ann Piette."NZW South East Asia Center For Innovation in the Built Environment (SEIBE) A Preliminary Blueprint." (2022).

Liu, Jingjing, Steve Windergren, Jaime Kolln, Sonny Xue, Ted Bohn, and Richard E Brown."State of Common Grid Services Definitions." (2022).