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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2018

Meier, Alan K., Leo Rainer, and Aditya Khandekar."Parts of the House That Stay On . . . and On. Builder-Installed Electrical Loads."Home Energy Magazine (2018).

Tarroja, Brian, Felicia Chiang, Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Samuelsen, Shuba V. Raghavan, Max Wei, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Translating climate change and heating system electrification impacts on building energy use to future greenhouse gas emissions and electric grid capacity requirements in California."Applied Energy 225 (2018) 522 - 534. DOI

Hooper, Barry, Tianzhen Hong, Danie Macumber, Sang Hoon Lee, Yixing Chen, Nicholas Long, Edwin Lee, Imma Regina Dela Cruz, Mary Ann Piette, and Jennifer Berg."The BayREN Integrated Commercial Retrofits (BRICR) Project: An Introduction and Preliminary Results."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Robert Hart, and D. Charlie Curcija."Breaking the 20 Year Logjam to Better Insulating Windows."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Gerke, Brian F., Jennifer Potter, Peter Schwartz, Alastair Robinson, David Jagger, Jasmine Shepard, Teddy Kisch, and Adel Suleiman."Driving Adoption of Demand-Responsive Commercial Lighting with a Clarified Value Proposition: Site Level Energy Savings and Cost-Benefit Analysis."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Alstone, Peter, Mary Ann Piette, and Peter Schwartz."Integrating Demand Response and Distributed Resources in Planning for Large-scale Renewable Energy Integration."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Sofos, Marina, and Jared Langevin."Laying Down the Foundation: An R&D Roadmap for Energy Savings through Advancements in Smart Building Technologies."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Hong, Tianzhen, Yixing Chen, Mary Ann Piette, and Xuan Luo."Modeling City Building Stock for Large Scale Energy Efficiency Improvements Using CityBES."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Langevin, Jared."Modeling the adoption of building efficiency technologies: A review of methods and datasets."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Piette, Mary Ann, Rebecca Zarin Pass, Reshma Singh, and Tianzhen Hong."Review of City Energy and Emissions Analysis Needs, Methods & Tools."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Pang, Xiufeng, Carlos Duarte, Philip Haves, and Frank Chuang."Testing and demonstration of model predictive control applied to a radiant slab cooling system in a building test facility."Energy and Buildings 172 (2018) 432 - 441. DOI

Blum, David, Guanjing Lin, Michael Spears, Janie Page, and Jessica Granderson."When Data Analytics Meet Site Operation: Benefits and Challenges."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Belafi, Zsofia, Tianzhen Hong, and Andras Reith."A critical review on questionnaire surveys in the field of energy-related occupant behaviour."Energy Efficiency (2018) 1-21. DOI

Jia, Hongyuan, Xiufeng Pang, and Philip Haves."Experimentally-determined characteristics of radiant systems for office buildings."Applied Energy 221 (2018) 41 - 54. DOI

Wang, Wei, Jiayu Chen, Tianzhen Hong, and Na Zhu."Occupancy prediction through Markov based feedback recurrent neural network (M-FRNN) algorithm with WiFi probe technology."Building and Environment 138 (2018) 160 - 170. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Assessment of NHTSA’s Report “Relationships Between Fatality Risk, Mass, and Footprint in Model Year 2004-2011 Passenger Cars and LTVs” (LBNL Phase 1)." (2018).

Wenzel, Thomas P., and K. Sydny Fujita."Elasticity of Vehicle Miles of Travel to Changes in the Price of Gasoline and the Cost of Driving in Texas." (2018).

Victor, David G., Ahmed Abdulla, David Auston, Wendell Brase, Jack Brouwer, Karl A. Brown, Steven J. Davis, Carrie V. Kappel, Alan K. Meier, Mark Modera, Rebecca Zarin Pass, David Phillips, Jordan Sager, and David Weil."Turning Paris into reality at the University of California."Nature Climate Change 8 (2018). DOI

Hart, Robert, Howdy Goudey, and D. Charlie Curcija."Experimental validation for thermal transmittances of window shading systems with perimeter gaps."Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2018) 1 - 13. DOI

Pritoni, Marco, Rebecca Ford, Beth Karlin, and Angela Sanguinetti."Home energy management (HEM) database: A list with coded attributes of 308 devices commercially available in the US."Data in Brief 16 (2018) 71 - 74. DOI

Pass, Rebecca Zarin, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette."A thermodynamic analysis of a novel bidirectional district heating and cooling network."Energy 144 (2018) 20 - 30. DOI

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."Consumer Behavior and the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Purchase Decision Process: A Research Synthesis." (2018).

Lee, Eleanor S., David Geisler-Moroder, and Gregory J. Ward."Modeling the Direct Sun Component in Buildings Using Matrix Algebraic Approaches: Methods and Validation."Solar Energy 160 (2018) 380 - 395. DOI

Gerber, Daniel L., Vagelis Vossos, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, Bruce Nordman, and Richard E. Brown."A simulation-based efficiency comparison of AC and DC power distribution networks in commercial buildings."Applied Energy 210 (2018) 1167-1187. DOI