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

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

Rainer, Leo I., Aditya Khandekar, and Alan K. Meier."Builder Installed Electrical Loads: The Energy Mortgage on a New House."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Hong, Tianzhen, Jared Langevin, and Kaiyu Sun."Building Simulation: Ten Challenges."Building Simulation 11 (2018). DOI

Zhou, Xin, Da Yan, Jingjing An, Tianzhen Hong, Xing Shi, and Xing Jin."Comparative Study of Air-Conditioning Energy Use of Four Office Buildings in China and USA."Energy and Buildings 169 (2018). DOI

Panagopoulos, Athanasios Aris, Michail Katsigiannis, Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro, Daniel Lengyel, Therese Peffer, Georgios Chalkiadakis, and David Culler."Dealing with Expected Thermal Discomfort."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Lee, Eleanor S., Christoph Gehbauer, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Luis L. Fernandes, and Taoning Wang."Dual-Zone Solar Control Indoor Shade: Demonstration at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, California and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advanced Windows Testbed, Berkeley, California." (2018).

Gerber, Daniel L., Alan K. Meier, Robert Hosbach, and Richard Liou."Emerging Solutions to the Standby Power Problem."ACEEE 2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Podkaminer, Kara, Valerie Nubbe, Ben King, Ookie Ma, Jared Langevin, Jack Mayernik, Chioke B. Harris, and Eric Wilson."Is every kWh the same? How do energy efficiency measures stack up across regions?."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

D'Oca, Simona, Anna Laura Pisello, Marilena De Simone, Verena M. Barthelmes, Tianzhen Hong, and Stefano P. Corgnati."Human-building interaction at work: Findings from an interdisciplinary cross-country survey in Italy."Building and Environment 132 (2018). DOI

Chen, Yixing, and Tianzhen Hong."Impacts of Building Geometry Modeling Methods on the Simulation Results of Urban Building Energy Models."Applied Energy 215 (2018). DOI

Fares, Robert, Marina Sofos, Jared Langevin, Robert Hosbach, Alan K. Meier, Joshua Butzbaugh, and Paul Ehrlich."Improving Characterization of Miscellaneous Energy Loads in Energy Demand Models."2018 ACEEE Summer Study (2018).

Belafi, Zsofia, Tianzhen Hong, and Andras Reith."A Library of Building Occupant Behaviour Models Represented in a Standardised Schema."Energy Efficiency (2018). DOI

Yang, Bin, Xiaogang Cheng, Thomas Olofsson, Haibo Li, and Alan K. Meier."Macro pose-based non-invasive thermal comfort perception for energy efficiency." (2018).

Wang, Wei, Jiayu Chen, and Tianzhen Hong."Modeling occupancy distribution in large spaces with multi-feature classification algorithm."Building and Environment 137 (2018). DOI

Zhang, Rongpeng, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, Yoshinori Yura, and Ryohei Hinokuma."A Novel Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Heat Recovery System Model: Development and Validation."Energy and Buildings 168 (2018). DOI

Regnier, Cynthia, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Quantifying the benefits of a building retrofit using an integrated system approach: A case study."Energy and Buildings 159 (2018). DOI

Jahromi, Omid, and Alan K. Meier."Real-Time Itemized Electricity Consumption Intelligence for Military Bases."IEEE (2018).

Pritoni, Marco, Angela Sanguinetti, Rebecca Ford, and Beth Karlin."Smart Home Energy Management: Use Cases and Savings Opportunities."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

2017

Geisler-Moroder, David, Eleanor S. Lee, and Gregory J. Ward."Validation of the Five-Phase Method for Simulating Complex Fenestration Systems with Radiance against Field Measurements."15th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (2017).

Page, Janie, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, and Richard E. Brown."Exploration of PG&E AutoDR Incentive Options." (2017).

Belafi, Zsofia, Tianzhen Hong, and Andras Reith."Smart Building Management vs. Intuitive Human Control — Lessons learnt from an office building in Hungary."Building Simulation 10.6 (2017) 811-828. DOI

Gao, Yafeng, Dachuan Shi, Ronnen M. Levinson, Rui Guo, Changqing Lin, and Jing Ge."Thermal performance and energy savings of white and sedum-tray garden roof: A case study in a Chongqing office building."Energy and Buildings 156 (2017) 343 - 359. DOI

Ford, Rebecca, Marco Pritoni, Angela Sanguinetti, and Beth Karlin."Categories and functionality of smart home technology for energy management."Building and Environment 123 (2017) 543 - 554. DOI

Vossos, Vagelis, Stephen Pantano, Ruby Heard, and Richard E. Brown."DC Appliances and DC Power Distribution: A Bridge to the Future Net Zero Energy Home."9th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2017).