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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2017

Kohler, Christian, Yash Shukla, and Rajan Rawal."Calculating the Effect of External Shading on the Solar Heat Gain Coefficient of Windows."Building Simulation 2017 (2017).

Parker, Andrew, Philip Haves, Subhash Jegi, Vishal Garg, and Baptiste Ravache."Development of Automated Procedures to Generate Reference Building Models for ASHRAE Standard 90.1 and India’s Building Energy Code and Implementation in OpenStudio."Building Simulation 2017 (2017).

Lee, Sang Hoon, and Tianzhen Hong."Leveraging Zone Air Temperature Data to Improve Physics-Based Energy Simulation of Existing Buildings."Building Simulation 2017 (2017). DOI

Blum, David, and Michael Wetter."MPCPy: An Open-Source Software Platform for Model Predictive Control in Buildings."Proceedings of the 15th IBPSA Conference: Building Simulation 2017 (2017).

Nordman, Bruce, Aditya Khandekar, Michael Spears, and Mattia Pezzola."A Simulation of Local Power Distribution Control Strategies."2017 IEEE Second International Conference on DC Microgrids (ICDCM) (2017). DOI

Cui, Ying, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, Chan Xiao, Xuan Luo, and Qi Zhang."Comparison of typical year and multiyear building simulations using a 55-year actual weather data set from China."Applied Energy 195 (2017) 890-904. DOI

Pritoni, Marco, Kiernan Salmon, Angela Sanguinetti, Joshua Morejohn, and Mark Modera."Occupant thermal feedback for improved efficiency in university buildings."Energy and Buildings 144 (2017) 241 - 250. DOI

Meier, Alan K., and Hans-Paul Siderius."Should the next standby power target be 0-watt?." (2017).

Gerber, Daniel L., Vagelis Vossos, Wei Feng, Aditya Khandekar, Chris Marnay, and Bruce Nordman."A simulation-based efficiency comparison of AC and DC power distribution networks in commercial buildings."Second International Conference on DC Microgrids (2017).

Gilbert, Haley E., Pablo J. Rosado, George A. Ban-Weiss, John T. Harvey, Hui Li, Benjamin H. Mandel, Dev Millstein, Arash Mohegh, Arash Saboori, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Energy and environmental consequences of a cool pavement campaign." (2017).

Hart, Robert, Howdy Goudey, and D. Charlie Curcija."Experimental validation and model development for thermal transmittances of porous window screens and horizontal louvred blind systems."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 11.2 (2017) 190 - 204. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M., Haley E. Gilbert, Melvin Pomerantz, John T. Harvey, and George A. Ban-Weiss."Recent cool pavement research highlights: Quantifying the energy and environmental consequences of cool pavements." (2017).

Vossos, Vagelis, Karl Johnson, Margarita Kloss, Mukesh Khattar, Daniel L. Gerber, and Richard E. Brown."Review of DC Power Distribution in Buildings: A Technology and Market Assessment." (2017). DOI

Pomerantz, Melvin."Are Cooler Surfaces a Cost-Effect Mitigation of Urban Heat Islands?."Urban Climate (2017). DOI

Alstone, Peter, Jennifer Potter, Mary Ann Piette, Peter Schwartz, Michael A. Berger, Laurel N. Dunn, Sarah Josephine Smith, Michael D. Sohn, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Sofia Stensson, and Julia Szinai."Demand Response Potential for California SubLAPs and Local Capacity Planning Areas: An Addendum to the 2025 California Demand Response Potential Study - Phase 2." (2017).

Lee, Eleanor S., Luis L. Fernandes, Taoning Wang, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Steven Mesh, Yetsuh Frank, and Richard Yancey."Demonstration of Energy Efficient Retrofits for Lighting and Daylighting in New York City Office Buildings." (2017).

Luo, Xuan, Khee Poh Lam, Yixing Chen, and Tianzhen Hong."Performance Evaluation of an Agent-based Occupancy Simulation Model."Building and Environment 115 (2017). DOI

Pritoni, Marco, Mary Ann Piette, and Bruce Nordman."Accessing Wi-Fi Data for Occupancy Sensing." (2017). DOI

Kim, Yang-Seon, Iain S. Walker, and William W. Delp."Development of a Standard Test Method for Reducing the Uncertainties in Measuring the Capture Efficiency of Range Hoods." (2017).

Chen, Yixing, Xin Liang, Tianzhen Hong, and Xuan Luo."Simulation and visualization of energy-related occupant behavior in office buildings."Building Simulation 10.6 (2017) 785–798. DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Tianzhen Hong, William J. Fisk, Norman Bourassa, Wanyu R. Chan, Yixing Chen, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Toshifumi Hotchi, Margarita Kloss, Sang Hoon Lee, Phillip N. Price, Oren Schetrit, Kaiyu Sun, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Rongpeng Zhang."Small and Medium Building Efficiency Toolkit and Community Demonstration Program." (2017). DOI

Yan, Da, Tianzhen Hong, Cheng Li, Qi Zhang, Jingjing An, and shan Hu."A Thorough Assessment of China’s Standard for Energy Consumption of Buildings."Energy and Buildings (2017). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Samuel Fernandes, and Cody Taylor."Application of Automated Measurement and Verification to Utility Energy Efficiency Program Data."Energy and Buildings (2017) 191-199. DOI

McNeil, Andrew, Eleanor S. Lee, and Jacob C. Jonsson."Daylight performance of a microstructured prismatic window film in deep open plan offices."Building and Environment 113 (2017) 280–297. DOI