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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2011

Booker, Kayje, Tae Won Han, Jessica Granderson, Jennifer L. Jones, Kathleen M. Lask, Nina Yang, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Performance of Charcoal Cookstoves for Haiti, Part 1: Results from the Water Boiling Test." (2011).

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, and Girish Ghatikar."Building Energy Information Systems: User Case Studies."Energy Efficiency 4.1 (2011) 17-30. DOI

Marini, Kyle, Girish Ghatikar, and Richard C. Diamond."Using Dashboards to Improve Energy and Comfort in Federal Buildings." (2011).

2010

Kircher, Kevin, Girish Ghatikar, Steve E. Greenberg, David S. Watson, Richard C. Diamond, Dale A. Sartor, Clifford C. Federspiel, Alex McEachern, and Tom Owen."Toward the Holy Grail of Perfect Information: Lessons Learned Implementing an Energy Information System in a Commercial Building."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

2009

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Girish Ghatikar, and Phillip N. Price."Building Energy Information Systems: State of the Technology and User Case Studies." (2009).

Granderson, Jessica, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Chilled Water Storage System and Demand Response at the University of California at Merced."9th International Conference for Enhanced Building Operations, November 17-18, 2009 (2009).

Singer, Brett C., Paul A. Mathew, Steve E. Greenberg, William F. Tschudi, Dale A. Sartor, Susan Strom, and Walter Vernon."Hospital Energy Benchmarking Guidance." (2009) 32.

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Girish Ghatikar, and Phillip N. Price."Preliminary Findings from an Analysis of Building Energy Information System Technologies."2009 National Conference on Building Commissioning, June 3-5, 2009 (2009).

Rubinstein, Francis M., Girish Ghatikar, Jessica Granderson, David S. Watson, Paul Haugen, and Carlos Romero."Barrier Immune Radio Communications for Demand Response." (2009).

Singer, Brett C., Jennifer L. Coughlin, and Paul A. Mathew."Summary of Information and Resources Related to Energy Use in Healthcare Facilities - Version 1." 78 (2009).

Coffey, Brian E., Sam Borgeson, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Joshua S. Apte, Paul A. Mathew, and Philip Haves."Towards a Very Low Energy Building Stock: Modeling the U.S. Commercial Building Sector to Support Policy and Innovation Planning."Building Research & Information (2009).

2008

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Jessica Granderson, Philip Haves, Paul A. Mathew, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Scale Matters: An Action Plan for Realizing Sector-Wide "Zero-Energy" Performance Goals in Commercial Buildings."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 17-22, 2008 (2008).

Mills, Evan, Paul A. Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Norman Bourassa, and Martha Brook."Action-Oriented Benchmarking: Concepts and Tools."Energy Engineering (2008).

Mathew, Paul A., Evan Mills, Norman Bourassa, and Martha Brook."Action-Oriented Benchmarking: Using the CEUS Database to Benchmarking Commercial Buildings in California."Energy Engineering (2008).

Haves, Philip, Brian E. Coffey, and Scott Williams."Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a ‘Big Box’ Retail Chain."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008).

2007

Haves, Philip, Moosung Kim, Massieh Najafi, and Peng Xu."A Semi-automated Commissioning Tool for VAV Air Handling Units: Functional Test Analyzer."ASHRAE Transactions 113.Pt. 1 (2007) 380-391.

2006

Haves, Philip, Robert J. Hitchcock, Kenneth L. Gillespie, Martha Brook, Christine Shockman, Joseph J Deringer, and Kristopher L. Kinney."Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

2005

Matson, Nance, and Mary Ann Piette."Review of California and National Methods for Energy Performance Benchmarking of Commercial Buildings." (2005).

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, and Joseph J Deringer."A Simulation-Based Testing and Training Environment for Building Controls."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2005).

Haves, Philip, David S. Watson, Norman Bourassa, and Robert J. Hitchcock."Case Studies and Needs Assessment for University Campus Energy Monitoring." (2005).

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, and Moosung Kim."A Semi-Automated Functional Test Data Analysis Tool."13th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2005).

Haves, Philip, and David S. Watson."System Architectures for Performance Monitoring." (2005).

2004

Crabtree, , Peter, Nick Kyriakopedi, Evan Mills, Philip Haves, Roland J. Otto, Mary Ann Piette, Peng Xu, Richard C. Diamond, Joseph J Deringer, and Chuck Frost."Developing a next generation community college curriculum for energy efficiency high performance building operators."2004 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (2004).

Carroll, William L.."RESEM-CA Final Project Report." (2004).

Bourassa, Norman, Mary Ann Piette, and Naoya Motegi."Evaluation of Retrocommissioning Persistence in Large Commercial Buildings."12th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2004).