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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2004

Bourassa, Norman, Mary Ann Piette, and Naoya Motegi."An Evaluation of Savings and Measure Persistence from Retrocommissioning of Large Commercial Buildings."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).

Xu, Tengfang T., and Mary Ann Piette."Baseline Information Development for Energy Smart Schools - Applied Research, Field Testing, and Technology Integration." (2004).

da Graça, Guilherme Carrilho, Paul F. Linden, Erin McConahey, and Philip Haves."Design and testing of a control strategy for a large naturally ventilated office building."8th International IBPSA Conference (2004).

da Graça, Guilherme Carrilho, Paul F. Linden, and Philip Haves."Design and Testing of a Control Strategy for a Large Naturally Ventilated Office Building."Building Services Engineering Research & Technology 25 (2004) 211-221.

2003

Selkowitz, Stephen E.."High-performance commercial building systems." (2003).

Motegi, Naoya, Mary Ann Piette, Satkartar Kinney, and Jim Dewey."Case Studies of Energy Information Systems and Related Technology: Operational Practices, Costs, and Benefits."International Conference for Enhanced Building Operators (2003).

Reichard, Georg, and Konstantinos M. Papamichael."Decision-Making Through Performance Simulation and Code Compliance from the Early, Schematic Phases of Building Design."DIGITAL DESIGN - 22nd International eCAADe Conference (2003).

Sellers, David, Hannah Friedman, Tudi Haasl, Norman Bourassa, and Mary Ann Piette."Control System Design Guide." (2003).

Sellers, David, Hannah Friedman, Tudi Haasl, Norman Bourassa, and Mary Ann Piette."Functional Testing Guide for Air Handling Systems: From the Fundamentals to the Field." (2003).

Bourassa, Norman, Mary Ann Piette, and Naoya Motegi."Evaluation of Persistence of Savings from SMUD Retrocommissioning Program." (2003).

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar Kinney, Norman Bourassa, Kristopher L. Kinney, and Christine Shockman."Summary and Early Findings from a Second Generation Information Monitoring and Diagnostic System."11th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2003).

Fernandes, Luis L., and Konstantinos M. Papamichael."Automating the Selection of Fenestration Systems to Best Meet Daylighting Performance Goals."2003 International Building Performance Simulation Association Conference (2003).

Xu, Peng, Moosung Kim, and Philip Haves."An automated functional test and fault detection method." (2003).

Kinney, Satkartar, and Mary Ann Piette."California commercial building energy benchmarking." (2003).

Aebischer, Bernard, Markus A. Balmer, Satkartar Kinney, Pascale Le Strat, Yoshiaki Shibata, and Frederic Varone."Energy Efficiency Indicators for High Electric-Load Buildings."ECEEE 2003 Summer Study (2003).

Xu, Peng, Moosung Kim, and Philip Haves."Field tests of model based component level fault detection method." (2003).

Reichard, Georg, Adil Al-Mumin, and Konstantinos M. Papamichael."Instructor: Let the Experts Guide the Use of Simulation Software."DIGITAL DESIGN - 22nd International eCAADe Conference (2003).

Martin, Rodney, Peng Xu, Moosung Kim, and Philip Haves."Software toolbox for component-level model-based fault detection methods." (2003).

Motegi, Naoya, Mary Ann Piette, Satkartar Kinney, and Karen Herter."Web-Based Energy Information Systems for Energy Management and Demand Response in Commercial Buildings." (2003).

2002

Motegi, Naoya, and Mary Ann Piette."Web-Based Energy Information Systems for Large Commercial Buildings."10th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2002).

Pal, Vineeta, William L. Carroll, and Norman Bourassa."RESEM-CA: Validation and testing." (2002).

Hitchcock, Robert J.."Software Interoperability for Energy Simulation."2003 ASHRAE Winter Meeting (2002).

Kinney, Satkartar, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of a California Commercial Building Benchmarking Database."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002) 7.109-7.120.

Bazjanac, Vladimir."Early Lessons from Deployment of IFC Compatible Software."European Community Product and Process Modeling Conference (ECPPM 2003) (2002).

Xu, Peng, and Philip Haves."Field Testing of Component-Level Model-Based Fault Detection Methods for Mixing Boxes and VAV Fan Systems."2002 American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).