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

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

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).

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

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).

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

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

Koyanagi, Hidemitsu, and Alan K. Meier."VALIDITY OF ENERGY SIMULATIONS AND ENERGY MEASUREMENTS IN A NET ZERO ENERGY OFFICE BUILDING: A CASE STUDY."ASHRAE Annual Conference. (2017).

2016

Nordman, Bruce, and Alan K. Meier."Energy Aware Devices: Study of Policy Opportunities." (2016).

Johnson, Karl, Vagelis Vossos, Margarita Kloss, Gerald Robinson, and Richard E. Brown."Direct Current as an Integrating Platform for ZNE Buildings with EVs and Storage: DC Direct Systems – A Bridge to a Low Carbon Future?."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Effect of using Different Vehicle Weight Groups on the Estimated Relationship between Mass Reduction and U.S. Societal Fatality Risk per Vehicle Miles of Travel." (2016).

Brown, Richard E., Erin Beddingfield, Marshall Duer-Balkind, Ali Levine, and Elena Alschuler."Putting Data to Work: Using Building Energy Performance Data to Expand the Market for Energy Efficiency in Buildings." (2016). DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Assessment of NHTSA’s Report “Relationships Between Fatality Risk, Mass, and Footprint in Model Year 2003-2010 Passenger Cars and LTVs”." (2016).

Shehabi, Arman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Dale A. Sartor, Richard E. Brown, Magnus Herrlin, Jonathan G. Koomey, Eric R. Masanet, Nathaniel Horner, Inês Lima Azevedo, and William Lintner."United States Data Center Energy Usage Report." (2016).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Effect of Accounting for Crash Severity on the Relationship between Mass Reduction and Crash Frequency and Risk per Crash." (2016).

Wenzel, Thomas P.."Sensitivity of Light-Duty Vehicle Crash Frequency per Vehicle Mile of Travel to Additional Vehicle and Driver Variables." (2016).

Chen, , Yuche, and Alan K. Meier."Fuel consumption impacts of auto roof racks."Energy Policy 92 (2016) 325 - 333. DOI

Daken, Abigail A., Alan K. Meier, and Douglas G. Frazee."Do Connected Thermostats Save Energy?."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Meier, Alan K., and Quentin Aillot."Permanent Electrical Loads in New Homes."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Siderius, Hans-Paul, Sophie Attali, Nils Borg, Richard C. Diamond, and Alan K. Meier."Why Americans Misunderstand European Energy Policies (and vice versa)."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

2015

Meier, Alan K., and Quentin Aillot."Builder-Installed Electrical Loads in New Homes."Energy Efficient Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2015).