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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2009

Wang, Liping, Julie Gwilliam, and Phillip Jones."Case study of zero energy house design in UK."Energy and Buildings 41.11 (2009) 1215-1222.

Hong, Tianzhen, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Mehry Yazdanian."Assessment of Energy Impact of Window Technologies for Commercial Buildings." (2009).

Nelson, Dean, Brian Day, Geoffrey C Bell, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Mike Ryan."“The Monitoring,” Panel: Chill-Off."Silicon Valley Leadership Group Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit (2009).

Wetter, Michael."Modelica Library for Building Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems."Proceedings of the 7th International Modelica Conference 43 (2009). DOI

Franke, Rüdiger, Francesco Casella, Martin Otter, Katrin Proelss, Michael Sielemann, and Michael Wetter."Standardization of thermo-fluid modeling in Modelica.Fluid 1.0."Proc. of the 7th International Modelica Conference 43 (2009). DOI

Wetter, Michael."A Modelica-based model library for building energy and control systems."Proceedings of the 11th IBPSA Conference (2009) 652-659.

Trcka, Marija, Michael Wetter, and Jan Hensen."An implementation of co-simulation for performance prediction of innovative integrated HVAC systems in buildings."Proc. of the 11th IBPSA Conference (2009) 724-731.

Kumar, V, Bettina Frohnapfel, Jovan Jovanović, Michael Breuer, Wangda Zuo, Ibrahim Hadzić, and Richard Lechner."Anisotropy invariant Reynolds stress model of turbulence (AIRSM) and its application on attached and separated wall-bounded flows."Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 83.1 (2009) 81-103. DOI

Cho, Young-Hum, Mingsheng Liu, and Xiufeng Pang."Improving Control and Operation of a Single Duct VAV System through CCLEP."ASHRAE Transactions 115.2 (2009) 760-768.

Hong, Tianzhen."A close look at the China design standard for energy efficiency of public buildings."Energy and Buildings 41.4 (2009) 426-435. DOI

Liu, Xiaobing, and Tianzhen Hong."Comparison of energy efficiency between variable refrigerant flow systems and ground source heat pump systems."Energy and Buildings 42.5 (2009) 584-589. DOI

Wang, Liping, and Nyuk Hien Wong."Coupled simulations for naturally ventilated rooms between building simulation (BS) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for better prediction of indoor thermal environment."Building and Environment 44.1 (2009) 95-112.

Shen, Eric, and Tianzhen Hong."Simulation-based assessment of the energy savings benefits of integrated control in office buildings."Building Simulation 2.4 (2009) 239-251. DOI

Xu, Tengfang T, Chuang Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Mark D Levine."Technical Assistance to Beichuan Reconstruction: Creating and Designing Low- to Zero-carbon Communities in New Beichuan." (2009).

Krus, Martin, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Klaus Sedlbauer."Application of software tools for moisture protection of buildings in different climate zones."6th International Conference on Cold Climate, Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning (2009).

Wu, Lixia, Mingsheng Liu, Xiufeng Pang, Gang Wang, and Thomas G Lewis."CCLEP Reduces Energy Consumption by More than 50% for a Luxury Shopping Mall."ASHRAE Transactions 115.2 (2009) 492-501.

Trcka, Marija, Jan Hensen, and Michael Wetter."Co-simulation of innovative integrated HVAC systems in buildings."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 2.3 (2009) 209-230. DOI

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Fast parallelized flow simulations on graphic processing units."the 11th International Conference on Air Distribution in Rooms (RoomVent 2009) (2009).

Wetter, Michael."Generic Optimization Program User Manual Version 3.0.0." 113 (2009) 380-391.

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."High performance computing for indoor air."11th International IBPSA Conference (Building Simulation 2009) (2009) 244-249.

Costa, Andrea, Marcus Keane, Paul Raferty, and James O'Donnell."Key Factors - Methodology for Enhancement and Support of Building Energy Performance."Building Simulation 2009 (2009).

Wetter, Michael."Modelica-based Modeling and Simulation to Support Research and Development in Building Energy and Control Systems."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 2.2 (2009) 143-161. DOI

Torrens, J. J Ignacio, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and Andrea Costa."Multi-criteria optimisation using past, historical, real time and predictive performance benchmarks."SEEP 2009: 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection (2009).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Klaus Sedlbauer, Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, and Kurt Kießl."Neue objektorientierte hygrothermische Modell-Bibliothek zur Ermittlung des hygrothermischen und hygienischen Komforts in Räumen."Bauphysik 31 (2009) 271-278. DOI

Mara, Paul, Declan O'Sullivan, Rob Brennan, Marcus Keane, Kris McGlinn, and James O'Donnell."Pervasive Knowledge-Based Networking for Maintenance Inspection in Smart Buildings."MUCS 2009: 6th IEEE International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (2009).