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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2005

Zheng, B, Xiufeng Pang, and Mingsheng Liu."Using a Fan Air Flow Station to Control Building Static Pressure in a VAV System."the 2005 International Solar Energy Conference (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).

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

Wetter, Michael, and Elijah Polak."Building design optimization using a convergent pattern search algorithm with adaptive precision simulations."Energy and Buildings 37.6 (2005) 603-612. DOI

Wetter, Michael."BuildOpt - A new building energy simulation program that is built on smooth models."Building and Environment 40.8 (2005) 1085-1092. DOI

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, and Moosung Kim."Model-Based Automated Functional Testing-Methodology and Application to Air Handling Units."ASHRAE Transactions 111.Pt. 1 (2005).

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, Thilo Ernst, Peter Schneider, Mathias Vetter, Andreas Holm, Juergen Leopold, Ullrich Doll, Andre Nordwig, Peter Schwarz, Christoph Wittwer, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Gerhardt Schmidt, and Alexander Mattes."MOSILAB: Development of a modelica based generic simulation tool supporting modal structural dynamics."4th International Modelica Conference (2005) pp.527-534.

Prasher, Ravi S, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Patrick E Phelan."Thermal Conductivity of Nanoscale Colloidal Solutions (Nanofluids)."Physical Review Letters 94.025901-1 – 025901-4. (2005).

2004

Wetter, Michael."BuildOpt - A new building energy simulation program that is built on smooth models."Building and Environment 40.8 (2004). DOI

Wetter, Michael, and Elijah Polak."A convergent optimization method using pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision simulation."Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 25.4 (2004) 327-338. DOI

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, P Vijayan, T Tang, S Nara, Patrick E Phelan, Ravi S Prasher, J Wang, and David W Song."Evaluation of the Temperature Oscillation Technique to Calculate Thermal Conductivity of Water and Systematic Measurement of the Thermal Conductivity of Aluminum Oxide – Water Nanofluiids."International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, (2004).

Wang, Liping, and Angui Li."A numerical study of vertical solar chimney for Enhancing stack ventilation in buildings."The 21st International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, The Netherlands (2004).

Wetter, Michael, and Elijah Polak."Building Design Optimization Using a Convergent Pattern Search Algorithm with Adaptive Precision Simulations."Energy and Buildings 37 (2004) 603-612.

Griffith, Brent T, and Peter G Ellis."Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal Modeling with the EnergyPlus Calculation Engine."World Renewable Energy Congress VIII and Expo (2004).

Bazjanac, Vladimir."Virtual Building Environments - Applying Information Modeling to Buildings."European Conference on Product and Process Modeling in the Building and Construction Industry (ECPPM) 2004 (2004).

Wetter, Michael, and Jonathan A Wright."A comparison of deterministic and probabilistic optimization algorithms for nonsmooth simulation-based optimization ."Building and Environment 39.8 (2004) 989-999. DOI

O'Donnell, James, Elmer Morrissey, Marcus Keane, and Vladimir Bazjanac."BuildingPI: A Future Tool for Building Life Cycle Analysis."SimBuild 2004 1st International Conference of IBPSA-USA (2004).

Chantrasrisalai, Chanvit, and Daniel E Fisher."Comparative Analysis of One-Dimensional Slat-Type Blind Models."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Huang, Yu Joe, Robin Mitchell, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Development of Trade-Off Equations for EnergyStar Windows."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Crawley, Drury B, Linda K Lawrie, Curtis O Pedersen, Frederick C Winkelmann, Michael J Witte, Richard K Strand, Richard J Liesen, Walter F Buhl, Yu Joe Huang, Robert H Henninger, Jason Glazer, Daniel E Fisher, Don B Shirley, Brent T Griffith, Peter G Ellis, and Lixing Gu."EnergyPlus: An Update."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Witte, Michael J, Robert H Henninger, and Drury B Crawley."Experience Testing EnergyPlus With the ASHRAE 1052-RP Building Fabric Analytical Tests."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Linden, Paul F."Flow in an Underfloor Plenum."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Bazjanac, Vladimir, and Tobias Maile."IFC HVAC interface to EnergyPlus - A case of expanded interoperability for energy simulation."SimBuild 2004 (2004).

Bazjanac, Vladimir, and Tobias Maile."IFC HVAC Interface to EnergyPlus: A Case of Expanded Interoperability for Energy Simulation."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Chillar, Rahul, and Richard J Liesen."Improvement of the ASHRAE Secondary HVAC Toolkit Simple Cooling Coil Model for Simulation."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).