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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2004

Li, Angui, Phillip Jones, Pingge Zhao, and Liping Wang."Heat transfer and natural ventilation from single-sided heated solar chimney for buildings."Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering 3.2 (2004).

Wetter, Michael."Simulation-based building energy optimization." (2004).

Wetter, Michael."Simulation-Based Building Energy Optimization."Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. (2004).

Zuo, Wangda, Tianyi Yang, and Wenyan Zou."Updating traditional CRM system by terminal server."Journal of Chongqing University (Natural Science Edition) 27.1 (2004) 94-95.

Haves, Philip, Paul F Linden, and Guilherme Carrilho da Graça."Use of Simulation in the Design of a Large Naturally Ventilated Office Building."Building Services Engineering Research & Technology 25.3 (2004) 211-221. DOI

2003

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."Building Simulation ’03 (2003).

Bazjanac, Vladimir."Improving building energy performance simulation with software interoperability."Building Simulation 2003 1 (2003).

Haves, Philip, Guilherme Carrilho da Graça, and Paul F Linden."Use of Simulation in the Design of a Large Naturally Ventilated Commercial Office Building."Building Simulation ’03 (2003).

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, S.K Saha, Ajay K Yadav, Patrick E Phelan, and Ravi S Prasher."Determining the Effective Thermal Conductivity of a Nanofluid Using Brownian Dynamics Simulation."National Heat Transfer Conference (2003).

Hong, Tianzhen, Charles N Eley, and Erik Kolderup."VisualDOE – A Green Design Tool."The 4th International Symposium on HVAC (2003).

Wetter, Michael, Elijah Polak, Godfried Augenbroe, and Jan Hensen."A convergent optimization method using pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision simulation."Proceedings of the 8th IBPSA Conference III (2003) 1393-1400.

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

Wetter, Michael, Jonathan A Wright, Godfried Augenbroe, and Jan Hensen."Comparison of a generalized pattern search and a genetic algorithm optimization method."Proc. of the 8th IBPSA Conference III (2003) 1401-1408.

Pang, Xiufeng, Yongcheng Jiang, Yan-shu Miao, and Jun Xiong."Computer Measurement and Automation System for Gas-fired Heating Furnace."Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology (Chinese) 35.3 (2003) 374-378.

Buswell, Richard A, Philip Haves, and Jonathan A Wright."Field Testing Model-Based Condition Monitoring on a HVAC Cooling Coil Sub-System."Building Services Engineering Research & Technology 24.2 (2003) 103-116.

Xu, Peng, and Philip Haves."Library of component reference models for fault detection." (2003).

Jiang, Yongcheng, Xiufeng Pang, and Shaobo Fu."Research of ANN Internal Model Self-tuning Control Applied in Combustion Process Control of Heating Furnace in Oil Field."Journal of Central South University, Technology 34.2 (2003) 108-112.

2002

Bazjanac, Vladimir, James Forester, Philip Haves, Darko Sucic, and Peng Xu."HVAC Component Data Modeling Using Industry Foundation Classes."System Simulation in Buildings ’02 (2002).

Buswell, Richard A, Philip Haves, Tim I Salsbury, and Jonathan A Wright."Non-Linear Recursive Parameter Estimation Applied to Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Real Buildings."System Simulation in Buildings ’02 (2002).

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, and Patrick E Phelan."Modeling the Behavior of F1-ATPase Biomolecular Motors Using Brownian Dynamics Simulation."BioDevice Interface Science and Technology Workshop (2002).

Bourassa, Norman, Philip Haves, and Yu Joe Huang."A Computer Simulation Appraisal of Non-Residential Low Energy Cooling Systems in California."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

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

McConahey, Erin, Philip Haves, and Tim Chirst."The Integration of Engineering and Architecture: a Perspective on Natural Ventilation for the new San Francisco Federal Building."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, and Patrick E Phelan."Understanding the Behavior of an F1-ATPase Biomolecular Motor Using Brownian Dynamics Simulation."US-Japan Nanotherm Seminar: Nanoscale Thermal Science and Engineering (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).