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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2002

Zhai, Zhiqiang, Qingyan Chen, Philip Haves, and Joseph H Klems."On Approaches to Couple Energy Simulation and Computational Fluid Dynamics Programs."Building and Environment 37 (2002).

2001

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar T Khalsa, and Philip Haves."Analysis of an Information Monitoring and Diagnostic System to Improve Building Operations."Energy and Buildings 33.8 (2001) 783-792. DOI

Rees, Simon J, James J McGuirk, and Philip Haves."Numerical Investigation of Transient Buoyant Flow in a Room with a Displacement Ventilation and Chilled Ceiling System."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 44.16 (2001) 3067-3080. DOI

Zhai, Zhiqiang, Qingyan Chen, Joseph H Klems, and Philip Haves."Strategies for Coupling Energy Simulation Programs and Computational Fluid Dynamics Programs."Building Sim 2001 1 (2001) 59-66.

Haves, Philip, Tim I Salsbury, David Claridge, and Mingsheng Liu."Use of Whole Building Simulation in On-Line Performance Assessment: Modeling and Implementation Issues."Building Simulation ’01 (2001).

Rees, Simon J, and Philip Haves."A Nodal Model for Displacement Ventilation and Chilled Ceiling Systems in Office Spaces."Building and Environment 36.6 (2001) 753-762. DOI

Sreedharan, Priya, and Philip Haves."Comparison of Chiller Models for use in Model-Based Fault Detection."International Conference for Enhancing Building Operations (2001).

Kinney, Satkartar, Mary Ann Piette, Lixing Gu, and Philip Haves."Demand Relief and Weather Sensitivity in Large California Commercial Buildings."International Conference for Enhancing Building Operations (2001).

Sowell, Edward F, and Philip Haves."Efficient Solution Strategies for Building Energy System Simulation."Energy and Buildings 33 (2001) 309-317. DOI

Wetter, Michael, Roberto Lamberts, Cezar O. R Negrão, and Jan Hensen."GenOpt - A Generic Optimization Program."Proc. of the 7th IBPSA Conference I (2001) 601-608.

2000

Laine, Tuomas, Risto Kosonen, Kim Hagström, Panu Mustakallio, De-Wei Yin, Philip Haves, and Qingyan Chen."Better IAQ Through Integrating Design Tools For The HVAC Industry."Healthy Buildings 2000 (2000).

Haves, Philip, and Satkartar T Khalsa."Model-based Performance Monitoring: Review of Diagnostic Methods and Chiller Case Study."ACEEE Summer School (2000).

Hong, Tianzhen, Siaw K Chou, and T.Y Bong."Building simulation: an overview of development and information sources."Building and Environment 35.4 (2000) 347-361. DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar T Khalsa, and Philip Haves."Use of an Information Monitoring and Diagnostic System for Commissioning and Ongoing Operations."8th National Conference on Building Commissioning PECI (2000).

Rees, Simon J, Jeffrey D Spitler, Michael J Holmes, and Philip Haves."Comparison of Peak Load Predictions and Treatment of Solar Gains in the Admittance and Heat Balance Load Calculation Procedures."Building Services Engineering Research & Technology 21.2 (2000). DOI

Rees, Simon J, Jeffrey D Spitler, Morris G Davies, and Philip Haves."Qualitative Comparison of North American and U.K. Cooling Load Calculation Procedures."International Journal of Heating, Ventilating, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Research 6.1 (2000) 75-99. DOI

1999

Rees, Simon J, and Philip Haves."A Nodal Model for Displacement Ventilation and Chilled Ceiling Systems in Office Spaces."Building Simulation ’99 (1999).

Sowell, Edward F, and Philip Haves."Numerical Performance of a Graph-Theoretic HVAC Simulation Program."Building Simulation ’99 (1999).

Hong, Tianzhen, Siaw K Chou, and T.Y Bong."A design day for building load and energy estimation."Building and Environment 34.4 (1999) 469-477. DOI

1998

Haves, Philip, and Edward F Sowell."Component-Based and Equation-Based Solvers for HVAC Simulation: a Comparison of HVACSIM+ and SPARK."System Simulation in Buildings '98 (1998).

Hong, Tianzhen, and Yi Jiang."Outdoor synthetic temperature for the calculation of space heating load."Energy and Buildings 28.3 (1998) 269-277. DOI

Haves, Philip, Leslie K Norford, and Mark DeSimone."A Standard Simulation Testbed for the Evaluation of Control Algorithms & Strategies."ASHRAE Transactions 104.Pt. 1A (1998).

Spitler, Jeffrey D, Simon J Rees, and Philip Haves."Comparison of North American and U.K. Cooling Load Calculation Procedures - Methodology."ASHRAE Transactions 104.2 (1998) 47-61.

Rees, Simon J, Jeffrey D Spitler, and Philip Haves."Comparison of North American and U.K. Cooling Load Calculation Procedures - Results."ASHRAE Transactions 104.2 (1998) 36-46.

Haves, Philip, and Edward F Sowell."The application of Problem Reduction Techniques Based on Graph Theory to the Simulation of Non-Linear Continuous Systems."EUROSIM’98 (1998) pp. 203-207.