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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2021

Singer, Brett C., Wanyu R. Chan, William W. Delp, Iain S. Walker, and Haoran Zhao."Effective Kitchen Ventilation for Healthy Zero Net Energy Homes with Natural Gas." (2021).

Less, Brennan, Iain S. Walker, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, and Leo I. Rainer."The Cost of Decarbonization and Energy Upgrade Retrofits for US Homes." (2021).

Kolsch, Benedikt, Iain S. Walker, Bjorn Schiricke, William W. Delp, and Bernhard Hoffschmidt."Quantification of Air Leakage Paths: A Comparison of Airflow and Acoustic Measurements." (2021). DOI

Singh, Reshma, Monto Mani, and Swapnil Joshi."Transforming India's Built Environment: A 2050 Vision for Wellness and Resilience." (2021).

2020

Zhao, Haoran, Wanyu R. Chan, William W. Delp, Hao Tang, Iain S. Walker, and Brett C. Singer."Factors Impacting Range Hood Use in California Houses and Low-Income Apartments."International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 (2020). DOI

Fierro, Gabe, Anand Prakash, Cory Mosiman, Marco Pritoni, Paul Raftery, Michael Wetter, and David Culler."Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick."BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (2020). DOI

Bergmann, Harry, Cory Mosiman, Avijit Saha, Selam Haile, William Livingood, Steven Bushby, Gabe Fierro, Joel Bender, Michael Poplawski, Jessica Granderson, and Marco Pritoni."Semantic Interoperability to Enable Smart, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Zhao, Haoran, Wanyu R. Chan, Sebastian Cohn, William W. Delp, Iain S. Walker, and Brett C. Singer."Dataset: Indoor air quality in new and renovated low‐income apartments with mechanical ventilation and natural gas cooking in California." (2020). DOI

Mathew, Paul A., Cynthia Regnier, Jordan Shackelford, and Travis Walter."Energy Efficiency Package for Tenant Fit-Out:Laboratory Testing and Validation of Energy Savingsand Indoor Environmental Quality."Energies (2020). DOI

Kramer, , Hannah, Claire Curtin, Guanjing Lin, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Proving the Business Case for Building Analytics." (2020). DOI

Pritoni, Marco, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Kun Zhang, Rui Tang, and Jessica Granderson."Advanced control sequences and FDD technology. Just shiny objects, or ready for scale?."ACEEE Summer Study 2020 (2020). DOI

Lin, Guanjing, Marco Pritoni, Yimin Chen, Jessica Granderson, Ricardo Moromisato, and Stephen Kozlen."Can We Fix It Automatically? Development of Fault Auto-Correction Algorithms for HVAC and Lighting Systems."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Casillas, Armando, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."Curation of Ground-Truth Validated Benchmarking Datasets for Fault Detection & Diagnostics Tools."2020 ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Chen, Yimin, Eliot Crowe, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."What's in a Name? Developing a Standardized Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults."2020 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Pistochini, Theresa, Caton Mande, Mark Modera, Sarah Outcault, Angela Sanguinetti, Wanyu R. Chan, Spencer M. Dutton, Brett C. Singer, and Xiwang Li."Improving Ventilation and Indoor Environmental Quality in California K-12 Schools." (2020).

Granderson, Jessica, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Samuel Fernandes."Meter-Based Assessment of the Time and Locational Benefits of a Large Utility’s DSM Portfolio."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

WuDunn, Mark, Avideh Zakhor, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Aerial 3D Building Reconstruction from RGB Drone Imagery."SPIE Geospatial Informatics X (2020).

Less, Brennan, Iain S. Walker, David M. Lorenzetti, Evan Mills, Vi H. Rapp, Spencer M. Dutton, Michael D. Sohn, Xiwang Li, Jordan D. Clark, and Max H. Sherman."Smart Ventilation for Advanced California Homes." (2020).

Chan, Wanyu R., Yang-Seon Kim, William W. Delp, Iain S. Walker, and Brett C. Singer."Dataset: Indoor air quality in California homes with code-required mechanical ventilation." (2020). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Ari Harding, Piljae Im, and Yan Chen."Building fault detection data to aid diagnostic algorithm creation and performance testing."Nature: Scientific Data Vol.7 No.65 (2020).

Lin, Guanjing, Hannah Kramer, and Jessica Granderson."Building fault detection and diagnostics: Achieved savings, and methods to evaluate algorithm performance."Building and Environment 168 (2020) 106505. DOI

Young, Matthew, Brennan Less, Spencer M. Dutton, Iain S. Walker, Max H. Sherman, and Jordan D. Clark."Assessment of peak power demand reduction available via modulation of building ventilation systems."Energy and Buildings (2020). DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard C. Diamond, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Tianzhen Hong, Kaiyu Sun, Paul A. Mathew, Iain S. Walker, Alan K. Meier, Erik Page, Jessica Granderson, Nan Zhou, and Peter Alstone."Chapter 2: Global Opportunities and Challenges in Energy and Environmental Issues in the Buildings Sector."World Scientific Series in Current Energy Issues (2020). DOI

Sanchez, Lino, Paul A. Mathew, Sang Hoon Lee, and Travis Walter."Developing and Evaluating a Metric for Office Building Energy Resilience During a Power Outage."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).