Eliot Crowe

Eliot Crowe

Technology Researcher IV
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Bio

Eliot Crowe is a Technology Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, supporting technical research on energy management and information systems (EMIS), measurement & verification (M&V), commissioning, and other related areas. Prior to joining LBNL Eliot spent 10 years working on utility program implementation, technical research, outreach, and training program management for PECI and CLEAResult. Eliot supported management of the nonprofit California Commissioning Collaborative from 2009-2016, including a period as Executive Director from 2015-2016. Prior to joining the energy efficiency field Eliot held an engineering project management position in a global battery manufacturing corporation for 10 years.

Awards

Spot: Eliot Crowe -  March 23rd 2018

For exceptional execution of Smart Buildings Roundtable.

Publications

2023

Empirical Analysis of the Prevalence of HVAC Faults in Commercial Buildings

Authors: Crowe, Eliot; Yimin Chen; Hayden Reeve; David Yuill; Amir Ebrahimifakhar; Yuxuan Chen; Lucas Troup; Amanda Smith, and Jessica Granderson.
11/2023

Accuracy of hourly energy predictions for demand flexibility applications

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Samuel Fernandes; Eliot Crowe; Mrinalini Sharma; David A. Jump, and Devan Johnson.
06/2023

2022

Market Barriers and Drivers for the Next Generation Fault Detection and Diagnostic Tools

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Guanjing Lin; Yimin Chen; John House; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2022

Quantifying the Value of Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings through Field Study

Authors: Langner, Rois; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2022

What We Learned From Analyzing 18 Million Rows of Commercial Buildings’ HVAC Fault Data

Authors: Crowe, Eliot; Yimin Chen; Jessica Granderson; Hayden Reeve; LucasTroup; David Yuill, and Yuxuan Chen.
08/2022

Assessing EMIS Benefits: A new field evaluation protocol offers rigor and flexibility

Authors: Lin, Guanjing; Eliot Crowe; Valerie Nibler, and Jessica Granderson.
07/2022

Building Analytics Tool Deployment at Scale: Benefits, Costs, and Deployment Practices

Authors: Lin, Guanjing; Hannah Kramer; Valerie Nibler; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
07/2022

Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches

Authors: Fernandes, Samuel; Eliot Crowe; Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson.

Integration of FDD Data to Aid HVAC System Maintenance

Authors: Chen, Yimin; Eliot Crowe; Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson.
11/11/2022

2021

Development of a Unified Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults

Authors: Chen, Yimin; Guanjing Lin; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
09/2021

Development of a Unified Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults

Authors: Chen, Yimin; Guanjing Lin; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
09/2021

Assessment of Model-Based Peak Electric Consumption Prediction for Commercial Buildings

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Mrinalini Sharma; Eliot Crowe; David A. Jump; Samuel Fernandes; Samir Touzani, and Devan Johnson.
08/2021

Research challenges and directions in HVAC fault prevalence

Authors: Kim, Janghyun; Kim Trenbath; Jessica Granderson; Yimin Chen; Eliot Crowe; Hayden Reeve; Sarah Newman, and Paul Ehrlich.
04/2021

Analysis of Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics Records as an Indicator of HVAC Fault Prevalence: Methodology and Preliminary Results

Authors: Ebrahimifakhar, Amir; David Yuill; Amanda Smith; Jessica Granderson; Eliot Crowe; Yimin Chen, and Hayden Reeve.
05/24/2021

2020

Spatio-temporal impacts of a utility’s efficiency portfolio on the distribution grid

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Samuel Fernandes; Samir Touzani; Chih-Cheng Lee; Eliot Crowe, and Margaret Sheridan.
12/2020

Building Commissioning Costs and Savings Across Three Decades and 1,500 North American Buildings

Authors: Crowe, Eliot; Evan Mills; Tom Poeling; Claire Curtin; Diana Bjornskov; Liz Fischer, and Jessica Granderson.
11/2020

Proving the Business Case for Building Analytics

Authors: Kramer, , Hannah; Claire Curtin; Guanjing Lin; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
10/2020

Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches

Authors: Fernandes, Samuel; Eliot Crowe; Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2020

What's in a Name? Developing a Standardized Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults

Authors: Chen, Yimin; Eliot Crowe; Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2020

Meter-Based Assessment of the Time and Locational Benefits of a Large Utility’s DSM Portfolio

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Eliot Crowe; Samir Touzani, and Samuel Fernandes.
07/2020

2019

Realizing high-accuracy low-cost measurement and verification for deep cost savings

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Samir Touzani; Eliot Crowe; Samuel Fernandes; Shankar Earni, and Kaiyu Sun.
09/2019

From Theory to Practice: Lessons Learned from an Advanced M&V Commercial Pilot

Authors: Crowe, Eliot; Jessica Granderson, and Samuel Fernandes.
08/2019

Building analytics and monitoring-based commissioning: industry practice, costs, and savings

Authors: Kramer, Hannah; Guanjing Lin; Claire Curtin; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
05/2019

Synthesis of Year Two Outcomes in the Smart Energy Analytics Campaign

Authors: Kramer, , Hannah; Guanjing Lin; Jessica Granderson; Claire Curtin, and Eliot Crowe.
03/2019

Statistical change detection of building energy consumption: Applications to savings estimation

Authors: Touzani, Samir; Baptiste Ravache; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
01/2019