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

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)

2023

Méndez, Juana Isabel, Pedro Ponce, Alan K Meier, Therese Peffer, Omar Mata, and Arturo Molina."Empower saving energy into smart communities using social products with a gamification structure for tailored Human–Machine Interfaces within smart homes."International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM) 17.3 (2023) 1363 - 1387. DOI

Mata, Omar, Juana Isabel Méndez, Pedro Ponce, Therese Peffer, Alan K Meier, and Arturo Molina."Energy Savings in Buildings Based on Image Depth Sensors for Human Activity Recognition."Energies 16.3 (2023) 1078. DOI

2022

Méndez, Juana Isabel, Adán Medina, Pedro Ponce, Therese Peffer, Alan K Meier, and Arturo Molina."Evolving Gamified Smart Communities in Mexico to Save Energy in Communities through Intelligent Interfaces."Energies 15.15 (2022) 5553. DOI

Meier, Alan K, Abigail A Daken, and Leo Rainer."Long-term trends in connected thermostat performance."The ECEEE 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2022).

Méndez, Juana Isabel, Therese Peffer, Pedro Ponce, Alan K Meier, and Arturo Molina."Empowering saving energy at home through serious games on thermostat interfaces."Energy and Buildings 263 (2022) 112026. DOI

Butzbaugh, Joshua, Kini Roshan, and Alan K Meier."International Actions to Reduce Miscellaneous Electrical Loads Energy Consumption."Energy Efficient Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2022).

Medina, Adán, Juana Isabel Méndez, Pedro Ponce, Therese Peffer, Alan K Meier, and Arturo Molina."Using Deep Learning in Real-Time for Clothing Classification with Connected Thermostats."Energies 15.5 (2022) 1811. DOI

Berretti, Stefano, Guan-Ming Su, Citlaly Pérez, Juana Isabel Méndez, Antonio Rivera, Pedro Ponce, Sergio Castellanos, Therese Peffer, Alan K Meier, and Arturo Molina."Lecture Notes in Computer Science Smart Multimedia: Gamified Smart Grid Implementation Through Pico, Nano, and Microgrids in a Sustainable Campus." 13497 (2022) 128 - 143. DOI

Berretti, Stefano, Guan-Ming Su, Juana Isabel Méndez, Adán Medina, Pedro Ponce, Therese Peffer, Alan K Meier, and Arturo Molina."Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Smart Multimedia A Real-Time Adaptive Thermal Comfort Model for Sustainable Energy in Interactive Smart Homes: Part I." 13497 (2022) 228 - 243. DOI

2021

Rainer, Leo, Alan K Meier, and Robert Hosbach."Energy use of residential safety, security, and health devices."Energy and Buildings 250 (2021) 111217. DOI

Meier, Alan K, and Dan Cautley."Practical limits to the use of non-intrusive load monitoring in commercial buildings."Energy and Buildings 251 (2021) 111308. DOI

Celniker, Chloe, Sharon S Chen, Alan K Meier, and Ronnen M Levinson."Targeting buildings for energy-saving cool-wall retrofits: a case study at the University of California, Davis."Energy and Buildings 249 (2021) 111014. DOI

Butzbaugh, Joshua, Robert Hosbach, and Alan K Meier."Miscellaneous electric loads: Characterization and energy savings potential."Energy and Buildings 241 (2021) 110892. DOI

Shackelford, Jordan, and Alan K Meier."Laboratory Evaluation of Tunable White LEDs for Circadian Lighting in Commercial Offices." (2021).

2020

Ueno, Tsuyoshi, and Alan K Meier."A method to generate heating and cooling schedules based on data from connected thermostats."Energy and Buildings 228 (2020) 110423. DOI

Yang, Bin, Xiaojing Li, Yingzhen Hou, Alan K Meier, Xiaogang Cheng, Joon-Ho Choi, Faming Wang, Huan Wang, Andreas Wagner, Da Yan, Angui Li, Thomas Olofsson, and Haibo Li."Non-invasive (non-contact) measurements of human thermal physiology signals and thermal comfort/discomfort poses -A review."Energy and Buildings 224 (2020) 110261. DOI

Méndez, Juana Isabel, Pedro Ponce, Omar Mata, Alan K Meier, Therese Peffer, Arturo Molina, and Marlene Aguilar."Empower saving energy into smart homes using a gamification structure by social products."2020 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)2020 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) (2020). DOI

Méndez, Juana Isabel, Omar Mata, Pedro Ponce, Alan K Meier, Therese Peffer, and Arturo Molina."Studies in Systems, Decision and ControlChallenges and Trends in Multimodal Fall Detection for HealthcareMulti-sensor System, Gamification, and Artificial Intelligence for Benefit Elderly People." 273 (2020) 207 - 235. 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

2019

Meier, Alan K, Tsuyoshi Ueno, and Marco Pritoni."Using data from connected thermostats to track large power outages in the United States."Applied Energy 256 (2019) 113940. DOI

Meier, Alan K."The Energy Costs of Moisture."Home Energy Magazine (2019).

Gerber, Daniel L, Alan K Meier, Richard Liou, and Robert Hosbach."Emerging Zero-Standby Solutions for Miscellaneous Electric Loads and the Internet of Things."Electronics 8.5 (2019). DOI

Meier, Alan K."New standby power targets."Energy Efficiency 12.1 (2019) 175 - 186. DOI

Poskanzer, Deborah, Alan K Meier, Margarita Kloss, and Chinmayee Subban."Dressing for the Anthropocene*: A Future History." (2019).

Meier, Alan K, Richard E Brown, Daniel L Gerber, Aditya Khandekar, Margarita Kloss, Hidemitsu Koyanagi, Richard Liou, Leo I Rainer, and Seth Sanders."Efficient and Zero Net Energy-Ready Plug Loads." (2019).