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.

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Publications by Research Area

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

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Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2023

Gautier, Antoine, Michael Wetter, Jianjun Hu, and Hubertus Tummescheit."HVAC and Control Templates for the Modelica Buildings Library."15th International Modelica Conference 2023, Aachen, October 9-11Proceedings of the 15th International Modelica Conference 2023, Aachen, October 9-11 204 (2023). DOI

2022

Gautier, Antoine, Michael Wetter, and Matthias Sulzer."Resilient cooling through geothermal district energy system."Applied Energy 325 (2022) 119880. DOI

Hinkelman, Kathryn, Saranya Anbarasu, Michael Wetter, Antoine Gautier, and Wangda Zuo."A fast and accurate modeling approach for water and steam thermodynamics with practical applications in district heating system simulation."Energy 254 (2022) 124227. DOI

Hinkelman, Kathryn, Jing Wang, Wangda Zuo, Antoine Gautier, Michael Wetter, Chengliang Fan, and Nicholas Long."Modelica-based modeling and simulation of district cooling systems: A case study."Applied Energy 311 (2022) 118654. DOI

Hinkelman, Kathryn, Saranya Anbarasu, Michael Wetter, Antoine Gautier, Baptiste Ravache, and Wangda Zuo."Towards Open-Source Modelica Models for Steam-Based District Heating Systems."2022 Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES)2022 Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES) (2022). DOI

Wetter, Michael, Paul Ehrlich, Antoine Gautier, Milica Grahovac, Philip Haves, Jianjun Hu, Anand Prakash, Dave Robin, and Kun Zhang."OpenBuildingControl: Digitizing the control delivery from building energy modeling to specification, implementation and formal verification."Energy 238 (2022) 121501. DOI

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