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)

2022

Vossos, Vagelis, Daniel L Gerber, Melanie Gaillet-Tournier, Bruce Nordman, Richard E Brown, Willy Bernal Heredia, Omkar Ghatpande, Avijit Saha, Gabe Arnold, and Stephen M Frank."Adoption Pathways for DC Power Distribution in Buildings."MDPI (2022). DOI

2021

Gerber, Daniel L, Fariborz Musavi, Omkar Ghatpande, Stephen M Frank, Jason Poon, Richard E Brown, and Wei Feng."A Comprehensive Loss Model and Comparison of AC and DC Boost Converters."Energies 14.11 (2021) 3131. DOI

2020

Vossos, Vagelis, Melanie Gaillet-Tournier, Daniel L Gerber, Bruce Nordman, Richard E Brown, Willy Bernal, Omkar Ghatpande, Avijit Saha, Michael Deru, and Stephen Frank."Direct-DC Power in Buildings: Identifying the Best Applications Today for Tomorrow’s Building Sector."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

2019

Santos, Arthur F.B, James Cale, Anushree Singh, Daniel L Gerber, Stephen Frank, Gerald P Duggan, Daniel Zimmerle, and Richard E Brown."Comparison of Load Models for Estimating Electrical Efficiency in DC Microgrids."2019 IEEE Third International Conference on DC Microgrids (ICDCM) (2019). DOI

Gerber, Daniel L, Richard Liou, and Richard E Brown."Energy-saving opportunities of direct-DC loads in buildings."Applied Energy 248 (2019) 274 - 287. DOI

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

Vossos, Vagelis, Karl Johnson, Margarita Kloss, Ruby Heard, Daniel L Gerber, Bruce Nordman, Eric Mannarino, Mukesh Khuttar, and Richard E Brown."Direct Current as an Integrating and Enabling Platform for Zero-Net Energy Buildings." (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).

2018

Gerber, Daniel L, Vagelis Vossos, Richard E Brown, Wei Feng, and Chris Marnay."Energy and Cost Benefits of DC Power in ZNE Buildings."American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) 2018 Summer Study, Pacific Grove, CA (2018).

Vossos, Vagelis, Daniel L Gerber, Youness Bennani Smires, Richard E Brown, and Chris Marnay."Techno-economic analysis of DC power distribution in commercial buildings."Applied Energy 230 (2018) 663 - 678. DOI

Gerber, Daniel L, Alan K Meier, Robert Hosbach, and Richard Liou."Zero Standby Solutions with Optical Energy Harvesting from a Laser Pointer."Electronics 7.11 (2018). DOI

Gerber, Daniel L, Vagelis Vossos, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, Bruce Nordman, and Richard E Brown."A simulation-based efficiency comparison of AC and DC power distribution networks in commercial buildings."Applied Energy 210 (2018) 1167-1187. DOI

Gerber, Daniel L, Alan K Meier, Robert Hosbach, and Richard Liou."Emerging Solutions to the Standby Power Problem."ACEEE 2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

2017

Gerber, Daniel L, Vagelis Vossos, Wei Feng, Aditya Khandekar, Chris Marnay, and Bruce Nordman."A simulation-based efficiency comparison of AC and DC power distribution networks in commercial buildings."Second International Conference on DC Microgrids (2017).

Vossos, Vagelis, Karl Johnson, Margarita Kloss, Mukesh Khattar, Daniel L Gerber, and Richard E Brown."Review of DC Power Distribution in Buildings: A Technology and Market Assessment." (2017). DOI