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

Crowe, Eliot, Yimin Chen, Hayden Reeve, David Yuill, Amir Ebrahimifakhar, Yuxuan Chen, Lucas Troup, Amanda Smith, and Jessica Granderson."Empirical Analysis of the Prevalence of HVAC Faults in Commercial Buildings." (2023). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Samuel Fernandes, Eliot Crowe, Mrinalini Sharma, David A Jump, and Devan Johnson."Accuracy of hourly energy predictions for demand flexibility applications."Energy and Buildings Vol.295 No..113297 (2023). DOI

2022

Pritoni, Marco, Guanjing Lin, Yimin Chen, John House, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Market Barriers and Drivers for the Next Generation Fault Detection and Diagnostic Tools."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Langner, Rois, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Quantifying the Value of Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings through Field Study." (2022).

Crowe, Eliot, Yimin Chen, Jessica Granderson, Hayden Reeve, LucasTroup LucasTroup, David Yuill, and Yuxuan Chen."What We Learned From Analyzing 18 Million Rows of Commercial Buildings’ HVAC Fault Data."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Lin, Guanjing, Eliot Crowe, Valerie Nibler, and Jessica Granderson."Assessing EMIS Benefits: A new field evaluation protocol offers rigor and flexibility."The 7th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue (2022).

Lin, Guanjing, Hannah Kramer, Valerie Nibler, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Building Analytics Tool Deployment at Scale: Benefits, Costs, and Deployment Practices."Energies Vol.15 (2022). 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." (2022).

Chen, Yimin, Eliot Crowe, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."Integration of FDD Data to Aid HVAC System Maintenance."The 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2022) (2022). DOI

2021

Chen, Yimin, Guanjing Lin, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Development of a Unified Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults."Energies 14.17 (2021) 5581. DOI

Chen, Yimin, Guanjing Lin, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Development of a Unified Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults."Energies 14 (2021).

Granderson, Jessica, Mrinalini Sharma, Eliot Crowe, David A Jump, Samuel Fernandes, Samir Touzani, and Devan Johnson."Assessment of Model-Based Peak Electric Consumption Prediction for Commercial Buildings."Energy and Building 245 (2021). DOI

Kim, Janghyun, Kim Trenbath, Jessica Granderson, Yimin Chen, Eliot Crowe, Hayden Reeve, Sarah Newman, and Paul Ehrlich."Research challenges and directions in HVAC fault prevalence."Science and Technology for the Built Environment 27 (2021). DOI

Ebrahimifakhar, Amir, David Yuill, Amanda Smith, Jessica Granderson, Eliot Crowe, Yimin Chen, and Hayden Reeve."Analysis of Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics Records as an Indicator of HVAC Fault Prevalence: Methodology and Preliminary Results."International High Performance Buildings Conference (2021).

2020

Granderson, Jessica, Samuel Fernandes, Samir Touzani, Chih-Cheng Lee, Eliot Crowe, and Margaret Sheridan."Spatio-temporal impacts of a utility’s efficiency portfolio on the distribution grid."Energy 212.118669 (2020). DOI

Crowe, Eliot, Evan Mills, Tom Poeling, Claire Curtin, Diana Bjornskov, Liz Fischer, and Jessica Granderson."Building Commissioning Costs and Savings Across Three Decades and 1,500 North American Buildings."Energy and Buildings 227.110408 (2020). DOI

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

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).

2019

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Eliot Crowe, Samuel Fernandes, Shankar Earni, and Kaiyu Sun."Realizing high-accuracy low-cost measurement and verification for deep cost savings." (2019). DOI

Crowe, Eliot, Jessica Granderson, and Samuel Fernandes."From Theory to Practice: Lessons Learned from an Advanced M&V Commercial Pilot."International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2019).

Kramer, Hannah, Guanjing Lin, Claire Curtin, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Building analytics and monitoring-based commissioning: industry practice, costs, and savings."Energy Efficiency (2019). DOI

Kramer, Hannah, Guanjing Lin, Jessica Granderson, Claire Curtin, and Eliot Crowe."Synthesis of Year Two Outcomes in the Smart Energy Analytics Campaign." (2019). DOI

Touzani, Samir, Baptiste Ravache, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Statistical change detection of building energy consumption: Applications to savings estimation."Energy and Buildings 185 (2019) 123 - 136. DOI