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)

2013

O'Donnell, James, Tobias Maile, Cody Rose, Natasa Mrazovic, Elmer Morrissey, Cynthia Regnier, Kristen Parrish, and Vladimir Bazjanac."Transforming BIM to BEM: Generation of Building Geometry for the NASA Ames Sustainability Base BIM." (2013).

2011

Bazjanac, Vladimir, Tobias Maile, Cody Rose, James O'Donnell, Natasa Mrazovic, Elmer Morrissey, and Benjamin Welle."An Assessment of the use of Building Energy Performance Simulation in Early Design."IBPSA Building Simulation 2011 (2011).

2007

Gallachóir, Brian Ó, Marcus Keane, Elmer Morrissey, and James O'Donnell."Using Indicators to Profile Energy Consumption and Inform Energy Policy in a University - A Case Study in Ireland."Energy and Buildings 39.8 (2007) 913-922. DOI

2005

Morrissey, Elmer, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and John F McCarthy."Building Effectiveness Communication Ratios for Improved Building Life Cycle Management."IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2005 (2005).

O'Donnell, James, Elmer Morrissey, Marcus Keane, and Brian Ó Gallachóir."Reducing Building Operational Cost Through Environmental Effectiveness Ratios."Building Simulation 2005 IBPSA International Conference (2005).

2004

O'Donnell, James, Elmer Morrissey, Marcus Keane, and Vladimir Bazjanac."BuildingPI: A Future Tool for Building Life Cycle Analysis."SimBuild 2004 1st International Conference of IBPSA-USA (2004).

Morrissey, Elmer, James O'Donnell, Marcus Keane, and Vladimir Bazjanac."Specification and Implementation of IFC Based Performance Metrics to Support Building Life Cycle Assessment of Hybrid Energy Systems."SimBuild 2004: Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Morrissey, Elmer, James O'Donnell, Marcus Keane, and Vladimir Bazjanac."Specification and Implementation of IFC Based Performance Metrics to Support Building Life Cycle Assessment of Hybrid Energy Systems."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Morrissey, Elmer, James O'Donnell, Marcus Keane, and Vladimir Bazjanac."Specification and Implementation of IFC-Based Performance Metrics to Support Building Life Cycle Assessment of Hybrid Energy Systems."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Morrissey, Elmer, James O'Donnell, Marcus Keane, and Vladimir Bazjanac."Specification of IFC Based Performance Metrics to Support Building Life Cycle Analysis of Hybrid Energy Systems."SimBuild 2004 1st International Conference of IBPSA-USA (2004).