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)

1990

Eto, Joseph H, Hashem Akbari, Robert G. Pratt, and Steven D. Braithwait."End-Use Load Shape Data Application, Estimation, and Collection: A State-of-the-Art Review."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1990) 30.

Akbari, Hashem, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, and Haider Taha."Summer heat islands, urban trees, and white surfaces."Proceedings of the 1990 ASHRAE Winter Conference (1990).

Huang, Yu Joe, Hashem Akbari, and Haider Taha."The wind-shielding and shading effects of trees on residential heating and cooling requirements."Proceedings of the ASHRAE Winter Conference (1990) 11-14.

1989

Akbari, Hashem, Joseph H Eto, Isaac Turiel, Kristin E. Heinemeier, Benoit Lebot, Bruce Nordman, and Leo I. Rainer."Integrated Estimation of Commercial Sector End‑Use Load Shapes and Energy Use Intensities, Final Report." (1989).

1988

Taha, Haider, Hashem Akbari, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, and Yu Joe Huang."Residential cooling loads and the urban heat island—the effects of albedo."Building and Environment 23 (1988) 271-283. DOI

Akbari, Hashem, Mashuri Warren, Anibal T De Almeida, Deborah J. Connell, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Use of energy management systems for performance monitoring of industrial load-shaping measures."Energy 13 (1988) 253-263. DOI

1987

Akbari, Hashem, Yu Joe Huang, Haider Taha, and Arthur H. Rosenfeld."The potential of vegetation in reducing summer cooling loads in residential buildings."Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 26.9 (1987) 1103-1116. DOI

Akbari, Hashem, Diego Samano, Atila Mertol, Fred S. Bauman, and Ron C. Kammerud."The effect of variations in convection coefficients on thermal energy storage in buildings Part II — Exterior massive walls and simulations."Energy and Buildings 10.1 (1987) 29-47. DOI

1986

Akbari, Hashem, Atila Mertol, Ashok J. Gadgil, Ron C. Kammerud, and Fred S. Bauman."Development of a Turbulent Near-Wall Temperature Model and Its Application to Channel Flow."Wärme- und Stoffübertragung 20.3 (1986) 189 - 201. DOI

Akbari, Hashem, Diego Samano, Atila Mertol, Fred S. Bauman, and Ron C. Kammerud."The effect of variations in convection coefficients on thermal energy storage in buildings Part I - Interior partition walls."Energy and Buildings 9 (1986) 195-211. DOI

1984

Borgers, Tom R., and Hashem Akbari."Free convective turbulent flow within the trombe wall channel."Solar Energy 33.3-4 (1984) 253-264. DOI

1979

Akbari, Hashem, and Tom R. Borgers."Free convective laminar flow within the trombe wall channel."Solar Energy 22.2 (1979) 165-174. DOI