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

Levinson, Ronnen M., Edward A. Arens, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Vincenzo Corrado, Haley E. Gilbert, Peter Holzer, Pierre Jaboyedoff, Amanda Krelling, Anaïs Machard, Wendy Miller, Mamak P.Tootkaboni, Stephen E. Selkowitz, and Hui Zhang."Policy Recommendations from IEA EBC Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings." (2023). DOI

2020

Wang, Zhe, Hui Zhang, Yingdong Hi, Maohui Luo, Ziwei Li, Tianzhen Hong, and Borong Lin."Revisiting individual and group differences in thermal comfort based on ASHRAE database."Energy and Buildings 219 (2020) 110017. DOI

Zhu, Weina, Wei Feng, Xiaodong Li, and Zhihui Zhang."Analysis of the embodied carbon dioxide in the building sector: A case of China."Journal of Cleaner Production 269 (2020) 122438. DOI

2019

Zhu, Weina, Zhihui Zhang, Xiaodong Li, Wei Feng, and Jifeng Li."Assessing the effects of technological progress on energy efficiency in the construction industry: A case of China."Journal of Cleaner Production 238 (2019) 117908. DOI

2018

Ličina, Veronika Földváry, Toby Cheung, Hui Zhang, Richard de Dear, Thomas Parkinson, Edward A. Arens, Chungyoon Chun, Stefano Schiavon, Maohui Luo, Gail Brager, Peixian Li, Soazig Kaam, Michael A. Adebamowo, Mary Myla Andamon, Francesco Babich, Chiheb Bouden, Hana Bukovianska, Christhina Candido, Bin Cao, Salvatore Carlucci, David K.W. Cheong, Joon-Ho Choi, Malcolm Cook, Paul Cropper, Max Deuble, Shahin Heidari, Madhavi Indraganti, Quan Jin, Hyojin Kim, Jungsoo Kim, Kyle S. Konis, Manoj K. Singh, Alison Kwok, Roberto Lamberts, Dennis Loveday, Jared Langevin, Sanyogita Manu, Cornelia Moosmann, Fergus Nicol, Ryozo Ooka, Nigel A. Oseland, Lorenzo Pagliano, Dušan Petráš, Rajan Rawal, Ramona Romero, Hom Bahadur Rijal, Chandra Sekhar, Marcel Schweiker, Federico Tartarini, Shin-ichi Tanabe, Kwok Wai Tham, Despoina Teli, Jorn Toftum, Linda Toledo, Kazuyo Tsuzuki, Renata De Vecchi, Andreas Wagner, Zhaojun Wang, Holger Wallbaum, Lynda Webb, Liu Yang, Yingxin Zhu, Yongchao Zhai, Yufeng Zhang, and Xiang Zhou."Development of the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II."Building and Environment 142 (2018) 502 - 512. DOI

2017

Delaire, Caroline, Susan Amrose, Minghui Zhang, James Hake, and Ashok J. Gadgil."How do operating conditions affect As(III) removal by iron electrocoagulation?."Water Research 112 (2017) 185 - 194. DOI

2012

Dutton, Spencer M., Hui Zhang, Yongchao Zhai, Edward A. Arens, Youness Bennani Smires, Samuel L. Brunswick, Kyle S. Konis, and Philip Haves."Application of a stochastic window use model in EnergyPlus."SimBuild 2012, 5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA, August 1-3, 2012 (2012).

Bauman, Fred S., Thomas L. Webster, Stefano Schiavon, Hui Zhang, Edward A. Arens, Kwang Ho Lee, Tyler Hoyt, Darryl J. Dickerhoff, Timothy Moore, Wilmer Pasut, Sabine Hoffmann, Tiefeng Yu, and Elliot Nahman."Advanced Design and Commissioning Tools for Energy-Efficient Building Technologies."Final report to California Energy Commission (CEC) Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2012).

2011

Bauman, Fred S., Thomas L. Webster, David Lehrer, Edward A. Arens, Hui Zhang, John Goins, Darryl J. Dickerhoff, Stefano Schiavon, Sabine Hoffmann, Tiefeng Yu, David Fannon, Mark Perepelitza, and Krystyna Zelenay."Advanced Integrated Systems Tools Development and Performance Testing."Final report to California Energy Commission (CEC) Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2011).

1995

Huang, Yu Joe, and Hui Zhang."Analysis of Climatic Conditions and Preliminary Assessment of Alternative Cooling Strategies for Houses in California Transition Climate Zones." (1995).

1992

Bauman, Fred S., David Faulkner, Edward A. Arens, William J. Fisk, Lucy P. Johnston, Pleasant J. McNeel, David Pih, and Hui Zhang."Air Movement, Comfort, and Ventilation in Workstations."ASHRAE Transactions 98.1 (1992) 756-780.

1991

Bauman, Fred S., David Faulkner, Edward A. Arens, William J. Fisk, Lucy P. Johnston, Pleasant J. McNeel, David Pih, and Hui Zhang."Air movement, comfort and ventilation in partitioned workstations."ASHRAE Transactions 98 Part 1 (1991) 756-780.