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)

2019

Hart, Nora, Tripp Shealy, Kristen Parrish, and Jessica Granderson."Cognitive barriers during monitoring-based commissioning of buildings."Sustainable Cities and Society 46 (2019) 101389. DOI

2014

Parrish, Kristen, Reshma Singh, and Szu-Cheng Chien."The Role of International Partnerships in Delivering Low- Energy Building Design: A Case Study of the Singapore Scientific Planning Process."Sustainable Cities and Society 14.1 (2014). DOI

2013

Parrish, Kristen, Jessica Granderson, Andrea C Mercado, and Paul A Mathew."Improving Energy Efficiency through Commissioning: Getting Started with Commissioning, Monitoring, and Maintaining Performance." (2013).

Parrish, Kristen, Alastair Robinson, and Cynthia Regnier."Commercial Buildings Partnerships – Overview of Higher Education Projects." (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).

2012

Parrish, Kristen, and Cynthia Regnier."Achieving Energy Savings in Municipal Construction in Long Beach, CA." (2012).

Parrish, Kristen, Andrea C Mercado, and Cynthia Regnier."Keeping Energy Savings in the LOOP." (2012).

Parrish, Kristen, and Cynthia Regnier."A Path to Successful Energy Retrofits: Early Collaboration Through Integrated Project Delivery Teams." (2012).

Sanders, Mark D, Kristen Parrish, and Paul A Mathew."Ready to Retrofit: The Process of Project Team Selection, Building Benchmarking, and Financing Commercial Building Energy Retrofit Projects." (2012).

2010

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, Johanna L Mathieu, and Kristen Parrish."Findings from Seven Years of Field Performance Data for Automated Demand Response in Commercial Buildings."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Yin, Rongxin, Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, and Kristen Parrish."Scenario Analysis of Peak Demand Savings for Commercial Buildings with Thermal Mass in California."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).