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

Pelken, P. Michael, Jianshun Zhang, Yixing Chen, Daniel J Rice, Zhaozhou Meng, Shewangizaw Semahegn, Lixing Gu, Hugh Henderson, Wei Feng, and Francesca Ling.""Virtual Design Studio”—Part 1: Interdisciplinary design processes."Building Simulation 6.3 (2013) 235 - 251. DOI

Zhang, Jianshun, P. Michael Pelken, Yixing Chen, Daniel J Rice, Zhaozhou Meng, Shewangizaw Semahegn, Lixing Gu, Hugh Henderson, Wei Feng, and Francesca Ling."“Virtual Design Studio”—Part 2: Introduction to overall and software framework."Building Simulation 6.3 (2013) 253 - 268. DOI

2008

Franco, Victor H, James D Lutz, Alexander B Lekov, and Lixing Gu."Furnace Blower Electricity: National and Regional Savings Potential." (2008) 14.

2007

Gu, Lixing."A Simplified Hot Water Distribution System Model (DOE-2)."Proc. Building Simulation 2007 (2007).

Gu, Lixing."Airflow Network Modeling in EnergyPlus."Proc. Building Simulation 2007 (2007).

2004

Crawley, Drury B, Linda K Lawrie, Curtis O Pedersen, Frederick C Winkelmann, Michael J Witte, Richard K Strand, Richard J Liesen, Walter F Buhl, Yu Joe Huang, Robert H Henninger, Jason Glazer, Daniel E Fisher, Don B Shirley, Brent T Griffith, Peter G Ellis, and Lixing Gu."EnergyPlus: An Update."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

2001

Kinney, Satkartar, Mary Ann Piette, Lixing Gu, and Philip Haves."Demand Relief and Weather Sensitivity in Large California Commercial Buildings."International Conference for Enhancing Building Operations (2001).

Kinney, Satkartar, Mary Ann Piette, Lixing Gu, and Philip Haves."Demand Relief and Weather Sensitivity in Large California Commercial Office Buildings."International Conference for Enhanced Building Operations (ICEBO) (2001).

Gu, Lixing, and Philip Haves."Guideline for the Operation of Demand-Responsive HVAC Systems." (2001).

1998

Parker, Danny S, Yu Joe Huang, Steven J Konopacki, Lisa M Gartland, John R Sherwin, and Lixing Gu."Measured and simulated performance of reflective roofing systems in residential buildings."ASHRAE Transactions 104 (1998).