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)

2017

Alstone, Peter, Jennifer Potter, Mary Ann Piette, Peter Schwartz, Michael A. Berger, Laurel N. Dunn, Sarah Josephine Smith, Michael D. Sohn, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Sofia Stensson, and Julia Szinai."Demand Response Potential for California SubLAPs and Local Capacity Planning Areas: An Addendum to the 2025 California Demand Response Potential Study - Phase 2." (2017).

Pritoni, Marco, Mary Ann Piette, and Bruce Nordman."Accessing Wi-Fi Data for Occupancy Sensing." (2017). DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Tianzhen Hong, William J. Fisk, Norman Bourassa, Wanyu R. Chan, Yixing Chen, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Toshifumi Hotchi, Margarita Kloss, Sang Hoon Lee, Phillip N. Price, Oren Schetrit, Kaiyu Sun, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Rongpeng Zhang."Small and Medium Building Efficiency Toolkit and Community Demonstration Program." (2017). DOI

Pang, Xiufeng, Mary Ann Piette, and Nan Zhou."Characterizing variations in variable air volume system controls."Energy and Buildings 135 (2017) 166 - 175. DOI

Chen, Yixing, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Automatic Generation and Simulation of Urban Building Energy Models Based on City Datasets for City-Scale Building Retrofit Analysis." (2017).

Luo, Xuan, Tianzhen Hong, Yixing Chen, and Mary Ann Piette."Electric Load Shape Benchmarking for Small- and Medium-Sized Commercial Buildings." (2017).

2016

Pass, Rebecca Zarin, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette."A Tale of Three District Energy Systems: Metrics and Future Opportunities."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Granderson, Jessica, Marco Bonvini, Mary Ann Piette, Janie Page, Guanjing Lin, and R. Lily Hu."Can We Practically Bring Physics-based Modeling Into Operational Analytics Tools?."Proceedings of the 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Pacific Grove, CA, August 2016 (2016).

Piette, Mary Ann, Douglas R. Black, and Rongxin Yin."Comparison of Actual Costs to Integrate Commercial Buildings with the Grid."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Alstone, Peter, Jennifer Potter, Mary Ann Piette, Peter Schwartz, Michael A. Berger, Laurel N. Dunn, Sarah Josephine Smith, Michael D. Sohn, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Sofia Stensson, and Julia Szinai."2015 California Demand Response Potential Study - Charting California's Demand response Future: Interim Report on Phase 1 Results." (2016).

2015

Piette, Mary Ann, Oren Schetrit, Sila Kiliccote, H.Y. Iris Cheung, and Becky Zilu LI."Costs to Automate Demand Response – Taxonomy and Results from Field Studies and Programs." (2015).

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, Girish Ghatikar, Aimee T. McKane, Nance Matson, Janie Page, Jason S. MacDonald, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Douglas R. Black, and Rongxin Yin."Demand Response Research Center - Final Report." (2015).

Lanzisera, Steven, Andrew R. Weber, Anna Liao, Oren Schetrit, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Field Testing of Telemetry for Demand Response Control of Small Loads." (2015).

Price, Phillip N., Mary Ann Piette, Jessica Granderson, and John Elliott."Automated Measurement and Verification of Transactive Energy Systems, Load Shape Analysis, and Consumer Engagement."GridWise® Architecture Council Transactive Energy Conference (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Douglas R. Black, Mary Ann Piette, and Klaus Schiess."Control of Thermal Energy Storage in Commercial Buildings for California Utility Tariffs and Demand Response." (2015).

Price, Phillip N., Bruce Nordman, Mary Ann Piette, Richard E. Brown, Janie Page, Steven Lanzisera, and Jessica Granderson."Automated Measurement and Verification and Innovative Occupancy Detection Technologies." (2015).

Hong, Tianzhen, Mary Ann Piette, Yixing Chen, Sang Hoon Lee, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, Rongpeng Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, and Phillip N. Price."Commercial Building Energy Saver: An energy retrofit analysis toolkit."Applied Energy 159 (2015). DOI

Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, and Sarah C. Taylor-Lange."Energy retrofit analysis toolkit for commercial buildings: A review." 89 (2015) 1087-1100. DOI

Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Mary Ann Piette, Geof Sawaya, Yixing Chen, and Sarah C. Taylor-Lange."Accelerating the energy retrofit of commercial buildings using a database of energy efficiency performance."Energy (2015). DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Daniel Olsen, Michael D. Sohn, and Mary Ann Piette."Characterization of demand response in the commercial, industrial, and residential sectors in the United States."Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment 5.3 (2015) 288 - 304. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Mary Ann Piette, and Ella Hae Yeon Sung."Diffusion of Automated Grid Transactions Through Energy Efficiency Codes."ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, 2015 (2015).

Mills, Evan, Jessica Granderson, Wanyu R. Chan, Richard C. Diamond, Philip Haves, Bruce Nordman, Paul A. Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Gerald Robinson, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Green, Clean, & Mean: Pushing the Energy Envelope in Tech Industry Buildings." (2015).

Page, Janie, Charles McParland, Mary Ann Piette, and Stephen Czarnecki."Design of an Open Smart Energy Gateway for Smart Meter Data Management." (2015).

Granderson, Jessica, Phillip N. Price, Stephen Czarnecki, Janie Page, Richard E. Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of Diagnostic and M&V Agents, and Implementation in an Occupied Office Environment." (2015).