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.
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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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2005

Matson, Nance, and Mary Ann Piette."Review of California and National Methods for Energy Performance Benchmarking of Commercial Buildings." (2005).

Piette, Mary Ann, David S. Watson, Naoya Motegi, and Norman Bourassa."Automated Demand Response and Commissioning."National Conference on Building Commissioning (2005).

2004

Crabtree, , Peter, Nick Kyriakopedi, Evan Mills, Philip Haves, Roland J. Otto, Mary Ann Piette, Peng Xu, Richard C. Diamond, Joseph J Deringer, and Chuck Frost."Developing a next generation community college curriculum for energy efficiency high performance building operators."2004 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (2004).

Watson, David S., Mary Ann Piette, Osman Sezgen, and Naoya Motegi."Machine to Machine (M2M) Technology in Demand Responsive Commercial Buildings."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).

Shockman, Christine, Mary Ann Piette, and Laurie ten Hope."Market Transformation Lessons Learned from an Automated Demand Response Test in Summer and Fall of 2003."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).

Motegi, Naoya, Mary Ann Piette, David S. Watson, and Osman Sezgen."Measurement and Evaluation Techniques for Automated Demand Response Demonstration."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, Mary Ann Piette, and James E. Braun."Peak Demand Reduction from Pre-Cooling with Zone Temperature Reset in an Office Building."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).

Bourassa, Norman, Mary Ann Piette, and Naoya Motegi."Evaluation of Retrocommissioning Persistence in Large Commercial Buildings."12th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2004).

Bourassa, Norman, Mary Ann Piette, and Naoya Motegi."An Evaluation of Savings and Measure Persistence from Retrocommissioning of Large Commercial Buildings."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).

Piette, Mary Ann."Automated DR in 5 Large Facilities." (2004).

Xu, Tengfang T., and Mary Ann Piette."Baseline Information Development for Energy Smart Schools - Applied Research, Field Testing, and Technology Integration." (2004).

Piette, Mary Ann."Pre-Cooling and Demand Response: Introductions and Overview." (2004).

2003

Motegi, Naoya, Mary Ann Piette, Satkartar Kinney, and Jim Dewey."Case Studies of Energy Information Systems and Related Technology: Operational Practices, Costs, and Benefits."International Conference for Enhanced Building Operators (2003).

Sellers, David, Hannah Friedman, Tudi Haasl, Norman Bourassa, and Mary Ann Piette."Control System Design Guide." (2003).

Sellers, David, Hannah Friedman, Tudi Haasl, Norman Bourassa, and Mary Ann Piette."Functional Testing Guide for Air Handling Systems: From the Fundamentals to the Field." (2003).

Bourassa, Norman, Mary Ann Piette, and Naoya Motegi."Evaluation of Persistence of Savings from SMUD Retrocommissioning Program." (2003).

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar Kinney, Norman Bourassa, Kristopher L. Kinney, and Christine Shockman."Summary and Early Findings from a Second Generation Information Monitoring and Diagnostic System."11th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2003).

Kinney, Satkartar, and Mary Ann Piette."California commercial building energy benchmarking." (2003).

Motegi, Naoya, Mary Ann Piette, Satkartar Kinney, and Karen Herter."Web-Based Energy Information Systems for Energy Management and Demand Response in Commercial Buildings." (2003).

2002

Motegi, Naoya, and Mary Ann Piette."Web-Based Energy Information Systems for Large Commercial Buildings."10th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2002).

Kinney, Satkartar, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of a California Commercial Building Benchmarking Database."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002) 7.109-7.120.

Motegi, Naoya, Mary Ann Piette, and Scott Wentworth."From Design Through Operations-Results from New Construction Performance Contract and Beyond."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar Kinney, Mark S. Levi, David McBride, and Stephen May."GEMnet Status and Accomplishments: GSA's Energy and Maintenance Network."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Piette, Mary Ann, Norman Bourassa, Tudi Hassl, David Sellers, Hannah Friedman, and Kenneth L. Gillespie."A New Guide for Commissioning Air Handling Systems: Using a Model Functional Test."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar Kinney, Norman Bourassa, Peng Xu, Philip Haves, and Christine Shockman."Early evaluation of a second generation information monitoring and diagnostic system." (2002).

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