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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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).

Kawamoto, Kaoru, Jonathan G. Koomey, Bruce Nordman, Richard E. Brown, Mary Ann Piette, Michael K. Ting, and Alan K. Meier."Electricity Used by Office Equipment and Network Equipment in the U.S.."Energy 27.3 (2002) 255-269. DOI

2001

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar T. Khalsa, and Philip Haves."Analysis of an Information Monitoring and Diagnostic System to Improve Building Operations."Energy and Buildings 33.8 (2001) 783-792. DOI

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).

Friedman, Hannah, and Mary Ann Piette."Comparative Guide to Emerging Diagnostic Tools for Large Commercial HVAC Systems." (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).

Friedman, Hannah, and Mary Ann Piette."Evaluation of Emerging Diagnostic Tools for Commercial HVAC Systems."International Conference for Enhanced Building Operations (ICEBO) (2001).

Friedman, Hannah, and Mary Ann Piette."Comparison of Emerging Diagnostic Tools for Large Commercial HVAC Systems."9th National Conference on Building Commisioning (2001).

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar Kinney, and Hannah Friedman."EMCS and Time-Series Energy Data Analysis in a Large Government Office Building."9th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2001).

Kawamoto, Kaoru, Jonathan G. Koomey, Michael K. Ting, Bruce Nordman, Richard E. Brown, Mary Ann Piette, and Alan K. Meier."Electricity Used by Office Equipment and Network Equipment in the U.S.: Detailed Report and Appendices." (2001).

Piette, Mary Ann, Joseph H Eto, Iain S. Walker, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Craig P. Wray, Bruce Nordman, Alan K. Meier, Philip Haves, Richard C. Diamond, Jeffrey P. Harris, Mithra M. Moezzi, Christopher T. Payne, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Demand-Responsive and Efficient Building Systems as a Resource for Electricity Reliability." (2001).

2000

Kawamoto, Kaoru, Jonathan G. Koomey, Bruce Nordman, Richard E. Brown, Mary Ann Piette, and Alan K. Meier."Electricity Used by Office Equipment and Network Equipment in the U.S.."2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2000).

Sartor, Dale A., Mary Ann Piette, William F. Tschudi, and Stephen Fok."Strategies for Energy Benchmarking in Cleanrooms and Laboratory-Type Facilities."2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2000).

Shockman, Christine, and Mary Ann Piette."Innovation Adoption Processes for Third Party Property Management Companies."2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Efficiency and Sustainability (2000).

Piette, Mary Ann, Satkartar T. Khalsa, and Philip Haves."Use of an Information Monitoring and Diagnostic System for Commissioning and Ongoing Operations."8th National Conference on Building Commissioning PECI (2000).