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)

2015

Jorissen, Filip, Michael Wetter, and Lieve Helsen."Simulation Speed Analysis and Improvements of Modelica Models for Building Energy Simulation." (2015).

2014

Bonvini, Marco, Michael D Sohn, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette."Robust on-line fault detection diagnosis for HVAC components based on nonlinear state estimation techniques."Applied Energy 124 (2014) 156 - 166. DOI

2013

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Michael Wetter, and Wangda Zuo."Functional Mock-Up Unit Import in EnergyPlus For Co-Simulation."13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation (2013).

Zuo, Wangda, Andrew McNeil, Michael Wetter, and Eleanor S Lee."Acceleration of the matrix multiplication of Radiance three phase daylighting simulations with parallel computing on heterogeneous hardware of personal computer."Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2013). DOI

2012

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Kaustubh Phalak, Wangda Zuo, and Michael Wetter."Validation and Application of the Room Model of the Modelica Buildings Library."Proc. of the 9th International Modelica Conference (2012).

Pang, Xiufeng, Michael Wetter, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Philip Haves."A framework for simulation-based real-time whole building performance assessment."Building and Environment 54 (2012) 100-108.

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Responsive and Intelligent Building Information and Control for Low-Energy and Optimized Grid Integration."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Michael Wetter, and Wangda Zuo."Validation of the Window Model of the Modelica Buildings Library." (2012).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Intelligent Building Energy Information and Control Systems for Low-Energy Operations and Optimal Demand Response."IEEE Design and Test of Computers 29.4 (2012) 8-16. DOI

2011

Wetter, Michael."GenOpt Generic Optimization Program, User Manual, Version 3.1.0." (2011).

Zuo, Wangda, Andrew McNeil, Michael Wetter, and Eleanor S Lee."Acceleration of Radiance for Lighting Simulation by using Parallel Computing with OpenCL."12th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (Building Simulation 2011) (2011) p. 110-117.

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Michael Wetter, Zhengwei Li, Xiufeng Pang, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Philip Haves."BACnet and Analog/Digital Interfaces of the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed."Proc. of the 12th IBPSA Conference (2011) p. 294-301.

Haves, Philip, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Michael Wetter, Zhengwei Li, and Xiufeng Pang."BacNet and Analog/Digital Interfaces of the Building Controls Virtual Testbed." (2011).

Wetter, Michael, Wangda Zuo, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Modeling of Heat Transfer in Rooms in the Modelica "Buildings" Library."12th Conference of International Building Performance Ssimulation Association (2011) 1096-1103.

Pang, Xiufeng, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Zheng O'Neill, Philip Haves, Michael Wetter, and Trevor Bailey."Real-time Building Energy Simulation using EnergyPlus and the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed."Proc. of the 12th IBPSA Conference (2011) p. 2890-2896.

Wetter, Michael."Co-simulation of building energy and control systems with the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 3.4 (2011). DOI

Zuo, Wangda, and Michael Wetter."Advanced simulations of building energy and control systems with an example of chilled water plant modeling."the 8th International Forum and Workshop on Combined Heat, Air, Moisture and Pollutant Simulations (CHAMPS 2011) (2011).

Wetter, Michael, Wangda Zuo, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Recent developments of the Modelica Buildings library for building energy and control systems."the 8th International Modelica Conference (2011).

2010

Trcka, Marija, Jan Hensen, and Michael Wetter."Co-simulation for performance prediction of integrated building and HVAC systems - An analysis of solution characteristics using a two-body system."Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 18.7 (2010) 957-970. DOI

Kämpf, Jérôme Henri, Michael Wetter, and Darren Robinson."A comparison of global optimization algorithms with standard benchmark functions and real-world applications using EnergyPlus."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 3.2 (2010) 103-120. DOI

Coffey, Brian E, Philip Haves, Michael Wetter, Brandon Hencey, Francesco Borrelli, Yudong Ma, and Sorin Bengea."Development and Testing of Model Predictive Control for a Campus Chilled Water Plant with Thermal Storage."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

2009

Wetter, Michael."Modelica Library for Building Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems."Proceedings of the 7th International Modelica Conference 43 (2009). DOI

Franke, Rüdiger, Francesco Casella, Martin Otter, Katrin Proelss, Michael Sielemann, and Michael Wetter."Standardization of thermo-fluid modeling in Modelica.Fluid 1.0."Proc. of the 7th International Modelica Conference 43 (2009). DOI

Wetter, Michael."A Modelica-based model library for building energy and control systems."Proceedings of the 11th IBPSA Conference (2009) 652-659.

Trcka, Marija, Michael Wetter, and Jan Hensen."An implementation of co-simulation for performance prediction of innovative integrated HVAC systems in buildings."Proc. of the 11th IBPSA Conference (2009) 724-731.