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)

2023

Grahovac, Milica, Paul Ehrlich, Jianjun Hu, and Michael Wetter."Model-based data center cooling controls comparative co-design."Science and Technology for the Built Environment (2023). DOI

2022

Grahovac, Milica, Paul Ehrlich, Jianjun Hu, and Michael Wetter."Data Center Chiller Plant: Simulation-based Comparative Control Design Case Study."2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuildProceedings of the 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild 10 (2022). DOI

Wetter, Michael, Paul Ehrlich, Antoine Gautier, Milica Grahovac, Philip Haves, Jianjun Hu, Anand Prakash, Dave Robin, and Kun Zhang."OpenBuildingControl: Digitizing the control delivery from building energy modeling to specification, implementation and formal verification."Energy 238 (2022) 121501. DOI

2021

Wetter, Michael, Jianjun Hu, Anand Prakash, Paul Ehrlich, Gabe Fierro, Milica Grahovac, Marco Pritoni, Lisa Rivalin, and Dave Robin."Modelica-json: Transforming energy models to digitize the control delivery process."IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2021 (2021).

Kim, Janghyun, Kim Trenbath, Jessica Granderson, Yimin Chen, Eliot Crowe, Hayden Reeve, Sarah Newman, and Paul Ehrlich."Research challenges and directions in HVAC fault prevalence."Science and Technology for the Built Environment 27 (2021). DOI

Wetter, Michael, Paul Ehrlich, Antoine Gautier, Milica Grahovac, Philip Haves, Jianjun Hu, and Kun Zhang."Open Building Control." (2021).

2018

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Rupam Singla, Ebony Mayhorn, Paul Ehrlich, and Draguna Vrabie."Commercial Fault Detection and Diagnostics Tools: What They Offer, How They Differ, and What’s Still Needed."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Fares, Robert, Marina Sofos, Jared Langevin, Robert Hosbach, Alan K. Meier, Joshua Butzbaugh, and Paul Ehrlich."Improving Characterization of Miscellaneous Energy Loads in Energy Demand Models."2018 ACEEE Summer Study (2018).

2017

Granderson, Jessica, Rupam Singla, Ebony Mayhorn, Paul Ehrlich, Draguna Vrabie, and Stephen Frank."Characterization and Survey of Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics Tools." (2017).

2009

Ehrlich, Paul, and Richard C. Diamond."Smart Buildings:Business Case and Action Plan." (2009).