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)

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).

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).

Xu, Peng."Results of from Santa Rosa Federal Building." (2004).

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, and Joseph J Deringer."A simulation-based testing and training environment for building controls."Simbuild 2004 (2004).

2003

Xu, Peng, Moosung Kim, and Philip Haves."An automated functional test and fault detection method." (2003).

Xu, Peng, Moosung Kim, and Philip Haves."Field tests of model based component level fault detection method." (2003).

Xu, Peng, and Philip Haves."Library of component reference models for fault detection." (2003).

Martin, Rodney, Peng Xu, Moosung Kim, and Philip Haves."Software toolbox for component-level model-based fault detection methods." (2003).

2002

Bazjanac, Vladimir, James Forester, Philip Haves, Darko Sucic, and Peng Xu."HVAC Component Data Modeling Using Industry Foundation Classes."System Simulation in Buildings ’02 (2002).

Xu, Peng, and Philip Haves."Field Testing of Component-Level Model-Based Fault Detection Methods for Mixing Boxes and VAV Fan Systems."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

Xu, Peng, and Philip Haves."Field Testing of Component-Level Model-Based Fault Detection Methods for Mixing Boxes and VAV Fan Systems."2002 American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy 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).

Bazjanac, Vladimir, James Forester, Philip Haves, Darko Sucic, and Peng Xu."HVAC Component Data Modeling Using Industry Foundation Classes."5th International Conference on System Simulation in Buildings 2002 (2002).