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)

2022

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

2020

Haves, Philip, Baptiste Ravache, and Mehry Yazdanian."Accuracy of HVAC Load Predictions: Validation of EnergyPlus and DOE-2 using FLEXLAB Measurements." (2020). DOI

2019

2018

Wetter, Michael, Jianjun Hu, Milica Grahovac, Brent Eubanks, and Philip Haves."OpenBuildingControl: Modeling Feedback Control as a Step Towards Formal Design, Specification, Deployment and Verification of Building Control Sequences."2018 Building Performance Modeling Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2018).

Pang, Xiufeng, Carlos Duarte, Philip Haves, and Frank Chuang."Testing and demonstration of model predictive control applied to a radiant slab cooling system in a building test facility."Energy and Buildings 172 (2018) 432 - 441. DOI

Jia, Hongyuan, Xiufeng Pang, and Philip Haves."Experimentally-determined characteristics of radiant systems for office buildings."Applied Energy 221 (2018) 41 - 54. DOI

2017

Parker, Andrew, Philip Haves, Subhash Jegi, Vishal Garg, and Baptiste Ravache."Development of Automated Procedures to Generate Reference Building Models for ASHRAE Standard 90.1 and India’s Building Energy Code and Implementation in OpenStudio."Building Simulation 2017 (2017).

Haves, Philip, Xiufeng Pang, and Hongyuan Jia."Experimentally-Determined Characteristics of Radiant Systems for Commercial Buildings." (2017).

2015

Mills, Evan, Jessica Granderson, Wanyu R Chan, Richard C Diamond, Philip Haves, Bruce Nordman, Paul A Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Gerald Robinson, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Green, Clean, & Mean: Pushing the Energy Envelope in Tech Industry Buildings." (2015).

2014

Haves, Philip, Craig P Wray, David A Jump, Daniel Veronica, and Christopher Farley."Development of Diagnostic and Measurement and Verification Tools for Commercial Buildings." (2014).

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.

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and Walter F Buhl."An Improved Simple Chilled Water Cooling Coil Model."SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference (2012).

Dutton, Spencer M, Hui Zhang, Yongchao Zhai, Edward A Arens, Youness Bennani Smires, Samuel L Brunswick, Kyle S Konis, and Philip Haves."Application of a stochastic window use model in EnergyPlus."SimBuild 2012, 5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA, August 1-3, 2012 (2012).

Najafi, Massieh, David M Auslander, Peter L Bartlett, Philip Haves, and Michael D Sohn."Application of machine learning in the fault diagnostics of air handling units."Applied Energy 96 (2012) 347 - 358. DOI

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and John Breshears."The Energy Saving Potential of Membrane-Based Enthalpy Recovery in VAV System for Commercial Office Buildings."SimBuild 2012 (2012).

Maile, Tobias, Mangesh Basarkar, James O'Donnell, Philip Haves, and Kevin Settlemyre."Mapping Hvac Systems for Simulation In EnergyPlus."SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference (2012).

Brunswick, Samuel L, Spencer M Dutton, David W Banks, K Adams, and Philip Haves."A Framework for Estimating the Technical Potential of Natural Ventilation Renovations of Existing Commercial Buildings in California."SimBuild 2012, 5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA, August 1-3, 2012 (2012).

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and John Breshears."The Energy Saving Potential of Membrane-Based Enthalpy Recovery in Vav Systems for Commercial Office Buildings."SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference (2012).

2011

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).

See, Richard, Philip Haves, Pramod Sreekanathan, Mangesh Basarkar, James O'Donnell, and Kevin Settlemyre."Development of a user interface for the EnergyPlus whole building energy simulation program."IBPSA Building Simulation 2011 (2011).

Basarkar, Mangesh, Philip Haves, Xiufeng Pang, Liping Wang, and Tianzhen Hong."Modeling and simulation of HVAC faults in EnergyPlus."Building Simulation 2011 (2011).

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.

O'Donnell, James, Richard See, Cody Rose, Tobias Maile, Vladimir Bazjanac, and Philip Haves."SimModel: A domain data model for whole building energy simulation."IBPSA Building Simulation 2011 (2011).