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)

2017

Piette, Mary Ann, Tianzhen Hong, William J. Fisk, Norman Bourassa, Wanyu R. Chan, Yixing Chen, H.Y. Iris Cheung, Toshifumi Hotchi, Margarita Kloss, Sang Hoon Lee, Phillip N. Price, Oren Schetrit, Kaiyu Sun, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Rongpeng Zhang."Small and Medium Building Efficiency Toolkit and Community Demonstration Program." (2017). DOI

2015

Price, Phillip N., Mary Ann Piette, Jessica Granderson, and John Elliott."Automated Measurement and Verification of Transactive Energy Systems, Load Shape Analysis, and Consumer Engagement."GridWise® Architecture Council Transactive Energy Conference (2015).

Price, Phillip N., Bruce Nordman, Mary Ann Piette, Richard E. Brown, Janie Page, Steven Lanzisera, and Jessica Granderson."Automated Measurement and Verification and Innovative Occupancy Detection Technologies." (2015).

Hong, Tianzhen, Mary Ann Piette, Yixing Chen, Sang Hoon Lee, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, Rongpeng Zhang, Kaiyu Sun, and Phillip N. Price."Commercial Building Energy Saver: An energy retrofit analysis toolkit."Applied Energy 159 (2015). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Phillip N. Price, David A. Jump, Nathan J. Addy, and Michael D. Sohn."Automated Measurement and Verification: Performance of Public Domain Whole-Building Electric Baseline Models."Applied Energy 144 (2015) 106-113. DOI

Price, Phillip N.."Review of Prior Commercial Building Energy Efficiency Retrofit Evaluation: A Report to Snohomish Public Utility District." (2015) 25.

Granderson, Jessica, Phillip N. Price, Stephen Czarnecki, Janie Page, Richard E. Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of Diagnostic and M&V Agents, and Implementation in an Occupied Office Environment." (2015).

Price, Phillip N., Nathan J. Addy, and Sila Kiliccote."Predictability and Persistance of Demand Response Load Shed in Buildings." (2015).

2014

Price, Phillip N., and Andrew Gelman."Centralized Analysis of Local Data, With Dollars and Lives on the Line: Lessons From The Home Radon Experience."Data Analytics in Social Science, Government, and Industry (2014).

Walter, Travis, Phillip N. Price, and Michael D. Sohn."Uncertainty estimation improves energy measurement and verification procedures."Applied Energy 130 (2014) 230 - 236. DOI

Granderson, Jessica, David A. Jump, Phillip N. Price, and Michael D. Sohn."Performance Metrics and Objective Testing Methods for Energy Baseline Modeling Software." (2014).

Breunig, Hanna, Jens T. Birkholzer, Andrea Borgia, Phillip N. Price, Curtis M. Oldenburg, and Thomas E. McKone."Assessment of Brine Management for Geologic Carbon Sequestration." (2014).

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N. Price."Development and Application of a Statistical Methodology to Evaluate the Predictive Accuracy of Building Energy Baseline Models."Energy 66 (2014) 981-990. DOI

Coles, Henry C., Yong Qin, and Phillip N. Price."Comparing Server Energy Use and Efficiency Using Small Sample Sizes." (2014).

Hult, Erin L., Henry Willem, Phillip N. Price, Toshifumi Hotchi, Marion L. Russell, and Brett C. Singer."Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde exposure mitigation in US residences: In-home measurements of ventilation control and source control." (2014).

2013

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard E. Brown, Phillip N. Price, Janie Page, Jessica Granderson, David Riess, Stephen Czarnecki, Girish Ghatikar, and Steven Lanzisera."Automated Measurement and Signaling Systems for the Transactional Network." (2013).

Price, Phillip N., Jessica Granderson, Michael D. Sohn, Nathan J. Addy, and David A. Jump."Commercial Building Energy Baseline Modeling Software: Performance Metrics and Method Testing with Open Source Models and Implications for Proprietary Software Testing." (2013).

Jump, David A., Phillip N. Price, Jessica Granderson, and Michael D. Sohn."Functional Testing Protocols for Commercial Building Efficiency Baseline Modeling Software." (2013).

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N. Price."Development and Application of a Statistical Methodology to Evaluate the Predictive Accuracy of Building Energy Baseline Models." (2013).

Breunig, Hanna, Jens T. Birkholzer, Andrea Borgia, Curtis M. Oldenburg, Phillip N. Price, and Thomas E. McKone."Regional evaluation of brine management for geologic carbon sequestration."International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 14 (2013) 39 - 48. DOI

2012

Hult, Erin L., Darryl J. Dickerhoff, and Phillip N. Price."Measurement Methods to Determine Air Leakage Between Adjacent Zones." (2012).

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N. Price."Evaluation of the Predictive Accuracy of Five Whole-Building Baseline Models." (2012).

Singer, Brett C., William W. Delp, Michael G. Apte, and Phillip N. Price."Performance of Installed Cooking Exhaust Devices."Indoor Air 22.3 (2012) 224-234. DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Phillip N. Price, Mary Ann Piette, Geoffrey C. Bell, Steve Pierson, Edward Koch, Jeremy Carnam, Hugo Pedro, John Hernandez, and Albert K. Chiu."Field Testing of Automated Demand Response for Integration of Renewable Resources in California’s Ancillary Services Market for Regulation Products." (2012).

2011

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Ben Rosenblum, R. Lily Hu, Daniel Harris, Paul A. Mathew, Phillip N. Price, Geoffrey C. Bell, Srinivas Katipamula, and Michael Brambley."Energy Information Handbook: Applications for Energy-Efficient Building Operations." (2011).