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)

2014

Selkowitz, Stephen E, Robert J Hitchcock, Robin Mitchell, Maurya McClintock, and Kevin Settlemyre."COMFEN – Early Design Tool for Commercial Facades and Fenestration Systems." (2014).

2009

Lee, Eleanor S, Stephen E Selkowitz, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Joseph H Klems, Robert D Clear, Kyle S Konis, Robert J Hitchcock, Mehry Yazdanian, Robin Mitchell, and Maria Konstantoglou."High Performance Building Facade Solutions: PIER Final Project Report." (2009).

2006

Haves, Philip, Robert J Hitchcock, Kenneth L Gillespie, Martha Brook, Christine Shockman, Joseph J Deringer, and Kristopher L Kinney."Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Haves, Philip, Robert J Hitchcock, Kenneth L Gillespie, Martha Brook, Christine Shockman, Joseph J Deringer, and Kristopher L Kinney."Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Haves, Philip, Robert J Hitchcock, Kenneth L Gillespie, Martha Brook, Christine Shockman, Joseph J Deringer, and Kristopher L Kinney."Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Huang, Yu Joe, Norman Bourassa, Walter F Buhl, Ender Erdem, and Robert J Hitchcock."Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 Compliance Calculations."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Huang, Yu Joe, Norman Bourassa, Walter F Buhl, Ender Erdem, and Robert J Hitchcock."Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 compliance calculations."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Gillespie, Kenneth L, Philip Haves, Robert J Hitchcock, Joseph J Deringer, and Kristopher L Kinney."A Guide for Specifying Performance Monitoring Systems in Commercial and Institutional Buildings."14th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2006).

2005

Carroll, William L, and Robert J Hitchcock."DElight2 Daylighting Analysis in Energy Plus: Integration and Preliminary User Results."Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Haves, Philip, David S Watson, Norman Bourassa, and Robert J Hitchcock."Case Studies and Needs Assessment for University Campus Energy Monitoring." (2005).

2002

Hitchcock, Robert J."Software Interoperability for Energy Simulation."2003 ASHRAE Winter Meeting (2002).

Hitchcock, Robert J."Metracker Version 1.5: Life-Cycle Performance Metrics Tracking." (2002).

1999

Hitchcock, Robert J, Mary Ann Piette, and Stephen E Selkowitz."A Building Life-Cycle Information System for Tracking Building Performance Metrics."8th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components (1999).

1998

Hitchcock, Robert J, Mary Ann Piette, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Documenting Performance Metrics in a Building Life-Cycle Information System."1998 Green Building Challenge Conference (1998).

Hitchcock, Robert J, Mary Ann Piette, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Performance Metrics and Life-Cycle Information Management for Building Performance Assurance."1998 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).

Piette, Mary Ann, Robert J Hitchcock, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Evaluation and Development of Information Technology and Performance Metrics for Design, Commissioning, and Operations." (1998).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M, Robert J Hitchcock, Charles K Ehrlich, and William L Carroll."New Tools for the Evaluation of Daylighting Strategies and Technologies."International Daylighting Conference '98 (1998).

1996

Selkowitz, Stephen E, Mary Ann Piette, Konstantinos M Papamichael, Dale A Sartor, Robert J Hitchcock, and Frank Olken."Interoperable, Life-Cycle Tools for Assuring Building Performance: An Overview of a Commercial Building Initiative."U.S. Green Buildings Council Third Annual Conference (1996).

Koles, Gretchen M, Robert J Hitchcock, and Max H Sherman."Metrics for Building Performance Assurance." (1996).

1995

Hitchcock, Robert J."Advancing Lighting and Daylighting Simulation: The Transition from Analysis to Design Aid Tools."International Building Performance Simulation Association Fourth International Conference (1995).

Hitchcock, Robert J."Improving Building Life-Cycle Information Management Through Documentation and Communication of Project Objectives."CIB W78 Workshop, Modeling of Buildings Through Their Life-Cycle (1995).

1991

Hitchcock, Robert J, William L Carroll, and Bruce E Birdsall."RESEM: Retrofit Energy Savings Estimation Model Reference Manual - Version 1.00." (1991).