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

Ward, Gregory J, David Geisler-Moroder, Eleanor S Lee, Jacob C Jonsson, and Taoning Wang."Daylight Simulation Workflows Incorporating Measured Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Functions."Energy and Building 259 (2022).

Gehbauer, Christoph, Andreas S Rippl, and Eleanor S Lee."Advanced Control of Dynamic Facades and HVAC with Reinforcement Learning."Building Simulation 2021 (2022).

2021

Apian-Bennewitz, Peter, Jan de Boer, Bruno Bueno, Bertrand Deroisy, Yuan Fang, David Geisler-Moroder, David Geisler-Moroder, Lars O Grobe, Jacob C Jonsson, Eleanor S Lee, Zhen Tian, Taoning Wang, Gregory J Ward, Helen Rose Wilson, and Yujie Wu."Analysis and evaluation of BSDF characterization of daylighting systems." (2021). DOI

Wang, Taoning, Gregory J Ward, and Eleanor S Lee."A Python Library for Radiance Matrix-based Simulation Control and EnergyPlus Integration."IBPSA Building Simulation 2021 (2021).

Geisler-Moroder, David, Gregory J Ward, Taoning Wang, and Eleanor S Lee."Peak extraction in daylight simulations using BSDF data."IBPSA Building Simulation 2021 (2021).

Geisler-Moroder, David, Eleanor S Lee, Gregory J Ward, Bruno Bueno, Lars O Grobe, Taoning Wang, Bertrand Deroisy, and Helen Rose Wilson."BSDF Generation Procedures for Daylighting Systems." (2021). DOI

2020

Fernandes, Luis L, Eleanor S Lee, Anothai Thanachareonkit, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Potential annual daylighting performance of a high-efficiency daylight redirecting slat system."Building Simulation (2020). DOI

Gehbauer, Christoph, David Blum, Taoning Wang, and Eleanor S Lee."An assessment of the load modifying potential of model predictive controlled dynamic facades within the California context."Energy and Buildings 210 (2020) 109762. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S, Anothai Thanachareonkit, D. D Charlie Curcija, Gregory J Ward, Taoning Wang, David Geisler-Moroder, Christoph Gehbauer, John Breshears, Luis L Fernandes, Stephen E Selkowitz, Robert Hart, Christian Kohler, David Blum, Jinqing Peng, and Howdy Goudey."High-Performance Integrated Window and Façade Solutions for California." (2020).

Gehbauer, Christoph, David Blum, Taoning Wang, and Eleanor S Lee."Integrated Dynamic Facade Control with an Agent-based Architecture for Commercial Buildings." (2020).

2019

Wu, Yujie, Taoning Wang, Eleanor S Lee, Jérôme H Kämpf, and Jean-Louis Scartezzini."Split-pane electrochromic window control based on an embedded photometric device with real-time daylighting computing."Building and Environment 161 (2019) 106229. DOI

2018

Lee, Eleanor S."Innovative Glazing Materials."Handbook of Energy Efficiency in Buildings A Life Cycle Approach (2018).

Wang, Taoning, Gregory J Ward, and Eleanor S Lee."Efficient modeling of optically-complex, non-coplanar exterior shading: Validation of matrix algebraic methods."Energy and Buildings 174 (2018) 464 - 483. DOI

Fernandes, Luis L, Eleanor S Lee, Darryl J Dickerhoff, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Taoning Wang, and Christoph Gehbauer."Electrochromic Window Demonstration at the John E. Moss Federal Building, 650 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, California." (2018).

Lee, Eleanor S, David Geisler-Moroder, and Gregory J Ward."Modeling the Direct Sun Component in Buildings Using Matrix Algebraic Approaches: Methods and Validation."Solar Energy 160 (2018) 380 - 395. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S, Christoph Gehbauer, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Luis L Fernandes, and Taoning Wang."Dual-Zone Solar Control Indoor Shade: Demonstration at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, California and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advanced Windows Testbed, Berkeley, California." (2018).

2017

Geisler-Moroder, David, Eleanor S Lee, and Gregory J Ward."Validation of the Five-Phase Method for Simulating Complex Fenestration Systems with Radiance against Field Measurements."15th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (2017).

Lee, Eleanor S, Luis L Fernandes, Taoning Wang, Stephen E Selkowitz, Steven Mesh, Yetsuh Frank, and Richard Yancey."Demonstration of Energy Efficient Retrofits for Lighting and Daylighting in New York City Office Buildings." (2017).

McNeil, Andrew, Eleanor S Lee, and Jacob C Jonsson."Daylight performance of a microstructured prismatic window film in deep open plan offices."Building and Environment 113 (2017) 280–297. DOI

Jin, Ling, Doris Lee, Alex Sim, Sam Borgeson, Kesheng Wu, C Anna Spurlock, and Annika Todd-Blick."Comparison of Clustering Techniques for Residential Energy Behavior using Smart Meter Data." AAAI Workshops - Artificial Intelligence for Smart Grids and Buildings, March 2017 (2017).

2016

Lee, Eleanor S, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Samir Touzani, Spencer M Dutton, Jordan Shackelford, Darryl J Dickerhoff, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Technology Assessments of High Performance Envelope with Optimized Lighting, Solar Control, and Daylighting." (2016).

Hoffmann, Sabine, Eleanor S Lee, Andrew McNeil, Luis L Fernandes, Dragan Vidanovic, and Anothai Thanachareonkit."Balancing daylight, glare, and energy-efficiency goals: An evaluation of exterior coplanar shading systems using complex fenestration modeling tools."Energy and Buildings 112 (2016) 279-298. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S, Luis L Fernandes, Samir Touzani, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Xiufeng Pang, and Darryl J Dickerhoff."Electrochromic Window Demonstration at the 911 Federal Building, 911 Northeast 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon." (2016).

Ko, C, Y Lee, Y H Chen, J Suh, D Fu, A Suslu, S Lee, J.D Clarkson, H.S Choe, S Tongay, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J Wu."Ferroelectrically gated atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides as nonvolatile memory."Advanced Materials 28 (2016) 2923-2930. DOI