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)

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

2015

Hoffmann, Sabine, Andrew McNeil, Eleanor S Lee, and Raghuram Kalyanam."Discomfort glare with complex fenestration systems and the impact on energy use when using daylighting control."10th International Conference on Advanced Building Skins (2015).

Lee, Eleanor S, Xiufeng Pang, Andrew McNeil, Sabine Hoffmann, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Zhengrong Li, and Yong Ding."Assessment of the Potential to Achieve Very Low Energy Use in Public Buildings in China with Advanced Window and Shading Systems."Buildings 5.2 (2015) 668-699. DOI

Hoffmann, Sabine, and Eleanor S Lee."Potential energy savings with exterior shades in large office buildings and the impact of discomfort glare."Fourth BEST Conference Building Enclosure Science & Technology (BEST4) (2015).

2014

Hoffmann, Sabine, Eleanor S Lee, and César Clavero."Examination of the technical potential of near-infrared switching thermochromic windows for commercial building applications."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 123 (2014) 65-80. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S, Brian E Coffey, Luis L Fernandes, Sabine Hoffmann, Andrew McNeil, Anothai Thanachareonkit, and Gregory J Ward."High Performance Building Façade Solutions-Phase II." (2014).

Fernandes, Luis L, Eleanor S Lee, Andrew McNeil, Jacob C Jonsson, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Xiufeng Pang, and Sabine Hoffmann."Angular selective window systems: Assessment of technical potential for energy saving." (2014) 36.

2013

Lee, Eleanor S, Xiufeng Pang, Sabine Hoffmann, Howdy Goudey, and Anothai Thanachareonkit."An empirical study of a full-scale polymer thermochromic window and its implications on material science development objectives."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 116 (2013) 14-26. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S, Luis L Fernandes, Howdy Goudey, Jacob C Jonsson, Dragan C Curcija, Xiufeng Pang, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, and Sabine Hoffmann."A Pilot Demonstration of Electrochromic and Thermochromic Windows in the Denver Federal Center, Building 41, Denver, Colorado." (2013).

2012

Bauman, Fred S, Thomas L Webster, Stefano Schiavon, Hui Zhang, Edward A Arens, Kwang Ho Lee, Tyler Hoyt, Darryl J Dickerhoff, Timothy Moore, Wilmer Pasut, Sabine Hoffmann, Tiefeng Yu, and Elliot Nahman."Advanced Design and Commissioning Tools for Energy-Efficient Building Technologies."Final report to California Energy Commission (CEC) Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2012).

2011

Bauman, Fred S, Thomas L Webster, David Lehrer, Edward A Arens, Hui Zhang, John Goins, Darryl J Dickerhoff, Stefano Schiavon, Sabine Hoffmann, Tiefeng Yu, David Fannon, Mark Perepelitza, and Krystyna Zelenay."Advanced Integrated Systems Tools Development and Performance Testing."Final report to California Energy Commission (CEC) Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2011).