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).

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).

Thomson, Gregory D, Robert G Davis, Luis L Fernandes, and Taoning Wang."Achieving Integrated Daylighting and Electric Lighting Systems: Current State of the Art and Needed Research."Energies 14.13 (2021) 3833. DOI

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

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

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, 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

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).