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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.
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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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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)

2018

Coignard, Jonathan, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Christoph Gehbauer, Michael Wetter, Jhi-Young Joo, Philip Top, Rafael Rivera Soto, Brian Kelley, and Emma M Stewart."CyDER - A Co-Simulation Platform for Grid Analysis and Planning for High Penetration of Distributed Energy Resources."2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) (2018). DOI

2015

Wetter, Michael, Marco Bonvini, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Equation-based languages – A new paradigm for building energy modeling, simulation and optimization."Energy and Buildings 117 (2015) 290-300. DOI

Wetter, Michael, Marcus Fuchs, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Design choices for thermofluid flow components and systems that are exported as Functional Mockup Units." (2015).

Wetter, Michael, Wangda Zuo, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Xiufeng Pang."Modelica Buildings Library." (2015).

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

Coffey, Brian E, Andrew McNeil, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Eleanor S Lee."Automated Production of Optimization-Based Control Logics for Dynamic Façade Systems, with Experimental Application to Two-Zone External Venetian Blinds." (2013).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Michael Wetter, and Wangda Zuo."Functional Mock-Up Unit Import in EnergyPlus For Co-Simulation."13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation (2013).

2012

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Kaustubh Phalak, Wangda Zuo, and Michael Wetter."Validation and Application of the Room Model of the Modelica Buildings Library."Proc. of the 9th International Modelica Conference (2012).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Michael Wetter, and Wangda Zuo."Validation of the Window Model of the Modelica Buildings Library." (2012).

2011

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Michael Wetter, Zhengwei Li, Xiufeng Pang, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Philip Haves."BACnet and Analog/Digital Interfaces of the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed."Proc. of the 12th IBPSA Conference (2011) p. 294-301.

Haves, Philip, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Michael Wetter, Zhengwei Li, and Xiufeng Pang."BacNet and Analog/Digital Interfaces of the Building Controls Virtual Testbed." (2011).

Wetter, Michael, Wangda Zuo, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Modeling of Heat Transfer in Rooms in the Modelica "Buildings" Library."12th Conference of International Building Performance Ssimulation Association (2011) 1096-1103.

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Andrew McNeil, Christian Kohler, Brian E Coffey, and Eleanor S Lee."Modeling solar heat gains of complex fenestration systems using bidirectional scattering distribution functions." (2011).

Wetter, Michael, Wangda Zuo, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Recent developments of the Modelica Buildings library for building energy and control systems."the 8th International Modelica Conference (2011).

2010

Victor, Norrefeldt, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Gunnar Gruen."Development of an isothermal 2D zonal air volume model with impulse conservation."Clima 2010, 10th Rehva World Congress "Sustainable Energy Use in Buildings" (2010).

2009

Krus, Martin, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Klaus Sedlbauer."Application of software tools for moisture protection of buildings in different climate zones."6th International Conference on Cold Climate, Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning (2009).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Klaus Sedlbauer, Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, and Kurt Kießl."Neue objektorientierte hygrothermische Modell-Bibliothek zur Ermittlung des hygrothermischen und hygienischen Komforts in Räumen."Bauphysik 31 (2009) 271-278. DOI

2008

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Gebäudesimulation mit adaptiven Modellierungsansätzen."BAUSIM 2008 (2008).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, Andreas Holm, and Klaus Sedlbauer."Object-oriented hygrothermal building physics library as a tool to predict and to ensure a thermal and hygric indoor comfort in building construction by using a Predicted-Mean-Vote (PMV) control ventilation system."8th Nordic Symposium on Building Physics in the Nordic Countries 2008 2 (2008) pp.825-832.

2006

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, Thilo Ernst, Peter Schwarz, Mathias Vetter, Andreas Holm, Juergen Leopold, Alexander Mattes, Andre Nordwig, Peter Schneider, Christoph Wittwer, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Gerhardt Schmidt."Advanced modeling and simulation techniques in MOSILAB: A system development case study."5th International Modelica Conference (2006) pp.63-72.

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, Andre Nordwig, Mathias Vetter, Christoph Wittwer, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Peter Schneider."MOSILAB: Ein Modelica-Simulationswerkzeug zur energetischen Gebäude- und Anlagensimulation."16. Symposium Thermische Solarenergie (2006).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, and Andreas Holm."Validierung der eindimensionalen hygrothermischen Wandmodelle der Modelica-Bibliothek "BuildingPhysicsLibrary"."BauSIM 2006 (2006) pp.144-146.

2005

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Andreas Holm, and Wolfram Haupt."A hygrothermal building model based on the object-oriented modeling language Modelica."Ninth International IBPSA Conference (2005).

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, Thilo Ernst, Peter Schneider, Mathias Vetter, Andreas Holm, Juergen Leopold, Ullrich Doll, Andre Nordwig, Peter Schwarz, Christoph Wittwer, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Gerhardt Schmidt, and Alexander Mattes."MOSILAB: Development of a modelica based generic simulation tool supporting modal structural dynamics."4th International Modelica Conference (2005) pp.527-534.