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)

2002

Buswell, Richard A, Philip Haves, Tim I Salsbury, and Jonathan A Wright."Non-Linear Recursive Parameter Estimation Applied to Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Real Buildings."System Simulation in Buildings ’02 (2002).

2001

Haves, Philip, Tim I Salsbury, David Claridge, and Mingsheng Liu."Use of Whole Building Simulation in On-Line Performance Assessment: Modeling and Implementation Issues."Building Simulation ’01 (2001).

Haves, Philip, Tim I Salsbury, David Claridge, and Mingsheng Liu."Use of Whole Building Simulation in On-Line Performance Assessment: Modeling and Implementation Issues."Seventh International IBPSA Conference Building Simulation 2001 (2001) 335-344.

Salsbury, Tim I, and Richard C Diamond."Fault Detection in HVAC Systems Using Model-Based Feedforward Control."Energy & Buildings 33 (2001) 403-415.

2000

Salsbury, Tim I, and Richard C Diamond."Implementation and testing of a fault detection software tool for improving control system performance in a large commercial building."Proceedings of the ACEEE 2000 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Pacific Grove, CA 7 (2000) 147-158.

Salsbury, Tim I, and Richard C Diamond."Performance validation and energy analysis of HVAC systems using simulation."Energy & Buildings 32 (2000) 5-17.

1999

Diamond, Richard C, Tim I Salsbury, Geoffrey C Bell, Yu Joe Huang, Osman Sezgen, Richard Mazzucchi, and Jeff Romberger."Phillip Burton Federal Building: EMCS Retrofit Analysis." (1999).

Salsbury, Tim I, and Richard C Diamond."Automated Testing of HVAC Systems for Commissioning." (1999).

1997

Buswell, Richard A, Philip Haves, and Tim I Salsbury."A Model-Based Approach to the Commissioning of HVAC Systems."CLIMA 2000 (1997).

1996

Haves, Philip, Tim I Salsbury, and Jonathan A Wright."Condition Monitoring in HVAC Subsystems using First Principles Models."ASHRAE Transactions 102.Pt. 1 (1996).

Haves, Philip, D.R Jorgensen, Tim I Salsbury, and Arthur L Dexter."Development and Testing of a Prototype Tool for HVAC Control System Commissioning."ASHRAE Transactions 102.Pt. 1 (1996).

1995

Salsbury, Tim I, Philip Haves, and Jonathan A Wright."A Fault Detection and Diagnosis Method Based on First Principles Models and Expert Rules."Tsinghua HVAC-95 (1995).

1994

Benouarets, Mourad, Arthur L Dexter, Richard S Fargus, Philip Haves, Tim I Salsbury, and Jonathan A Wright."Model-Based Approaches to Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Air-Conditioning System."System Simulation in Buildings '94 (1994).