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)

2012

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and Walter F. Buhl."An Improved Simple Chilled Water Cooling Coil Model."SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference (2012).

2008

Hong, Tianzhen, Walter F. Buhl, Philip Haves, Stephen E. Selkowitz, and Michael Wetter."Comparing computer run time of building simulation programs."Building Simulation 1.3 (2008) 210-213. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, Walter F. Buhl, and Philip Haves."EnergyPlus Analysis Capabilities for Use in Title 24." (2008).

Hong, Tianzhen, Walter F. Buhl, and Philip Haves."EnergyPlus Run Time Analysis." (2008).

2007

Bauman, Fred S., Thomas L. Webster, Hui Jin, Wolfgang Lukaschek, Corinne Benedek, Edward A. Arens, Paul F. Linden, Anna Lui, Walter F. Buhl, and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Energy Performance of Underfloor Air Distribution Systems."California Energy Commission, PIER Building End-Use Energy Efficiency Program (2007).

Bauman, Fred S., Thomas L. Webster, Hui Jin, Wolfgang Lukaschek, Corinne Benedek, Edward A. Arens, Paul F. Linden, Anna Lui, Walter F. Buhl, and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Energy Performance of Underfloor Air Distribution Systems." (2007).

2006

Huang, Yu Joe, Norman Bourassa, Walter F. Buhl, Ender Erdem, and Robert J. Hitchcock."Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 Compliance Calculations."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Huang, Yu Joe, Norman Bourassa, Walter F. Buhl, Ender Erdem, and Robert J. Hitchcock."Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 compliance calculations."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

2004

Crawley, Drury B., Linda K. Lawrie, Curtis O. Pedersen, Frederick C. Winkelmann, Michael J. Witte, Richard K. Strand, Richard J. Liesen, Walter F. Buhl, Yu Joe Huang, Robert H. Henninger, Jason Glazer, Daniel E. Fisher, Don B. Shirley, Brent T. Griffith, Peter G. Ellis, and Lixing Gu."EnergyPlus: An Update."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

1985

Birdsall, , Bruce E., Walter F. Buhl, Richard B. Curtis, Ender Erdem, Joseph H Eto, James J. Hirsch, Karen H. Olson, and Frederick C. Winkelmann."The DOE-2 Computer Program for Thermal Simulation of Buildings."American Institute of Physics (AIP) 135 (1985). DOI

Buhl, Walter F., Ender Erdem, Joseph H Eto, James J. Hirsch, and Frederick C. Winkelmann."New Features of the DOE-2.1c Energy Analysis Program."International Building Performance Simulation Association (1985).

1984

Curtis, Richard B., Bruce E. Birdsall, Walter F. Buhl, Ender Erdem, Joseph H Eto, James J. Hirsch, Karen H. Olson, and Frederick C. Winkelmann."The DOE-2 Building Energy Analysis Program."ASEAN Conference on Energy Conservation in Buildings (1984).