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

Feng, Wei, Chris Marnay, Nan Zhou, Yan Ding, and Zhaoxia Wang."Influence of Occupancy-oriented Interior Cooling Load on Building Cooling Load."Applied Thermal Engineering 96 (2016) 411-420. DOI

Hou, Jing, Yisheng Liu, Yong Wu, Nan Zhou, and Wei Feng."Comparative study of commercial building energy-efficiency retrofit policies in four pilot cities in China."Energy Policy 88 (2016) 204 - 215. DOI

Guo, Qiang, Yong Wu, Yan Ding, Wei Feng, and Neng Zhu."Measures to enforce mandatory civil building energy efficiency codes in China."Journal of Cleaner Production 119 (2016) 152 - 166. DOI

2015

Zhao, Shanguo, Wei Feng, Shicong Zhang, Jing Hou, Nan Zhou, and Mark D. Levine."Energy Savings and Cost-benefit Analysis of the New Commercial Building Standard in China."Procedia Engineering 121 (2015) 317-324. DOI

Feng, Wei, Nan Zhou, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Michael Bendewald, and Ellen M. Franconi."Building Energy Codes in China: Recommendations for Development and Enforcement."2015 Annual Urban Sustainability Conference (2015).

Mashayekh, Salman, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, C. Birk Jones, Matthew Robinson, Hans Barsun, Leila Ghanbari, and Andrea A. Mammoli."Software-as-a-Service Optimal Scheduling of New Mexico Buildings."European Council on an Energy Efficient Economy 2015 Summer Study (2015).

Zhou, Nan, Wei Feng, Nina Khanna, Lixuan Hong, David Fridley, and Ellen M. Franconi."Transformative Pathway for Chinese Buildings by 2050."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, June 1-6, 2015 (2015).

Hou, Jing, Yisheng Liu, Yong Wu, Wei Feng, and Nan Zhou."Comparative Study of Commercial Building Energy-Efficiency Retrofit Policies in Four Pilot Cities in China."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, June 1-6, 2015 (2015).

Liu, Qibo, and Wei Feng."Research on the Efficiency and Economic Impact of Energy-Saving Transformation of Residential Buildings in Different Climatic Regions of China."Advances in Materials Science and Engineering 2015 (2015) 1 - 9. DOI

Wu, Yong, Jing Huo, Yisheng Liu, Yinan Li, Kexi Xu, Nan Zhou, and Wei Feng."Research on an Energy-Efficiency Improvement Roadmap for Commercial Buildings in China."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, June 1-6, 2015 (2015).

2014

Diamond, Richard C., and Wei Feng."Sustainability by Design: How One Building in China Could Change the World." (2014).

Lu, Shilei, Wei Feng, Xiangfei Kong, and Yong Wu."Analysis and Case Studies of Residential Heat Metering and Energy-Efficiency Retrofits in China's Northern Heating Region."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 38 (2014) 765-774. DOI

Xia, Jianjun, Tianzhen Hong, Qi Shen, Wei Feng, Le Yang, Piljae Im, Alison Lu, and Mahabir Bhandari."Comparison of Building Energy Use Data Between the United States and China."Energy and Buildings 78 (2014) 165-175. DOI

Zhou, Nan, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, Lixuan Hong, David Fridley, Jon Creyts, Ellen M. Franconi, Roy Torbert, and Yi Ke."Cost-effective Options for Transforming China's Buildings Sector."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Hong, Tianzhen, Le Yang, David Hill, and Wei Feng."Data and Analytics to Inform Energy Retrofit of High Performance Buildings."Applied Energy 126 (2014) 90-106. DOI

Feng, Wei, Ke Huang, Mark D. Levine, Nan Zhou, and Shicong Zhang."Evaluation of Energy Savings of the New Chinese Commercial Building Energy Standard."The American Council for An Energy-Efficient Economy 2014 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2014).

Khanna, Nina, John Romankiewicz, Nan Zhou, Wei Feng, and Qing Ye."From Platinum to Three Stars: Comparative Analysis of U.S. and China Green Building Rating Programs."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Hong, Lixuan, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Wei Feng, and Nina Khanna."Modeling China's Building Floor-Area Growth and the Implications for Building Materials and Energy Demand."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Mendes, Gonçalo, Wei Feng, Michael Stadler, Jan Steinbach, Judy Lai, Nan Zhou, Chris Marnay, Yan Ding, Jing Zhao, Zhe Tian, and Neng Zhu."Regional Analysis of Building Distributed Energy Costs and CO₂ Abatement: A U.S.–China comparison."Energy and Buildings 77 (2014) 112-129. DOI

Khanna, Nina, John Romankiewicz, Wei Feng, Nan Zhou, and Qing Ye."Comparative Policy Study for Green Buildings in U.S. and China." (2014).

DeForest, Nicholas, Gonçalo Mendes, Michael Stadler, Wei Feng, Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay."Optimal Deployment of Thermal Energy Storage Under Diverse Economic and Climate Conditions."Applied Energy 119 (2014) 488-496. DOI

Xia, Jianjun, Tianzhen Hong, Qi Shen, Wei Feng, Le Yang, Piljae Im, Alison Lu, and Mahabir Bhandari."Comparison of building energy use data between the United States and China."Energy and Buildings 78 (2014) 165 - 175. DOI

Mendes, Gonçalo, Wei Feng, michael stadler, Jan Steinbach, Judy Lai, Nan Zhou, Chris Marnay, Yan Ding, Jing Zhao, Zhe Tian, and Neng Zhu."Regional analysis of building distributed energy costs and CO2 abatement: A U.S.–China comparison."Energy and Buildings 77 (2014) 112 - 129. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, Le Yang, Jianjun Xia, Wei Feng, A. Li, Y. Zhu, and Y. Li."Building Energy Benchmarking between the United States and China: Methods and Challenges."8th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol 263 (2014) 473-486. DOI

Zhang, Shicong, Wei Xu, Yiqiang Jiang, Wei Feng, and Deyu Sun."Research on Demonstration Project Technology Roadmap of Zero Energy Buildings Abroad (in Chinese)."HV&AC 44.1 (2014).