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)

2013

Diamond, Richard C, Qing Ye, Wei Feng, Tao Yan, Hongwei Mao, Yutong Li, Yongcong Guo, and Jialang Wang."Sustainable Building in China—A Green Leap Forward?."Buildings 3.3 (2013) 639-658. DOI

Hu, Xin, Zhiming Pan, Jingjing Qian, Xiang Liu, John Romankiewicz, Wei Feng, and Rui Fan."Advanced Building Technologies and the Role of Energy Efficiency Policies in Promoting Their Development and Application." (2013).

Hong, Tianzhen, Wei Feng, Alison Lu, Jianjun Xia, Le Yang, Qi Shen, Piljae Im, and Mahabir Bhandari."Building Energy Monitoring and Analysis." (2013).

DeForest, Nicholas, Gonçalo Mendes, Michael Stadler, Wei Feng, Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay."Thermal Energy Storage for Electricity Peak-demand Mitigation: A Solution in Developing and Developed World Alike."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study 3–8 June 2013, Belambra Les Criques, France (2013).

Zhou, Nan, David Fridley, Michael A McNeil, Nina Khanna, Wei Feng, and Jing Ke."Quantifying the potential impact of energy efficiency and low carbon policies for China."the European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 2013 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2013).

Pelken, P. Michael, Jianshun Zhang, Yixing Chen, Daniel J Rice, Zhaozhou Meng, Shewangizaw Semahegn, Lixing Gu, Hugh Henderson, Wei Feng, and Francesca Ling.""Virtual Design Studio”—Part 1: Interdisciplinary design processes."Building Simulation 6.3 (2013) 235 - 251. DOI

Zhang, Jianshun, P. Michael Pelken, Yixing Chen, Daniel J Rice, Zhaozhou Meng, Shewangizaw Semahegn, Lixing Gu, Hugh Henderson, Wei Feng, and Francesca Ling."“Virtual Design Studio”—Part 2: Introduction to overall and software framework."Building Simulation 6.3 (2013) 253 - 268. DOI

Thiemann, Johannes J, Nicholas DeForest, Michael Stadler, Judy Lai, Wei Feng, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Yu Joe Huang, and Chris Marnay."Identification of Demand Response Potential for Microgrids Using the Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adaption Model, A Case Study of the Alameda County Santa Rita Jail for 2011." (2013).

2012

Levine, Mark D, Wei Feng, Jing Ke, Tianzhen Hong, and Nan Zhou."A Retrofit Tool for Improving Energy Efficiency of Commercial Buildings."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study (2012).

Feng, Wei, Nan Zhou, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."Building Distributed Energy Performance Optimization for China - a Regional Analysis of Building Energy Costs and CO₂ Emissions."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Zhang, Jianshun, Wei Feng, John Grunewald, Andreas Nicolai, and Carey Zhang."CHAMPS-Multizone—A Combined Heat, Air, Moisture and Pollutant Simulation Environment for Whole-building Performance Analysis."HVAC&R Research 18.1-2 (2012) 233-251.