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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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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)

2022

He, Xin, Jue Wu, Zhuoying Zhu, Haodong Liu, Ning Li, Dong Zhou, Xu Hou, Jun Wang, Haowei Zhang, Dominic Bresser, Yanbao Fu, Matthew J. Crafton, Bryan D. McCloskey, Yan Chen, Ke An, Ping Liu, Anubhav Jain, Jie Li, Wanli Yang, Yong Yang, Martin Winter, and Robert Kostecki."Chemical and structural evolutions of Li–Mn-rich layered electrodes at different current densities."Energy & Environmental Science 15.10 (2022) 4137 - 4147. DOI

Casillas, Armando, Guanjing Lin, Jessica Granderson, Sen Huang, and Yan Chen."Development of a Simulated Air Handling Unit Fault Dataset for FDD Tools: Lessons Learned and Considerations for FDD Developers."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Roth, Amir, Michael Wetter, Kyle Benne, Yan Chen, Gabriel Fierro, Marco Pritoni, Avijit Saha, and Draguna Vrabie."Towards Digital and Performance-Based Supervisory HVAC Control Delivery."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

2021

Blum, David, Javier Arroyo, Sen Huang, Ján Drgoňa, Filip Jorissen, Harald Taxt Walnum, Yan Chen, Kyle Benne, Draguna Vrabie, Michael Wetter, and Lieve Helsen."Building optimization testing framework (BOPTEST) for simulation-based benchmarking of control strategies in buildings."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 14.5 (2021) 586 - 610. DOI

2020

Liu, Haodong, Zhuoying Zhu, Qizhang Yan, Sicen Yu, Xin He, Yan Chen, Rui Zhang, Lu Ma, Tongchao Liu, Matthew Li, Ruoqian Lin, Yiming Chen, Yejing Li, Xing Xing, Yoonjung Choi, Lucy Gao, Helen Sung-yun Cho, Ke An, Jun Feng, Robert Kostecki, Khalil Amine, Tianpin Wu, Jun Lu, Huolin L. Xin, Shyue Ping Ong, and Ping Liu."A disordered rock salt anode for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries."Nature 585.7823 (2020) 63 - 67. DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Ari Harding, Piljae Im, and Yan Chen."Building fault detection data to aid diagnostic algorithm creation and performance testing."Nature: Scientific Data Vol.7 No.65 (2020).

2019

Liu, Haodong, Zhuoying Zhu, Jason Huang, Xin He, Yan Chen, Rui Zhang, Ruoqian Lin, Yejing Li, Sicen Yu, Xing Xing, Qizhang Yan, Xiangguo Li, Matthew J. Frost, Ke An, Jun Feng, Robert Kostecki, Huolin L. Xin, Shyue Ping Ong, and Ping Liu."Elucidating the Limit of Li Insertion into the Spinel Li ₄Ti ₅O ₁₂."ACS Materials Letters 1.1 (2019) 96 - 102. DOI

Blum, David, Filip Jorissen, Sen Huang, Yan Chen, Javier Arroyo, Kyle Benne, Yanfei Li, Valentin Gavan, Lisa Rivalin, Lieve Helsen, Draguna Vrabie, Michael Wetter, and Marina Sofos."Prototyping the BOPTEST Framework for Simulation-Based Testing of Advanced Control Strategies in Buildings."IBPSA Building Simulation 2019 (2019).

2017

Yang, Li, Min Hu, Jingjing Zhang, Stephanie A. Siehr, David Fridley, Nina Khanna, Nan Zhou, Shuang Li, Lingyan Chen, Ang Li, Miao Sun, and Yanhui Wang."2015 China Green Low-Carbon City scorecard."ECEEE Summer Study 2017 (2017).

2012

Zuo, Wangda, Mingang Jin, and Qingyan Chen."Reduction of numerical viscosity in FFD model."Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics 6.2 (2012) 234-247.

Jin, Mingang, Wangda Zuo, and Qingyan Chen."Validation of three dimensional fast fluid dynamics for indoor airflow simulations."the 2nd International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE2012) (2012) 1055-1062.

2011

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Validation of a Fast-Fluid-Dynamics Model for Predicting Distribution of Particles with Low Stokes Number."12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (Indoor Air 2011) (2011).

2010

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Fast and informative flow simulation in a building by using fast fluid dynamics model on graphics processing unit."Building and Environment 45.3 (2010) 747-757.

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Fast simulation of smoke transport in buildings."the 41st International HVAC&R congress (2010).

Hu, Jianjun, Wangda Zuo, and Qingyan Chen."Impact of time-splitting schemes on the accuracy of FFD simulations."the 7th International Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings Conference (IAQVEC 2010) (2010) 55-60.

Zuo, Wangda, Jianjun Hu, and Qingyan Chen."Improvements on FFD modeling by using different numerical schemes."Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B Fundamentals 58.1 (2010) 1-16.

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Improvements on the fast fluid dynamics model for indoor airflow simulation."the 4th National Conference of IBPSA-USA (SimBuild2010) (2010) 539-546.

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Simulations of air distribution in buildings by FFD on GPU."HVAC&R Research 16.6 (2010) 783-796.

2009

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Fast parallelized flow simulations on graphic processing units."the 11th International Conference on Air Distribution in Rooms (RoomVent 2009) (2009).

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."High performance computing for indoor air."11th International IBPSA Conference (Building Simulation 2009) (2009) 244-249.

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Real time or faster-than-real-time simulation of airflow in buildings."Indoor Air 19.1 (2009) 33-44.

2007

Chen, Qingyan, Zhao Zhang, and Wangda Zuo."Computational fluid dynamics for indoor environment modeling: past, present, and future."the 6th International Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings Conference (IAQVEC 2007) (2007) 1-9.

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Real time airflow simulation in buildings."the 6th International Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings Conference (IAQVEC 2007) (2007) 459-466.

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Validation of fast fluid dynamics for room airflow."the 10th International IBPSA Conference (Building Simulation 2007) (2007) 980-983.