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)

2023

Hu, shan, Xin Zhou, Da Yan, Fei Guo, Tianzhen Hong, and Yi Jiang."A systematic review of building energy sufficiency towards energy and climate targets."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 181 (2023) 113316. DOI

Hu, shan, Xin Zhou, Da Yan, Fei Guo, Tianzhen Hong, and Yi Jiang."A systematic review of building energy sufficiency towards energy and climate targets."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 181 (2023) 113316. DOI

2015

Lucon, Oswaldo, Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Hashem Akbari, Paolo Bertoldi, Luisa F. Cabeza, Nicholas Eyre, Ashok J. Gadgil, L.D. Danny Harvey, Yi Jiang, Enoch Liphoto, Sevastian Mirasgedis, Shuzo Murakami, Jyoti Parikh, Christopher Pyke, Maria Virginia Vilariño, Azni Zain Ahmed, Marilyn A. Brown, Tamás Pálvölgyi, Ottmar Edenhofer, Ramon Pichs-Madruga, Youba Sokona, Jan C. Minx, Ellie Farahani, Susanne Kadner, Kristin Seyboth, Anna Adler, Ina Baum, Steffen Brunner, Patrick Eickemeier, Benjamin Kriemann, Jussi Savolainen, Steffen Schlömer, Christoph von Stechow, and Timm Zwicke."Buildings."Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change: Working Group III Contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2015) 671-738. DOI

2014

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Zeyi Jiang, and Lynn K. Price."Why the Energy Use of Chinese Steel Industry May Peak As Early As 2015?."2014 ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2014).

2013

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Zeyi Jiang, and Lynn K. Price."Analysis of the Past and Future Trends of Energy Use in Key Medium- and Large-Sized Chinese Steel Enterprises, 2000-2030." (2013).

1998

Hong, Tianzhen, and Yi Jiang."Outdoor synthetic temperature for the calculation of space heating load."Energy and Buildings 28.3 (1998) 269-277. DOI

1997

Hong, Tianzhen, and Yi Jiang."IISABRE: An integrated building simulation environment."Building and Environment 32.3 (1997) 219-224. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, and Yi Jiang."A new multizone model for simulation of building thermal performance."Building and Environment 32.2 (1997) 123-128. DOI

1995

Jiang, Yi, and Tianzhen Hong."Integrated building design system."HV&AC, in Chinese (1995).

Hong, Tianzhen, and Yi Jiang."Prediction of building thermal performance under random conditions."TSINGHUA-HVAC-'95 (1995).

Hong, Tianzhen, and Yi Jiang."Stochastic weather model for building HVAC systems."Building and Environment 30.4 (1995) 521-532. DOI

1993

Jiang, Yi, and Tianzhen Hong."Stochastic analysis of building thermal processes."Building and Environment 28.4 (1993) 209-218. DOI

Jiang, Yi, and Tianzhen Hong."Stochastic analysis of overheating risk in buildings."CLIMA 2000 (1993).