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)

1998

Arasteh, Dariush K., Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Yu Joe Huang, Charlie Huizenga, Robin Mitchell, and Michael D. Rubin."State-of-the-Art Software for Window Energy-Efficiency Rating and Labeling."ACEEE 1998 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).

Parker, Danny S., Yu Joe Huang, Steven J. Konopacki, Lisa M. Gartland, John R. Sherwin, and Lixing Gu."Measured and simulated performance of reflective roofing systems in residential buildings."ASHRAE Transactions 104 (1998).

1997

Huang, Yu Joe, Robert Sullivan, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Robin Mitchell."RESFEN 3.0: A PC Program for Calculating the Heating and Cooling Energy Use of Windows in Residential Buildings." (1997) 38.

1996

Brown, Karl A., Carl Blumstein, Loren Lutzenhiser, Bruce Hackett, and Yu Joe Huang."Does the Air-Conditioning Engineering Rubric Work in Residences?."1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1996).

1995

Huang, Yu Joe, and Hui Zhang."Analysis of Climatic Conditions and Preliminary Assessment of Alternative Cooling Strategies for Houses in California Transition Climate Zones." (1995).

1994

Sezgen, Osman, and Yu Joe Huang."Lighting/HVAC Interactions and Their Effects on Annual and Peak HVAC Requirements in Commercial Buildings."American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Summer Study 1994 (1994).

Sezgen, Osman, Yu Joe Huang, Joseph H Eto, Barbara A. Atkinson, and Jonathan G. Koomey."Technology data characterizing lighting in commercial buildings: Application to end-use forecasting with COMMEND 4.0." (1994).

Koomey, Jonathan G., Francis X Johnson, Jennifer E. Schuman, Ellen M. Franconi, Steve E. Greenberg, James D. Lutz, Brent T. Griffith, Dariush K. Arasteh, Celina S. Atkinson, Kristin E. Heinemeier, Yu Joe Huang, Lynn K. Price, Gregory J. Rosenquist, Francis M. Rubinstein, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Haider Taha, and Isaac Turiel."Buildings Sector Demand-Side Efficiency Technology Summaries." (1994).

1992

Akbari, Hashem, Susan Davis, Sofia Dorsano, Yu Joe Huang, and Steven Winnett."Cooling Our Communities: A Guidebook on Tree Planting and Light-Colored Surfacing." (1992) 245.

1990

Huang, Yu Joe, Susan Davis, and Hashem Akbari."A guidebook for the control of summer heat islands."1990 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 4 (1990) 79-85.

Huang, Yu Joe, Hashem Akbari, and Haider Taha."The wind-shielding and shading effects of trees on residential heating and cooling requirements."Proceedings of the ASHRAE Winter Conference (1990) 11-14.

1988

Taha, Haider, Hashem Akbari, Arthur H. Rosenfeld, and Yu Joe Huang."Residential cooling loads and the urban heat island—the effects of albedo."Building and Environment 23 (1988) 271-283. DOI

1987

Akbari, Hashem, Yu Joe Huang, Haider Taha, and Arthur H. Rosenfeld."The potential of vegetation in reducing summer cooling loads in residential buildings."Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 26.9 (1987) 1103-1116. DOI

1986

Sullivan, Robert, Yu Joe Huang, James Bull, Isaac Turiel, Ronald L. Ritschard, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Thermal Analysis of Buildings - Configuration Perturbations and Observed Climate Interface."ASHRAE Transactions 92 (1986).