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

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).

2006

Xu, Peng, Yu Joe Huang, Ruidong Jin, and Guoxiong Yang."Measured energy performance of a US-China demonstration energy-efficient commercial building."2007 ASHRAE Winter Meeting, January 27-31, 2007 (2006).

Arasteh, Dariush K, Howdy Goudey, Yu Joe Huang, Christian Kohler, and Robin Mitchell."Performance Criteria for Residential Zero Energy Windows."2007 ASHRAE Winter Meeting (2006).

Arasteh, Dariush K, Dragan C Curcija, Yu Joe Huang, Charlie Huizenga, and Christian Kohler."Evaluating Fenestration Products for Zero-Energy Buildings: Issues for Discussion."SimBuild 2006: Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2006).

Huang, Yu Joe, Norman Bourassa, Walter F Buhl, Ender Erdem, and Robert J Hitchcock."Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 Compliance Calculations."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Huang, Yu Joe, Norman Bourassa, Walter F Buhl, Ender Erdem, and Robert J Hitchcock."Using EnergyPlus for California Title-24 compliance calculations."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

2005

Sinton, Jonathan E, Rachel E Stem, Nathaniel T Aden, Mark D Levine, Tyler J Dillavou, David Fridley, Yu Joe Huang, Joanna I Lewis, Jiang Lin, Aimee T McKane, Lynn K Price, Ryan H Wiser, Nan Zhou, and Jean Y Ku."Evaluation of China's Energy Strategy Options." (2005).

Mitchell, Robin, Yu Joe Huang, Dariush K Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, and Steve Glendenning."RESFEN5: Program Description." (2005).

Fisk, William J, Olli Seppänen, David Faulkner, and Yu Joe Huang."Economic benefits of an economizer system: energy savings and reduced sick leave."ASHRAE Transactions 111 (2005) 673-679.

2004

Huang, Yu Joe, Robin Mitchell, Stephen E Selkowitz, Dariush K Arasteh, and Robert D Clear."Development of Trade-Off Equations for EnergyStar Windows."SimBuild 2004 (2004).

Huang, Yu Joe, Robin Mitchell, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Development of Trade-Off Equations for EnergyStar Windows."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Crawley, Drury B, Linda K Lawrie, Curtis O Pedersen, Frederick C Winkelmann, Michael J Witte, Richard K Strand, Richard J Liesen, Walter F Buhl, Yu Joe Huang, Robert H Henninger, Jason Glazer, Daniel E Fisher, Don B Shirley, Brent T Griffith, Peter G Ellis, and Lixing Gu."EnergyPlus: An Update."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2004).

Deringer, Joseph J, Maithili Iyer, and Yu Joe Huang."Transferred Just on Paper? Why Doesn't the Reality of Transferring/Adapting Energy Efficiency Codes and Standards Come Close to the Potential?."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).

2003

Fisk, William J, Olli Seppänen, David Faulkner, and Yu Joe Huang."Economizer system cost effectiveness: Accounting for the influence of ventilation rate on sick leave."Proceedings of the Healthy Buildings 2003 Conference, December 7-11, 2003 3 (2003) 361-367.

2002

Apte, Joshua S, Dariush K Arasteh, and Yu Joe Huang."Future Advanced Windows for Zero-Energy Homes."ASHRAE Transactions 109, pt 2 (2002) 871-888.

Bourassa, Norman, Philip Haves, and Yu Joe Huang."A Computer Simulation Appraisal of Non-Residential Low Energy Cooling Systems in California."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002).

2001

Hogan, John, Robert Watson, Yu Joe Huang, Lang Siwei, Xiangzhao Fu, and Lin Haiyin."Development of China's Energy-Efficiency Design Standard for Residential Buildings in the "Hot-Summer/Cold-Winter" Zone." (2001).

Qingyuan, Zhang, Yu Joe Huang, Lang Siwei, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."Development of Chinese Weather Data for Building Energy Calculations." (2001).

Bazjanac, Vladimir, Yu Joe Huang, and Frederick C Winkelmann."Impact of Perimeter Insulation on Heat Flow through Slabs in Residential Buildings." (2001).

2000

Huang, Yu Joe, and Jim Brodrick."A bottom-up engineering estimate of the aggregate heating and cooling loads of the entire U.S. building stock."2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2000).

Zimmerman, Mary Beth, Yu Joe Huang, Robert Watson, Shi Han, Ron Judkoff, and Micah Sherman."A Joint US-China Demonstration Energy Efficient Office Building."ACEEE Summary Study (2000).

1999

Arasteh, Dariush K, Yu Joe Huang, Robin Mitchell, Robert D Clear, and Christian Kohler."A Database of Window Annual Energy Use in Typical North American Residences."2000 ASHRAE Winter Meeting (1999).

Mitchell, Robin, Yu Joe Huang, Dariush K Arasteh, Robert Sullivan, and Santosh Phillip."RESFEN 3.1: A PC Program for Calculating the Heating and Cooling Energy Use of Windows in Residential Buildings." (1999).

Diamond, Richard C, Tim I Salsbury, Geoffrey C Bell, Yu Joe Huang, Osman Sezgen, Richard Mazzucchi, and Jeff Romberger."Phillip Burton Federal Building: EMCS Retrofit Analysis." (1999).

Huang, Yu Joe, Robin Mitchell, Dariush K Arasteh, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Residential Fenestration Performance Analysis Using RESFEN 3.1."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VII (1999).