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)

2024

Coraci, Davide, Silvio Brandi, Tianzhen Hong, and Alfonso Capozzoli."An innovative heterogeneous transfer learning framework to enhance the scalability of deep reinforcement learning controllers in buildings with integrated energy systemsAbstract."Building Simulation 17.5 (2024) 739 - 770. DOI

Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, Minh Le, Lujuana Medina, Yujie Xu, Alastair Robinson, and Mary Ann Piette."Assessment of energy and thermal resilience performance to inform climate mitigation of multifamily buildings in disadvantaged communities."Sustainable Cities and Society 104 (2024) 105319. DOI

Price, Snuller."Benefit-Cost Analysis for Grid Modernization Investments: Key Elements and Jurisdictional Survey." (2024).

Wei, Max, Gregory J Rosenquist, Katie Coughlin, Edward Cubero, Chao Ding, Thomas A Burke, Omar Abdelaziz, Jackson Thach, Anthony Ng, Jonah Steinbuck, and Drew Bohan."Benefits and Challenges in Using Low GWP A3 Refrigerants in Residential Air Condition Equipment." (2024).

Sawe, Nik, Hongyou Lu, Jeffrey Rissman, Zhiyu Tian, and Nan Zhou."Clean Industry in China: A Techno-Economic Comparison of Electrified Heat Technologies, Barriers, and Policy Options." (2024). DOI

Millstein, Dev, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Ryan H Wiser."Climate and air quality benefits of wind and solar generation in the United States from 2019 to 2022."Cell Reports Sustainability (2024). DOI

Fujita, K Sydny, and Jesse Strecker."Commercial, industrial, and institutional discount rate estimation for efficiency standards analysis Sector-level data 1998–2023." (2024).

Ham, Sang woo, Lazlo Paul, Donghun Kim, Marco Pritoni, Richard E Brown, and Jingjuan Feng."Decarbonization of heat pump dual fuel systems using a practical model predictive control: Field demonstration in a small commercial building."Applied Energy 361 (2024) 122935. DOI

Woolf, Tim, Alice Napoleon, Natalie Mims Frick, Lisa C Schwartz, and Julie Michals."Distributional Equity Analysis for Energy Efficiency and Other Distributed Energy Resources: A Practical Guide." (2024).

Millstein, Dev, Eric O'Shaughnessy, and Ryan H Wiser."Exploring Wholesale Energy Price Trends: The Renewables and Wholesale Electricity Prices (ReWEP) tool, Version 2024.1." (2024).

Peng, Peng, Henry Z.H Jiang, Stephanie Collins, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Jeffrey R Long, and Hanna Breunig."Long Duration Energy Storage Using Hydrogen in Metal–Organic Frameworks: Opportunities and Challenges."ACS Energy Letters (2024) 2727 - 2735. DOI

Murphy, Sean, Margaret Pigman, and Natalie Mims Frick."Managing changes in peak demand from building and transportation electrification with energy efficiency." (2024).

Barbose, Galen L."One Year In: Tracking the Impacts of NEM 3.0 on California’s Residential Solar Market." (2024).

Needell, Zachary, Paul Waddell, Juan Caicedo, Haitam Laarabi, Yuhan Wang, Cristian Poliziani, Jessica Lazarus, Dmitrii Openkov, Max Gardner, Nazanin Rezaei, Josh Auld, and Randy Weimer."Platform for Integrated Land use And Transportation Experiments and Simulation (PILATES) v1.0." (2024).

Larsen, Peter H, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Alan H Sanstad, Sunhee Baik, Ian Sue Wing, Dan Wei, Adam Rose, Jeremy Smith, Christopher Ramee, and Ridge Peterson."Power Outage Economics Tool: A Prototype for the Commonwealth Edison Service Territory." (2024).

Yen, Yu-Chieh J, Ken Nixon, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Theo Covary, Jim Lutz, and Marcus Dekenah."Residential Water Heating Demand Side Management (DSM) - South Africa." (2024).

Benne, Kyle, Jermy Thomas, Jiazhen Ling, David Blum, and Amir Roth."Simulation-Driven Rating of Smart Thermostats."Eleventh National Conference of IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2024 (2024). DOI

Pan, Xiyu, Yujie Xu, and Tianzhen Hong."Surrogate modelling for urban building energy simulation based on the bidirectional long short-term memory model."Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2024) 1 - 19. DOI

Jin, Ling, Connor P Jackson, Yuhan Wang, Qianmiao Chen, Tin Ho, C Anna Spurlock, Aaron Brooker, Jake Holden, Jeff Gonder, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Bingrong Sun, Shivam Sharda, Venu Garikapati, Thomas P Wenzel, and Juan Caicedo."Technology progress and clean vehicle policies on fleet turnover and equity: insights from household vehicle fleet micro-simulations with ATLAS."Transportation Planning and Technology (2024) 1 - 24. DOI

Gerke, Brian F, Sarah Josephine Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Peter Alstone, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Richard E Brown, Jingjing Liu, and Mary Ann Piette."The California Demand Response Potential Study, Phase 4: Report on Shed and Shift Resources Through 2050." (2024).

Li, Han, Giuseppe Pinto, Marco Savino Piscitelli, Alfonso Capozzoli, and Tianzhen Hong."Building thermal dynamics modeling with deep transfer learning using a large residential smart thermostat dataset."Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 130 (2024) 107701. DOI

Karali, Nihan, Nina Khanna, and Nihar Shah."Climate Impact of Primary Plastic Production." (2024).

Park, Won Young, Nihan Karali, and Nihar Shah."Driving the Shift to Energy-Efficient and Climate-Responsible Commercial Refrigeration Equipment in Chile." (2024).

Jiang, Jingjing, Deyun Yin, Zhuoluo Sun, Bin Ye, and Nan Zhou."Global trend of methane abatement inventions and widening mismatch with methane emissions."Nature Climate Change 14.4 (2024) 393 - 401. DOI

Zhao, Haoran, Wanyu R Chan, Chrissi Antonopoulos, Eric Martin, Paul Francisco, Iain S Walker, and Brett C Singer."Mechanical Ventilation and IAQ in Recently Constructed US Homes."Indoor Air 2024 (2024).