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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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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.

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2024

Shackelford, Jordan, Spencer M Dutton, Cynthia Regnier, Wanyu R Chan, and Alastair Robinson."Modeled Retrofit Package Performance for Schools." (2024). DOI

2023

Liu, Jingjing, Lili Yu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, and Peter Schwartz."Factors Influencing Building Demand Flexibility." (2023). DOI

Shackelford, Jordan, Alastair Robinson, Cynthia Regnier, and Sang Hoon Lee."Getting Beyond Widgets: Performance of Efficient Indoor Air Quality System Retrofit Packages for Schools." (2023). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Yimin Chen, Armando Casillas, Jin Wen, Zhelun Chen, Piljae Im, Sen Huang, and Jiazhen Ling."A labeled dataset for building HVAC systems operating in faulted and fault-free states."Scientific Data 10 (2023). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Samuel Fernandes, Eliot Crowe, Mrinalini Sharma, David A Jump, and Devan Johnson."Accuracy of hourly energy predictions for demand flexibility applications."Energy and Buildings Vol.295 No..113297 (2023). DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M, Edward A Arens, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Vincenzo Corrado, Haley E Gilbert, Peter Holzer, Pierre Jaboyedoff, Amanda Krelling, Anaïs Machard, Wendy Miller, Mamak P.Tootkaboni, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Hui Zhang."Policy Recommendations from IEA EBC Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings." (2023). DOI

Chen, Zhelun, Zheng O'Neill, Jin Wen, Ojas Pradhan, Tao Yang, Xing Lu, Guanjing Lin, Shohei Miyata, Seungjae Lee, Chou Shen, Roberto Chiosa, Marco Savino Piscitelli, Alfonso Capozzoli, Franz Hengel, Alexander Kuhrer, Marco Pritonic, Wei Liu, John Claub, Yimin Chen, and Terry Herr."A review of data-driven fault detection and diagnostics for building HVAC systems."Applied Energy Vol.339 No..121030 (2023). DOI

Kramer, Hannah, Nora Hart, Jessica Granderson, and Tom Abram."Framework for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Planning: Building Portfolios." (2023).

Levinson, Ronnen M, Mansour Alhazmi, Jackson Becce, Andre Desjarlais, Haley E Gilbert, Greg Kats, Jacob Miller, Emily Morin, David J Sailor, and Sarah Schneider."United States Cool Surfaces Deployment Plan." (2023). DOI

2022

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Lili Yu, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Jiarong Xie, Tianzhen Hong, Monica Neukomm, and Peter Schwartz."Defining and applying an electricity demand flexibility benchmarking metrics framework for grid-interactive efficient commercial buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100107. DOI

Gautier, Antoine, Michael Wetter, and Matthias Sulzer."Resilient cooling through geothermal district energy system."Applied Energy 325 (2022) 119880. DOI

Fauchier-Magnan, Nicolas, Joshua Morejohn, and Marco Pritoni."A low-cost centralized HVAC control system solution for energy savings, load shedding, and improved maintenance."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Liu, Jingjing, Lili Yu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."Benchmarking Demand Flexibility in Commercial Buildings and Flattening the Duck – Addressing Baseline and Commissioning Challenges."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Prakash, Anand, Marco Pritoni, Margarita Kloss, Mary Ann Piette, Michel Kamel, and Dotty Hage."Cloud-Control of Legacy Building Automation System: A case study."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Roa, Carlos Duarte, Paul Raftery, Rupam Singla, Marco Pritoni, and Therese Peffer."Detecting Passing Valves at Scale Across Different Buildings and Systems: A Brick Enabled and Mortar Tested Application."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Pritoni, Marco, Guanjing Lin, Yimin Chen, John House, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Market Barriers and Drivers for the Next Generation Fault Detection and Diagnostic Tools."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Singh, Reshma, Samuel Fernandes, Anand Prakash, Paul A Mathew, Jessica Granderson, Colman Snaith, Rahul Pusapati, Prakash Jadhav, Avideh Zakhor, Rishi Upadhyay, Ozgur Gonen, and Harry Bergmann."Scaling Building Energy Audits through Machine Learning Methods on Novel Drone Image Data."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Roa, Carlos Duarte, Paul Raftery, Ruiji Sun, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro, and Therese Peffer."Towards a Stronger Foundation: Digitizing Commercial Buildings with Brick to Enable Portable Advanced Applications."2022 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

Crowe, Eliot, Yimin Chen, Jessica Granderson, Hayden Reeve, LucasTroup LucasTroup, David Yuill, and Yuxuan Chen."What We Learned From Analyzing 18 Million Rows of Commercial Buildings’ HVAC Fault Data."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Yu, Lili, Jingjing Liu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."When Do Efficiency and Demand Flexibility Go Hand-in-hand?."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Lin, Guanjing, Eliot Crowe, Valerie Nibler, and Jessica Granderson."Assessing EMIS Benefits: A new field evaluation protocol offers rigor and flexibility."The 7th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue (2022).

Lin, Guanjing, Hannah Kramer, Valerie Nibler, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Building Analytics Tool Deployment at Scale: Benefits, Costs, and Deployment Practices."Energies Vol.15 (2022). DOI

Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A Mathew, Leo Rainer, and Christopher CaraDonna."Systems Packages for Washington State Building Performance Standard Incentive Program: Phase 1 Analysis." (2022).

Pritoni, Marco, Guanjing Lin, Yimin Chen, Raphael Vitti, Christopher Weyandt, and Jessica Granderson."From fault-detection to automated fault correction: a field study."Building and Environment 214 (2022).