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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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2015

Granderson, Jessica, Phillip N Price, Stephen Czarnecki, Janie Page, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of Diagnostic and M&V Agents, and Implementation in an Occupied Office Environment." (2015).

Mathew, Paul A, Laurel N Dunn, Michael D Sohn, Andrea C Mercado, Claudine Custudio, and Travis Walter."Big-data for building energy performance: Lessons from assembling a very large national database of building energy use."Applied Energy 140 (2015) 85 - 93. DOI

2014

Mathew, Paul A, Laurel N Dunn, Michael D Sohn, Andrea C Mercado, Claudine Y Custodio, and Travis Walter."Big-Data for Building Energy Performance: Lessons from Assembling a Very Large National Database of Building Energy Use." (2014).

Earni, Shankar."Advanced Metering Implementations - A Perspective from Federal Sector."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Coleman, Philip, Shankar Earni, and Charles H Williams."Could what that ESCO sales rep said really be true? Savings realization rates in ESPC versus bid-to-spec projects."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Granderson, Jessica, David A Jump, Phillip N Price, and Michael D Sohn."Performance Metrics and Objective Testing Methods for Energy Baseline Modeling Software." (2014).

Bonvini, Marco, Michael D Sohn, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette."Robust on-line fault detection diagnosis for HVAC components based on nonlinear state estimation techniques."Applied Energy 124 (2014) 156 - 166. DOI

Custodio, Claudine Y, Travis Walter, Laurel N Dunn, Andrea C Mercado, Richard E Brown, and Paul A Mathew."Data Preparation Process for the Buildings Performance Database." (2014).

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N Price."Development and Application of a Statistical Methodology to Evaluate the Predictive Accuracy of Building Energy Baseline Models."Energy 66 (2014) 981-990. DOI

Sarraf, Saket, Shilpi Anand, Yash Shukla, Paul A Mathew, and Reshma Singh."Building Energy Benchmarking in India: An Action Plan for Advancing the State-of-the-Art." (2014).

Mercado, Andrea C, Robin Mitchell, Shankar Earni, Richard C Diamond, and Elena Alschuler."Enabling Interoperability through a Common Language for Building Performance Data."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Mercado, Andrea C, Robin Mitchell, Shankar Earni, Richard C Diamond, and Elena Alschuler."Enabling Interoperability through a Common Language for Building Performance Data."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Brown, Richard E, Travis Walter, Laurel N Dunn, Claudine Y Custodio, and Paul A Mathew."Getting Real with Energy Data: Using the Buildings Performance Database to Support Data-Driven Analyses and Decision-Making." (2014).

2013

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard E Brown, Phillip N Price, Janie Page, Jessica Granderson, David Riess, Stephen Czarnecki, Girish Ghatikar, and Steven Lanzisera."Automated Measurement and Signaling Systems for the Transactional Network." (2013).

Singh, Reshma, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Paul A Mathew, Jessica Granderson, and Yash Shukla."Guidelines for Datacenter Energy Information System." (2013).

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, and Mary Ann Piette."Energy information systems (EIS): Technology costs, benefit, and best practice uses." (2013).

Parrish, Kristen, Jessica Granderson, Andrea C Mercado, and Paul A Mathew."Improving Energy Efficiency through Commissioning: Getting Started with Commissioning, Monitoring, and Maintaining Performance." (2013).

Price, Phillip N, Jessica Granderson, Michael D Sohn, Nathan J Addy, and David A Jump."Commercial Building Energy Baseline Modeling Software: Performance Metrics and Method Testing with Open Source Models and Implications for Proprietary Software Testing." (2013).

Jump, David A, Phillip N Price, Jessica Granderson, and Michael D Sohn."Functional Testing Protocols for Commercial Building Efficiency Baseline Modeling Software." (2013).

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N Price."Development and Application of a Statistical Methodology to Evaluate the Predictive Accuracy of Building Energy Baseline Models." (2013).

2012

Earni, Shankar, Spencer Woodworth, Xiufeng Pang, Jorge Hernandez-Maldonado, Rongxin Yin, Liping Wang, Steve E Greenberg, John Fiegel, and Alma Rubalcava."Monitoring-based HVAC Commissioning of an Existing Office Building for Energy Efficiency." (2012).

Wang, Liping, Paul A Mathew, and Xiufeng Pang."Uncertainties in energy consumption introduced by building operations and weather for a medium-size office building."Energy and Buildings 53 (2012) 152 - 158. DOI

Wang, Liping, Paul A Mathew, and Xiufeng Pang."Uncertainties in energy consumption introduced by building operations and weather for a medium-size office building."Energy and Buildings 53 (2012) 152 - 158. DOI

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N Price."Evaluation of the Predictive Accuracy of Five Whole-Building Baseline Models." (2012).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Responsive and Intelligent Building Information and Control for Low-Energy and Optimized Grid Integration."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).