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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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2005

Crawley, Drury B., Jon W. Hand, Michael Kummert, and Brent T. Griffith."Contrasting the Capabilities of Building Energy Performance Simulation Programs."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

da Graça, Guilherme Carrilho, Paul F. Linden, and Martha Brook."Design of the Natural Ventilation System for the New San Diego Children's Museum."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Hand, Jon W., Drury B. Crawley, Michael Donn, and Linda K. Lawrie."Improving the Data Available to Simulation Programs."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Fisher, Daniel E., and Simon J. Rees."Modeling Ground Source Heat Pump Systems in a Building Energy Simulation Program (EnergyPlus)."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Mehta, Mohit."Natural Ventilation Analysis of an Office Building with Open Atrium."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Wurtz, Etienne, Chadi Maalouf, Laurent Mora, and Francis Allard."Parametric Analysis of a Solar Desiccant Cooling System using the SimSPARK Environment."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

O'Donnell, James, Elmer Morrissey, Marcus Keane, and Brian Ó Gallachóir."Reducing Building Operational Cost Through Environmental Effectiveness Ratios."Building Simulation 2005 IBPSA International Conference (2005).

Ellis, Peter G., and Paul A. Torcellini."Simulating Tall Buildings Using EnergyPlus."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

O'Sullivan, Barry, and Marcus Keane."Specifiction of an IFC-Based Intelligent Graphical User Interface to Support Building Energy Simulation."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Hong, Tianzhen, Charles N. Eley, and Erik Kolderup."Two DOE-2 Functions."IBPSA Building Simulation 2005 (2005).

Pinckard, Margaret J., Richard E. Brown, Evan Mills, James D. Lutz, Mithra M. Moezzi, Celina S. Atkinson, Christopher A. Bolduc, Gregory K. Homan, and Katie Coughlin."Documentation of Calculation Methodology, Input Data, and Infrastructure for the Home Energy Saver Web Site." (2005) 108.

Vijayan, P., Prajesh Bhattacharya, S. Nara, W. Y. Lai, Patrick E. Phelan, Ravi S. Prasher, David W. Song, and J. Wang."Effect of Particle Material on the Static Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids."Heat Transfer Conference (2005).

Wong, Nyuk Hien, Liping Wang, Aida Noplie Chandra, Anupama Rana Pandey, and Xiaolin Wei."Effects of double glazed façade on energy consumption, thermal comfort and condensation for a typical office building in Singapore."Energy and Buildings 37.6 (2005).

Pang, Xiufeng, B Zheng, and Mingsheng Liu."Building Pressure Control in VAV System with Relief Air Fan."the 5th International Conference of Enhanced Building Operations (2005).

Zheng, , B, Mingsheng Liu, and Xiufeng Pang."Continuous Commissioning of an Office Building."the 5th International Conference of Enhanced Building Operations (2005).

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Andreas Holm, and Wolfram Haupt."A hygrothermal building model based on the object-oriented modeling language Modelica."Ninth International IBPSA Conference (2005).

Wang, Liping, and Nyuk Hien Wong."The impacts of facade and ventilation strategies on indoor thermal environment for a naturally ventilated residential building in Singapore."the 10th International conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Beijing (2005).

Wang, Liping, and Nyuk Hien Wong."Thermal analysis of climate environments based on weather data in Singapore for naturally ventilated buildings."the 10th International conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate,Beijing (2005).

Hong, Tianzhen, Charles N. Eley, and Erik Kolderup."Two DOE-2 functions."IBPSA Building Simulation (2005).

Zheng, , B, Xiufeng Pang, and Mingsheng Liu."Using a Fan Air Flow Station to Control Building Static Pressure in a VAV System."the 2005 International Solar Energy Conference (2005).

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, and Joseph J Deringer."A Simulation-Based Testing and Training Environment for Building Controls."SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2005).

Wetter, Michael, and Elijah Polak."Building design optimization using a convergent pattern search algorithm with adaptive precision simulations."Energy and Buildings 37.6 (2005) 603-612. DOI

Wetter, Michael."BuildOpt - A new building energy simulation program that is built on smooth models."Building and Environment 40.8 (2005) 1085-1092. DOI

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, and Moosung Kim."Model-Based Automated Functional Testing-Methodology and Application to Air Handling Units."ASHRAE Transactions 111.Pt. 1 (2005).

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, Thilo Ernst, Peter Schneider, Mathias Vetter, Andreas Holm, Juergen Leopold, Ullrich Doll, Andre Nordwig, Peter Schwarz, Christoph Wittwer, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Gerhardt Schmidt, and Alexander Mattes."MOSILAB: Development of a modelica based generic simulation tool supporting modal structural dynamics."4th International Modelica Conference (2005) pp.527-534.