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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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2018

Pass, Rebecca Zarin, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette."A thermodynamic analysis of a novel bidirectional district heating and cooling network."Energy 144 (2018) 20 - 30. DOI

Taylor, Margaret, and K. Sydny Fujita."Consumer Behavior and the Plug-In Electric Vehicle Purchase Decision Process: A Research Synthesis." (2018).

Fernandes, Samuel, Jessica Granderson, Rupam Singla, and Samir Touzani."Corporate Delivery of a Global Smart Buildings Program."Energy Engineering (2018). DOI

Kim, Yang-Seon, Iain S. Walker, and William W. Delp."Development of a standard capture efficiency test method for residential kitchen ventilation."Science and Technology for the Built Environment 24 (2018) 176–187. DOI

Touzani, Samir, Jessica Granderson, and Samuel Fernandes."Gradient boosting machine for modeling the energy consumption of commercial buildings."Energy and Buildings (2018). DOI

Rainer, Leo I., Aditya Khandekar, and Alan K. Meier."Builder Installed Electrical Loads: The Energy Mortgage on a New House."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Panagopoulos, Athanasios Aris, Michail Katsigiannis, Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro, Daniel Lengyel, Therese Peffer, Georgios Chalkiadakis, and David Culler."Dealing with Expected Thermal Discomfort."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Gerber, Daniel L., Alan K. Meier, Robert Hosbach, and Richard Liou."Emerging Solutions to the Standby Power Problem."ACEEE 2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Podkaminer, Kara, Valerie Nubbe, Ben King, Ookie Ma, Jared Langevin, Jack Mayernik, Chioke B. Harris, and Eric Wilson."Is every kWh the same? How do energy efficiency measures stack up across regions?."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Fares, Robert, Marina Sofos, Jared Langevin, Robert Hosbach, Alan K. Meier, Joshua Butzbaugh, and Paul Ehrlich."Improving Characterization of Miscellaneous Energy Loads in Energy Demand Models."2018 ACEEE Summer Study (2018).

Yang, Bin, Xiaogang Cheng, Thomas Olofsson, Haibo Li, and Alan K. Meier."Macro pose-based non-invasive thermal comfort perception for energy efficiency." (2018).

Jahromi, Omid, and Alan K. Meier."Real-Time Itemized Electricity Consumption Intelligence for Military Bases."IEEE (2018).

Pritoni, Marco, Angela Sanguinetti, Rebecca Ford, and Beth Karlin."Smart Home Energy Management: Use Cases and Savings Opportunities."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

2017

Granderson, Jessica, Rupam Singla, Ebony Mayhorn, Paul Ehrlich, Draguna Vrabie, and Stephen Frank."Characterization and Survey of Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics Tools." (2017).

Iyer, Maithili, Satish Kumar, Sangeeta Mathew, Hannah Stratton, Paul A. Mathew, and Mohini Singh."Establishing a commercial building energy data framework for India: Approaches, use cases, and institutions."INSPIRE 2017 (2017).

Ford, Rebecca, Marco Pritoni, Angela Sanguinetti, and Beth Karlin."Categories and functionality of smart home technology for energy management."Building and Environment 123 (2017) 543 - 554. DOI

Fernandes, Samuel, and Jessica Granderson."The State of Advanced Measurement and Verification Technology and Industry Application."The Electricity Journal 30.8 (2017) 8-16. DOI

Wallace, Nancy, Paulo Issler, Paul A. Mathew, and Kaiyu Sun."Impact of Energy Factors on Default Risk in Commercial Mortgages." (2017).

Mathew, Paul A., Kaiyu Sun, Baptiste Ravache, Paulo Issler, and Nancy Wallace."Impact of Energy Use and Price Variations on Default Risk in Commercial Mortgages: Case Studies." (2017).

Blum, David, and Michael Wetter."MPCPy: An Open-Source Software Platform for Model Predictive Control in Buildings."Proceedings of the 15th IBPSA Conference: Building Simulation 2017 (2017).

Mills, Evan, Norman Bourassa, Leo I. Rainer, Jimmy Mai, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Arman Shehabi, Ted Pollak, and Nathaniel Mills."An Energy-focused Profile of the Video Gaming Marketplace." (2017).

Pritoni, Marco, Kiernan Salmon, Angela Sanguinetti, Joshua Morejohn, and Mark Modera."Occupant thermal feedback for improved efficiency in university buildings."Energy and Buildings 144 (2017) 241 - 250. DOI

Meier, Alan K., and Hans-Paul Siderius."Should the next standby power target be 0-watt?." (2017).

Luo, Xuan, Khee Poh Lam, Yixing Chen, and Tianzhen Hong."Performance Evaluation of an Agent-based Occupancy Simulation Model."Building and Environment 115 (2017). DOI

Shehabi, Arman, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Laurèn DeMates, Paul A. Mathew, and Dale A. Sartor."Characterizing the Laboratory Market." (2017).