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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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2020

Crowe, Eliot, Evan Mills, Tom Poeling, Claire Curtin, Diana Bjornskov, Liz Fischer, and Jessica Granderson."Building Commissioning Costs and Savings Across Three Decades and 1,500 North American Buildings."Energy and Buildings 227.110408 (2020). DOI

Fierro, Gabe, Anand Prakash, Cory Mosiman, Marco Pritoni, Paul Raftery, Michael Wetter, and David Culler."Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick."BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (2020). DOI

Bergmann, Harry, Cory Mosiman, Avijit Saha, Selam Haile, William Livingood, Steven Bushby, Gabe Fierro, Joel Bender, Michael Poplawski, Jessica Granderson, and Marco Pritoni."Semantic Interoperability to Enable Smart, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Ehlinger, Victoria M, Andrew R Crothers, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Adam Z. Weber."Modeling proton-exchange-membrane fuel cell performance/degradation tradeoffs with chemical scavengers."Journal of Physics: Energy 2.4 (2020) 044006. DOI

Kramer, , Hannah, Claire Curtin, Guanjing Lin, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Proving the Business Case for Building Analytics." (2020). DOI

Zhang, Kun, David Blum, Milica Grahovac, Jianjun Hu, Jessica Granderson, and Michael Wetter."Development and Verification of Control Sequences for Single- Zone Variable Air Volume System Based on ASHRAE Guideline 36."American Modelica Conference 2020 (2020). DOI

Pritoni, Marco, Anand Prakash, David Blum, Kun Zhang, Rui Tang, and Jessica Granderson."Advanced control sequences and FDD technology. Just shiny objects, or ready for scale?."ACEEE Summer Study 2020 (2020). DOI

Lin, Guanjing, Marco Pritoni, Yimin Chen, Jessica Granderson, Ricardo Moromisato, and Stephen Kozlen."Can We Fix It Automatically? Development of Fault Auto-Correction Algorithms for HVAC and Lighting Systems."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Singh, Reshma, Anand Prakash, Mary Ann Piette, and Shreya Agarwal."A Community Energy Operations and Planning System: Concept, Use cases, Metrics, and Benefits."The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (2020).

Casillas, Armando, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."Curation of Ground-Truth Validated Benchmarking Datasets for Fault Detection & Diagnostics Tools."2020 ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Touzani, Samir, Marc Wudunn, Avideh Zakhor, Marco Pritoni, Reshma Singh, Harry Bergmann, and Jessica Granderson."Machine Learning for Automated Extraction of Building Geometry."The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (2020).

Chen, Yimin, Eliot Crowe, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."What's in a Name? Developing a Standardized Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults."2020 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Samuel Fernandes."Meter-Based Assessment of the Time and Locational Benefits of a Large Utility’s DSM Portfolio."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

WuDunn, Mark, Avideh Zakhor, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Aerial 3D Building Reconstruction from RGB Drone Imagery."SPIE Geospatial Informatics X (2020).

Lin, Guanjing, Marco Pritoni, Yimin Chen, and Jessica Granderson."Development and Implementation of Fault-Correction Algorithms in Fault Detection and Diagnostics Tools."Energies 13 (2020). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Ari Harding, Piljae Im, and Yan Chen."Building fault detection data to aid diagnostic algorithm creation and performance testing."Nature: Scientific Data Vol.7 No.65 (2020).

Kramer, Hannah, Rui Tang, Richard E. Brown, Claire Curtin, and Jessica Granderson."Market Brief: Customer-sited Distributed Energy Resources." (2020). DOI

Lin, Guanjing, Hannah Kramer, and Jessica Granderson."Building fault detection and diagnostics: Achieved savings, and methods to evaluate algorithm performance."Building and Environment 168 (2020) 106505. DOI

Shi, , Shouwen, Zheng Liu, Qiang Lin, Xu Chen, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Role of ionic interactions in the deformation and fracture behavior of perfluorosulfonic-acid membranes."Soft Matter 16.6 (2020) 1653 - 1667. DOI

Prakash, Anand, Samir Touzani, Mariam Kiran, Shreya Agarwal, Marco Pritoni, and Jessica Granderson."Deep Reinforcement Learning in Buildings: Implicit Assumptions and their Impact."RLEM'20: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Energy Management in Buildings & Cities (2020). DOI

2019

Baral, Nawa Raj, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A. Simmons, and Corinne D. Scown."Greenhouse Gas Footprint, Water-Intensity, and Production Cost of Bio-Based Isopentenol as a Renewable Transportation Fuel."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 7.18 (2019) 15434 - 15444. DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Eliot Crowe, Samuel Fernandes, Shankar Earni, and Kaiyu Sun."Realizing high-accuracy low-cost measurement and verification for deep cost savings." (2019). DOI

Singh, Reshma, Paul A. Mathew, Jessica Granderson, and Yash Shukla."Energy Information Systems: From the Basement to the Boardroom." (2019). DOI

Crowe, Eliot, Jessica Granderson, and Samuel Fernandes."From Theory to Practice: Lessons Learned from an Advanced M&V Commercial Pilot."International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2019).