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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

Nouidui, Thierry S, Jonathan Coignard, Christoph Gehbauer, Michael Wetter, Jhi-Young Joo, and Evangelos Vrettos."CyDER – an FMI-based co-simulation platform for distributed energy resources."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 12.5 (2018) 566 - 579. DOI

Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A Mathew, Alastair Robinson, Peter Schwartz, Jordan Shackelford, and Travis Walter."Beyond Widgets: Validated Systems Energy Savings and Utility Custom Incentive Program Systems Trends."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Pang, Xiufeng, Carlos Duarte, Philip Haves, and Frank Chuang."Testing and demonstration of model predictive control applied to a radiant slab cooling system in a building test facility."Energy and Buildings 172 (2018) 432 - 441. DOI

Jia, Hongyuan, Xiufeng Pang, and Philip Haves."Experimentally-determined characteristics of radiant systems for office buildings."Applied Energy 221 (2018) 41 - 54. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S, David Geisler-Moroder, and Gregory J Ward."Modeling the Direct Sun Component in Buildings Using Matrix Algebraic Approaches: Methods and Validation."Solar Energy 160 (2018) 380 - 395. DOI

Mathew, Paul A, Cynthia Regnier, Travis Walter, and Jordan Shackelford."ComEd – LBNL ‘Beyond Widgets’ Project Automated Shading Integrated with Lighting and HVAC Controls System Program Manual." (2018).

Coignard, Jonathan, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Christoph Gehbauer, Michael Wetter, Jhi-Young Joo, Philip Top, Rafael Rivera Soto, Brian Kelley, and Emma M Stewart."CyDER - A Co-Simulation Platform for Grid Analysis and Planning for High Penetration of Distributed Energy Resources."2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) (2018). DOI

Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A Mathew, Alastair Robinson, Peter Schwartz, Jordan Shackelford, and Travis Walter."Energy Cost Savings of Systems-Based Building Retrofits: A Study of Three Integrated Lighting Systems in Comparison with Component Based Retrofits." (2018).

Pantelic, Jovan, Stefano Schiavon, Baisong Ning, Eleftherios Burdakis, Paul Raftery, and Fred S Bauman."Full scale laboratory experiment on the cooling capacity of a radiant floor system."Energy and Buildings 170 (2018). DOI

Tang, Haida, Paul Raftery, Xiaohua Liu, Stefano Schiavon, Jonathan Woolley, and Fred S Bauman."Performance analysis of pulsed flow control method for radiant slab system."Building and Environment 127 (2018). DOI

Regnier, Cynthia, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Quantifying the benefits of a building retrofit using an integrated system approach: A case study."Energy and Buildings 159 (2018). DOI

Woolley, Jonathan, Stefano Schiavon, Fred S Bauman, Paul Raftery, and Jovan Pantelic."Side-by-side laboratory comparison of space heat extraction rates and thermal energy use for radiant and all-air systems."Energy and Buildings 176 (2018). DOI

Ravache, Baptiste, and Cynthia Regnier."Stasis PCM Test Results." (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).

Robinson, Alastair, Paul A Mathew, Cynthia Regnier, Peter Schwartz, Jordan Shackelford, and Travis Walter."California Publicly‐Owned Utilities (POUs) – LBNL ‘Beyond Widgets’ Project Task‐ambient lighting and occupancy‐based plug load control System Program Manual ." (2017).

Lee, Sang Hoon, and Tianzhen Hong."Leveraging Zone Air Temperature Data to Improve Physics-Based Energy Simulation of Existing Buildings."Building Simulation 2017 (2017). DOI

Haves, Philip, Xiufeng Pang, and Hongyuan Jia."Experimentally-Determined Characteristics of Radiant Systems for Commercial Buildings." (2017).

Gravely, Mike."Actions and Planned EPIC DER Research Activities." (2017).

Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A Mathew, Alastair Robinson, Jordan Shackelford, Peter Schwartz, and Travis Walter."Xcel Energy – LBNL ‘Beyond Widgets’ Project Workstation Specific Lighting with Daylight Dimming Controls System Program Manual." (2017).

2016

Lee, Eleanor S, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Samir Touzani, Spencer M Dutton, Jordan Shackelford, Darryl J Dickerhoff, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Technology Assessments of High Performance Envelope with Optimized Lighting, Solar Control, and Daylighting." (2016).

Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A Mathew, Alastair Robinson, Peter Schwartz, and Travis Walter."Beyond Widgets – Systems Incentive Programs for Utilities."ACEEE (2016).

2015

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Claudine Y Custodio, Michael D Sohn, Samuel Fernandes, and David A Jump."Assessment of Automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) Methods." (2015).

McNeil, Andrew, and Eleanor S Lee."April Burn-in Testing Report for Genentech B35, South San Francisco Campus." (2015).

Mills, Evan, Jessica Granderson, Wanyu R Chan, Richard C Diamond, Philip Haves, Bruce Nordman, Paul A Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Gerald Robinson, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Green, Clean, & Mean: Pushing the Energy Envelope in Tech Industry Buildings." (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).