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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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2019

Lee, Sang Hoon, and Tianzhen Hong."Validation of an inverse model of zone air heat balance."Building and Environment 161 (2019) 106232. DOI

Chen, Yixing, Tianzhen Hong, Xuan Luo, and Barry Hooper."Development of city buildings dataset for urban building energy modeling."Energy and Buildings 183 (2019) 252 - 265. DOI

Blum, David, Filip Jorissen, Sen Huang, Yan Chen, Javier Arroyo, Kyle Benne, Yanfei Li, Valentin Gavan, Lisa Rivalin, Lieve Helsen, Draguna Vrabie, Michael Wetter, and Marina Sofos."Prototyping the BOPTEST Framework for Simulation-Based Testing of Advanced Control Strategies in Buildings."IBPSA Building Simulation 2019 (2019).

."Smart Control of Distributed Energy Resources (SCooDER) v1. 0." (2019).

2018

Wang, Zhe, Tianzhen Hong, and Ruoxi Jia."Buildings.Occupants: a Modelica package for modelling occupant behaviour in buildings."Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2018) 1 - 12. DOI

Jain, Rajeev, Xuan Luo, Gökhan Sever, Tianzhen Hong, and Charlie Catlett."Representation and evolution of urban weather boundary conditions in downtown Chicago."Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2018) 1 - 14. DOI

Satjaritanun, P, S Hirano, A D Shum, Iryna V Zenyuk, Adam Z Weber, J W Weidner, and S Shimpalee."Fundamental Understanding of Water Movement in Gas Diffusion Layer under Different Arrangements Using Combination of Direct Modeling and Experimental Visualization."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.13 (2018) F1115 - F1126. DOI

Wang, Wei, Jiayu Chen, and Tianzhen Hong."Occupancy prediction through machine learning and data fusion of environmental sensing and Wi-Fi sensing in buildings."Automation in Construction 94 (2018) 233 - 243. DOI

Xu, Xiaodong, Fenlan Luo, Wei Wang, Tianzhen Hong, and Xiuzhang Fu."Performance-Based Evaluation of Courtyard Design in China’s Cold-Winter Hot-Summer Climate Regions."Sustainability 10.11 (2018) 3950. DOI

An, Jingjing, Da Yan, and Tianzhen Hong."Clustering and statistical analyses of air-conditioning intensity and use patterns in residential buildings."Energy and Buildings 174 (2018) 214 - 227. DOI

Wang, Taoning, Gregory J Ward, and Eleanor S Lee."Efficient modeling of optically-complex, non-coplanar exterior shading: Validation of matrix algebraic methods."Energy and Buildings 174 (2018) 464 - 483. DOI

Zhang, Lei, Rongpeng Zhang, Tianzhen Hong, Yu Zhang, and Qinglin Meng."Impact of post-rainfall evaporation from porous roof tiles on building cooling load in subtropical China."Applied Thermal Engineering 142 (2018) 391 - 400. DOI

Tarroja, Brian, Felicia Chiang, Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Samuelsen, Shuba V Raghavan, Max Wei, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Translating climate change and heating system electrification impacts on building energy use to future greenhouse gas emissions and electric grid capacity requirements in California."Applied Energy 225 (2018) 522 - 534. DOI

Preble, Chelsea V, Troy Cados, Robert A Harley, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."In-Use Performance and Durability of Particle Filters on Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks."Environmental Science Technology 52.20 (2018) 11913-11921. DOI

Langevin, Jared."Modeling the adoption of building efficiency technologies: A review of methods and datasets."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

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

Blum, David, Guanjing Lin, Michael Spears, Janie Page, and Jessica Granderson."When Data Analytics Meet Site Operation: Benefits and Challenges."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Millstein, Dev, Joshua Solomon-Culp, Meina Wang, Paul Ullrich, and Craig Collier."Wind energy variability and links to regional and synoptic scale weather."Climate Dynamics (2018). DOI

Belafi, Zsofia, Tianzhen Hong, and Andras Reith."A critical review on questionnaire surveys in the field of energy-related occupant behaviour."Energy Efficiency (2018) 1-21. DOI

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

Weng, Lien-Chun, Alexis T Bell, and Adam Z Weber."Modeling gas-diffusion electrodes for CO ₂ reduction."Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20.25 (2018) 16973 - 16984. DOI

Wang, Wei, Jiayu Chen, Tianzhen Hong, and Na Zhu."Occupancy prediction through Markov based feedback recurrent neural network (M-FRNN) algorithm with WiFi probe technology."Building and Environment 138 (2018) 160 - 170. DOI

Jeong, Seongeun, Sally Newman, Jingsong Zhang, Arlyn E Andrews, Laura Bianco, Edward J Dlugokencky, Justin Bagley, Xinguang Cui, Chad Priest, Mixtli Campos-Pineda, and Marc L Fischer."Inverse Estimation of an Annual Cycle of California's Nitrous Oxide Emissions."Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123.9 (2018) 4758 - 4771. DOI

Leifer, Ira, Christopher Melton, Marc L Fischer, Matthew Fladeland, Jason Frash, WarrenGore WarrenGore, Laura T Iraci, Jocette E Marrero, Ju-Mee Ryoo, Tomoaki Tanaka, and Emma L Yates."Atmospheric characterization through fused mobile airborne and surface in situ surveys: methane emissions quantification from a producing oil field."Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 11.3 (2018) 1689 - 1705. DOI

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