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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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2006

Xu, Peng, and Philip Haves."Case Study of Demand Shifting with Thermal Mass in Two Large Commercial Buildings."ASHRAE Transactions 112.Pt. 1 (2006).

Kosar, Douglas, Don Shirey, Mangesh Basarkar, Muthasamy Swami, and Richard Raustad."Dehumidification Enhancement of Direct Expansion Systems through Component Augmentation of the Cooling Coil."Fifteenth Symposium on Improving Building Systems in Hot and Humid Climates, July 24-26, 2006 (2006).

Prasher, Ravi S., Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Patrick E. Phelan."Effect of Aggregation Kinetics on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanoscale Colloidal Solutions (Nanofluids)."Nanoletters 6 (2006) 1529-1534.

Xu, Peng, Philip Haves, and Dimitri Curtil."A Library of HVAC Component Models for use in Automated Diagnostics."SimBuild 2006 (2006).

Nytsch-Geusen, Christoph, Andre Nordwig, Mathias Vetter, Christoph Wittwer, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, and Peter Schneider."MOSILAB: Ein Modelica-Simulationswerkzeug zur energetischen Gebäude- und Anlagensimulation."16. Symposium Thermische Solarenergie (2006).

Polak, Elijah, and Michael Wetter."Precision control for generalized pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision function evaluations."SIAM Journal on Optimization 16.3 (2006) 650-669 . DOI

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, and Andreas Holm."Validierung der eindimensionalen hygrothermischen Wandmodelle der Modelica-Bibliothek "BuildingPhysicsLibrary"."BauSIM 2006 (2006) pp.144-146.

2005

Bhattacharya, Prajesh, Patrick E. Phelan, and Ravi S. Prasher."Computational Analysis of the Colloidal Stability of Nanofluids."International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (2005).

Nara, S., Prajesh Bhattacharya, P. Vijayan, W. Y. Lai, W. Rosenthal, Patrick E. Phelan, Ravi S. Prasher, David W. Song, and Jinlin Wang."Experimental Determination of the Effect of Varying Base Fluid and Temperature on the Static Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids."ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 5-11, 2005 (2005). DOI

Morrissey, Elmer, Marcus Keane, James O'Donnell, and John F. McCarthy."Building Effectiveness Communication Ratios for Improved Building Life Cycle Management."IBPSA Building Simulation Conference 2005 (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).

Carroll, William L., and Robert J. Hitchcock."DElight2 Daylighting Analysis in Energy Plus: Integration and Preliminary User Results."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).

Mitchell, Robin, Yu Joe Huang, Dariush K. Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, and Steve Glendenning."RESFEN5: Program Description." (2005).