Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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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About Us +
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.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2012

Mills, Evan, and Paul A. Mathew."Web Services that Foster Innovation in Buildings Energy Analysis Tools."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Mills, Evan."Weighing the Risks of Climate Change Mitigation Strategies."Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 68.6 (2012) 67-78. DOI

2011

Ceder, Gerbrand, Geoffroy Hautier, Anubhav Jain, and Shyue P. Ong."Recharging lithium battery research with first-principles methods."MRS Bulletin 36.03 (2011) 185-191. DOI

Wenzel, Thomas P.."An Analysis of the Relationship between Casualty Risk Per Crash and Vehicle Mass and Footprint for Model Year 2000-2007 Light-Duty Vehicles - Preliminary Report." (2011).

Satchwell, Andrew, Peter Cappers, and Charles A. Goldman."Carrots and sticks: A comprehensive business model for the successful achievement of energy efficiency resource standards."Utilities Policy 19.4 (2011) 218-225. DOI

Zimring, Mark, Merrian Borgeson, Ian M. Hoffman, Charles A. Goldman, Elizabeth Stuart, Annika Todd, and Megan A. Billingsley."Delivering Energy Efficiency to Middle Income Single Family Households." (2011) 102.

Walker, Iain S., and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Development of a Residential Integrated Ventilation Controller." (2011).

Meyers, Stephen, Alison A. Williams, and Peter T. Chan."Energy and Economic Impacts of U.S. Federal Energy and Water Conservation Standards Adopted From 1987 Through 2010." (2011).

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Ben Rosenblum, R. Lily Hu, Daniel Harris, Paul A. Mathew, Phillip N. Price, Geoffrey C. Bell, Srinivas Katipamula, and Michael Brambley."Energy Information Handbook: Applications for Energy-Efficient Building Operations." (2011).

Yang, Juekuan, Yang Yang, Scott W. Waltermire, Xiaoxia Wu, Haitao Zhang, Timothy Gutu, Youfei Jiang, Yunfei Chen, Alfred A. Zinn, Ravi S. Prasher, Terry T. Xu, and Deyu Li."Enhanced and switchable nanoscale thermal conduction due to van der Waals interfaces."Nat. Nanotechnol. 7 (2011) 91. DOI

Wetter, Michael."GenOpt Generic Optimization Program, User Manual, Version 3.1.0." (2011).

Peffer, Therese, Marco Pritoni, Alan K. Meier, Cecilia Aragon, and Daniel Perry."How people use thermostats in homes: A review."Building and Environment 46.12 (2011). DOI

Tucker, Michael C., and Lei Cheng."Integrated thermal management strategy and materials for solid oxide fuel cells."Journal of Power Sources 196.23 (2011) 10074 - 10078. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M., Heng Pan, George A. Ban-Weiss, Pablo J. Rosado, Riccardo Paolini, and Hashem Akbari."Potential benefits of solar reflective car shells: Cooler cabins, fuel savings and emission reductions."Applied Energy 88.12 (2011) 4343-4357. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, and Rolf Bienert."Smart Grid Standards and Systems Interoperability: A Precedent with OpenADR."Grid-Interop 2011 (2011).

Williams, Alison A., Camilla Dunham, and James D. Lutz."A Systems Framework for Assessing Plumbing Products-Related Water Conservation." (2011).

Mathieu, Johanna L., Duncan S. Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Variability in Automated Responses of Commercial Buildings and Industrial Facilities to Dynamic Electricity Prices."Energy and Buildings 43.12 (2011) 3322-3330. DOI

Zuo, Wangda, Andrew McNeil, Michael Wetter, and Eleanor S. Lee."Acceleration of Radiance for Lighting Simulation by using Parallel Computing with OpenCL."12th International Conference of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (Building Simulation 2011) (2011) p. 110-117.

Bazjanac, Vladimir, Tobias Maile, Cody Rose, James O'Donnell, Natasa Mrazovic, Elmer Morrissey, and Benjamin Welle."An Assessment of the use of Building Energy Performance Simulation in Early Design."IBPSA Building Simulation 2011 (2011).

Haves, Philip, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Michael Wetter, Zhengwei Li, and Xiufeng Pang."BacNet and Analog/Digital Interfaces of the Building Controls Virtual Testbed." (2011).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Michael Wetter, Zhengwei Li, Xiufeng Pang, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Philip Haves."BACnet and Analog/Digital Interfaces of the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed."Proc. of the 12th IBPSA Conference (2011) p. 294-301.

McNeil, Michael A., Nicholas Bojda, Jing Ke, Yining Qin, Stephane de la Rue du Can, David Fridley, Virginie E. Letschert, and James E. McMahon."Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Support of Climate Change Mitigation, Economic and Societal Benefits in China." (2011).

Mills, Evan."Commissioning High-Tech Facilities."ASHRAE Journal 53 (2011).

Menon, Surabi, and Ronnen M. Levinson."Cool roofs and global cooling: a response to Jacobson & Ten Hoeve (2011)." (2011).

Wen, Yao-Jung, Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, Francis M. Rubinstein, and Antonio Ruzzelli."Co-simulation based building controls implementation with networked sensors and actuators."Third ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings Proceedings of BuildSys 2011 (2011) 55. DOI