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)

2015

Hong, Tianzhen, Hongsan Sun, Yixing Chen, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Da Yan."An occupant behavior modeling tool for co-simulation."Energy and Buildings (2015).

Poojary, Rajesh V., Girish Ghatikar, G. Ganesh Das, and Sujay Kumar Saha."Open Automated Demand Response: Industry Value to Indian Utilities and Knowledge from the Deployment."India Smart Grid Week (2015).

Sun, Kaiyu, Tianzhen Hong, Sarah C. Taylor-Lange, and Mary Ann Piette."A pattern-based automated approach to building energy model calibration." (2015).

Karali, Nihan, Michael A. McNeil, Virginie E. Letschert, and Stephane de la Rue du Can."Potential Impact of Lighting and Appliance Efficiency Standards on Peak Demand: The Case of Indonesia."8th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2015).

Price, Phillip N., Nathan J. Addy, and Sila Kiliccote."Predictability and Persistance of Demand Response Load Shed in Buildings." (2015).

Zhou, Z., M. Trassin, Y. Gao, Y. Gao, D. Qiu, K. Ashraf, T. Nan, X. Yang, S.R. Bowden, D.T. Pierce, M.D. Stiles, J. Unguris, M. Liu, B.M. Howe, G.J. Brown, S. Salahuddin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and N.X. Sun."Probing electric field control of magnetism using ferromagnetic resonance."Nature Communications 6 (2015). DOI

Liu, X., M.P.M. Dean, J. F. Liu, S.G. Chiuzbəian, N. Jaouen, A. Nicolaou, W.G. Yin, C.R. Serrao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, H. Ding, and J.P. Hill."Probing single magnon excitations in Sr2IrO4 using O K-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering."Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 27 (2015). DOI

Agyeman, Yaw O., and Harley Barnes."Project Manager’s Guide to Managing Impact and Process Evaluation Studies." (2015).

Fisk, William J., Wanyu R. Chan, and Toshifumi Hotchi."Prototype Systems for Measuring Outdoor Air Intake Rates in Rooftop Air Handlers." (2015).

Blum, Helcio, and Edson O. Okwelum."Random Numbers Generation for Lifecycle-Cost Analysis of Energy Consuming Equipment." (2015).

Scheib, Jennifer, Philip Coleman, and Shanti Pless."Realizing High-Performance Buildings." (2015).

Scott, Doug, Rafael Castillo, Kyle Larson, Brian Dobbs, and Daniel Olsen."Refrigerated Warehouse Demand Response Strategy Guide." (2015).

Wu, Yong, Jing Huo, Yisheng Liu, Yinan Li, Kexi Xu, Nan Zhou, and Wei Feng."Research on an Energy-Efficiency Improvement Roadmap for Commercial Buildings in China."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, June 1-6, 2015 (2015).

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Max Wei, and Michael D. Sohn."Retrospective North American CFL Experience Curve Analysis and Correlation to Deployment Programs." (2015).

Hoen, Ben, Sandra Adomatis, Thomas Jackson, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Mark A. Thayer, Geoffrey T. Klise, and Ryan H. Wiser."Selling Into the Sun: Price Premium Analysis of a Multi-State Dataset of Solar Homes." (2015).

Lask, Kathleen M., and Ashok J. Gadgil."Simplified Model for Lighting Cone Design." (2015).

Jorissen, Filip, Michael Wetter, and Lieve Helsen."Simulation Speed Analysis and Improvements of Modelica Models for Building Energy Simulation." (2015).

Agyeman, Yaw O.."Steady Hand at the Wheel: Using an Incremental, Systematic Approach to Promote an Evaluation Culture in a Federal Organization."International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2015).

Khanna, Nina, Nan Zhou, and David Fridley."Superefficient Appliances and Equipment: Untapped Energy Savings for Chinese Buildings."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, June 1-6, 2015 (2015).

Stadler, Michael, Salman Mashayekh, Sankar Narayanan, Nicholas DeForest, and Tobias Brandt."Supervisory Controller for PV and Storage Microgrids." (2015).

Polking, M.J., A.P. Alivisatos, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Synthesis, physics, and applications of ferroelectric nanomaterials."MRS Communications 5 (2015) 27-44. DOI

Mills, Evan, and Nathaniel Mills."Taming the Energy Use of Gaming Computers."Energy Efficiency (2015). DOI

."Testing RAPMOD: Can a portable scanner collect existing building data and create an energy model faster and more accurately than a human."14th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (2015).

Newman, Sally, Xiaomei Xu, Kevin R Gurney, Ying-Kuang Hsu, King Fai Li, Xun Jiang, Ralph Keeling, Sha Feng, Darragh O'Keefe, Risa Patarasuk, Kam Weng Wong, Preeti Rao, Marc L. Fischer, and Yuk L Yung."Toward consistency between trends in bottom-up CO₂ emissions and top-down atmospheric measurements in the Los Angeles megacity."Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics (2015). DOI

Khan, A.I., K. Chatterjee, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S. Salahuddin."Understanding negative capacitance dynamics in ferroelectric capacitors."2015 4th Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems, E3S 2015 - Proceedings (2015). DOI