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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 scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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2013

Schumann, Jennifer, Eleanor S Lee, Francis M Rubinstein, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Alastair Robinson."Tips for Daylighting with Windows: The Integrated Approach, 2nd Edition." (2013).

2012

Kumar, K. K Nandha, B Sivaneasan, P.L So, H.B Gooi, Nilesh Jadhav, Reshma Singh, and Chris Marnay."Sustainable Campus with PEV and Microgrid."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Cheung, H.Y Iris, Steven Lanzisera, Judy Lai, Richard E Brown, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Jay Taneja, and David Culler."Detailed Energy Data Collection for Miscellaneous and Electronic Loads in a Commercial Office Building."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Salamanca, Francisco, Shaheen R Tonse, Surabi Menon, Vishal Garg, Krishna P Singh, Manish Naja, and Marc L Fischer."Top-of-atmosphere radiative cooling with white roofs: experimental verification and model-based evaluation."Environmental Research Letters 7.4 (2012). DOI

Hart, Robert, Howdy Goudey, Dariush K Arasteh, and D. D Charlie Curcija."Thermal Performance Impacts of Center-of-Glass Deflections in Installed Insulating Glazing Units."Energy and Buildings 54.November 2012 (2012) 453-460. DOI

Ward, Gregory J, Murat Kurt, and Nicolas Bonneel."A Practical Framework for Sharing and Rendering Real-World Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Functions." (2012).

Coffey, Brian E."Integrated control of operable fenestration systems and thermally massive HVAC systems: Methods and simulation studies of energy savings potential." (2012).

Earni, Shankar, Spencer Woodworth, Xiufeng Pang, Jorge Hernandez-Maldonado, Rongxin Yin, Liping Wang, Steve E Greenberg, John Fiegel, and Alma Rubalcava."Monitoring-based HVAC Commissioning of an Existing Office Building for Energy Efficiency." (2012).

Wang, Liping, Paul A Mathew, and Xiufeng Pang."Uncertainties in energy consumption introduced by building operations and weather for a medium-size office building."Energy and Buildings 53 (2012) 152 - 158. DOI

Peffer, Therese, Daniel Perry, Marco Pritoni, Cecilia Aragon, and Alan K Meier."Facilitating energy savings with programmable thermostats: evaluation and guidelines for the thermostat user interface."Ergonomics 56.Issue 3: Ergonomics and Sustainability (2012). DOI

McNeil, Andrew, and Eleanor S Lee."On the benefits of a variable-resolution bidirectional scattering distribution data format." (2012) 5.

Wei, Joy, Abby I Enscoe, and Francis M Rubinstein."Responsive Lighting Solutions." (2012).

Nordman, Bruce, Ken Christensen, and Alan K Meier."Think Globally, Distribute Power Locally: The Promise of Nanogrids."Computer 45.9 (2012). DOI

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Kaustubh Phalak, Wangda Zuo, and Michael Wetter."Validation and Application of the Room Model of the Modelica Buildings Library."Proceedings of the 9th International Modelica Conference (2012).

Pang, Xiufeng, Michael Wetter, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Philip Haves."A framework for simulation-based real-time whole building performance assessment."Building and Environment 54 (2012) 100-108.

Levine, Mark D, Wei Feng, Jing Ke, Tianzhen Hong, and Nan Zhou."A Retrofit Tool for Improving Energy Efficiency of Commercial Buildings."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study (2012).

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 - Final Report." (2012).

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and Walter F Buhl."An Improved Simple Chilled Water Cooling Coil Model."SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference (2012).

Lin, Hung-Wen, and Tianzhen Hong."An In-Depth Analysis of Space Heating Energy Use in Office Buildings."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study (2012).

Dutton, Spencer M, Hui Zhang, Yongchao Zhai, Edward A Arens, Youness Bennani Smires, Samuel L Brunswick, Kyle S Konis, and Philip Haves."Application of a stochastic window use model in EnergyPlus."SimBuild 2012, 5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA, August 1-3, 2012 (2012).

Wenzel, Thomas P."Assessment of NHTSA’s Report “Relationships Between Fatality Risk, Mass, and Footprint in Model Year 2000-2007 Passenger Cars and LTVs” - Final Report." (2012).

Wang, Liping, Philip Haves, and John Breshears."The Energy Saving Potential of Membrane-Based Enthalpy Recovery in VAV System for Commercial Office Buildings."SimBuild 2012 (2012).

Maile, Tobias, Mangesh Basarkar, James O'Donnell, Philip Haves, and Kevin Settlemyre."Mapping Hvac Systems for Simulation In EnergyPlus."SimBuild 2012 IBPSA Conference (2012).

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Michael Wetter, and Wangda Zuo."Validation of the Window Model of the Modelica Buildings Library." (2012).

Brown, Richard E, Louis-Benoit Desroches, Karina Garbesi, and Alan K Meier."Achieving Extreme Efficiency: How to get the job done when energy is extremely expensive and scarce."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).