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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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2011

Millstein, Dev, and Surabi Menon."Regional climate consequences of large-scale cool roof and photovoltaic array deployment."Environmental Research Letters 6.3 (2011).

Zuo, Wangda, and Qingyan Chen."Validation of a Fast-Fluid-Dynamics Model for Predicting Distribution of Particles with Low Stokes Number."12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (Indoor Air 2011) (2011).

Leighty, Wayne, and Alan K Meier."Accelerated electricity conservation in Juneau, Alaska: A study of household activities that reduced demand 25%."Energy Policy 39.5 (2011). DOI

Torrens, J. J Ignacio, Marcus Keane, Andrea Costa, and James O'Donnell."Multi-Criteria Optimisation using Past, Real Time and Predictive Performance Benchmarks."Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 19.4 (2011) 1258-1265.

Ward, Gregory J, Richard G Mistrick, Eleanor S Lee, Andrew McNeil, and Jacob C Jonsson."Simulating the Daylight Performance of Complex Fenestration Systems Using Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Functions within Radiance."Leukos, The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 7.4 (2011). DOI

Selkowitz, Stephen E, Robin Mitchell, Maurya McClintock, Daniel McQuillen, Andrew McNeil, and Mehry Yazdanian."COMFEN 3.0: Evolution of an Early Design Tool for Commercial Façades and Fenestration Systems."Building Enclosure Sustainability Symposium (BESS), April 29-30, 2011 (2011).

Cheung, Hoi Ying, Alan K Meier, and Richard E Brown."Energy savings assessment for digital-to-analog converter boxes."Energy Policy 39.3 (2011) 1312-1317. DOI

Meier, Alan K, Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry, Therese Peffer, Marco Pritoni, and Jessica Granderson."Measuring the Usability of Appliance Controls."Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting Conference (2011).

Park, Byoung-Chul, An-Seop Choi, Jae-Weon Jeong, and Eleanor S Lee."Performance of Integrated Systems of Automated Roller Shade Systems and Daylight Responsive Dimming Systems."Building and Environment 46.3 (2011) 747-757. DOI

Zhu, Dandan, Chuang Wang, Da Yan, and Tianzhen Hong."A Comparison of DeST and EnergyPlus."China HVAC Simulation Conference (2011).

Konis, Kyle S, Eleanor S Lee, and Robert D Clear."Visual Comfort Analysis of Innovative Interior and Exterior Shading Systems for Commercial Buildings using High Resolution Luminance Images."LEUKOS The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America 7.3 (2011). DOI

Wetter, Michael."Co-simulation of building energy and control systems with the Building Controls Virtual Test Bed."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 3.4 (2011). DOI

Mendelsberg, Rueben J, Sunnie H.N Lim, Yuankun Zhu, Joe Wallig, Delia J Milliron, and André Anders."Achieving high mobility ZnO:Al at very high growth rates by dc filtered cathodic arc deposition."Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 44.23 (2011) 232003-232007. DOI

Zuo, Wangda, and Michael Wetter."Advanced simulations of building energy and control systems with an example of chilled water plant modeling."the 8th International Forum and Workshop on Combined Heat, Air, Moisture and Pollutant Simulations (CHAMPS 2011) (2011).

Pasquier, Sara, and Alan K Meier."Creating long-term electricity savings from short-term crises."ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2011).

Bazjanac, Vladimir, Tobias Maile, James O'Donnell, Cody Rose, and Natasa Mrazovic."Data Enviroments and Processing in Sem-Automated Simulation with EnergyPlus."CIB W078-W102 (2011).

Perry, Daniel, Cecilia Aragon, Alan K Meier, and Marco Pritoni."Developing standards for affordances on embedded devices: poster abstract."IConference ’11 (2011). DOI

Meier, Alan K, Therese Peffer, Marco Pritoni, Cecilia Aragon, and Daniel Perry."Facilitating energy savings through enhanced usability of thermostats."ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2011).

Hermelink, Andreas, and Alan K Meier."Introduction to Panel 6 Innovations in buildings and appliances."ECEEE 2011 SUMMER STUDY (2011).

Pang, Xiufeng, and Mingsheng Liu."Prevention of Compressor Short Cycling in Direct-Expansion (DX) Rooftop Units, Part 1: Theoretical Analysis and Simulation."ASHRAE Transactions 117.2 (2011) 666-676.

Pang, Xiufeng, and Mingsheng Liu."Prevention of Compressor Short Cycling in Direct-Expansion (DX) Rooftop Units— Part 2: Field Investigation."ASHRAE Transactions 117.2 (2011) 677-685.

Wetter, Michael, Wangda Zuo, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Recent developments of the Modelica Buildings library for building energy and control systems."the 8th International Modelica Conference (2011).

Hart, Robert, D. D Charlie Curcija, Dariush K Arasteh, Howdy Goudey, Christian Kohler, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Research Needs: Glass Solar Reflectance and Vinyl Siding." (2011).

2010

Nilsson, Annica M, and Jacob C Jonsson."Light-scattering properties of a Venetian blind slat used for daylighting applications."Solar Energy 84.12 (2010) 2103 - 2111. DOI

Bailey, Trevor, Zheng O'Neill, Madhusudana Shashanka, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Philip Haves, and Xiufeng Pang."Automated Continuous Commissioning of Commercial Buildings."DoD SERDP-ESTCP Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium and Workshop (2010).