Energy Technologies Area

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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.
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 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)

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2022

Roth, Amir, Michael Wetter, Kyle Benne, Yan Chen, Gabriel Fierro, Marco Pritoni, Avijit Saha, and Draguna Vrabie."Towards Digital and Performance-Based Supervisory HVAC Control Delivery."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Crowe, Eliot, Yimin Chen, Jessica Granderson, Hayden Reeve, LucasTroup, David Yuill, and Yuxuan Chen."What We Learned From Analyzing 18 Million Rows of Commercial Buildings’ HVAC Fault Data."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Yu, Lili, Jingjing Liu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."When Do Efficiency and Demand Flexibility Go Hand-in-hand?."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Lin, Guanjing, Eliot Crowe, Valerie Nibler, and Jessica Granderson."Assessing EMIS Benefits: A new field evaluation protocol offers rigor and flexibility."The 7th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue (2022).

Lin, Guanjing, Hannah Kramer, Valerie Nibler, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Building Analytics Tool Deployment at Scale: Benefits, Costs, and Deployment Practices."Energies Vol.15 (2022). DOI

Casillas, Armando, Yimin Chen, Guanjing Lin, Jessica Granderson, Sen Huang, and Zhelun Chen."Modeling Air Handling Units to Create a Diverse Fault Dataset for FDD Innovation: Lessons Learned and Recommendations."7th International High Performance Buildings Conference (2022). DOI

Walter, Travis, and Paul A. Mathew."City-level impacts of building tune-ups: Findings from Seattle’s building tune-ups program."Energy Policy (2022). DOI

Regnier, Cynthia, and Alastair Robinson."BEYOND WIDGETS SYSTEM PACKAGES Deployment Strategies." (2022).

Regnier, Cynthia, Paul A. Mathew, Leo Rainer, and Christopher CaraDonna."Systems Packages for Washington State Building Performance Standard Incentive Program: Phase 1 Analysis." (2022).

Chen, Yimin, Guanjing Lin, Zhelun Chen, Jin Wen, and Jessica Granderson."A simulation-based evaluation of fan coil unit fault effects."Energy and Buildings 263 (2022). DOI

Chen, Yimin, Jin Wen, and James Lo."Using Weather and Schedule based Pattern Matching and Feature based PCA for Whole Building Fault Detection — Part II Field Evaluation."Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities (2022). DOI

Pritoni, Marco, Guanjing Lin, Yimin Chen, Raphael Vitti, Christopher Weyandt, and Jessica Granderson."From fault-detection to automated fault correction: a field study."Building and Environment 214 (2022).

Chen, Yimin, Jin Wen, and James Lo."Using Weather and Schedule based Pattern Matching and Feature based PCA for Whole Building Fault Detection — Part I Development of the Method."ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities 3 (2022).

Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches." (2022).

Chen, Yimin, Eliot Crowe, Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson."Integration of FDD Data to Aid HVAC System Maintenance."The 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2022) (2022). DOI

Chen, Yimin, Zhelun Chen, Guanjing Lin, Jin Wen, and Jessica Granderson."A simulation-based method to analyze fan coil unit fault impacts."2022 ASHRAE Summer Conference (2022).

2021

Touzani, Samir, Anand Prakash, Zhe Wang, Shreya Agarwal, Marco Pritoni, Mariam Kiran, Richard E. Brown, and Jessica Granderson."Controlling distributed energy resources via deep reinforcement learning for load flexibility and energy efficiency."Applied Energy (2021). DOI

Pradhan, Ojas, Jin Wen, Yimin Chen, Xing Lu, Mengyuan Chu, Yangyang Fu, Zheng O'Neill, Teresa Wu, and Selcuk Candan."Dynamic Bayesian Network-Based Fault Diagnosis for ASHRAE Guideline 36: High Performance Sequence of Operation for HVAC Systems."The 1st ACM International Workshop on Big Data and Machine Learning for Smart Buildings and Cities (ACM BALANCES) (2021). DOI

Chen, Yimin, Guanjing Lin, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Development of a Unified Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults."Energies 14.17 (2021) 5581. DOI

Chen, Yimin, Guanjing Lin, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Development of a Unified Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults."Energies 14 (2021).

Touzani, Samir, Marc Wudunn, Samuel Fernandes, Avideh Zakhor, Rohullah Najibi, and Jessica Granderson."A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO ESTIMATE WINDOWS-TO-WALL RATIO USING DRONE IMAGER." (2021).

Singer, Brett C., Haoran Zhao, Chelsea V. Preble, William W. Delp, Jovan Pantelic, Michael D. Sohn, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Measured Influence of Overhead HVAC on Exposure to Airborne Contaminants from Simulated Speaking in a Meeting and a Classroom."Indoor Air (2021). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Mrinalini Sharma, Eliot Crowe, David A. Jump, Samuel Fernandes, Samir Touzani, and Devan Johnson."Assessment of Model-Based Peak Electric Consumption Prediction for Commercial Buildings."Energy and Building 245 (2021). DOI

Mathew, Paul A., Lino Sanchez, Sang Hoon Lee, and Travis Walter."Assessing the Energy Resilience of Office Buildings: Development and Testing of a Simplified Metric for Real Estate Stakeholders."Building Vol.11(3) No.96 (2021). DOI

Lin, Guanjing, Marco Pritoni, Yimin Chen, Christopher Weyandt, Raphael Vitti, and Jessica Granderson."Fault “Auto-correction” for HVAC Systems: A Preliminary Study."The 6th International High Performance Buildings Conference at Purdue (2021).