Energy Technologies Area

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 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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2018

Zhang, Lei, Rongpeng Zhang, Tianzhen Hong, Yu Zhang, and Qinglin Meng."Impact of post-rainfall evaporation from porous roof tiles on building cooling load in subtropical China."Applied Thermal Engineering 142 (2018) 391 - 400. DOI

Wetter, Michael, Jianjun Hu, Milica Grahovac, Brent Eubanks, and Philip Haves."OpenBuildingControl: Modeling Feedback Control as a Step Towards Formal Design, Specification, Deployment and Verification of Building Control Sequences."2018 Building Performance Modeling Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2018).

Tarroja, Brian, Felicia Chiang, Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Samuelsen, Shuba V. Raghavan, Max Wei, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Translating climate change and heating system electrification impacts on building energy use to future greenhouse gas emissions and electric grid capacity requirements in California."Applied Energy 225 (2018) 522 - 534. DOI

Wetter, Michael, Milica Grahovac, and Jianjun Hu."Control Description Language."1st American Modelica Conference (2018).

Sofos, Marina, and Jared Langevin."Laying Down the Foundation: An R&D Roadmap for Energy Savings through Advancements in Smart Building Technologies."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Langevin, Jared."Modeling the adoption of building efficiency technologies: A review of methods and datasets."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Pang, Xiufeng, Carlos Duarte, Philip Haves, and Frank Chuang."Testing and demonstration of model predictive control applied to a radiant slab cooling system in a building test facility."Energy and Buildings 172 (2018) 432 - 441. DOI

Blum, David, Guanjing Lin, Michael Spears, Janie Page, and Jessica Granderson."When Data Analytics Meet Site Operation: Benefits and Challenges."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

Belafi, Zsofia, Tianzhen Hong, and Andras Reith."A critical review on questionnaire surveys in the field of energy-related occupant behaviour."Energy Efficiency (2018) 1-21. DOI

Jia, Hongyuan, Xiufeng Pang, and Philip Haves."Experimentally-determined characteristics of radiant systems for office buildings."Applied Energy 221 (2018) 41 - 54. DOI

Wang, Wei, Jiayu Chen, Tianzhen Hong, and Na Zhu."Occupancy prediction through Markov based feedback recurrent neural network (M-FRNN) algorithm with WiFi probe technology."Building and Environment 138 (2018) 160 - 170. DOI

Bunning, Felix, Michael Wetter, Marcus Fuchs, and Dirk Muller."Bidirectional low temperature district energy systems with agent-based control: Performance comparison and operation optimization."Applied Energy 209 (2018). DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, Jared Langevin, and Kaiyu Sun."Building Simulation: Ten Challenges."Building Simulation 11 (2018). DOI

Zhou, Xin, Da Yan, Jingjing An, Tianzhen Hong, Xing Shi, and Xing Jin."Comparative Study of Air-Conditioning Energy Use of Four Office Buildings in China and USA."Energy and Buildings 169 (2018). DOI

Podkaminer, Kara, Valerie Nubbe, Ben King, Ookie Ma, Jared Langevin, Jack Mayernik, Chioke B. Harris, and Eric Wilson."Is every kWh the same? How do energy efficiency measures stack up across regions?."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018).

D'Oca, Simona, Anna Laura Pisello, Marilena De Simone, Verena M. Barthelmes, Tianzhen Hong, and Stefano P. Corgnati."Human-building interaction at work: Findings from an interdisciplinary cross-country survey in Italy."Building and Environment 132 (2018). DOI

Chen, Yixing, and Tianzhen Hong."Impacts of Building Geometry Modeling Methods on the Simulation Results of Urban Building Energy Models."Applied Energy 215 (2018). DOI

Belafi, Zsofia, Tianzhen Hong, and Andras Reith."A Library of Building Occupant Behaviour Models Represented in a Standardised Schema."Energy Efficiency (2018). DOI

Wang, Wei, Jiayu Chen, and Tianzhen Hong."Modeling occupancy distribution in large spaces with multi-feature classification algorithm."Building and Environment 137 (2018). DOI

Zhang, Rongpeng, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, Yoshinori Yura, and Ryohei Hinokuma."A Novel Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Heat Recovery System Model: Development and Validation."Energy and Buildings 168 (2018). DOI

Regnier, Cynthia, Kaiyu Sun, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Quantifying the benefits of a building retrofit using an integrated system approach: A case study."Energy and Buildings 159 (2018). DOI

Jorissen, Filip, Michael Wetter, and Lieve Helsen."Simplifications for hydronic system models in Modelica."Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2018). DOI

2017

Belafi, Zsofia, Tianzhen Hong, and Andras Reith."Smart Building Management vs. Intuitive Human Control — Lessons learnt from an office building in Hungary."Building Simulation 10.6 (2017) 811-828. DOI

Parker, Andrew, Philip Haves, Subhash Jegi, Vishal Garg, and Baptiste Ravache."Development of Automated Procedures to Generate Reference Building Models for ASHRAE Standard 90.1 and India’s Building Energy Code and Implementation in OpenStudio."Building Simulation 2017 (2017).

Blum, David, and Michael Wetter."MPCPy: An Open-Source Software Platform for Model Predictive Control in Buildings."Proceedings of the 15th IBPSA Conference: Building Simulation 2017 (2017).