Eliot Crowe

Eliot Crowe

Eliot Crowe is an Energy Technology Researcher IV at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, leading technical research on commercial building data analytics, commissioning, M&V, and other related areas. Prior to joining LBNL in 2016 Eliot spent 10 years working on utility program implementation, technical research, outreach, and training for PECI and CLEAResult. Eliot provided technical and program management support to the California Commissioning Collaborative from 2009-2016, including a period as Executive Director from 2015-2016.

Contact Information

Phone: 503-784-7250

Awards

2025 Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement: Societal Impact -  November 12th 2025

To the EMIS Research Team, for steering and piloting energy management and information system (EMIS) analytics from what was in the early 2000s a raw, unproven emerging technology, to a widely adopted tool to deliver significant energy and cost savings for large commercial building owners.

Spot: Eliot Crowe -  March 23rd 2018

For exceptional execution of Smart Buildings Roundtable.

Publications

2026

A hybrid statistical-engineering approach to enhance the performance of non-routine event detection in building energy savings estimation

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Samuel Fernandes, and Eliot Crowe.
06/2026

DOE Energy Innovator Fellows informational webinar: Demand Flexibility Programs and Rates and Analytics

Authors: Murphy, Sean; Cisco DeVries, and Eliot Crowe.
06/2026

2024

Going Big on Small Buildings: Spotlight on efforts to improve controls for packaged rooftop HVAC units

Authors: Crowe, Eliot; Nora Hart, and John House.
08/2024

Energy Management and Information Systems (EMIS) Technology Transfer Guidance for Implementing Smart Building Data Analytics

Authors: Fernandes, Samuel; Eliot Crowe; Jessica Granderson; Brian Clarke; Jason Rodriguez; Robert Renz; Xiaohui Zhou, and Scott Hackel.
11/21/2024

2023

Empirical Analysis of the Prevalence of HVAC Faults in Commercial Buildings

Authors: Crowe, Eliot; Yimin Chen; Hayden Reeve; David Yuill; Amir Ebrahimifakhar; Yuxuan Chen; Lucas Troup; Amanda Smith, and Jessica Granderson.
11/2023

Accuracy of hourly energy predictions for demand flexibility applications

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Samuel Fernandes; Eliot Crowe; Mrinalini Sharma; David A Jump, and Devan Johnson.
06/2023

2022

Market Barriers and Drivers for the Next Generation Fault Detection and Diagnostic Tools

Authors: Pritoni, Marco; Guanjing Lin; Yimin Chen; John House; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2022

Quantifying the Value of Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings through Field Study

Authors: Langner, Rois; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2022

What We Learned From Analyzing 18 Million Rows of Commercial Buildings’ HVAC Fault Data

Authors: Crowe, Eliot; Yimin Chen; Jessica Granderson; Hayden Reeve; LucasTroup LucasTroup; David Yuill, and Yuxuan Chen.
08/2022

Assessing EMIS Benefits: A new field evaluation protocol offers rigor and flexibility

Authors: Lin, Guanjing; Eliot Crowe; Valerie Nibler, and Jessica Granderson.
07/2022

Building Analytics Tool Deployment at Scale: Benefits, Costs, and Deployment Practices

Authors: Lin, Guanjing; Hannah Kramer; Valerie Nibler; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
07/2022

Energy Management and Information System Field Evaluation Protocol

Authors: Lin, Guanjing; Eliot Crowe; Rui Tang, and Jessica Granderson.
05/2022

What to Expect When You're Expecting Fault Detection & Diagnostics (FDD)

Authors: Crowe, Eliot.
04/2022

Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches

Authors: Fernandes, Samuel; Eliot Crowe; Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson.

Integration of FDD Data to Aid HVAC System Maintenance

Authors: Chen, Yimin; Eliot Crowe; Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson.
11/11/2022

2021

Development of a Unified Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults

Authors: Chen, Yimin; Guanjing Lin; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
09/2021

Development of a Unified Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults

Authors: Chen, Yimin; Guanjing Lin; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
09/2021

Assessment of Model-Based Peak Electric Consumption Prediction for Commercial Buildings

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Mrinalini Sharma; Eliot Crowe; David A Jump; Samuel Fernandes; Samir Touzani, and Devan Johnson.
08/2021

EMIS Crash Course: An Overview of Energy Management and Information Systems

Authors: Kramer, Hannah; Jessica Granderson; Valerie Nibler; Eliot Crowe, and Guanjing Lin.
08/2021

Research challenges and directions in HVAC fault prevalence

Authors: Kim, Janghyun; Kim Trenbath; Jessica Granderson; Yimin Chen; Eliot Crowe; Hayden Reeve; Sarah Newman, and Paul Ehrlich.
04/2021

Analysis of Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics Records as an Indicator of HVAC Fault Prevalence: Methodology and Preliminary Results

Authors: Ebrahimifakhar, Amir; David Yuill; Amanda Smith; Jessica Granderson; Eliot Crowe; Yimin Chen, and Hayden Reeve.
05/24/2021

2020

Spatio-temporal impacts of a utility’s efficiency portfolio on the distribution grid

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Samuel Fernandes; Samir Touzani; Chih-Cheng Lee; Eliot Crowe, and Margaret Sheridan.
12/2020

Building Commissioning Costs and Savings Across Three Decades and 1,500 North American Buildings

Authors: Crowe, Eliot; Evan Mills; Tom Poeling; Claire Curtin; Diana Bjornskov; Liz Fischer, and Jessica Granderson.
11/2020

EMIS Applications Showcase

Authors: Crowe, Eliot; Hannah Kramer, and Jessica Granderson.
10/2020

Proving the Business Case for Building Analytics

Authors: Kramer, Hannah; Claire Curtin; Guanjing Lin; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
10/2020

Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches

Authors: Fernandes, Samuel; Eliot Crowe; Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2020

What's in a Name? Developing a Standardized Taxonomy for HVAC System Faults

Authors: Chen, Yimin; Eliot Crowe; Guanjing Lin, and Jessica Granderson.
08/2020

Meter-Based Assessment of the Time and Locational Benefits of a Large Utility’s DSM Portfolio

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Eliot Crowe; Samir Touzani, and Samuel Fernandes.
07/2020

2019

Realizing high-accuracy low-cost measurement and verification for deep cost savings

Authors: Granderson, Jessica; Samir Touzani; Eliot Crowe; Samuel Fernandes; Shankar Earni, and Kaiyu Sun.
09/2019

From Theory to Practice: Lessons Learned from an Advanced M&V Commercial Pilot

Authors: Crowe, Eliot; Jessica Granderson, and Samuel Fernandes.
08/2019

Building analytics and monitoring-based commissioning: industry practice, costs, and savings

Authors: Kramer, Hannah; Guanjing Lin; Claire Curtin; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
05/2019

Synthesis of Year Two Outcomes in the Smart Energy Analytics Campaign

Authors: Kramer, Hannah; Guanjing Lin; Jessica Granderson; Claire Curtin, and Eliot Crowe.
03/2019

Statistical change detection of building energy consumption: Applications to savings estimation

Authors: Touzani, Samir; Baptiste Ravache; Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson.
01/2019