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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.
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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 battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Handi Chandra Putra

Handi Chandra Putra

Technology Researcher II

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Bio

Handi is an Energy Technology and Urban Planning Researcher with the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In this role, he models energy use in buildings, conducts behavioral survey activities, and develops a decision support tool for demand flexibility in residential buildings. He received his Ph.D. in Planning and Public Policy in 2017 from E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, where his research focused on applications of spatial econometric and simulation modeling to real estate market analysis and energy use in buildings. Prior to joining LBNL, he worked as an Urban Planning Consultant at the World Bank Group in Washington D.C. and as a lecturer at Universitas Tarumanagara in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Education

Urban Planning and Public Policy, MCRP, PhD, Rutgers University

Engineering and Technology, MSc,Texas State University

Economics and Computer Science, BA, The University of Texas at Austin

Publications

2023

On the applicability of various levels of detail for occupant behavior representation and modeling in building performance simulation

Authors: Malik, Jeetika; Handi Chandra Putra; Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong.

05/2023

2022

Ten questions concerning agent-based modeling of occupant behavior for energy and environmental performance of buildings

Authors: Malik, Jeetika; Ardeshir Mahdavi; Elie Azar; Handi Chandra Putra; Christiane Berger; Clinton Andrews, and Tianzhen Hong.

06/2022

2021

Generating synthetic occupants for use in building performance simulation

Authors: Putra, Handi Chandra; Clinton Andrews, and Tianzhen Hong.

11/2021

Application of the DNAS framework expansion to occupant population synthesis

Authors: Putra, Handi Chandra, and Tianzhen Hong.

09/2021

Quantifying the effect of multiple demand response actions on electricity demand and building services via surrogate modeling

Authors: Luo, Na; Jared Langevin, and Handi Chandra Putra.

09/2021

An ontology to represent synthetic building occupant characteristics and behavior

Authors: Putra, Handi Chandra; Tianzhen Hong, and Clinton Andrews.

05/2021

U.S. Building Energy Efficiency and Flexibility as an Electric Grid Resource

Authors: Langevin, Jared; Chioke B. Harris; Aven Satre-Meloy; Handi Chandra Putra; Andrew Speake; Elaina Present; Rajendra Adhikari; Eric Wilson, and Andrew Satchwell.

01/2021