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.
Publications
News +
For media inquiries,
please contact ETA
Interim Communications Manager
Kiran Julin

[email protected]
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.

Yujie Xu

Yujie Xu

Data Scientist

510-486-5264

[email protected]

eta.lbl.gov/people/Yujie-Xu

Download Portrait Photo

Bio

.

Awards

2022 R&D 100 Award: City Buildings, Energy, and Sustainability (CityBES) Web Tool for Climate Change Strategies - August 22nd 2022

Buildings generate 39% of global CO2 emissions, but evaluating and prioritizing cost-effective technical solutions for individual buildings at city scale poses a significant challenge for city stakeholders. CityBES is a free, powerful modeling and analysis tool that enables quick and quantitative assessments of actionable recommendations for decarbonizing buildings and improving their thermal resilience against extreme weather at the urban scale. CityBES builds upon open city datasets, international data standards, the powerful EnergyPlus simulation engine, a library of mitigation and adaptation measures, and 3D-GIS visualization to inform decision making on city buildings, energy, and sustainability.

eta.lbl.gov/news/rd-100-awards-honor-lab-innovations

Publications

2023

Enhancing flexibility for climate change using seasonal energy storage (aquifer thermal energy storage) in distributed energy systems

Authors: Perera, A.T.D.; Kenichi Soga; Yujie Xu; Peter Nico, and Tianzhen Hong.

04/2023

Enhancing flexibility for climate change using seasonal energy storage (aquifer thermal energy storage) in distributed energy systems

Authors: Perera, A.T.D.; Kenichi Soga; Yujie Xu; Peter Nico, and Tianzhen Hong.

04/2023

2021

Urban microclimate and its impact on building performance: A case study of San Francisco

Authors: Hong, Tianzhen; Yujie Xu; Kaiyu Sun; Wanni Zhang; Xuan Luo, and Barry Hooper.

07/2021

Heat Vulnerability Index Development and Mapping

Authors: Xu, Yujie; Tianzhen Hong; Wanni Zhang; Zhaoyun Zeng, and Max Wei.

04/2021

2019

Visualizing Urban Microclimate and Quantifying its Impact on Building Energy Use in San Francisco

Authors: Hong, Tianzhen; Yujie Xu; Kaiyu Sun; Wanni Zhang, and Xuan Luo.

11/2019