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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 scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2005

Wray, Craig P, Richard C Diamond, and Max H Sherman."Rationale For Measuring Duct Leakage Flows in Large Commercial Buildings."26th AIVC International Conference (2005) pp. 83-88.

Wray, Craig P."The Opportunity to Improve a Critical Conduit for Energy Efficiency: Air Distribution Systems in Commercial Buildings." (2005).

Wray, Craig P."Tools & Guidelines for Commissioning Small Commercial Duct Systems." (2005).

2004

Diamond, Richard C, Craig P Wray, Brian V Smith, Darryl J Dickerhoff, Nance Matson, and Skylar A Cox."A prototype data archive for the PIER "thermal distribution systems in commercial buildings" project." (2004).

Wray, Craig P."Efficient Thermal Energy Distribution Systems for Commercial Buildings: Planning Input for the U.S. Department of Energy Space Conditioning Multi-Year Program Plan." (2004).

Wray, Craig P."Duct Thermal Performance Models for Large Commercial Buildings."Air Information Review, AIVC 26 (2004) 5-6.

2003

Walker, Iain S, Craig P Wray, Cyril Guillot, and Sylvain Masson."Evaluation of Commercially Available Techniques and Development of Simplified Methods for Measuring Grille Airflows in HVAC Systems." (2003).

Wray, Craig P, Iain S Walker, and Max H Sherman."Guidelines for Residential Commissioning." (2003).

Wray, Craig P, Iain S Walker, and Max H Sherman."Instrumented Home Energy Rating and Commissioning." (2003).

Wray, Craig P, and Nance Matson."Duct Leakage Impacts on VAV System Performance in Large Commercial Buildings." (2003).

Wray, Craig P."Duct Thermal Performance Models for Large Commercial Buildings." (2003).

Walker, Iain S, and Craig P Wray."Evaluation of Flow Capture Techniques for Measuring HVAC Grille Airflows."ASHRAE Transactions 109 (2003).

Wray, Craig P, Iain S Walker, Jeffrey A Siegel, and Max H Sherman."Practical Diagnostics for Evaluating Residential Commissioning Metrics."Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report to the California Energy Commission (2003).

Diamond, Richard C, Craig P Wray, Darryl J Dickerhoff, Nance Matson, and Duo Wang."Thermal distribution systems in commercial buildings." (2003).

2002

Wray, Craig P, Iain S Walker, and Max H Sherman."Accuracy of flow hoods in residential applications."Proceedings of the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 18-23, 2002 1 (2002) 339-350.

Siegel, Jeffrey A, and Craig P Wray."An Evaluation of Superheat-Based Refrigerant Charge Diagnostics for Residential Cooling Systems."ASHRAE Transactions 108 (2002).

Matson, Nance, Craig P Wray, Iain S Walker, and Max H Sherman."Potential Benefits of Commissioning California Homes." (2002).

Wray, Craig P."Suite Ventilation Characteristics of Current Canadian Mid-and High-Rise Residential Buildings."ASHRAE Transactions 110 (Part 2) (2002).

Theaker, Ian G, and Craig P Wray."Ventilation System Design of Recent Canadian Multi-Unit Residential Buildings."ASHRAE Transactions 106 (2002).

2001

Piette, Mary Ann, Joseph H Eto, Iain S Walker, Stephen E Selkowitz, Craig P Wray, Bruce Nordman, Alan K Meier, Philip Haves, Richard C Diamond, Jeffrey P Harris, Mithra M Moezzi, Christopher T Payne, and Jonathan G Koomey."Demand-Responsive and Efficient Building Systems as a Resource for Electricity Reliability." (2001).

Walker, Iain S, Craig P Wray, Darryl J Dickerhoff, and Max H Sherman."Evaluation of flow hood measurements for residential register flows." (2001).

Wray, Craig P, and Max H Sherman."Residential Commissioning to Assess Envelope and HVAC System Performance."Proceedings of the ASHRAE/DOE/BTECC Thermal Performance of Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings VIII, Clearwater Beach, FL (2001).

2000

Wray, Craig P, Mary Ann Piette, Max H Sherman, Ronnen M Levinson, Nance Matson, Debbie A Driscoll, Jennifer A McWilliams, Tengfang T Xu, and William W Delp."Residential Commissioning: A Review of Related Literature." (2000).

Wray, Craig P, Nance Matson, and Max H Sherman."Selecting Whole-House Ventilation Strategies to Meet Proposed ASHRAE 62.2: Energy Cost Considerations."ASHRAE Transactions 106 (2000) 681-691.

1998

Wray, Craig P, Ian G Theaker, and Peter Moffatt."Field Testing to Characterize Suite Ventilation in Recently Constructed Mid- and High-Rise Residential Buildings." (1998).