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

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)

2012

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N. Price."Evaluation of the Predictive Accuracy of Five Whole-Building Baseline Models." (2012).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Responsive and Intelligent Building Information and Control for Low-Energy and Optimized Grid Integration."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Intelligent Building Energy Information and Control Systems for Low-Energy Operations and Optimal Demand Response."IEEE Design and Test of Computers 29.4 (2012) 8-16. DOI

Pritoni, Marco, Therese Peffer, Jessica Granderson, Margarita Kloss, Alan K. Meier, and Cecilia Aragon."Folk Labeling: Insights on Improving Usability and Saving Energy Gleaned from After-Market Graffiti on Common Appliances."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

2011

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Ben Rosenblum, R. Lily Hu, Daniel Harris, Paul A. Mathew, Phillip N. Price, Geoffrey C. Bell, Srinivas Katipamula, and Michael Brambley."Energy Information Handbook: Applications for Energy-Efficient Building Operations." (2011).

Booker, Kayje, Tae Won Han, Jessica Granderson, Jennifer L. Jones, Kathleen M. Lask, Nina Yang, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Performance of Charcoal Cookstoves for Haiti, Part 1: Results from the Water Boiling Test." (2011).

Meier, Alan K., Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry, Therese Peffer, Marco Pritoni, and Jessica Granderson."Measuring the Usability of Appliance Controls."Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting Conference (2011).

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, and Girish Ghatikar."Building Energy Information Systems: User Case Studies."Energy Efficiency 4.1 (2011) 17-30. DOI

2009

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Girish Ghatikar, and Phillip N. Price."Building Energy Information Systems: State of the Technology and User Case Studies." (2009).

Granderson, Jessica, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Chilled Water Storage System and Demand Response at the University of California at Merced."9th International Conference for Enhanced Building Operations, November 17-18, 2009 (2009).

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Girish Ghatikar, and Phillip N. Price."Preliminary Findings from an Analysis of Building Energy Information System Technologies."2009 National Conference on Building Commissioning, June 3-5, 2009 (2009).

Rubinstein, Francis M., Girish Ghatikar, Jessica Granderson, David S. Watson, Paul Haugen, and Carlos Romero."Barrier Immune Radio Communications for Demand Response." (2009).

2008

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Jessica Granderson, Philip Haves, Paul A. Mathew, and Jeffrey P. Harris."Scale Matters: An Action Plan for Realizing Sector-Wide "Zero-Energy" Performance Goals in Commercial Buildings."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 17-22, 2008 (2008).