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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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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)

2021

Long, Nicholas, Antoine Gautier, Hagar Elarga, Amy Allen, Ted Summer, Lauren Klun, Nathan Moore, and Michael Wetter."Modeling district heating and cooling systems with URBANopt, GeoJSON to Modelica Translator, and the Modelica Buildings Library.."Building Simulation 2021 (2021).

Wetter, Michael, Kyle Benne, and Baptiste Ravache."Software Architecture and Implementation of Modelica Buildings Library Coupling for Spawn of EnergyPlus."Proceedings of the 14th Modelica Conference 2021, Linköping, Sweden, September 20-24, 2021 181 (2021). DOI

Hinkelman, Kathryn, Jing Wang, Wangda Zuo, Antoine Gautier, Michael Wetter, and Nicholas Long."A Case Study on Condenser Water Supply Temperature Optimization with a District Cooling Plant."14th International Modelica Conference (2021). DOI

Doughtry, Christine, Jianjun Hu, Patrick Dobson, Peter Nico, and Michael Wetter."Coupling subsurface and above-surface models for optimizing the design of borefields and district heating and cooling systems in the presence of varying water-table depth."46th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering (2021).

Wetter, Michael, Paul Ehrlich, Antoine Gautier, Milica Grahovac, Philip Haves, Jianjun Hu, and Kun Zhang."Open Building Control." (2021).

Sulzer, Matthias, Sven Werner, Stefan Mennel, and Michael Wetter."Vocabulary for the fourth generation of district heating and cooling."Smart Energy 1 (2021) 100003. DOI

2020

Fierro, Gabe, Anand Prakash, Cory Mosiman, Marco Pritoni, Paul Raftery, Michael Wetter, and David Culler."Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick."BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (2020). DOI

Fierro, Gabe, Anand Prakash, Cory Mosiman, Marco Pritoni, Paul Raftery, Michael Wetter, and David Culler."Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle."BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (2020). DOI

Drgoňa, Ján, Javier Arroyo, Iago Cupeiro Figueroa, David Blum, Krzysztof Arendt, Donghun Kim, Enric Perarnau Ollé, Juraj Oravec, Michael Wetter, Draguna L Vrabie, and Lieve Helsen."All you need to know about model predictive control for buildings."Annual Reviews in Control (2020). DOI

Zhang, Kun, David Blum, Milica Grahovac, Jianjun Hu, Jessica Granderson, and Michael Wetter."Development and Verification of Control Sequences for Single- Zone Variable Air Volume System Based on ASHRAE Guideline 36."American Modelica Conference 2020 (2020). DOI

Wetter, Michael, Kyle Benne, Antoine Gautier, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Agnes Ramle, Amir Roth, Hubertus Tummescheit, Stuart Mentzer, and Christian Winther."Lifting the Garage Door on Spawn, an Open-Source BEM-Controls Engine.."2020 BPAC & Simbuild (2020) 518-525.

2019

Wetter, Michael, Antoine Gautier, Milica Grahovac, and Jianjun Hu."Verification of Control Sequences within OpenBuildingControl."16th IBPSA Conference (2019).

Wetter, Michael, and Jianjun Hu."Quayside Energy Systems Analysis." (2019).

Blum, David, K Arendt, Lisa Rivalin, Mary Ann Piette, Michael Wetter, and C.T Veje."Practical factors of envelope model setup and their effects on the performance of model predictive control for building heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems."Applied Energy 236 (2019) 410 - 425. DOI

Blum, David, Filip Jorissen, Sen Huang, Yan Chen, Javier Arroyo, Kyle Benne, Yanfei Li, Valentin Gavan, Lisa Rivalin, Lieve Helsen, Draguna Vrabie, Michael Wetter, and Marina Sofos."Prototyping the BOPTEST Framework for Simulation-Based Testing of Advanced Control Strategies in Buildings."IBPSA Building Simulation 2019 (2019).

2018

Nouidui, Thierry Stephane, Jonathan Coignard, Christoph Gehbauer, Michael Wetter, Jhi-Young Joo, and Evangelos Vrettos."CyDER – an FMI-based co-simulation platform for distributed energy resources."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 12.5 (2018) 566 - 579. DOI

Wetter, Michael, Jianjun Hu, Milica Grahovac, Brent Eubanks, and Philip Haves."OpenBuildingControl: Modeling Feedback Control as a Step Towards Formal Design, Specification, Deployment and Verification of Building Control Sequences."2018 Building Performance Modeling Conference and SimBuild co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA (2018).

Wetter, Michael, Milica Grahovac, and Jianjun Hu."Control Description Language."1st American Modelica Conference (2018).

Pass, Rebecca Zarin, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette."A thermodynamic analysis of a novel bidirectional district heating and cooling network."Energy 144 (2018) 20 - 30. DOI

Bunning, Felix, Michael Wetter, Marcus Fuchs, and Dirk Muller."Bidirectional low temperature district energy systems with agent-based control: Performance comparison and operation optimization."Applied Energy 209 (2018). DOI

Coignard, Jonathan, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Christoph Gehbauer, Michael Wetter, Jhi-Young Joo, Philip Top, Rafael Rivera Soto, Brian Kelley, and Emma M Stewart."CyDER - A Co-Simulation Platform for Grid Analysis and Planning for High Penetration of Distributed Energy Resources."2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) (2018). DOI

Jorissen, Filip, Michael Wetter, and Lieve Helsen."Simplifications for hydronic system models in Modelica."Journal of Building Performance Simulation (2018). DOI

2017

Blum, David, and Michael Wetter."MPCPy: An Open-Source Software Platform for Model Predictive Control in Buildings."Proceedings of the 15th IBPSA Conference: Building Simulation 2017 (2017).

Maccarini, Alessandro, Michael Wetter, Alireza Afshari, Goran Hultmark, Niels Bergsoe, and Anders Vorre."Energy saving potential of a two-pipe system for simultaneous heating and cooling of office buildings."Energy and Buildings 134 (2017) 234 - 247. DOI

van der Heijde, Brahm, Marcus Fuchs, Carles Ribas Tugores, Gerald Schweiger, Kevin Sartor, Daniele Basciotti, Dirk Muller, Christoph Nytsch-Geusen, Michael Wetter, and Lieve Helsen."Dynamic equation-based thermo-hydraulic pipe model for district heating and cooling systems."Energy Conversion and Management 151 (2017). DOI