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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)

2010

Coffey, Brian E, Philip Haves, Michael Wetter, Brandon Hencey, Francesco Borrelli, Yudong Ma, and Sorin Bengea."Development and Testing of Model Predictive Control for a Campus Chilled Water Plant with Thermal Storage."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

2009

Wetter, Michael."Modelica Library for Building Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems."Proceedings of the 7th International Modelica Conference 43 (2009). DOI

Franke, Rüdiger, Francesco Casella, Martin Otter, Katrin Proelss, Michael Sielemann, and Michael Wetter."Standardization of thermo-fluid modeling in Modelica.Fluid 1.0."Proceedings of the 7th International Modelica Conference 43 (2009). DOI

Wetter, Michael."A Modelica-based model library for building energy and control systems."Proceedings of the 11th IBPSA Conference (2009) 652-659.

Trcka, Marija, Michael Wetter, and Jan Hensen."An implementation of co-simulation for performance prediction of innovative integrated HVAC systems in buildings."Proceedings of the 11th IBPSA Conference (2009) 724-731.

Trcka, Marija, Jan Hensen, and Michael Wetter."Co-simulation of innovative integrated HVAC systems in buildings."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 2.3 (2009) 209-230. DOI

Wetter, Michael."Generic Optimization Program User Manual Version 3.0.0." 113 (2009) 380-391.

Wetter, Michael."Modelica Library for Building Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems."7th International Modelica Conference (2009).

Wetter, Michael."Modelica-based Modeling and Simulation to Support Research and Development in Building Energy and Control Systems."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 2.2 (2009) 143-161. DOI

2008

Wetter, Michael, and Philip Haves."A Modular Building Controls Virtual Test Bed for the Integration of Heterogeneous Systems."SimBuild 2008, July 30-August 1 (2008).

Wetter, Michael, Philip Haves, Michael A Moshier, and Edward F Sowell."Using SPARK as a solver for Modelica."Proceedings of the 3rd SimBuild Conference (2008).

Wetter, Michael."A Modelica-Based Model Library for Building Energy and Control Systems."Building Simulation '09 (2008).

Wetter, Michael, Philip Haves, Michael A Moshier, and Edward F Sowell."Using SPARK as a Solver for Modelica."SimBuild 2008 (2008).

Hong, Tianzhen, Walter F Buhl, Philip Haves, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Michael Wetter."Comparing computer run time of building simulation programs."Building Simulation 1.3 (2008) 210-213. DOI

2007

Trcka, Marija, Michael Wetter, and Jan Hensen."Comparison of Co-Simulation Approaches for Building and HVAC/R System Simulation."Proceedings of the Building Simulation 2007 (2007).

Trcka, Marija, Michael Wetter, and Jan Hensen."Comparison of co-simulation approaches for building and HVAC/R system simulation. ."Proceedings of the 10th IBPSA Conference (2007) 1418-1425.

2006

Wetter, Michael."Multizone Airflow Model in Modelica."Proceedings of the 5th International Modelica Conference (2006) 431-440.

Wetter, Michael."Multizone Building Model for Thermal Building Simulation in Modelica."Proceedings of the 5th International Modelica Conference (2006) 517-526.

Wetter, Michael, and Christoph Haugstetter."Modelica versus TRNSYS — A Comparison Between an Equation-Based and a Procedural Modeling Language for Building Energy Simulation."Proceedings of the 2nd SimBuild Conference (2006).

Polak, Elijah, and Michael Wetter."Precision control for generalized pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision function evaluations."SIAM Journal on Optimization 16.3 (2006) 650-669 . DOI

2005

Wetter, Michael, and Elijah Polak."Building design optimization using a convergent pattern search algorithm with adaptive precision simulations."Energy and Buildings 37.6 (2005) 603-612. DOI

Wetter, Michael."BuildOpt - A new building energy simulation program that is built on smooth models."Building and Environment 40.8 (2005) 1085-1092. DOI

2004

Wetter, Michael."BuildOpt - A new building energy simulation program that is built on smooth models."Building and Environment 40.8 (2004). DOI

Wetter, Michael, and Elijah Polak."A convergent optimization method using pattern search algorithms with adaptive precision simulation."Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 25.4 (2004) 327-338. DOI

Wetter, Michael, and Elijah Polak."Building Design Optimization Using a Convergent Pattern Search Algorithm with Adaptive Precision Simulations."Energy and Buildings 37 (2004) 603-612.