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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

Publications by Division

Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2026

Hart, Nora, Ashleigh Papakyriakou, Sonam Shah, Tom Abram, Nathan McKenzie, and Jessica Granderson."A Central Plant Retrofit Assessment Guide for Owners." (2026). DOI

2024

Kramer, Hannah, Nora Hart, Alexandra Duncan, Joshua Kace, Haley Tong, and Jessica Granderson."Building Performance Software: Portfolio-Level Capabilities and Applications." (2024). DOI

Crowe, Eliot, Nora Hart, and John House."Going Big on Small Buildings: Spotlight on efforts to improve controls for packaged rooftop HVAC units." (2024).

2023

Kramer, Hannah, Nora Hart, Jessica Granderson, and Tom Abram."Framework for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Planning: Building Portfolios." (2023).

2019

Hart, Nora, Tripp Shealy, Kristen Parrish, and Jessica Granderson."Cognitive barriers during monitoring-based commissioning of buildings."Sustainable Cities and Society 46 (2019) 101389. DOI

2018

Hart, Nora, Tripp Shealy, Hannah Kramer, Jessica Granderson, and Georg Reichard."A Framework for Monitoring-Based Commissioning: Identifying Variables That Act as Barriers and Enablers to the Process."Energy and Buildings 168 (2018) 331 - 346. DOI