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)

2010

Bailey, Trevor, Zheng O'Neill, Madhusudana Shashanka, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Philip Haves, and Xiufeng Pang."Automated Continuous Commissioning of Commercial Buildings."DoD SERDP-ESTCP Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium and Workshop (2010).

Ma, Yudong, Francesco Borrelli, Brandon Hencey, Brian E. Coffey, Sorin Bengea, and Philip Haves."Model Predictive Control of Thermal Energy Storage in Building Cooling Systems."American Control Conference (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).

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Peter L. Bartlett, Philip Haves, and Michael D. Sohn."Modeling and Measurement Constraints in Fault Diagnostics for HVAC Systems."ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Controls (2010).

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Philip Haves, and Michael D. Sohn."A Statistical Pattern Analysis Framework for Rooftop Unit Diagnostics."International Journal of Heating, Ventilating, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Research (2010).

Narayanan, Satish, Michael G. Apte, Philip Haves, Mary Ann Piette, and John Elliott."Systems Approach to Energy Efficient Building Operation: Case Studies and Lessons Learned in a University Campus."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

2009

Coffey, Brian E., Sam Borgeson, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Joshua S. Apte, Paul A. Mathew, and Philip Haves."Towards a Very Low Energy Building Stock: Modeling the U.S. Commercial Building Sector to Support Policy and Innovation Planning."Building Research & Information (2009).

Coffey, Brian E., Sam Borgeson, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Joshua S. Apte, Paul A. Mathew, and Philip Haves."Towards a Very Low Energy Building Stock: Modeling the US Commercial Building Stock to Support Policy and Innovation Planning."Building Research and Information 37:5 (2009).

2008

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Peter L. Bartlett, and Philip Haves."Fault Diagnostics and Supervised Testing: How Fault Diagnostic tools can be Proactive?."Eleventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Controls (2008).

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Peter L. Bartlett, and Philip Haves."Overcoming the Complexity of Diagnostic Problems due to Sensor Network Architecture."Eleventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Controls (2008).

Najafi, Massieh, David M. Auslander, Peter L. Bartlett, and Philip Haves."Application of Machine Learning in Fault Diagnostics of Mechanical Systems."International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Control (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).

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).

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

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

Haves, Philip, Brian E. Coffey, and Scott Williams."Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a ‘Big Box’ Retail Chain."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (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

Hong, Tianzhen, Walter F. Buhl, and Philip Haves."EnergyPlus Analysis Capabilities for Use in Title 24." (2008).

Hong, Tianzhen, Walter F. Buhl, and Philip Haves."EnergyPlus Run Time Analysis." (2008).

Haves, Philip, Brian E. Coffey, and Scott Williams."Benchmarking and Equipment and Controls Assessment for a ‘Big Box’ Retail Chain."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008).

2007

Haves, Philip, Moosung Kim, Massieh Najafi, and Peng Xu."A Semi-automated Commissioning Tool for VAV Air Handling Units: Functional Test Analyzer."ASHRAE Transactions 113.Pt. 1 (2007) 380-391.

Haves, Philip, and Peng Xu."The Building Controls Virtual Test Bed – a Simulation Environment for Developing and Testing Control Algorithms, Strategies and Systems."Building Simulation ’07 (2007).

2006

Haves, Philip, Robert J. Hitchcock, Kenneth L. Gillespie, Martha Brook, Christine Shockman, Joseph J Deringer, and Kristopher L. Kinney."Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Haves, Philip, Robert J. Hitchcock, Kenneth L. Gillespie, Martha Brook, Christine Shockman, Joseph J Deringer, and Kristopher L. Kinney."Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Haves, Philip, Robert J. Hitchcock, Kenneth L. Gillespie, Martha Brook, Christine Shockman, Joseph J Deringer, and Kristopher L. Kinney."Development of a Model Specification for Performance Monitoring Systems for Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).