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)

2023

Granderson, Jessica, Samuel Fernandes, Eliot Crowe, Mrinalini Sharma, David A. Jump, and Devan Johnson."Accuracy of hourly energy predictions for demand flexibility applications."Energy and Buildings Vol.295 No..113297 (2023). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Samuel Fernandes, and Anand Prakash."Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Image Dataset of the Built Environment for 3D reconstruction (UAVID3D)." (2023). DOI

2022

Singh, Reshma, Samuel Fernandes, Anand Prakash, Paul A. Mathew, Jessica Granderson, Colman Snaith, Rahul Pusapati, Prakash Jadhav, Avideh Zakhor, Rishi Upadhyay, Ozgur Gonen, and Harry Bergmann."Scaling Building Energy Audits through Machine Learning Methods on Novel Drone Image Data."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches." (2022).

2021

Touzani, Samir, Marc Wudunn, Samuel Fernandes, Avideh Zakhor, Rohullah Najibi, and Jessica Granderson."A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO ESTIMATE WINDOWS-TO-WALL RATIO USING DRONE IMAGER." (2021).

Granderson, Jessica, Mrinalini Sharma, Eliot Crowe, David A. Jump, Samuel Fernandes, Samir Touzani, and Devan Johnson."Assessment of Model-Based Peak Electric Consumption Prediction for Commercial Buildings."Energy and Building 245 (2021). DOI

2020

Granderson, Jessica, Samuel Fernandes, Samir Touzani, Chih-Cheng Lee, Eliot Crowe, and Margaret Sheridan."Spatio-temporal impacts of a utility’s efficiency portfolio on the distribution grid."Energy 212.118669 (2020). DOI

Fernandes, Samuel, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Jessica Granderson."Detecting the undetected: Dealing with non-routine events using advanced M&V meter-based savings approaches."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Eliot Crowe, Samir Touzani, and Samuel Fernandes."Meter-Based Assessment of the Time and Locational Benefits of a Large Utility’s DSM Portfolio."2020 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2020).

2019

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Eliot Crowe, Samuel Fernandes, Shankar Earni, and Kaiyu Sun."Realizing high-accuracy low-cost measurement and verification for deep cost savings." (2019). DOI

Crowe, Eliot, Jessica Granderson, and Samuel Fernandes."From Theory to Practice: Lessons Learned from an Advanced M&V Commercial Pilot."International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2019).

2018

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Rupam Singla, Samuel Fernandes, and Samir Touzani."BuildingIQ Technology Field Validation." (2018). DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, Rupam Singla, Samuel Fernandes, and Samir Touzani."Field evaluation of performance of HVAC optimization system in commercial buildings."Energy and Buildings 173 (2018) 577 - 586. DOI

Fernandes, Samuel, Jessica Granderson, Rupam Singla, and Samir Touzani."Corporate Delivery of a Global Smart Buildings Program."Energy Engineering (2018). DOI

Touzani, Samir, Jessica Granderson, and Samuel Fernandes."Gradient boosting machine for modeling the energy consumption of commercial buildings."Energy and Buildings (2018). DOI

2017

Fernandes, Samuel, and Jessica Granderson."The State of Advanced Measurement and Verification Technology and Industry Application."The Electricity Journal 30.8 (2017) 8-16. DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Samuel Fernandes, and Cody Taylor."Application of Automated Measurement and Verification to Utility Energy Efficiency Program Data."Energy and Buildings (2017) 191-199. DOI

2016

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Cody Taylor, and Samuel Fernandes."Will the Measurement Robots Take Our Jobs? An Update on the State of Automated M&V for Energy Efficiency Programs."Proceedings of the 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Pacific Grove, CA, August 2016." (2016).

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Claudine Y. Custodio, Michael D. Sohn, David A. Jump, and Samuel Fernandes."Accuracy of Automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) Techniques for Energy Savings in Commercial Buildings."Applied Energy 173 (2016) 296-308. DOI

Granderson, Jessica, Erin L. Hult, Samuel Fernandes, Paul A. Mathew, and Robin Mitchell."Unlocking Energy Efficiency in Small Commercial Buildings through Mechanical Contractors."Journal of Architectural Engineering (2016).

2015

Granderson, Jessica, Samir Touzani, Claudine Y. Custodio, Michael D. Sohn, Samuel Fernandes, and David A. Jump."Assessment of Automated Measurement and Verification (M&V) Methods." (2015).

Touzani, Samir, Claudine Y. Custodio, Michael D. Sohn, Samuel Fernandes, Jessica Granderson, David A. Jump, and Cody Taylor."M & V Shootout: Setting the Stage For Testing the Performance of New Energy Baseline."2015 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2015).