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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)

2026

Um, Chai Yoon, Chelsea V Preble, Haoran Zhao, William W Delp, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Jiayu Li, Stefano Schiavon, and Brett C Singer."Influence of overhead HVAC and aerosol control strategies on coarse mode particle dispersion and exposure in a full-scale room experiment."Building and Environment 293 (2026). DOI

2025

Dallo, Federico, Thomas Parkinson, Carlos Duarte, Stefano Schiavon, Chai Yoon Um, Mark P Modera, Paul Raftery, Carlo Barbante, and Brett C Singer."Using smart thermostats to reduce indoor exposure to wildfire fine particulate matter (PM2.5)."Indoor Environments 2.2 (2025). DOI

2018

Ličina, Veronika Földváry, Toby Cheung, Hui Zhang, Richard de Dear, Thomas Parkinson, Edward A Arens, Chungyoon Chun, Stefano Schiavon, Maohui Luo, Gail Brager, Peixian Li, Soazig Kaam, Michael A Adebamowo, Mary Myla Andamon, Francesco Babich, Chiheb Bouden, Hana Bukovianska, Christhina Candido, Bin Cao, Salvatore Carlucci, David K.W Cheong, Joon-Ho Choi, Malcolm Cook, Paul Cropper, Max Deuble, Shahin Heidari, Madhavi Indraganti, Quan Jin, Hyojin Kim, Jungsoo Kim, Kyle S Konis, Manoj K Singh, Alison Kwok, Roberto Lamberts, Dennis Loveday, Jared Langevin, Sanyogita Manu, Cornelia Moosmann, Fergus Nicol, Ryozo Ooka, Nigel A Oseland, Lorenzo Pagliano, Dušan Petráš, Rajan Rawal, Ramona Romero, Hom Bahadur Rijal, Chandra Sekhar, Marcel Schweiker, Federico Tartarini, Shin-ichi Tanabe, Kwok Wai Tham, Despoina Teli, Jorn Toftum, Linda Toledo, Kazuyo Tsuzuki, Renata De Vecchi, Andreas Wagner, Zhaojun Wang, Holger Wallbaum, Lynda Webb, Liu Yang, Yingxin Zhu, Yongchao Zhai, Yufeng Zhang, and Xiang Zhou."Development of the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II."Building and Environment 142 (2018) 502 - 512. DOI

Pantelic, Jovan, Stefano Schiavon, Baisong Ning, Eleftherios Burdakis, Paul Raftery, and Fred S Bauman."Full scale laboratory experiment on the cooling capacity of a radiant floor system."Energy and Buildings 170 (2018). DOI

Tang, Haida, Paul Raftery, Xiaohua Liu, Stefano Schiavon, Jonathan Woolley, and Fred S Bauman."Performance analysis of pulsed flow control method for radiant slab system."Building and Environment 127 (2018). DOI

Woolley, Jonathan, Stefano Schiavon, Fred S Bauman, Paul Raftery, and Jovan Pantelic."Side-by-side laboratory comparison of space heat extraction rates and thermal energy use for radiant and all-air systems."Energy and Buildings 176 (2018). DOI

2012

Bauman, Fred S, Thomas L Webster, Stefano Schiavon, Hui Zhang, Edward A Arens, Kwang Ho Lee, Tyler Hoyt, Darryl J Dickerhoff, Timothy Moore, Wilmer Pasut, Sabine Hoffmann, Tiefeng Yu, and Elliot Nahman."Advanced Design and Commissioning Tools for Energy-Efficient Building Technologies."Final report to California Energy Commission (CEC) Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2012).

2011

Bauman, Fred S, Thomas L Webster, David Lehrer, Edward A Arens, Hui Zhang, John Goins, Darryl J Dickerhoff, Stefano Schiavon, Sabine Hoffmann, Tiefeng Yu, David Fannon, Mark Perepelitza, and Krystyna Zelenay."Advanced Integrated Systems Tools Development and Performance Testing."Final report to California Energy Commission (CEC) Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2011).