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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)

2014

Li, Cheng, and Tianzhen Hong."Revisit of Energy Use and Technologies of High Performance Buildings."2014 ASHRAE Annual Conference (2014).

Zhou, Xin, Tianzhen Hong, and Da Yan."Comparison of HVAC System Modeling in EnergyPlus, DeST and DOE-2.1E."Building Simulation 7.1 (2014) 21 - 33. DOI

Xia, Jianjun, Tianzhen Hong, Qi Shen, Wei Feng, Le Yang, Piljae Im, Alison Lu, and Mahabir Bhandari."Comparison of building energy use data between the United States and China."Energy and Buildings 78 (2014) 165 - 175. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, Le Yang, Jianjun Xia, Wei Feng, A Li, Y Zhu, and Y Li."Building Energy Benchmarking between the United States and China: Methods and Challenges."8th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol 263 (2014) 473-486. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, Xiufeng Pang, Oren Schetrit, Liping Wang, Shinichi Kasahara, Yoshinori Yura, and Ryohei Hinokuma."A New Model to Simulate Energy Performance of VRF Systems." (2014).

Turner, William J. N, and Tianzhen Hong."A Technical Framework to Describe Occupant Behavior for Building Energy Simulations." (2014).

Hong, Tianzhen, Cheng Li, Richard C Diamond, Da Yan, Qi Zhang, Xin Zhou, Siyue Guo, Kaiyu Sun, and Jingyi Wang."Integrated Design for High Performance Buildings." (2014).

Lee, Sang Hoon, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Review of Existing Energy Retrofit Tools." (2014).

Sun, Kaiyu, Tianzhen Hong, and Siyue Guo."Stochastic Modeling of Overtime Occupancy and Its Application in Building Energy Simulation and Calibration." (2014).

2013

Hong, Tianzhen, Wen-Kuei Chang, and Hung-Wen Lin."A Fresh Look at Weather Impact on Peak Electricity Demand and Energy Use of Buildings Using 30-Year Actual Weather Data."Applied Energy 111 (2013) 333-350. DOI

Lin, Hung-Wen, and Tianzhen Hong."On Variations of Space-heating Energy Use in Office Buildings."Applied Energy 111 (2013) 515-528. DOI

Zhu, Dandan, Tianzhen Hong, Da Yan, and Chuang Wang."A Detailed Loads Comparison of Three Building Energy Modeling Programs: EnergyPlus, DeST and DOE-2.1E."Building Simulation 6.3 (2013) 323-335. DOI

Zhou, Xin, Tianzhen Hong, and Da Yan."Comparison of Building Energy Modeling Programs: HVAC Systems." (2013).

Hong, Tianzhen, Wei Feng, Alison Lu, Jianjun Xia, Le Yang, Qi Shen, Piljae Im, and Mahabir Bhandari."Building Energy Monitoring and Analysis." (2013).

Hong, Tianzhen, Hung-Wen Lin, Wen-Kuei Chang, Liping Wang, William J. N Turner, Da Yan, Dandan Zhu, Xin Zhou, Chuang Wang, Chen Peng, and Xiaoxin Ren."Building Performance Simulation." (2013).

Hong, Tianzhen, Wen-Kuei Chang, and Hung-Wen Lin."A Sensitivity Study of Building Performance Using 30-Year Actual Weather Data."13th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, August 26-28 (2013).

Lin, Hung-Wen, Mingshan Zhen, and Tianzhen Hong."An analysis of impact of occupant behavior on discrepancies of energy use in office buildings." (2013).

Pang, Xiufeng, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."Improving Building Performance at Urban Scale with a Framework for Real-time Data Sharing." (2013).

Chang, Wen-Kuei, and Tianzhen Hong."Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Occupancy Patterns in Open-Plan Offices using Measured Lighting-Switch Data."Building Simulation 6.1 (2013) 23–32. DOI

Wang, Liping, and Tianzhen Hong."Modeling and Simulation of HVAC Faulty Operations and Performance Degradation due to Maintenance Issues."ASim 2012 - 1st Asia conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (2013).

Hong, Tianzhen, and Hung-Wen Lin."Occupant Behavior: Impact on Energy Use of Private Offices."ASim 2012 - 1st Asia Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (2013).

Zhou, Xin, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, and Dandan Zhu."Building energy modeling programs comparison Research on HVAC systems simulation part." (2013).

Zhu, Dandan, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, and Chuang Wang."Comparison of Building Energy Simulation Programs: Dest, EnergyPlus and DOE-2." (2013).

Zhou, Xin, Da Yan, Xiaoxin Ren, and Tianzhen Hong."Data Analysis and Modeling of Lighting Energy Use in Large Office Buildings." (2013).

Hong, Tianzhen, William J. N Turner, and Cheng Li."The Two-Day CERC-BEE Forum on Building Integrated Design and Occupant Behavior: Presentations and Summary." (2013).