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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 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.

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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 resilience are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Publications by Research Area

Buildings
Demand Response
Electricity Markets & Policy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Storage
Industrial Energy Analysis
Renewable Energy
Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems
Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)
Energy Analysis (EAEI)
Energy Storage (ESDR)
X Author: Youness Bennani Smires

2021

Grahovac, Milica, Youness Bennani Smires, Thomas A Burke, Katie Coughlin, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Akhil Mathur, Evan Neil, and Akshay Sharma."Adapter Python IO (Adapter) v1.0. Computer Software." (2021). DOI

2018

Vossos, Vagelis, Daniel L Gerber, Youness Bennani Smires, Richard E Brown, and Chris Marnay."Techno-economic analysis of DC power distribution in commercial buildings."Applied Energy 230 (2018) 663 - 678. DOI
Franco, Victor H, Youness Bennani Smires, Jing Ke, Edward Cubero, and Alex Lekov."Estimating Residential Appliance Lifetime for Energy Efficient Policy Analysis."2018 ACEEE Summer Study on Building Energy Efficiency (2018).

2012

Dutton, Spencer M, Hui Zhang, Yongchao Zhai, Edward A Arens, Youness Bennani Smires, Samuel L Brunswick, Kyle S Konis, and Philip Haves."Application of a stochastic window use model in EnergyPlus."SimBuild 2012, 5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA, August 1-3, 2012 (2012).
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