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 by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2022

Nemtzow, David, Cynthia Regnier, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Natalie Mims Frick, and Jason S. MacDonald."If One GEB is Good, a Community of GEBs is Better."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Crothers, , Andrew R., Ahmet Kusoglu, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Influence of Mesoscale Interactions on Proton, Water, and Electrokinetic Transport in Solvent-Filled Membranes: Theory and Simulation."Langmuir 38.34 (2022) 10362 - 10374. DOI

Wiser, Ryan H., Mark Bolinger, Ben Hoen, Dev Millstein, Joseph Rand, Galen L. Barbose, Naïm R. Darghouth, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, and Bentham Paulos."Land-Based Wind Market Report: 2022 Edition." (2022).

Teso, Lorenzo, Laura Carnieletto, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Andrea Gasparella, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Angelo Zarrella, and Tianzhen Hong."Large scale energy analysis and renovation strategies for social housing in the historic city of Venice."Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 52 (2022) 102041. DOI

Teso, Lorenzo, Laura Carnieletto, Kaiyu Sun, Wanni Zhang, Andrea Gasparella, Piercarlo Romagnoni, Angelo Zarrella, and Tianzhen Hong."Large scale energy analysis and renovation strategies for social housing in the historic city of Venice."Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments 52 (2022) 102041. DOI

Meier, Alan K., Abigail A. Daken, and Leo Rainer."Long-term trends in connected thermostat performance."The ECEEE 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2022).

Fauchier-Magnan, Nicolas, Joshua Morejohn, and Marco Pritoni."A low-cost centralized HVAC control system solution for energy savings, load shedding, and improved maintenance."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, and Ryan Hledik."Making Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings a “Win” for Both Customers and Utilities."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Pritoni, Marco, Guanjing Lin, Yimin Chen, John House, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Market Barriers and Drivers for the Next Generation Fault Detection and Diagnostic Tools."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Murthy, Samanvitha, Brian F. Gerke, Sarah Smith, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Richard E. Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."A multi-level load shape clustering and disaggregation approach to characterize patterns of energy consumption behavior."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Villa, Daniel, Tyler Schostek, Carlo Bianchi, Madeline McMillan, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."The Multi-scenario Extreme Weather Simulator: Energy Resilience for Mission Assurance." (2022). DOI

Gerke, Brian F., Sarah J. Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Jingjing Liu, Richard E. Brown, Mary Ann Piette, and Peter Alstone."Overview of Phase 4 of the California Demand Response Potential Study." (2022).

Abdul-Khabir, Fatima, Billie Holecek, Christopher T. Payne, and Gerald Robinson."The Policy Mullet: Good Intentions in Front, Bad Policy in Back."ACEEE Summer Study (2022). DOI

Lu, Wenchao, Chandika Amarasinghe, Emily Zhang, Andrew Martin, Sumanjeet Kaur, Ravi S. Prasher, and Musahid Ahmed."Probing hydrogen-bond networks in plastic crystals with terahertz and infrared spectroscopy."Cell Reports Physical Science 3.8 (2022) 100988. DOI

Langner, Rois, Eliot Crowe, and Jessica Granderson."Quantifying the Value of Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings through Field Study." (2022).

To, Thanh, Miguel Heleno, and Alan Valenzuela."Risk-constrained multi-period investment model for Distributed Energy Resources considering technology costs and regulatory uncertainties."Applied Energy 319 (2022) 119210. DOI

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

Paul, Lazlo, Anand Prakash, Kun Zhang, Marco Pritoni, and Richard E. Brown."SolarPlus Optimizer: Integrated Control of Solar, Batteries, and Flexible Loads for Small Commercial Buildings."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Lee, ChungHyuk, Xiaohua Wang, Jui-Kun Peng, Adlai Katzenberg, Rajesh K. Ahluwalia, Ahmet Kusoglu, Siddharth Komini Babu, Jacob S. Spendelow, Rangachary Mukundan, and Rod L. Borup."Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Cation Effects in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14.31 (2022) 35555 - 35568. DOI

Roa, Carlos Duarte, Paul Raftery, Ruiji Sun, Lazlo Paul, Anand Krishnan Prakash, Marco Pritoni, Gabe Fierro, and Therese Peffer."Towards a Stronger Foundation: Digitizing Commercial Buildings with Brick to Enable Portable Advanced Applications."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Roth, Amir, Michael Wetter, Kyle Benne, Yan Chen, Gabriel Fierro, Marco Pritoni, Avijit Saha, and Draguna Vrabie."Towards Digital and Performance-Based Supervisory HVAC Control Delivery."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Crowe, Eliot, Yimin Chen, Jessica Granderson, Hayden Reeve, LucasTroup, David Yuill, and Yuxuan Chen."What We Learned From Analyzing 18 Million Rows of Commercial Buildings’ HVAC Fault Data."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Yu, Lili, Jingjing Liu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."When Do Efficiency and Demand Flexibility Go Hand-in-hand?."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Abhyankar, Nikit, Jiang Lin, Fredrich Kahrl, Shengfei Yin, Umed Paliwal, Xu Liu, Nina Khanna, Amol A. Phadke, Qian Luo, David Wooley, Mike O’Boyle, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, and Michelle Solomon."Achieving an 80% Carbon Free Electricity System in China by 2035." (2022).

Elmallah, Salma, and Joseph Rand."“After the leases are signed, it's a done deal”: Exploring procedural injustices for utility-scale wind energy planning in the United States."Energy Research & Social Science 89 (2022). DOI

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