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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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2015

Meier, Alan K, and Quentin Aillot."Builder-Installed Electrical Loads in New Homes."Energy Efficient Domestic Appliances and Lighting (2015).

Settlemyre, Kevin, and Cynthia Regnier."Controlling Energy Performance on the Big Stage — The New York Times Company." (2015).

Regnier, Cynthia, Ari Harding, and Alastair Robinson."Achieving a Net Zero Energy Retrofit – in a humid, temperate climate – lessons from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa." (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).

Taylor, Margaret, C Anna Spurlock, and Hung-Chia Yang."Confronting Regulatory Cost and Quality Expectations: An Exploration of Technical Change in Minimum Efficiency Performance Standards." (2015).

Pritoni, Marco, Alan K Meier, Cecilia Aragon, Daniel Perry, and Therese Peffer."Energy efficiency and the misuse of programmable thermostats: The effectiveness of crowdsourcing for understanding household behavior."Energy Research & Social Science 8 (2015). DOI

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).

Coleman, Philip."Escalation Rates in Energy Savings Performance Contracts."Energy Engineering 112.5 (2015). DOI

Coleman, Philip."Guide to Promoting an Energy Efficient Public Sector (PePS)." (2015).

Lask, Kathleen M, Kayje Booker, Taewon Han, Jessica Granderson, Nina Yang, Cristina Ceballos, and Ashok J Gadgil."Performance comparison of charcoal cookstoves for Haiti: Laboratory testing with Water Boiling and Controlled Cooking Tests."Energy for Sustainable Development 26 (2015) 79 - 86. DOI

Mills, Evan, Jessica Granderson, Wanyu R Chan, Richard C Diamond, Philip Haves, Bruce Nordman, Paul A Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Gerald Robinson, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Green, Clean, & Mean: Pushing the Energy Envelope in Tech Industry Buildings." (2015).

Granderson, Jessica, Phillip N Price, Stephen Czarnecki, Janie Page, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of Diagnostic and M&V Agents, and Implementation in an Occupied Office Environment." (2015).

Mathew, Paul A, Laurel N Dunn, Michael D Sohn, Andrea C Mercado, Claudine Custudio, and Travis Walter."Big-data for building energy performance: Lessons from assembling a very large national database of building energy use."Applied Energy 140 (2015) 85 - 93. DOI

D'Oca, Simona, and Tianzhen Hong."Occupancy Schedules Learning Process Through a Data Mining Framework."Energy and Buildings 88 (2015) 395-408. DOI

Logue, Jennifer M, William J. N Turner, Iain S Walker, and Brett C Singer."A simplified model for estimating population-scale energy impacts of building envelope air-tightening and mechanical ventilation retrofits."Journal of Building Performance Simulation 9.1 (2015). DOI

Less, Brennan, and Iain S Walker."Deep Energy Retrofit Guidance for the Building America Solutions Center." (2015).

Mills, Evan."A New Appraisal- Lessons from the History of Efforts to Value Green and High-Performance Home Attributes in the United States." (2015).

Hong, Tianzhen, Hongsan Sun, Yixing Chen, Sarah C Taylor-Lange, and Da Yan."An occupant behavior modeling tool for co-simulation."Energy and Buildings (2015).

Chan, Wanyu R, Iain S Walker, and Max H Sherman."Durable Airtightness in Single-Family Dwellings: Field Measurements and Analysis." (2015).

Less, Brennan, Nasim A Mullen, Brett C Singer, and Iain S Walker."Indoor Air Quality in 24 California Residences Designed as High-Performance Homes." (2015). DOI

Walker, Iain S, and J Chris Stratton."Laboratory Evaluation Of Air Flow Measurement Methods For Residential HVAC Returns."ASHRAE Transactions 21, Part 2 (2015).

Mills, Evan."Looking For Value in All The Wrong Places: Toward Expanded Consideration of Green and High Performance Attributes in Non-residential Property Appraisals in the United States." (2015).

Agyeman, Yaw O, and Harley Barnes."Project Manager’s Guide to Managing Impact and Process Evaluation Studies." (2015).

Scheib, Jennifer, Philip Coleman, and Shanti Pless."Realizing High-Performance Buildings." (2015).

Agyeman, Yaw O."Steady Hand at the Wheel: Using an Incremental, Systematic Approach to Promote an Evaluation Culture in a Federal Organization."International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (2015).