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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 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.
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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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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.

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2015

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).

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, David A. Jump, Nathan J. Addy, and Michael D. Sohn."Automated Measurement and Verification: Performance of Public Domain Whole-Building Electric Baseline Models."Applied Energy 144 (2015) 106-113. DOI

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).

2014

Granderson, Jessica, David A. Jump, Phillip N. Price, and Michael D. Sohn."Performance Metrics and Objective Testing Methods for Energy Baseline Modeling Software." (2014).

Bonvini, Marco, Michael D. Sohn, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Mary Ann Piette."Robust on-line fault detection diagnosis for HVAC components based on nonlinear state estimation techniques."Applied Energy 124 (2014) 156 - 166. DOI

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N. Price."Development and Application of a Statistical Methodology to Evaluate the Predictive Accuracy of Building Energy Baseline Models."Energy 66 (2014) 981-990. DOI

2013

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard E. Brown, Phillip N. Price, Janie Page, Jessica Granderson, David Riess, Stephen Czarnecki, Girish Ghatikar, and Steven Lanzisera."Automated Measurement and Signaling Systems for the Transactional Network." (2013).

Singh, Reshma, Roozbeh Mahdavi, Paul A. Mathew, Jessica Granderson, and Yash Shukla."Guidelines for Datacenter Energy Information System." (2013).

Granderson, Jessica, Guanjing Lin, and Mary Ann Piette."Energy information systems (EIS): Technology costs, benefit, and best practice uses." (2013).

Parrish, Kristen, Jessica Granderson, Andrea C. Mercado, and Paul A. Mathew."Improving Energy Efficiency through Commissioning: Getting Started with Commissioning, Monitoring, and Maintaining Performance." (2013).

Robinson, Alastair, and Cynthia Regnier."Lights, Camera, Action ... and Cooling - The case for centralized low carbon energy at Fox Studios." (2013).

Regnier, Cynthia, Alastair Robinson, Kevin Settlemyre, and Zorana Bosnic."Oregon Sustainability Center: Weighing Approaches to Net Zero." (2013).

Price, Phillip N., Jessica Granderson, Michael D. Sohn, Nathan J. Addy, and David A. Jump."Commercial Building Energy Baseline Modeling Software: Performance Metrics and Method Testing with Open Source Models and Implications for Proprietary Software Testing." (2013).

Jump, David A., Phillip N. Price, Jessica Granderson, and Michael D. Sohn."Functional Testing Protocols for Commercial Building Efficiency Baseline Modeling Software." (2013).

Granderson, Jessica, and Phillip N. Price."Development and Application of a Statistical Methodology to Evaluate the Predictive Accuracy of Building Energy Baseline Models." (2013).

Parrish, Kristen, Alastair Robinson, and Cynthia Regnier."Commercial Buildings Partnerships – Overview of Higher Education Projects." (2013).

O'Donnell, James, Tobias Maile, Cody Rose, Natasa Mrazovic, Elmer Morrissey, Cynthia Regnier, Kristen Parrish, and Vladimir Bazjanac."Transforming BIM to BEM: Generation of Building Geometry for the NASA Ames Sustainability Base BIM." (2013).

Regnier, Cynthia, and Kevin Settlemyre."The Business of High Performance: The USC Darla Moore School of Business." (2013).

2012

Parrish, Kristen, and Cynthia Regnier."Achieving Energy Savings in Municipal Construction in Long Beach, CA." (2012).

Parrish, Kristen, Andrea C. Mercado, and Cynthia Regnier."Keeping Energy Savings in the LOOP." (2012).

Parrish, Kristen, and Cynthia Regnier."A Path to Successful Energy Retrofits: Early Collaboration Through Integrated Project Delivery Teams." (2012).

Regnier, Cynthia."Guide to Setting Thermal Comfort Criteria and Minimizing Energy Use in Delivering Thermal Comfort." (2012).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Responsive and Intelligent Building Information and Control for Low-Energy and Optimized Grid Integration."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).