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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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2016

Siderius, Hans-Paul, Sophie Attali, Nils Borg, Richard C Diamond, and Alan K Meier."Why Americans Misunderstand European Energy Policies (and vice versa)."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

2015

Singh, Reshma, Baptiste Ravache, and Spencer M Dutton."CLIMATE-SPECIFIC MODELING AND ANALYSIS FOR BEST-PRACTICE INDIAN OFFICE BUILDINGS."BS2015: 14th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association (2015).

Scodel, Anna, and Laurèn DeMates."From Policy to Compliance: Federal Energy Efficient Product Procurement." (2015).

Yan, Da, William O'Brien, Tianzhen Hong, Xiaohang Feng, H. H Burak Gunay, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Ardeshir Mahdavi."Occupant Behavior Modeling for Building Performance Simulation: Current State and Future Challenges."Energy and Buildings 107 (2015) 264-278. DOI

Chiles, Thomas, Kenneth Shutika, and Philip Coleman."Riding the Electricity Market as an Energy Management Strategy: Savings from Real-Time Pricing." (2015).

Hong, Tianzhen, Simona D'Oca, William J. N Turner, and Sarah C Taylor-Lange."An Ontology to Represent Energy-related Occupant Behavior in Buildings Part I: Introduction to the DNAs Framework."Building and Environment 92 (2015) 764-777. DOI

Price, Phillip N, Mary Ann Piette, Jessica Granderson, and John Elliott."Automated Measurement and Verification of Transactive Energy Systems, Load Shape Analysis, and Consumer Engagement."GridWise® Architecture Council Transactive Energy Conference (2015).

Regnier, Cynthia, and Kevin Settlemyre."The Business of High Performance: The USC Darla Moore School of Business." (2015).

Price, Phillip N, Bruce Nordman, Mary Ann Piette, Richard E Brown, Janie Page, Steven Lanzisera, and Jessica Granderson."Automated Measurement and Verification and Innovative Occupancy Detection Technologies." (2015).

Hong, Tianzhen, Kaiyu Sun, Rongpeng Zhang, Ryohei Hinokuma, Shinichi Kasahara, and Yoshinori Yura."Development and validation of a new variable refrigerant flow systemmodel in EnergyPlus."Energy and Buildings 117 (2015). DOI

Turner, William J. N, Iain S Walker, and Jordan Roux."Residential Pre-Cooling: Mechanical Cooling and Air-Side Economizers." (2015).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Aimee T McKane, Craig P Wray, and Peter L Therkelsen."2006-2015 Research Summary of Demand Response Potential in California Industry, Agriculture and Water Sectors." (2015).

Harding, Ari, Andrea C Mercado, and Cynthia Regnier."A New Campus Built on Efficiency." (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).

Rao, Prakash, Aimee T McKane, and Andre de Fontaine."Energy Savings from Industrial Water Reductions."2015 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (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).