Written Testimony of Secretary Christopher Wright, U.S. Department of Energy: Discussing the President’s Fiscal Year 2027 Budget request for the Department of Energy - April 21, 2026

NREL and LBNL are creating a smart thermostat benchmark that uses a simulated homes rather than data collected from installed smart thermostats. Simulation-driven benchmarking has several advantages over and complements data-driven benchmarking.

BOPTEST is an API and set of models for testing, comparing, and benchmarking building control and fault detection and diagnosis algorithms.

Launched by the U.S. Department of Energy in the fall of 2016, the Zero Energy Schools Accelerator was a targeted, 3-year effort to identify, develop, and share strategies for achieving zero energy schools.

Learn more about the Commercial Buildings Integration program projects evaluated at the 2024 BTO Peer Review.

BEM engines like EnergyPlus support runtime interaction and data exchange via bespoke APIs or co-simulation. Alfalfa standardizes this capability in a familiar interface to enable hardware-in-the-loop testing, control benchmarking and other use cases.

Innovative, high-resolution X-ray microscopy system generates 3D images 20 times faster than the previous system.

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Susan Donovan, discusses Empowering Parties Through Mediation.

Contract Summary and Registration for Port of Brownsville, Texas