The Electricity Infrastructure and Buildings Division’s (EI&BD's) teams work on the front lines of the modernization of America’s energy system, from its architecture to power transmission, systems integration, distribution, and use. 

Our innovations in modeling, analytics, and use of advanced computing are changing the way buildings, electric vehicles and other distributed energy sources interact with the grid. And our research into building system design and performance evaluation shapes national building energy codes and appliance standards and provides new models for building operations. 

EI&BD’s core competencies in five areas of energy systems research – spanning theory to application – enable our success. They are:

• Control & Coordination
• Modeling & Analytics
• Systems Integration
• Policy, Markets & Planning
• Technology Deployment & Market Transformation

Learn more about the EI&BD’s research topics below.