The LESS team of faculty, master's and doctoral students, and full-time staff are working on a broad swath of research and applications that relate to the energy-value chain.

LESS focus areas include:

• Energy production
• Transportation of shale-extracted and natural gas
• Microgrid and energy storage
• Energy efficiency for buildings and industrial systems
• Infrastructure for alternative fuel transportation
• Resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure

Within these areas, LESS pursues solutions through:

• Development of optimal and predictive control models
• Large-scale stochastic simulations for energy networks and energy market
• Building energy simulations
• Predictive and forecasting tools
• Energy metering and analytics
• Energy-value mapping and energy-performance analysis
• Risk-based solutions to investment in microgrids
• Energy storage