Energy Technologies Area

Research Themes +
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.
Strategic Initiatives +
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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About Us +
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.

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

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2010

Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, ."CERTS Microgrid Phase Two Test Report." (2010).

Martinez, Carlos A., Howard F. Illian, and L. Patterson."Research Results and Recommendations for Automatic Processes for Identifying Interconnections Frequency Events and Estimate Frequency Response."Frequency Events Identification and Frequency Response (2010).

Lasseter, Robert H., and Joseph H Eto."Value and Technology Assessment to Enhance the Business Case for the CERTS Microgrid." (2010) 97.

Gifford, William, Shawn Bodmann, Paul Young, Joseph H Eto, and Jeremy Laundergan."Customer Impact Evaluation for the 2009 Southern California Edison Participating Load Pilot." (2010) 34.

Martinez, Carlos A.."Intelligent Alarms Criteria and Thresholds Summary." (2010).

2009

Sullivan, Michael J., Matthew G. Mercurio, and Josh A. Schellenberg."Estimated Value of Service Reliability for Electric Utility Customers in the United States." (2009) 130.

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2009)." (2009).

Budhraja, Vikram S., John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Transmission Benefit Quantification, Cost Allocation and Cost Recovery."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009) 216.

Lasseter, Robert H., and Micah Erickson."Integration of Battery-Based Energy Storage Element in the CERTS Microgrid."Final Report Task 4: Value and Technology Assessment to Enhance the Business Case for the CERTS Microgrid (2009).

."2009 DOE-NERC Workshop on Fault-Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery (FIDVR)." (2009).

Eto, Joseph H, Robert H. Lasseter, Ben Schenkman, John Stevens, David Klapp, Harry T. Volkommer, Ed Linton, Hector Hurtado, and Jean Roy."Overview of the CERTS microgid laboratory test bed."Integration of Wide-Scale Renewable Resources into the Power Delivery System, CIGRE/IEEE PES Joint Symposium (2009).

Eto, Joseph H, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Eric Parker, Clark Bernier, Paul Young, Dave Sheehan, John D. Kueck, and Brendan J. Kirby."Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration - Phase 2 Findings from the Summer of 2008." (2009) 151.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Judy Lai, Brian E. Coffey, and Hirohisa Aki."Effect of Heat and Electricity Storage and Reliability on Microgrid Viability: A Study of Commercial Buildings in California and New York States." (2009) 106.

Budhraja, Vikram S., Fred Mobasheri, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Alison Silverstein, and Joseph H Eto."Improving Electricity Resource-Planning Processes by Considering the Strategic Benefits of Transmission."The Electricity Journal 22.2 (2009). DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Robert H. Lasseter, Ben Schenkman, John Stevens, Harry T. Volkommer, David Klapp, Ed Linton, Hector Hurtado, Jean Roy, and Nancy J. Lewis."CERTS Microgrid Laboratory Test Bed (California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program Final Report."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009).

Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, ."CERTS Microgrid Phase Two Results." (2009) 31.

2008

Budhraja, Vikram S., John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Renewable Resource Integration Project – Scoping Study of Strategic Transmission Operations and Reliability Issues."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 49.

Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, , and Electric Power Group."NERC Frequency Monitoring and Analysis (FMA) Application Functional Specification." (2008).

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J. Lewis."Real-Time Grid Reliability Management (2008): PIER Final Project Report."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 62.

Martinez, Carlos A.."NERC Frequency Monitoring and Analysis Application: Data Communications, Functionality, and Navigation Overview - Data Availability and Case Studies." (2008).

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J. Lewis."California ISO Phasor Application Summary Report (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix D)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 30.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J. Lewis."California ISO Real Time Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) Project: Summary of Survey Results on Methodologies for use in Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix A)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 13.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J. Lewis."California ISO Real Time Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) Prototype Functional Specifications/Prototype Development (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix C)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 15.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J. Lewis."California ISO Real Time Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) Summary Report (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix B)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 50.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J. Lewis."Prototype Phasor-Based Real-Time Monitoring Software Tool - Training Presentation (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix E)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 61.