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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2006

Nichols, David K., John Stevens, Robert H. Lasseter, and Joseph H Eto."Validation of the CERTS Microgrid Concept: The CEC/CERTS Microgrid Testbed."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2006) 3. DOI

Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, , and Electric Power Group."Wide-Area Real-Time Resources Adequacy Monitoring System (ACE Frequency) Functional Specification v4.0." (2006).

Group, Electric Power."DOE Wide-Area Situational Awareness for Load-Generation Adequacy Using NERC Resources Adequacy Monitoring." (2006).

Eto, Joseph H."Maintain, Enhance, and Improve Reliability of California’s Electric System under Restructuring." (2006).

2005

Firestone, Ryan M., and Chris Marnay."Microturbine Economic Competitiveness: A Study of Two Potential Adopters." (2005) 49.

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Douglas R. Hale."A Review of Recent RTO Benefit-Cost Studies: Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies." (2005) 61.

Lesieutre, Bernard."Improving Dynamic Load and Generator Response Performance Tools." (2005) 74.

Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, , and Electric Power Group."NERC Disturbance, Alarm, Response, and Analysis (DARA) Functional Specification." (2005).

Eto, Joseph H."The Value of Economic Dispatch: A Report to Congress Pursuant to Section 1234 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005." (2005).

Martinez, Carlos A.."Wide-Area Resources Adequacy Monitoring and Tracking Plan for DOE Deployment and User Training." (2005).

Group, Electric Power, and Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions."Assessment of Reliability and Operational Issues for Integration of Renewable Generation." (2005).

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J. Lewis."CA ISO Real Time Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) Project: Summary of Survey Result on Methodologies for use in Real Time Voltage Security Assessment."CAISO Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) (2005) 13.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Chris Marnay, Owen C. Bailey, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Optimal selection of on-site power generation with combined heat and power applications."International Journal of Distributed Energy Resources 1.1 (2005) 33-62.

Firestone, Ryan M., and Chris Marnay."Energy Manager Design for Microgrids."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2005) 81.

Martinez, Carlos A.."Real-Time Monitoring Tools and Multi-View Visualization for Wide-Area Operations."DistribuTECH Transmission Reliability Panel, San Diego, California (2005).

Dobson, Ian, and Benjamin A. Carreras."Risk Analysis of Critical Loading and Blackouts with Cascading Events." (2005) 147.

2004

Kezunovic, Mladen, Goran Latisko, and Nitin Ved."Real-Time Monitoring and Assessment of Circuit Breaker Operations for Diagnostics and Control Applications." (2004) 14.

Barbose, Galen L., Charles A. Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."A Survey of Utility Experience with Real Time Pricing." (2004) 127.

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto."Understanding the Cost of Power Interruptions to U.S. Electricity Consumers." (2004) 70.

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."The Potential for Distributed Generation in Japanese Prototype Buildings: A DER-CAM Analysis of Policy, Tariff Design, Building Energy Use, and Technology Development." (2004) 75.

Lesieutre, Bernard, Emily S. Bartholomew, Joseph H Eto, Douglas R. Hale, and Thanh Luong."The Potential Impacts of a Competitive Wholesale Market in the Midwest: A Preliminary Examination of Centralized Dispatch." (2004) 75.

Marnay, Chris, and Owen C. Bailey."The CERTS Microgrid and the Future of the Macrogrid."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004) 14.

Sauer, Peter W., Kevin Tomsovic, Jeffery E. Dagle, Steven E. Widergren, Tony B. Nguyen, and Lawrence Schienbein."Integrated Security Analysis Final Report." (2004) 72.

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Steven E. Widergren."Transmission-Planning Research and Development Scoping Project."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2004) 82.

Goldman, Charles A., Nicole C. Hopper, Osman Sezgen, Mithra M. Moezzi, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, Richard Boisvert, Peter Cappers, and Donna Pratt."Customer Response to Day-ahead Wholesale Market Electricity Prices: Case Study of RTP Program Experience in New York."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 208.