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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2004

Mobasheri, Fred, Margaret Cheng, Jaime Medina, and Joseph H Eto."Economic Evaluation of Transmission Interconnection in a Restructured Market."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 48.

Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto."When a Rose Is Not a Rose: A Review of Recent Estimates of Congestion Costs."The Electricity Journal 17.4 (2004). DOI

Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, , and Electric Power Group."Wide-Area ACE-Frequency Real-Time Monitoring System User's Guide, Release 2." (2004).

Yinger, Robert J."Behavior of Two Capstone 30kW Microturbines Operating in Parallel with Impedance Between Them."Consultant Report Prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 36.

Eto, Joseph H."Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations." (2004).

Flannery, Patrick G., Giri Venkataramanan, and Bin Shi."Integration of Distributed Technologies - Standard Power Electronic Interfaces."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 139.

Eto, Joseph H, Deepak Divan, and William Brumsickle."Pilot Evaluation of Electricity-Reliability and Power-Quality Monitoring in California’s Silicon Valley with the I-Grid® System." (2004) 49.

Kirby, Brendan J., and John D. Kueck."Demand Response Research Plan to Reflect the Needs of the California Independent System Operator."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 78.

Goldman, Charles A., Bernard Lesieutre, and Emily S. Bartholomew."A Review of Market Monitoring Activities at U.S. Independent System Operators." (2004) 41.

2003

Budhraja, Vikram S., Fred Mobasheri, Margaret Cheng, Jim Dyer, Eduyng Castaño, and Stephen Hess."California’s Electricity Generation and Transmission Interconnection Needs Under Alternative Scenarios."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 42.

Lawton, Leora, Michael J. Sullivan, Kent Van Liere, Aaron Katz, and Joseph H Eto."A Framework and Review of Customer Outage Costs: Integration and Analysis of Electric Utility Outage Cost Surveys." (2003) 86.

Eto, Joseph H."Interim Report: Causes of the August 14th Blackout in the United States and Canada." (2003).

Bartholomew, Emily S., Afzal S. Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, and Shmuel S. Oren."The New York Transmission Congestion Contract Market: Is It Truly Working Efficiently?."The Electricity Journal 16.9 (2003) 14-24. DOI

Kirby, Brendan J., and John D. Kueck."Spinning Reserve from Pump Load: A Technical Findings Report to the California Department of Water Resources."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 58.

Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto."Electricity Transmission Congestion Costs: A Review of Recent Reports." (2003) 53.

Lasseter, Robert H., Abbas A. Akhil, Chris Marnay, John Stephens, Jeffery E. Dagle, Ross T. Guttromson, A. Sakis Meliopoulous, Robert J Yinger, and Joseph H Eto."Integration of Distributed Energy Resources: The CERTS MicroGrid Concept."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 32.

Martinez, Carlos A., Jim Dyer, and Mark Skowronski."Real-Time Voltage Monitoring and VAR Management System."Consultant Report to the California Energy Commission (2003) 20.

Akhil, Abbas A., Chris Marnay, and Timothy E. Lipman."Review of Test Facilities for Distributed Energy Resources." (2003) 45.

Martinez, Carlos A., Jim Dyer, and Mark Skowronski."Supplier and Control Area Performance Monitoring System: Utilization of Grid-3P for Automatic Generation Control (AGC), Frequency Response Reserves (FRR) and Ancillary Services (AS) Regulation."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 20.

Firestone, Ryan M., Charles Creighton, Owen C. Bailey, Chris Marnay, and Michael Stadler."A Business Case for On-Site Generation: The BD Biosciences Pharmingen Project." (2003) 86.

Budhraja, Vikram S., Jim Dyer, and Stephen Hess."Planning for California's Future Transmission Grid Review of Transmission System, Strategic Benefits, Planning Issues And Policy Recommendations."Consultant Report to the California Energy Commission (2003) 30.

Martinez, Carlos A.."Real-Time Performance Monitoring Tools for Wide-Area Operations and Competitive Markets in the Electricity Industry." IEEE General Meeting, Toronto, Canada (2003).

KEMA Consulting, ."Analysis and Selection of Analytical Tools to Assess National-Interest Transmission Bottlenecks Final Report." (2003) 53.

Lawton, Leora, Joseph H Eto, Aaron Katz, and Michael J. Sullivan."Characteristics and Trends in a National Study of Consumer Outage Costs."Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI) Annual Western Conference (2003) 16.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Ryan M. Firestone, Srijay Ghosh, Michael Stadler, Jennifer L. Edwards, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Energy Resources with Combined Heat and Power Applications." (2003) 124.