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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2011

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, and Nicholas DeForest."The Joy of Stochastic Forecasting: An Overview of the Stochastic Buildings Energy and Adoption Model." (2011).

Lasseter, Robert H., Joseph H Eto, Ben Schenkman, John Stevens, Harry T. Volkommer, David Klapp, Ed Linton, Hector Hurtado, and Joyashree Roy."CERTS Microgrid Laboratory Test Bed."IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 26.1 (2011). DOI

Fisk, William J., Douglas R. Black, and Gregory Brunner."Benefits and costs of improved IEQ in offices."Indoor Air 21.3 (2011) 357–367. DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Ed Saribey, and Sila Kiliccote."A Demand Response (DR) Event: Benefits, Strategies, Automation and Future of DR." (2011).

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, David S. Watson, and Girish Ghatikar."DR Technologies, Strategies and Case Studies." (2011).

Kiliccote, Sila."DR Tools." (2011).

Mathieu, Johanna L., Duncan S. Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Examining Uncertainty in Demand Response Baseline Models and Variability in Automated Response to Dynamic Pricing."2011 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (2011). DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, David S. Watson, and Girish Ghatikar."Future of DR." (2011).

Koch, Edward, and Sila Kiliccote."Role of Standard Demand Response Signals for Advanced Automated Aggregation."Grid-Interop 2011 (2011).

2010

Stadler, Michael, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, Hirohisa Aki, and Judy Lai."Control of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Optimal DER Technology Investment and Energy Management in Zero-Net-Energy Buildings."European Transactions on Electrical Power 21.2 (2010) 1291-1309. DOI

Coughlin, Katie, and Joseph H Eto."Analysis of Wind Power and Load Data at Multiple Time Scales." (2010).

Mackin, Peter, Ron Daschmans, Ben Williams, Brian Haney, Randy Hunt, and Jeff Ellis."Dynamic Simulation Studies of the Frequency Response of the Three U.S. Interconnections with Increased Wind Generation." (2010) 142.

Illian, Howard F.."Frequency Control Performance Measurement and Requirements." (2010) 46.

DeForest, Nicholas, Florence Bonnet, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Introduction to the Buildings Sector Module of SEDS." (2010).

Olsen, Daniel, Sasank Goli, David Faulkner, and Aimee T. McKane."Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the California Cement Industry." (2010).

Undrill, John."Power and Frequency Control as it Relates to Wind-Powered Generation." (2010) 94.

Martinez, Carlos A., Song Xue, and Martha Martinez."Review of the Recent Frequency Performance of the Eastern, Western and ERCOT Interconnections." (2010) 63.

Eto, Joseph H, John Undrill, Peter Mackin, Ron Daschmans, Ben Williams, Brian Haney, Randy Hunt, Jeff Ellis, Howard F. Illian, Carlos A. Martinez, Mark O'Malley, Katie Coughlin, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Use of Frequency Response Metrics to Assess the Planning and Operating Requirements for Reliable Integration of Variable Renewable Generation." (2010) 141.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Florence Bonnet, and Judy Lai."Behavioral Aspects in Simulating the Future US Building Energy Demand."2010 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference (2010).

Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, , Carlos A. Martinez, L. Patterson, and Howard F. Illian."CERTS Research Supporting Definition and Validation of a Frequency Response Standard." (2010).

Stadler, Michael, Nicholas DeForest, Chris Marnay, Florence Bonnet, Judy Lai, and Trucy Phan."Simulation of the GHG Abatement Potentials in the U.S. Building Sectory By 2050."29th USAEE/IAEE Annual North American Conference, October 14-16, 2010 (2010) 15.

Stadler, Michael, Nicholas DeForest, Florence Bonnet, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, and Trucy Phan."Simulation of the GHG Abatement Potentials in the U.S. Building Sector by 2050."29th USAEE/IAEE Annual North American Conference, October 14-16, 2010 (2010).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Tanachai Limpaitoon, Trucy Phan, Olivier Mégel, Jessica Chang, and Nicholas DeForest."Storage Viability and Optimization Web Service." (2010) 61.

Thompson, Lisa, Alexander B. Lekov, Aimee T. McKane, and Mary Ann Piette."Opportunities for Open Automated Demand Response in Wastewater Treatment Facilities in California - Phase II Report. San Luis Rey Wastewater Treatment Plant Case Study." (2010).

Sullivan, Michael J., Matthew G. Mercurio, Josh A. Schellenberg, and Joseph H Eto."How to Estimate the Value of Service Reliability Improvements."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2010) 5. DOI