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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.
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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.

Nicholas DeForest

Nicholas DeForest

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Contact Information

Email: NDeforest@lbl.gov

Phone: 510-486-6188

Publications

2021

Strategies for microgrid operation under real-world conditions

Authors: Gust, Gunther; Tobias Brandt; Salman Mashayekh; Miguel Heleno; Nicholas DeForest; michael stadler, and Dirk Neumann.

07/2021

2018

Battery aging in multi-energy microgrid design using mixed integer linear programming

Authors: Cardoso, Gonçalo; thomas brouhard; Nicholas DeForest; Dai Wang; Miguel Heleno, and Leander Kotzur.

12/2018

ROMDST - An Optimal Design Support Tool for Remote, Resilient, and Reliable Microgrids, Phase II - Final Report

Authors: Cardoso, Gonçalo; Miguel Heleno, and Nicholas DeForest.

07/2018

Day ahead optimization of an electric vehicle fleet providing ancillary services in the Los Angeles Air Force Base vehicle-to-grid demonstration

Authors: DeForest, Nicholas; Jason S MacDonald, and Douglas R Black.

01/2018

Day ahead optimization of an electric vehicle fleet providing ancillary services in the Los Angeles Air Force Base vehicle-to-grid demonstration

Authors: DeForest, Nicholas; Jason S MacDonald, and Douglas R Black.

01/2018

A Two-Layer Framework for Quantifying Demand Response Flexibility at Bulk Supply Points

Authors: Wang, Ke; Rongxin Yin; Liangzhong Yao; Jianguo Yao; Taiyou Yong, and Nicholas DeForest.

12/2016

2017

A comparative energy analysis of three electrochromic glazing technologies in commercial and residential buildings

Authors: DeForest, Nicholas; Arman Shehabi; Stephen E Selkowitz, and Delia J Milliron.

04/2017

2016

Modeling Study on Flexible Load’s Demand Response Potentials for Providing Ancillary Services at the Substation Level

Authors: Tulabing, Ryan; Rongxin Yin; Nicholas DeForest; Yaping Li; Ke Wang; Taiyou Yong, and Michael Stadler.

06/2016

Quantifying Flexibility of Commercial and Residential Loads for Demand Response using Setpoint Changes

Authors: Yin, Rongxin; Emre C Kara; Yaping Li; Nicholas DeForest; Ke Wang; Taiyou Yong, and Michael Stadler.

05/2016

Value Streams in Microgrids: A Literature Review

Authors: Stadler, Michael; Gonçalo Cardoso; Salman Mashayekh; Thibault Forget; Nicholas DeForest; Ankit Agarwal, and Anna Schönbein.

01/2016

2015

United States energy and CO2 savings potential from deployment of near-infrared electrochromic window glazings

Authors: DeForest, Nicholas; Arman Shehabi; James O'Donnell; Guillermo Garcia; Jeffery B Greenblatt; Eleanor S Lee; Stephen E Selkowitz, and Delia J Milliron.

07/2015

Supervisory Controller for PV and Storage Microgrids

Authors: Stadler, Michael; Salman Mashayekh; Sankar Narayanan; Nicholas DeForest, and Tobias Brandt.

10/10/2015

2014

Modeling of Thermal Storage Systems in MILP Distributed Energy Resource Models

Authors: Steen, David; Michael Stadler; Gonçalo Cardoso; Markus Groissböck; Nicholas DeForest, and Chris Marnay.

01/2015

Power Systems 2.0: Designing an Energy Information System for Microgrid Operation

Authors: Brandt, Tobias; Nicholas DeForest; Michael Stadler, and Dirk Neumann.

12/2014

Enabling Broad Adoption of Distributed PV-Storage Systems Via Supervisory Planning and Control

Authors: DeForest, Nicholas; Michael Stadler; Gonçalo Cardoso; Tobias Brandt, and Sankar Narayanan.

08/2014

Optimal Deployment of Thermal Energy Storage Under Diverse Economic and Climate Conditions

Authors: DeForest, Nicholas; Gonçalo Mendes; Michael Stadler; Wei Feng; Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay.

04/2014

2013

U.S. energy savings potential from dynamic daylighting control glazings

Authors: Shehabi, Arman; Nicholas DeForest; Andrew McNeil; Eric R Masanet; Jeffery B Greenblatt; Eleanor S Lee; Georgeta Masson; Brett A Helms, and Delia J Milliron.

11/2013

Microgrid Reliability Modeling and Battery Scheduling Using Stochastic Linear Programming

Authors: Cardoso, Gonçalo; Michael Stadler; Afzal S Siddiqui; Chris Marnay; Nicholas DeForest; Ana Barbosa-Póvoa, and Paulo Ferrão.

06/2013

Thermal Energy Storage for Electricity Peak-demand Mitigation: A Solution in Developing and Developed World Alike

Authors: DeForest, Nicholas; Gonçalo Mendes; Michael Stadler; Wei Feng; Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay.

06/2013

Software-as-a-Service Optimised Scheduling of a Solar-Assisted HVAC System with Thermal Storage

Authors: Mammoli, Andrea A; Michael Stadler; Nicholas DeForest; Hans Barsun; Richard Burnett, and Chris Marnay.

04/2013

Regional performance targets for transparent near-infrared switching electrochromic window glazings

Authors: DeForest, Nicholas; Arman Shehabi; Guillermo Garcia; Jeffery B Greenblatt; Eric R Masanet; Eleanor S Lee; Stephen E Selkowitz, and Delia J Milliron.

03/2013

Applications of Optimal Building Energy System Selection and Operation

Authors: Marnay, Chris; Michael Stadler; Afzal S Siddiqui; Nicholas DeForest; Jonathan Donadee; Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Judy Lai.

02/2013

Identification of Demand Response Potential for Microgrids Using the Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adaption Model, A Case Study of the Alameda County Santa Rita Jail for 2011

Authors: Thiemann, Johannes J; Nicholas DeForest; Michael Stadler; Judy Lai; Wei Feng; Kristina Hamachi LaCommare; Yu Joe Huang, and Chris Marnay.

Los Angeles Air Force Base Vehicle to Grid Pilot Project

Authors: Marnay, Chris; Terry W Chan; Nicholas DeForest; Judy Lai; Jason S MacDonald; Michael Stadler; Tobias Erdmann; Andreas Hoheisel; Markus Mueller; Scotte Sabre; Edward Koch; Paul Lipkin; Robert W Anderson; Spence Gerber, and Elizabeth Reid.

2012

Microgrid Dispatch for Macrogrid Peak-Demand Mitigation

Authors: DeForest, Nicholas; Michael Stadler; Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee.

08/2012

A Green Prison: The Santa Rita Jail Campus Microgrid

Authors: Marnay, Chris; Nicholas DeForest, and Judy Lai.

01/2012

Web-Based Economic and Environmental Optimization of Microgrids

Authors: Stadler, Michael; Chris Marnay; Nicholas DeForest; Joseph H Eto; Gonçalo Cardoso; Andrea A Mammoli; Hans Barsun; Richard Burnett; David Klapp, and Judy Lai.

01/2012

2011

A Green Prison: Santa Rita Jail Creeps Towards Zero Net Energy (ZNE)

Authors: Marnay, Chris; Nicholas DeForest; Michael Stadler; Jonathan Donadee; Carlos Dierckxsens; Gonçalo Mendes; Judy Lai, and Gonçalo Cardoso.

06/2011

Application of the Software as a Service Model to the Control of Complex Building Systems

Authors: Stadler, Michael; Jonathan Donadee; Chris Marnay; Gonçalo Mendes; Jan von Appen; Olivier Mégel; Prajesh Bhattacharya; Nicholas DeForest, and Judy Lai.

06/2011

Evaluation of evolving residential electricity tariffs

Authors: Lai, Judy; Nicholas DeForest; Sila Kiliccote; Michael Stadler; Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee.

06/2011

Integration & Operation of a Microgrid at Santa Rita Jail

Authors: DeForest, Nicholas; Judy Lai; Michael Stadler; Gonçalo Mendes; Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee.

05/2011

Smart buildings with electric vehicle interconnection as buffer for local renewables?

Authors: Stadler, Michael; Gonçalo Cardoso; Nicholas DeForest; Jonathan Donadee; Tomás Gómez; Judy Lai; Chris Marnay; Olivier Mégel; Gonçalo Mendes, and Afzal S Siddiqui.

05/2011

Applications of Optimal Building Energy System Selection and Operation

Authors: Marnay, Chris; Michael Stadler; Afzal S Siddiqui; Nicholas DeForest; Jonathan Donadee; Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Judy Lai.

04/2011

The Joy of Stochastic Forecasting: An Overview of the Stochastic Buildings Energy and Adoption Model

Authors: Marnay, Chris; Michael Stadler, and Nicholas DeForest.

02/2011

2010

Introduction to the Buildings Sector Module of SEDS

Authors: DeForest, Nicholas; Florence Bonnet; Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay.

12/2010

Behavioral Aspects in Simulating the Future US Building Energy Demand

Authors: Stadler, Michael; Chris Marnay; Nicholas DeForest; Florence Bonnet, and Judy Lai.

11/2010

Simulation of the GHG Abatement Potentials in the U.S. Building Sector by 2050

Authors: Stadler, Michael; Nicholas DeForest; Florence Bonnet; Chris Marnay; Judy Lai, and Trucy Phan.

10/2010

Simulation of the GHG Abatement Potentials in the U.S. Building Sectory By 2050

Authors: Stadler, Michael; Nicholas DeForest; Chris Marnay; Florence Bonnet; Judy Lai, and Trucy Phan.

10/2010

Storage Viability and Optimization Web Service

Authors: Stadler, Michael; Chris Marnay; Judy Lai; Afzal S Siddiqui; Tanachai Limpaitoon; Trucy Phan; Olivier Mégel; Jessica Chang, and Nicholas DeForest.

10/2010