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.

Peter Grant

Senior Scientific Engineering Associate

(510) 486-7148

PGrant@lbl.gov

eta.lbl.gov/people/Peter-Grant

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Bio

Peter Grant has over a decade of experience performing public interest water heating research, evaluating the impacts of new technologies, and developing smart controls for buildings. His areas of expertise include developing detailed simulation models representing novel technologies, developing automated controls that optimize performance in response to the specific needs of buildings, and focus on user-friendliness and success through the design and deployment process.

Curriculum Vitae

pgrant_resume.pdf

Education

Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Professional Certificate, Stanford University, 2021

Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Masters of Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2010

Mechanical Engineering, Bachelors of Science, Michigan Technological University, 2007

Publications

2023

Advanced control strategies to manage electric vehicle drivetrain battery health for Vehicle-to-X applications

Authors: Gehbauer, Christoph; Douglas R. Black, and Peter Grant.

09/2023

2022

Evaluating the Impacts of Weather Forecast Inaccuracy on Performance of Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Facades

Authors: Grant, Peter, and Christoph Gehbauer.

09/2022