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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) 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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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.

Samanvitha Murthy

Samanvitha Murthy

Scientific Engineering Associate

(646) 204-4375

SMurthy2@lbl.gov

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Bio

Samanvitha Murthy is a Scientific Engineering Associate working in the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Samanvitha focuses on demand response and smart grid areas. Her research involves studying the interaction between energy efficiency and demand response as well as the impact of utility demand response programs.

Samanvitha holds an M.S. in Energy Science, Technology and Policy (Applied Studies) from Carnegie Mellon University. Her independent research involved analyzing smart meter transaction data from mini-grid customers in rural Tanzania to identify customer segments and characterize their purchase patterns.

Publications

2022

Load-driven interactions between energy efficiency and demand response on regional grid scales

Authors: Gerke, Brian F.; Cong Zhang; Samanvitha Murthy; Andrew Satchwell; Elaina Present; Henry Horsey; Eric Wilson; Andrew Parker; Andrew Speake; Rajendra Adhikari, and Mary Ann Piette.

06/2022

Metrics to describe changes in the power system need for demand response resources

Authors: Murthy, Samanvitha; Andrew Satchwell, and Brian F. Gerke.

05/2022

2020

Modeling the Interaction Between Energy Efficiency and Demand Response on Regional Grid Scales

Authors: Gerke, Brian F.; Cong Zhang; Andrew Satchwell; Samanvitha Murthy; Mary Ann Piette; Elaina Present; Eric Wilson; Andrew Speake, and Rajendra Adhikari.

08/2020

A U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory Managed by the University of California

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