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

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)

2013

Ma, Ookie, Nasr Alkadi, Peter Cappers, Paul Denholm, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Marissa Hummon, Sila Kiliccote, Jason S MacDonald, Nance Matson, Daniel Olsen, Cody Rose, Michael D Sohn, Michael Starke, Brendan J Kirby, and Mark O'Malley."Demand Response for Ancillary Services."IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid 4 (2013).

2012

Eto, Joseph H, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Eric Parker, Clark Bernier, Paul Young, Dave Sheehan, John D Kueck, and Brendan J Kirby."The Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration--Measuring the Speed and Magnitude of Aggregated Demand Response."2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2012) 2012 - 2019. DOI

2009

Eto, Joseph H, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Eric Parker, Clark Bernier, Paul Young, Dave Sheehan, John D Kueck, and Brendan J Kirby."Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration - Phase 2 Findings from the Summer of 2008." (2009) 151.

2007

Eto, Joseph H, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Carlos Torres, Scott Hirth, Robert J Yinger, John D Kueck, Brendan J Kirby, Clark Bernier, Roger Wright, Arup Barat, and David S Watson."Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration." (2007) 71.

Heffner, Grayson C, Charles A Goldman, Brendan J Kirby, and Michael Kintner-Meyer."Loads Providing Ancillary Services: Review of International Experience." (2007).

2004

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.

2003

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.

Goldman, Charles A, Rick Weston, Jeff Schlegel, Richard Sedano, Jim Lazar, Brendan J Kirby, and Eric Hirst."Dimensions of Demand Response: Capturing Customer Based Resources in New England's Power System and Markets." (2003) 86.

Kueck, John D, Robert H Staunton, Solomon D Labinov, and Brendan J Kirby."Microgrid Energy Management System."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003).

2002

Kirby, Brendan J, and Moonis R Ally."Spinning Reserves from Controllable Packaged Through the Wall Air Conditioner (PTAC) Units." (2002) 62.

Eto, Joseph H, Fernando L Alvarado, Jeffery E Dagle, John F Hauer, Steven E Widergren, George Gross, Thomas J Overbye, Eric Hirst, Brendan J Kirby, David H Meyer, Shmuel S Oren, and Richard Sedano."National Transmission Grid Study (2002)." (2002).

Hirst, Eric, and Brendan J Kirby."Transmission Planning and the Need for New Capacity." (2002) 133.

Eto, Joseph H, Charles A Goldman, Grayson C Heffner, Brendan J Kirby, John D Kueck, Michael Kintner-Meyer, Jeffery E Dagle, Timothy D Mount, William Schulze, Robert J Thomas, and Ray Zimmerman."Innovative Developments in Load as a Reliability Resource."IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting (2002) 3. DOI

2001

Staunton, Robert H, John D Kueck, Brendan J Kirby, and Joseph H Eto."Demand Response: An Overview of Enabling Technologies."Public Utilities Fortnightly (2001).

Kueck, John D, Brendan J Kirby, Robert H Staunton, Joseph H Eto, Chris Marnay, Charles A Goldman, and Carlos A Martinez."Load As a Reliability Resource in Restructured Electricity Markets."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2001) 77.

Eto, Joseph H, Chris Marnay, Charles A Goldman, John D Kueck, Brendan J Kirby, Jeffery E Dagle, Fernando L Alvarado, Timothy D Mount, Shmuel S Oren, and Carlos A Martinez."An R&D agenda to enhance electricity system reliability by increasing customer participation in emerging competitive markets."IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2001 (2001) 247-251 vol.1. DOI

1999

Kirby, Brendan J, and John D Kueck."Review of the Structure of Bulk Power Markets."CERTS Grid of the Future Project Team (1999) 62.

Eto, Joseph H, Carlos A Martinez, Brendan J Kirby, Jim Vancoevering, John F Hauer, Jeffery E Dagle, Robert J Thomas, Robert H Lasseter, Fernando L Alvarado, George Cross, Marjorie Tatro, Abbas A Akhil, and Orman Paananen."The Federal Role in Electric System R&D During a Time of Industry Transition: An Application of Scenario Analysis." (1999) 55.

Adamson, Dan, Joseph H Eto, John F Hauer, Brendan J Kirby, John D Kueck, Carlos A Martinez, George Gross, and Mark Ivey."Workshop on Electric Transmission Reliability: DOE/CERTS Workshop Report and White Papers." (1999).