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)

2018

Gerber, Daniel L., Vagelis Vossos, Richard E. Brown, Wei Feng, and Chris Marnay."Energy and Cost Benefits of DC Power in ZNE Buildings."American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) 2018 Summer Study, Pacific Grove, CA (2018).

Vossos, Vagelis, Daniel L. Gerber, Youness Bennani Smires, Richard E. Brown, and Chris Marnay."Techno-economic analysis of DC power distribution in commercial buildings."Applied Energy 230 (2018) 663 - 678. DOI

Feng, Wei, Ming Jin, Xu Liu, Yi Bao, Chris Marnay, Cheng Yao, and JianCheng Yu."A Review of Microgrid Development in the United States – a Decade of Progress on Policies, Demonstrations, Controls, and Software Tools."Applied Energy 228 (2018) 1656 - 1668. DOI

Jin, Ming, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, and Costas Spanos."Microgrid to enable optimal distributed energy retail and end-user demand response."Applied Energy 210 (2018) 1321 - 1335. DOI

Gerber, Daniel L., Vagelis Vossos, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, Bruce Nordman, and Richard E. Brown."A simulation-based efficiency comparison of AC and DC power distribution networks in commercial buildings."Applied Energy 210 (2018) 1167-1187. DOI

2017

Gerber, Daniel L., Vagelis Vossos, Wei Feng, Aditya Khandekar, Chris Marnay, and Bruce Nordman."A simulation-based efficiency comparison of AC and DC power distribution networks in commercial buildings."Second International Conference on DC Microgrids (2017).

Liu, Xu, Chris Marnay, Wei Feng, Nan Zhou, and Nihan Karali."A Review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Smart Grid Projects and Their Implications for China." (2017).

2016

Jin, Ming, Wei Feng, Ping Liu, Chris Marnay, and Costas Spanos."MOD-DR: Microgrid optimal dispatch with demand response."Applied Energy 187 (2016). DOI

Karali, Nihan, Brendan Shaffer, Kevin Clampitt, Robert J Yinger, Chris Marnay, and Limingming Zhu."Benefit Analyses of Irvine Smart Grid Projects."CIGRE US National Committee 2016 Grid of the Future Symposium (2016).

Lin, Jiang, Ryan H. Wiser, Wei Feng, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation: Trends and Solutions in US." (2016).

Karali, Nihan, Dong Zhang, GuoQi Ren, Brendan Shaffer, Kevin Clampitt, JianCheng Yu, Robert J Yinger, and Chris Marnay."Benefits Analysis of Smart Grid Demonstration Projects."2016 China International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CICED 2016) (2016).

Liu, Ping, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, Spencer M. Dutton, Ming Jin, Lingwei Zheng, and Nan Zhou."Towards the Optimal Development of Low-Carbon Community Energy Systems."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Feng, Wei, Chris Marnay, Nan Zhou, Yan Ding, and Zhaoxia Wang."Influence of Occupancy-oriented Interior Cooling Load on Building Cooling Load."Applied Thermal Engineering 96 (2016) 411-420. DOI

2015

Lee, Eleanor S., Christoph Gehbauer, Brian E. Coffey, Andrew McNeil, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Integrated control of dynamic facades and distributed energy resources for energy cost minimization in commercial buildings."Solar Energy 122 (2015) 1384–1397. DOI

Karali, Nihan, Chris Marnay, Tyler Shiqiao Yan, Gang He, Robert J Yinger, Josh Mauzey, Kevin Clampitt, and Han Zhu."Towards uniform benefit-cost analysis for smart grid projects: an example using the Smart Grid Computational Tool." (2015) 29 pages.

Marnay, Chris, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, Chad Abbey, Geza Joos, Pio Lombardi, and Pierluigi Mancarella."Microgrid Evolution Roadmap Engineering, Economics, and Experience."2015 International Symposium on Smart Electric Distribution Systems and Technologies (EDST15) (2015) 6 opages.

Mashayekh, Salman, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, C. Birk Jones, Matthew Robinson, Hans Barsun, Leila Ghanbari, and Andrea A. Mammoli."Software-as-a-Service Optimal Scheduling of New Mexico Buildings."European Council on an Energy Efficient Economy 2015 Summer Study (2015).

2014

Steen, David, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Markus Groissböck, Nicholas DeForest, and Chris Marnay."Modeling of Thermal Storage Systems in MILP Distributed Energy Resource Models."Applied Energy 137 (2014) 782-792. DOI

Stadler, Michael, Markus Groissböck, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Chris Marnay."Optimizing Distributed Energy Resources and Building Retrofits with the Strategic DER- CAModel."Applied Energy 132 (2014) 556-567. DOI

Mendes, Gonçalo, Wei Feng, Michael Stadler, Jan Steinbach, Judy Lai, Nan Zhou, Chris Marnay, Yan Ding, Jing Zhao, Zhe Tian, and Neng Zhu."Regional Analysis of Building Distributed Energy Costs and CO₂ Abatement: A U.S.–China comparison."Energy and Buildings 77 (2014) 112-129. DOI

Romankiewicz, John, Chris Marnay, Nan Zhou, and Min Qu."International Microgrid Assessment: Governance, Incentives, and Experience (IMAGINE)."Energy Policy 67 (2014) 198-208. DOI

Romankiewicz, John, Chris Marnay, Nan Zhou, and Min Qu."Lessons from international experience for China's microgrid demonstration program."Energy Policy 67 (2014). DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Gonçalo Mendes, Michael Stadler, Wei Feng, Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay."Optimal Deployment of Thermal Energy Storage Under Diverse Economic and Climate Conditions."Applied Energy 119 (2014) 488-496. DOI

2013

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Mohammad Bozchalui, Ratnesh Sharma, Chris Marnay, Ana Barbosa-Póvoa, and Paulo Ferrão."Optimal investment and scheduling of distributed energy resources with uncertainty in electric vehicles driving schedules."Energy (2013).