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

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Mohammad Bozchalui, Ratnesh Sharma, Chris Marnay, Ana Barbosa-Póvoa, and Paulo Ferrão."Stochastic Programming of Vehicle to Building Interactions with Uncertainty in PEVs Driving for a Medium Office Building."39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2013).

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Ana Barbosa-Póvoa, and Paulo Ferrão."Microgrid Reliability Modeling and Battery Scheduling Using Stochastic Linear Programming."Journal of Electric Power Systems Research 103 (2013) 61-69.

DeForest, Nicholas, Gonçalo Mendes, Michael Stadler, Wei Feng, Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay."Thermal Energy Storage for Electricity Peak-demand Mitigation: A Solution in Developing and Developed World Alike."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study 3–8 June 2013, Belambra Les Criques, France (2013).

Mammoli, Andrea A., Michael Stadler, Nicholas DeForest, Hans Barsun, Richard Burnett, and Chris Marnay."Software-as-a-Service Optimised Scheduling of a Solar-Assisted HVAC System with Thermal Storage."3rd International Conference on Microgeneration and Related Technologies (2013).

Romankiewicz, John, Min Qu, Chris Marnay, and Nan Zhou."International Microgrid Assessment: Governance, INcentives, and Experience (IMAGINE)."the European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 2013 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2013).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Nicholas DeForest, Jonathan Donadee, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Judy Lai."Applications of Optimal Building Energy System Selection and Operation."Institution of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Power and Energy (2013).

Marnay, Chris, and Michael Stadler."Economic and Environmental Optimization of Microgrids." (2013).

Stadler, Michael, Maximillian Kloess, Markus Groissböck, Gonçalo Cardoso, Ratnesh Sharma, Mohammad Bozchalui, and Chris Marnay."Electric Storage in California's Commercial Buildings."Applied Energy Journal (2013).

Thiemann, Johannes J, Nicholas DeForest, Michael Stadler, Judy Lai, Wei Feng, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Yu Joe Huang, and Chris Marnay."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." (2013).

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."Los Angeles Air Force Base Vehicle to Grid Pilot Project."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2013).

2012

Kumar, K. Nandha, B. Sivaneasan, P.L. So, H.B. Gooi, Nilesh Jadhav, Reshma Singh, and Chris Marnay."Sustainable Campus with PEV and Microgrid."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Cardoso, Mohammad Bozchalui, Ratnesh Sharma, Chris Marnay, Afzal S. Siddiqui, and Markus Groissböck."Microgrid Modeling Using the Stochasting Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM)." (2012).

Feng, Wei, Nan Zhou, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."Building Distributed Energy Performance Optimization for China - a Regional Analysis of Building Energy Costs and CO₂ Emissions."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

DeForest, Nicholas, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee."Microgrid Dispatch for Macrogrid Peak-Demand Mitigation."2011 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

Mendes, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, Paulo Ferrão, and Chistos Loakimidis."Modeling of Plug-in Electric Vehicles' Interactions with a Sustainable Community Grid in the Azores."2012 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Mendes, Gonçalo, Paulo Ferrão, Christos Ioakimidis, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Multi-building microgrids for a distributed energy future in Portugal."International Conference on Applied Energy, ICAE 2012 (2012).

Marnay, Chris, Nan Zhou, Min Qu, and John Romankiewicz."International Microgrid Assessment: Governance, INcentives, and Experience (IMAGINE)." (2012).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Maximillian Kloess, Gonçalo Cardoso, Gonçalo Mendes, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ratnesh Sharma, Olivier Mégel, and Judy Lai."Optimal Planning and Operation of Smart Grids with Electric Vehicle Interconnection."Journal of Energy Engineering, Special Issue: Challenges and opportunities in the 21st century energy infrastructure 138.2 (2012) 95-108. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Steven Lanzisera, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."Building Scale DC Microgrids."2012 IEEE Energytech (2012).

Beer, Sebastian, Tomás Gómez, David Dallinger, Ilan Momber, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."An Economic Analysis of Used Electric Vehicle Batteries Integrated into Commercial Building Microgrids."IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid 3 (2012).

Marnay, Chris, Nicholas DeForest, and Judy Lai."A Green Prison: The Santa Rita Jail Campus Microgrid." (2012).

Marnay, Chris, Nan Zhou, Min Qin, and John Romankiewicz."Lessons Learned from Microgrid Demonstrations Worldwide." (2012).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Joseph H Eto, Gonçalo Cardoso, Andrea A. Mammoli, Hans Barsun, Richard Burnett, David Klapp, and Judy Lai."Web-Based Economic and Environmental Optimization of Microgrids."2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (2012). DOI

2011

Morris, Greg Young, Chad Abbey, Geza Joos, and Chris Marnay."A Framework for the Evaluation of the Cost and Benefits of Microgrids."CIGRÉ International Symposium, The electric power system of the future - Integrating supergrids and microgrids (2011).

Marnay, Chris, Bruce Nordman, and Judy Lai."Future Roles of Milli-, Micro-, and Nano- Grids."CIGRÉ International Symposium The electric power system of the future - Integrating supergrids and microgrids (2011).