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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2008

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryan M. Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Commercial-Building Microgrids."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 23.3 (2008) 975-982. DOI

Marnay, Chris."Microgrids and Heterogeneous Power Quality and Reliability." (2008) 13.

Marnay, Chris, and Michael Stadler."Microgrids, CHP, Storage, Heterogenous Power Quality and Reliability, and Uncertainty." (2008).

Venkataramanan, Giri, and Chris Marnay."A Larger Role for Microgrids: Are Microgrids a Viable Paradigm for Electricity Supply Expansion?."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine May/June (2008) 5.

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryan M. Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Microgrids in Commercial Buildings."31st IAEE International Conference "Bridging Energy Supply and Demand: Logistics, Competition and Environment", June 18-20, 2008 (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Hiroshi Asano, Stavros Papathanassiou, and Goran Strbac."Policymaking Microgrids: Economic and Regulatory Issues of Microgrid Implementation."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine May/June (2008) 11.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Sam Borgeson, Brian E. Coffey, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."Beta version SEDS Lite Building Module." (2008).

Komiyama, Ryoichi, and Chris Marnay."Japan’s Residential Energy Demand Outlook to 2030 Considering Energy Efficiency Standards “Top-Runner Approach”."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Scaling Up: Building Tomorrow's Solutions (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Hirohisa Aki, Brian E. Coffey, Ryan M. Firestone, Judy Lai, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Microgrid Selection and Operation for Commercial Buildings in California and New York States."4th European PV-Hybrid and Mini-Grid Conference, May 29-30, 2008 (2008) 12.

Marnay, Chris, and Nan Zhou."Status of Overseas Microgrid Programs: Microgrid Research Activities in the U.S. (English version)." (2008) 8.

Stadler, Michael, and Chris Marnay."Dezentrale Energieversorgung mit Speichertechnologien."Energy Journal of the Austrian Energy Agency Numbers 2 & 3 (2008).

2007

Marnay, Chris, Ryan M. Firestone, Judy Lai, and Giri Venkataramanan."Microgrids for Commercial Building Combined Heat and Power and Power and Heterogeneous Power Quality and Reliability."IEEC 2007 Conference on Active Networks and Sustainable Energy Consumption, Nov. 14-15, 2007 (2007).

Hatziargyriou, Nikos, Hiroshi Asano, Reza Iravani, and Chris Marnay."Microgrids: An Overview of Ongoing Research, Development, and Demonstration Projects."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine July/August (2007) 19.

Firestone, Ryan M., Frank Ling, Chris Marnay, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Preliminary Estimates of Combined Heat and Power Greenhouse Gas Abatement Potential for California in 2020." (2007) 37.

Firestone, Ryan M., and Chris Marnay."Distributed Energy Resources for Carbon Emissions Mitigation."ECEEE Summer Study, June 4-9, 2007 (2007).

Firestone, Ryan M., and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation Dispatch Optimization under Various Electricity Tariffs."International Journal of Electronic Business Management Vol. 5.Issue 3 (2007) 52.

Marnay, Chris, and Ryan M. Firestone."Microgrids: An emerging paradigm for meeting building electricity and heat requirements efficiently and with appropriate energy quality."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy 2007 Summer Study, 4-9 June 2007 (2007).

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryan M. Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Microgrids in Commerical Buildings."IEEE 2007 Power Engineering Society General Meeting, June 24-28, 2007 (2007).

Maribu, Karl M., Ryan M. Firestone, Chris Marnay, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Distributed Energy Resources Market Diffusion Model."Energy Policy Vol. 35 (2007) 16.

Stadler, Michael, Timothy E. Lipman, and Chris Marnay."Aktuelle Trends in der dezentralen KWK Technologie Integration – Das kalifornische Fördermodell und dessen Implikation für die Endenergieeffizienzrichtlinie."Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien, February 14-16, 2007 (2007).

Stadler, Michael, Timothy E. Lipman, and Chris Marnay."Current trends of decentralized CHP integration – The Californian investment subsidy system and its implication for the energy efficiency directive." (2007) 16.

Marnay, Chris."Microgrids and Heterogeneous Security, Quality, Reliability, and Availability."2007 Power Conversion Conference, April 4, 2007 (2007).

2006

Siddiqui, Afzal S., and Chris Marnay."Addressing an Uncertain Future Using Scenario Analysis." (2006) 24.

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."An Analysis of the DER Adoption Climate in Japan Using Optimization Results for Prototype Buildings with U.S. Comparisons."Energy and Buildings Journal Vol. 38.Issue 12 (2006) 10.