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)

2005

Yang, Yongwen, Weijun Gao, Yingjun Ruan, Nan Zhou, Ji Xuan, and Chris Marnay."Optimum Model-E-GAMS for Distributed Energy System by using GAMS Method."Journal of the Society of Heating Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan (SHASE) 12 (2005) 4.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Chris Marnay, Jennifer L. Edwards, Ryan M. Firestone, Srijay Ghosh, and Michael Stadler."Effects of a CarbonTax on Microgrid Combined Heat and Power Adoption."Journal of Energy EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 131 (2005) 2-25.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Chris Marnay, Owen C. Bailey, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Optimal selection of on-site power generation with combined heat and power applications."International Journal of Distributed Energy Resources 1.1 (2005) 33-62.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Chris Marnay, and Ryan H. Wiser."Real Options Valuation of US Federal Renewable Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment." (2005) 45.

Firestone, Ryan M., and Chris Marnay."Energy Manager Design for Microgrids."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2005) 81.

2004

Bailey, Owen C., and Chris Marnay."Distributed Energy Resources at Naval Base Ventura County Building 1512." (2004) 53.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Chris Marnay, Jennifer L. Edwards, Ryan M. Firestone, Srijay Ghosh, and Michael Stadler."Effects of a Carbon Tax on Microgrid Combined Heat and Power Adoption."Journal of Energy Engineering (2004) 24.

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."The Potential for Distributed Generation in Japanese Prototype Buildings: A DER-CAM Analysis of Policy, Tariff Design, Building Energy Use, and Technology Development." (2004) 75.

Marnay, Chris, and Owen C. Bailey."The CERTS Microgrid and the Future of the Macrogrid."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004) 14.

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Etan Gumerman, Chris Marnay, Peter T. Chan, and Katie Coughlin."A New Approach for Modeling the Peak Utility Impacts from a Proposed Commerical Unitary Air-Conditioning Standard." (2004) 102.

Zhou, Nan, Weijun Gao, Chris Marnay, Masaru Nishida, and Toshio Ojima."Validation of the Thermal Effect of Roof-Spraying and Green Plants in an Insulated Building."SimBuild 2004, IBPSA-USA National Conference, August 4-6, 2004 (2004).

Bailey, Owen C., and Chris Marnay."Distributed Energy Resources at Naval Base Ventura County Building 1512: A Sensitivity Analysis." (2004) 77.

Gumerman, Etan, and Chris Marnay."Learning and Cost Reductions for Generating Technologies in the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS)." (2004) 36.

2003

Bartholomew, Emily S., Afzal S. Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, and Shmuel S. Oren."The New York Transmission Congestion Contract Market: Is It Truly Working Efficiently?."The Electricity Journal 16.9 (2003) 14-24. DOI

Lasseter, Robert H., Abbas A. Akhil, Chris Marnay, John Stephens, Jeffery E. Dagle, Ross T. Guttromson, A. Sakis Meliopoulous, Robert J Yinger, and Joseph H Eto."Integration of Distributed Energy Resources: The CERTS MicroGrid Concept."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 32.

Akhil, Abbas A., Chris Marnay, and Timothy E. Lipman."Review of Test Facilities for Distributed Energy Resources." (2003) 45.

Firestone, Ryan M., Charles Creighton, Owen C. Bailey, Chris Marnay, and Michael Stadler."A Business Case for On-Site Generation: The BD Biosciences Pharmingen Project." (2003) 86.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Ryan M. Firestone, Srijay Ghosh, Michael Stadler, Jennifer L. Edwards, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Energy Resources with Combined Heat and Power Applications." (2003) 124.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Emily S. Bartholomew, Chris Marnay, and Shmuel S. Oren."On the Efficiency of the New York Independent System Operator Market for Transmission Congestion Contracts." (2003) 45.

Bailey, Owen C., Charles Creighton, Ryan M. Firestone, Chris Marnay, and Michael Stadler."Distributed Energy Resources in Practice: A Case Study Analysis and Validation of LBNL’s Customer Adoption Model." (2003) 209.

Gumerman, Etan, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Chris Marnay."Evaluation Framework and Tools for Distributed Energy Resources." (2003) 73.

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Jennifer L. Edwards, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation Capabilities of the National Energy Modeling System." (2003) 47.

2002

Marnay, Chris, Jennifer L. Edwards, Ryan M. Firestone, Srijay Ghosh, Afzal S. Siddiqui, and Michael Stadler."Effects of a Carbon Tax on Combined Heat and Power Adoption by a Microgrid." (2002) 15.

Gumerman, Etan, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Chris Marnay."New Method and Reporting of Uncertainty in LBNL National Energy Modeling System Runs." (2002) 29.

Stadler, Michael, Jennifer L. Edwards, Ryan M. Firestone, Chris Marnay, Srijay Ghosh, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Auswirkungen einer CO₂-Steuer auf Dezentrale Energieversorgungsunternehmen mit Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung und deren Interaktion mit dem Verteilnetz, analysiert am Beispiel eines städtischen Mikronetzes."Energiegespräche, September 24, 2002 (2002).