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)

2015

Olsen, Daniel, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T. McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California Agricultural Irrigation." (2015).

Kiliccote, Sila, Daniel Olsen, Michael D. Sohn, and Mary Ann Piette."Characterization of demand response in the commercial, industrial, and residential sectors in the United States."Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment 5.3 (2015) 288 - 304. DOI

Scott, Doug, Rafael Castillo, Kyle Larson, Brian Dobbs, and Daniel Olsen."Refrigerated Warehouse Demand Response Strategy Guide." (2015).

2014

Olsen, Daniel, Sila Kiliccote, Michael D. Sohn, Laurel N. Dunn, and Mary Ann Piette."Taxonomy for Modeling Demand Response Resources." (2014).

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).

Olsen, Daniel, Nance Matson, Michael D. Sohn, Cody Rose, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Sila Kiliccote, Marissa Hummon, David Palchak, Paul Denholm, Jennie Jorgenson, and Ookie Ma."Grid Integration of Aggregated Demand Response, Part 1: Load Availability Profiles and Constraints for the Western Interconnection." (2013).

Marks, , Gary, Edmund Wilcox, Daniel Olsen, and Sasank Goli."Opportunities for Demand Response in California Agricultural Irrigation: A Scoping Study." (2013).

2012

Olsen, Daniel, Sasank Goli, David Faulkner, and Aimee T. McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in Wastewater Treatment Facilities in California - Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant Case Study." (2012).

Scott, Doug, Ryan Hoest, Fei Yang, Sasank Goli, and Daniel Olsen."The Impact of Control Technology on the Demand Response Potential of California Industrial Refrigerated Facilities Final Report." (2012).

Olsen, Daniel, Sasank Goli, and Aimee T. McKane."Examining Synergies between Energy Management and Demand Response: A Case Study at Two California Industrial Facilities." (2012).

Ghatikar, Girish, Aimee T. McKane, Sasank Goli, Peter L. Therkelsen, and Daniel Olsen."Assessing the Control Systems Capacity for Demand Response in California Industries." (2012).

2011

Goli, Sasank, Daniel Olsen, Aimee T. McKane, and Mary Ann Piette."2008-2010 Research Summary: Analysis of Demand Response Opportunities in California Industry." (2011).

Goli, Sasank, Aimee T. McKane, and Daniel Olsen."Demand Response Opportunities in Industrial Refrigerated Warehouses in California."2011 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2011).

2010

Olsen, Daniel, Sasank Goli, David Faulkner, and Aimee T. McKane."Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the California Cement Industry." (2010).