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

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, Mary Ann Piette, Janie Page, Sila Kiliccote, Charles McParland, and David S Watson."Demonstration and Results of Grid Integrated Technologies at the Demand to Grid Laboratory (D2G Lab): Phase I Operations Report." (2013).

2012

Eto, Joseph H, Nancy J Lewis, David S Watson, Sila Kiliccote, David M Auslander, Igor Paprotny, and Yuri V Makarov."Demand Response as a System Reliability Resource."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2012).

Watson, David S, Nance Matson, Janie Page, Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, Karin Corfee, Betty Seto, Ralph Masiello, John Masiello, Lorin Molander, Samuel Golding, Kevin Sullivan, Walt Johnson, and David Hawkins."Fast Automated Demand Response to Enable the Integration of Renewable Resources." (2012).

2011

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, David S Watson, and Girish Ghatikar."DR Technologies, Strategies and Case Studies." (2011).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, David S Watson, and Girish Ghatikar."Future of DR." (2011).

2010

Kircher, Kevin, Girish Ghatikar, Steve E Greenberg, David S Watson, Richard C Diamond, Dale A Sartor, Clifford C Federspiel, Alex McEachern, and Tom Owen."Toward the Holy Grail of Perfect Information: Lessons Learned Implementing an Energy Information System in a Commercial Building."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Rubinstein, Francis M, Li Xiaolei, and David S Watson."Using Dimmable Lighting for Regulation Capacity and Non-Spinning Reserves in the Ancillary Services Market. A Feasibility Study." (2010).

2009

Rubinstein, Francis M, Girish Ghatikar, Jessica Granderson, David S Watson, Paul Haugen, and Carlos Romero."Barrier Immune Radio Communications for Demand Response." (2009).

Piette, Mary Ann, Girish Ghatikar, Sila Kiliccote, David S Watson, Edward Koch, and Dan Hennage."Design and Operation of an Open, Interoperable Automated Demand Response Infrastructure for Commercial Buildings."Journal of Computing Science and Information Engineering 9.2 (2009).

2007

Piette, Mary Ann, David S Watson, Naoya Motegi, and Sila Kiliccote."Automated Critical Peak Pricing Field Tests: 2006 Pilot Program Description and Results." (2007).

Eto, Joseph H, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Carlos Torres, Scott Hirth, Robert J Yinger, John D Kueck, Brendan J Kirby, Clark Bernier, Roger Wright, Arup Barat, and David S Watson."Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration." (2007) 71.

Motegi, Naoya, Mary Ann Piette, David S Watson, Sila Kiliccote, and Peng Xu."Introduction to Commercial Building Control Strategies and Techniques for Demand Response." (2007).

2006

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, David S Watson, and Glenn D Hughes."Dynamic Controls for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response: Framework Concepts and a New Construction Case Study in New York."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, David S Watson, and Glenn D Hughes."Dynamic Controls for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response: Framework Concepts and a New Construction Case Study in New York."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Piette, Mary Ann, David S Watson, Naoya Motegi, Sila Kiliccote, and Eric Linkugel."Participation through Automation: Fully Automated Critical Peak Pricing in Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Piette, Mary Ann, David S Watson, Naoya Motegi, Sila Kiliccote, and Eric Linkugel."Automated Demand Response Strategies and Commissioning Commercial Building Controls."14th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2006).

Piette, Mary Ann, David S Watson, Naoya Motegi, Sila Kiliccote, and Peng Xu."Automated Critical Peak Pricing Field Tests: Program Description and Results." (2006).

Piette, Mary Ann, and David S Watson."Statewide Auto-DR Planning Meeting." (2006).

Watson, David S, Sila Kiliccote, Naoya Motegi, and Mary Ann Piette."Strategies for Demand Response in Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

2005

Piette, Mary Ann, Osman Sezgen, David S Watson, Naoya Motegi, Christine Shockman, and Laurie ten Hope."Development and Evaluation of Fully Automated Demand Response in Large Facilities." (2005).

Piette, Mary Ann, David S Watson, Naoya Motegi, and Norman Bourassa."Findings from the 2004 Fully Automated Demand Response Tests in Large Facilities." (2005).

Piette, Mary Ann, David S Watson, Naoya Motegi, and Norman Bourassa."Automated Demand Response and Commissioning."National Conference on Building Commissioning (2005).

Haves, Philip, David S Watson, Norman Bourassa, and Robert J Hitchcock."Case Studies and Needs Assessment for University Campus Energy Monitoring." (2005).

Watson, David S."Proposal for 2008 Title 24 Global Temperature Adjustment (GTA)." (2005).

Haves, Philip, and David S Watson."System Architectures for Performance Monitoring." (2005).