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

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

Ghatikar, Girish, and Edward Koch."Deploying Systems Interoperability and Customer Choice within Smart Grid."Grid-Interop 2012 (2012).

Holmberg, David G, Girish Ghatikar, Edward Koch, and Jim Boch."OpenADR Advances."ASHRAE Journal 54.11 (2012).

Kiliccote, Sila, Phillip N Price, Mary Ann Piette, Geoffrey C Bell, Steve Pierson, Edward Koch, Jeremy Carnam, Hugo Pedro, John Hernandez, and Albert K Chiu."Field Testing of Automated Demand Response for Integration of Renewable Resources in California’s Ancillary Services Market for Regulation Products." (2012).

2011

Page, Janie, Sila Kiliccote, Junqiao Han Dudley, Mary Ann Piette, Albert K Chiu, Bashar Kellow, Edward Koch, and Paul Lipkin."Automated Demand Response Technology Demonstration Project for Small and Medium Commercial Buildings." (2011).

Koch, Edward, and Sila Kiliccote."Role of Standard Demand Response Signals for Advanced Automated Aggregation."Grid-Interop 2011 (2011).

2010

Ghatikar, Girish, Johanna L Mathieu, Mary Ann Piette, Edward Koch, and Dan Hennage."Open Automated Demand Response Dynamic Pricing Technologies and Demonstration." (2010).

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).

Koch, Edward, and Mary Ann Piette."Direct versus Facility Centric Load Control for Automated Demand Response."Grid-Interop Forum 2009 (2009).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, Girish Ghatikar, Edward Koch, Dan Hennage, John Hernandez, Albert K Chiu, Osman Sezgen, and John Goodin."Open Automated Demand Response Communications in Demand Response for Wholesale Ancillary Services."Grid-Interop Forum 2009 (2009).

Piette, Mary Ann, Girish Ghatikar, Sila Kiliccote, Edward Koch, Dan Hennage, Peter Palensky, and Charles McParland."Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0)." (2009).

Kiliccote, Sila, Junqiao Han Dudley, Mary Ann Piette, Edward Koch, and Dan Hennage."Open Automated Demand Response for Small Commercial Buildings." (2009).

2008

Koch, Edward, and Mary Ann Piette."Scenarios for Consuming Standardized Automated Demand Response Signals."Grid Interop Forum (2008).

2007

Koch, Edward, and Mary Ann Piette."Architecture Concepts and Technical Issues for an Open, Interoperable Automated Demand Response Infrastructure."Grid Interop Forum (2007).

2005

Koch, Edward, and Francis M Rubinstein."Evaluation of Alternative Field Buses for Lighting Control Applications." (2005).

2004

Koch, Edward, Francis M Rubinstein, and Sila Kiliccote."Hardware/Software Solution Unifying DALI, IBECS, and BACnet Final Report." (2004).