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)

2020

De Martini, Paul, Kevin Schneider, Emma M Stewart, Barry Mather, Michael Coddington, Joseph H Eto, Benjamin Sigrin, Natalie Mims Frick, Joe Paladino, Lavelle Freeman, Debra Lew, Fritz Kahrl, and Lisa C Schwartz."Southeast Regional Training on Distribution Systems & Planning." (2020).

Roberts, Ciaran, Anna Scaglione, Mahdi Jamei, Reinhard Gentz, Sean Peisert, Emma M Stewart, Chuck McParland, Alex McEachern, and Daniel Arnold."Learning Behavior of Distribution System Discrete Control Devices for Cyber-Physical Security."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 11.1 (2020) 749 - 761. DOI

2019

Schneider, Kevin, Emma M Stewart, Barry Mather, Kevin McCabe, Mike Coddington, Joseph H Eto, Lisa C Schwartz, Juliet Homer, Tim Woolf, Paul De Martini, Debra Lew, and Lavelle Freeman."Mid-Atlantic Distribution Systems and Planning Training." (2019).

2018

Schwartz, Lisa C, Joe Paladino, Maury Galbraith, Kerry Worthington, Fred Hoover, Kevin Schneider, Emma M Stewart, Barry Mather, Michael Coddington, Jeremy Twitchell, Joseph H Eto, Andrew D Mills, Debra Lew, and Lavelle Freeman."Distribution Systems and Planning Training for Western States." (2018).

Schwartz, Lisa C, Emma M Stewart, Kevin Schneider, Michael Coddington, Joe Paladino, Barry Mather, Michael Kintner-Meyer, Joseph H Eto, Mark Newton Lowry, Andrew D Mills, Debbie Lew, Lavelle Freeman, John J Miller, Randy Berry, and Rebecca O'Neil."Midwest Distribution Systems & Planning Training." (2018).

Coignard, Jonathan, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Christoph Gehbauer, Michael Wetter, Jhi-Young Joo, Philip Top, Rafael Rivera Soto, Brian Kelley, and Emma M Stewart."CyDER - A Co-Simulation Platform for Grid Analysis and Planning for High Penetration of Distributed Energy Resources."2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) (2018). DOI

2017

Greenblatt, Jeffery B, Nicholas R Brown, Rachel Slaybaugh, Theresa Wilks, Emma M Stewart, and Sean T McCoy."The Future of Low-Carbon Electricity." (2017).

2016

Stewart, Emma M, Anna Liao, and Ciaran Roberts."Open μPMU: A Real World Reference Distribution Micro-phasor Measurement Unit Data Set for Research and Application Development." (2016).

Rotger-Griful, Sergi, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen, Emma M Stewart, Javier Matanza Domingo, and Michael Wetter."Hardware-in-the-Loop Co-simulation of Distribution Grid for Demand Response."19th Power Systems Computation Conference (2016).

Roberts, Ciaran, Emma M Stewart, and Federico Milano."Validation of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process for Load Modeling Based on μPMU Measurements."19th Power Systems Computation Conference (2016).

Liao, Anna, Emma M Stewart, and Emre C Kara."Micro-Synchrophasor Data for Diagnosis of Transmission and Distribution Level Events."IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (2016).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S MacDonald, Janie Page, Jennifer Potter, and Emma M Stewart."Future Opportunities and Challenges with Using Demand Response as a Resource in Distribution System Operation and Planning Activities." (2016).

2015

Eto, Joseph H, Emma M Stewart, Travis Smith, Mark Buckner, Harold Kirkham, Francis Tuffner, and David Schoenwald."Scoping Study on Research and Priorities for Distribution-System Phasor Measurement Units." (2015). DOI

Chand, Corinne, Alan W McMorran, Emma M Stewart, and Gareth Taylor."Exploiting Massive PMU Data Analysis for LV Distribution Network Model Validation."Power Engineering Conference (UPEC) (2015).

Arnold, Daniel, Matias Negrete-Pincetic, Emma M Stewart, David M Auslander, and Duncan S Callaway."Extremum Seeking Control of Smart Inverters for VAR Compensation."Power & Energy Society General Meeting, IEEE (2015).

Stewart, Emma M, Sila Kiliccote, Daniel Arnold, Alexandra von Meier, and Reza Arghandeh."Accuracy and Validation of Measured and Modeled Data for Distributed PV Interconnection and Control."2015 IEEE PES GM (2015).

2014

Arghandeh, Reza, Merwin Brown, Alberto Del Rosso, Girish Ghatikar, Emma M Stewart, Ali Vojdani, and Alexandra von Meier."The Local Team Leveraging Distributed Resources to Improve Resilience."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine 12.5 (2014) 76-83. DOI

Stewart, Emma M, Sila Kiliccote, Corinne M Shand, Alan W McMorran, Reza Arghandeh, and Alexandra von Meier."Addressing the Challenges for Integrating Micro-Synchrophasor Data with Operational System Applications." (2014).

Stewart, Emma M, and Sila Kiliccote."Software Based Barriers To Integration of Renewables To The Future Distribution Grid." (2014).

Stewart, Emma M, Sila Kiliccote, and Charles McParland."Software—Based Challenges of Developing the Future Distribution Grid." (2014).

Stewart, Emma M, Sila Kiliccote, Charles McParland, and Ciaran Roberts."Using Micro-Synchrophasor Data for Advanced Distribution Grid Planning and Operations Analysis." (2014).