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)

2008

Thomas, Robert J, Timothy D Mount, Richard Schuler, William Schulze, Ray Zimmerman, Fernando L Alvarado, Bernard Lesieutre, Philip Overholt, and Joseph H Eto."Efficient and Reliable Reactive Power Supply and Consumption - Insights from an Integrated Program of Engineering and Economics Research."The Electricity Journal 21.1 (2008) 70–81. DOI

2002

Oren, Shmuel S, George Gross, and Fernando L Alvarado."Alternative Business Models for Transmission Investment and Operation: National Transmission Grid Study, Appendix C."National Transmission Grid Study (2002) 38.

Eto, Joseph H, Fernando L Alvarado, Jeffery E Dagle, John F Hauer, Steven E Widergren, George Gross, Thomas J Overbye, Eric Hirst, Brendan J Kirby, David H Meyer, Shmuel S Oren, and Richard Sedano."National Transmission Grid Study (2002)." (2002).

Alvarado, Fernando L, and Shmuel S Oren."Transmission System Operation and Interconnection." (2002) 36.

2001

Alvarado, Fernando L, and Wei Liu."Methodology for Automatic Zone Creation/Merging/Partitioning."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2001) 160.

Eto, Joseph H, Chris Marnay, Charles A Goldman, John D Kueck, Brendan J Kirby, Jeffery E Dagle, Fernando L Alvarado, Timothy D Mount, Shmuel S Oren, and Carlos A Martinez."An R&D agenda to enhance electricity system reliability by increasing customer participation in emerging competitive markets."IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, 2001 (2001) 247-251 vol.1. DOI

2000

Stamber, Kevin, Paula Scalingi, Craig Zimmerman, Chris DeMarco, Thomas J Overbye, Regina Griego, Ian Hiskens, William Buehring, Fernando L Alvarado, Vikram S Budhraja, Anthony Como, Joseph H Eto, John F Hauer, John D Kueck, Philip Overholt, Richard Schuler, Robert J Thomas, and Anjan Bose."Interim Report of the U.S. Department of Energy's Power Outage Study Team Findings from the Summer of 1999." (2000).

1999

Eto, Joseph H, Carlos A Martinez, Brendan J Kirby, Jim Vancoevering, John F Hauer, Jeffery E Dagle, Robert J Thomas, Robert H Lasseter, Fernando L Alvarado, George Cross, Marjorie Tatro, Abbas A Akhil, and Orman Paananen."The Federal Role in Electric System R&D During a Time of Industry Transition: An Application of Scenario Analysis." (1999) 55.