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)

2010

Momber, Ilan, Tomás Gómez, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Sebastian Beer, Judy Lai, Chris Marnay, and Vincent S Battaglia."Plug-in Electric Vehicle Interactions with a Small Office Building: An Economic Analysis using DER-CAM." (2010) 12.

Momber, Ilan, Tomás Gómez, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Sebastian Beer, Judy Lai, and Vincent S Battaglia."Plug in Electric Vehicle Interactions with a small office Building: An Economic Analysis Using DER-CAM."IEEE 2010 Power And Energy General Meeting (2010).

2008

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Ryan M Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Commercial-Building Microgrids."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 23.3 (2008) 975-982. DOI

Venkataramanan, Giri, and Chris Marnay."A Larger Role for Microgrids: Are Microgrids a Viable Paradigm for Electricity Supply Expansion?."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine May/June (2008) 5.

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Ryan M Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Microgrids in Commercial Buildings."31st IAEE International Conference "Bridging Energy Supply and Demand: Logistics, Competition and Environment", June 18-20, 2008 (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Ryan M Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Commercial- Building Microgrids." (2008) 10. DOI

2007

Marnay, Chris, Ryan M Firestone, Judy Lai, and Giri Venkataramanan."Microgrids for Commercial Building Combined Heat and Power and Power and Heterogeneous Power Quality and Reliability."IEEC 2007 Conference on Active Networks and Sustainable Energy Consumption, Nov. 14-15, 2007 (2007).

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Ryan M Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Microgrids in Commerical Buildings."IEEE 2007 Power Engineering Society General Meeting, June 24-28, 2007 (2007).

2006

Illindala, Mahesh, Afzal S Siddiqui, Giri Venkataramanan, and Chris Marnay."Localized Aggregation of Diverse Energy Sources for Rural Electrification using Microgrids." (2006) 45.

Marnay, Chris, and Giri Venkataramanan."Microgrids in the Evolving Electricity Generation and Delivery Infrastructure." (2006) 7.

2004

Flannery, Patrick G, Giri Venkataramanan, and Bin Shi."Integration of Distributed Technologies - Standard Power Electronic Interfaces."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 139.