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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)

2019

Yin, Rongxin, Girish Ghatikar, and Mary Ann Piette."Big-Data Analytics for Electric Grid and Demand-Side Management." (2019).

2015

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, Girish Ghatikar, Aimee T McKane, Nance Matson, Janie Page, Jason S MacDonald, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Douglas R Black, and Rongxin Yin."Demand Response Research Center - Final Report." (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Salman Mashayekh, Michael Stadler, Rongxin Yin, and Zhenhua Liu."Distributed Energy Systems Integration and Demand Optimization for Autonomous Operations and Electric Grid Transactions."Applied Energy (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Mary Ann Piette, and Ella Hae Yeon Sung."Diffusion of Automated Grid Transactions Through Energy Efficiency Codes."ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, 2015 (2015).

Bates, Natalie, Girish Ghatikar, Ghaleb Abdulla, Gregory A Koenig, Sridutt Bhalachandra, Mehdi Sheikhalishahi, Tapasya Patki, Barry Roundtree, and Stephen Poole."The Electrical Grid and Supercomputing Centers: An Investigative Analysis of Emerging Opportunities and Challenges."Informatik-Spektrum 28.2 (2015) 111-127. DOI

Shah, Nihar, Nikit Abhyankar, Amol A Phadke, and Girish Ghatikar."Considerations in Standardization for Demand Response Ready Air Conditioners in India."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Weber, Adam Z, Girish Ghatikar, Dale A Sartor, and Steven Lanzisera."Design and Development of an Integrated Workstation Automation Hub." (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Rongxin Yin, Ranjit Deshmukh, and G. G Ganesh Das."Characterization and Effectiveness of Technologies for India’s Electric Grid Reliability and Energy Security."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Raje, Sanyukta, Hermant Maan, Suprotim Ganguly, Tanvin Singh, Nisha Jayaram, Girish Ghatikar, Steve E Greenberg, Satish Kumar, and Dale A Sartor."Data Center Energy Efficiency Standards in India: Preliminary Findings from Global Practices."e-Energy Conference (2015).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Girish Ghatikar, Rongxin Yin, G. G Ganesh Das, and Sujay Kumar Saha."Estimation of Potential and Value of Demand Response for Industrial and Commercial Consumers in Delhi."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Girish Ghatikar, Ranjit Deshmukh, and Aamir Hussain Khan."Findings from an Advanced Demand Response Smart Grid Project to Improve Electricity Reliability in India."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Poojary, Rajesh V, Girish Ghatikar, G. G Ganesh Das, and Sujay Kumar Saha."Open Automated Demand Response: Industry Value to Indian Utilities and Knowledge from the Deployment."India Smart Grid Week (2015).

2014

Shen, Bo, Girish Ghatikar, Zeng Lei, Jinkai Li, Greg Wikler, and Phil Martin."The Role of Regulatory Reforms, Market Changes, and Technology Development to Make Demand Response A Viable Resource in Meeting Energy Challenges."Applied Energy 130 (2014) 814–823. DOI

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

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, and Girish Ghatikar."Field Experience with and Potential for Multi-time Scale Grid Transactions from Responsive Commercial Buildings."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Gonzalez, Amanda, Heidi Hauenstein, Girish Ghatikar, and Patrick Eilert."Unlocking the Smart Grid through Building Codes and Communication Standards: Code Opportunities to Increase DR Transactions."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Rawal, Rajan, Keyur Vadodaria, Mona Galsar, Girish Ghatikar, Reshma Singh, and Diane Douglas."Collaborative research to promote energy efficiency innovation towards significant reduction in buildings energy use in the United States and India." (2014).

Basu, Chandrayee, Girish Ghatikar, and Prateek Bansal."Enabling Efficient, Responsive, and Resilient Buildings: Collaboration Between the United States and India."IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on Smart Grid and the New Energy Economy (2014).

Ghatikar, Girish, David Riess, and Mary Ann Piette."Analysis of Open Automated Demand Response Deployments in California and Guidelines to Transition to Industry Standards." (2014).

2013

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard E Brown, Phillip N Price, Janie Page, Jessica Granderson, David Riess, Stephen Czarnecki, Girish Ghatikar, and Steven Lanzisera."Automated Measurement and Signaling Systems for the Transactional Network." (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).

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, and Chandrayee Basu."Expanding Buildings-to-Grid (B2G) Objectives in India." (2013).

Singh, Reshma, Dale A Sartor, and Girish Ghatikar."Best Practices Guide for High - Performance Indian Office Buildings." (2013) 53.

Ghatikar, Girish, H.Y Iris Cheung, Steven Lanzisera, Bob Wardell, Manoj Deshpande, and Jayraj Ugarkar."Miscellaneous and Electronic Loads Energy Efficiency Opportunities for Commercial Buildings: A Collaborative Study by the United States and India." (2013).

2012

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