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)

2009

Budhraja, Vikram S., John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Transmission Benefit Quantification, Cost Allocation and Cost Recovery."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009) 216.

Budhraja, Vikram S., Fred Mobasheri, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Alison Silverstein, and Joseph H Eto."Improving Electricity Resource-Planning Processes by Considering the Strategic Benefits of Transmission."The Electricity Journal 22.2 (2009). DOI

2008

Budhraja, Vikram S., John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Renewable Resource Integration Project – Scoping Study of Strategic Transmission Operations and Reliability Issues."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 49.

2003

Budhraja, Vikram S., Fred Mobasheri, Margaret Cheng, Jim Dyer, Eduyng Castaño, and Stephen Hess."California’s Electricity Generation and Transmission Interconnection Needs Under Alternative Scenarios."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 42.

Martinez, Carlos A., Jim Dyer, and Mark Skowronski."Real-Time Voltage Monitoring and VAR Management System."Consultant Report to the California Energy Commission (2003) 20.

Martinez, Carlos A., Jim Dyer, and Mark Skowronski."Supplier and Control Area Performance Monitoring System: Utilization of Grid-3P for Automatic Generation Control (AGC), Frequency Response Reserves (FRR) and Ancillary Services (AS) Regulation."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 20.

Budhraja, Vikram S., Jim Dyer, and Stephen Hess."Planning for California's Future Transmission Grid Review of Transmission System, Strategic Benefits, Planning Issues And Policy Recommendations."Consultant Report to the California Energy Commission (2003) 30.

Dyer, Jim."U.S. Department of Energy Transmission Bottleneck Project Report." (2003) 100.

2001

Eto, Joseph H, Carlos A. Martinez, Jim Dyer, and Vikram S. Budhraja."Grid Reliability Management Tools."IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting (2001) 5. DOI

2000

Eto, Joseph H, Vikram S. Budhraja, Jim Dyer, and Mohan Kondragunta."Research, Development, and Demonstration Needs for Large-Scale, Reliability- Enhancing, Integration of Distributed Energy Resources."Thirty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2000). DOI

1999

Budhraja, Vikram S., Carlos A. Martinez, Jim Dyer, and Mohan Kondragunta."Interconnection and Controls for Reliable, Large Scale Integration of Distributed Energy Resources." (1999) 40.