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)

2013

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Nicholas DeForest, Jonathan Donadee, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Judy Lai."Applications of Optimal Building Energy System Selection and Operation."Institution of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Power and Energy (2013).

2012

DeForest, Nicholas, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee."Microgrid Dispatch for Macrogrid Peak-Demand Mitigation."2011 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2012).

2011

Marnay, Chris, Nicholas DeForest, Michael Stadler, Jonathan Donadee, Carlos Dierckxsens, Gonçalo Mendes, Judy Lai, and Gonçalo Cardoso."A Green Prison: Santa Rita Jail Creeps Towards Zero Net Energy (ZNE)."ECEEE Summer Study, June 6-11, 2011 (2011).

Stadler, Michael, Jonathan Donadee, Chris Marnay, Gonçalo Mendes, Jan von Appen, Olivier Mégel, Prajesh Bhattacharya, Nicholas DeForest, and Judy Lai."Application of the Software as a Service Model to the Control of Complex Building Systems."ECEEE Summer Study, June 6-11, 2011 (2011).

Lai, Judy, Nicholas DeForest, Sila Kiliccote, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee."Evaluation of evolving residential electricity tariffs."ECEEE Summer Study, June 6-11, 2011 (2011).

DeForest, Nicholas, Judy Lai, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Mendes, Chris Marnay, and Jonathan Donadee."Integration & Operation of a Microgrid at Santa Rita Jail."Jeju 2011 Symposium on Microgrids, Jeju Island, Korea, May 27 - 28, 2011 (2011).

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Cardoso, Nicholas DeForest, Jonathan Donadee, Tomás Gómez, Judy Lai, Chris Marnay, Olivier Mégel, Gonçalo Mendes, and Afzal S Siddiqui."Smart buildings with electric vehicle interconnection as buffer for local renewables?."Researching the Intelligent City: Key Challenges of Integrating Urban Energy and Mobility Systems Research Symposium (2011).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Nicholas DeForest, Jonathan Donadee, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Judy Lai."Applications of Optimal Building Energy System Selection and Operation."Microgen’II: Second International Conference of Microgeneration and Related Technologies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 4-6 Apr 2011 (2011).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Jonathan Donadee, Judy Lai, Olivier Mégel, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Afzal S Siddiqui."Distributed Energy Resource Optimization Using a Software as Service (SaaS) Approach at the University of California, Davis Campus." (2011) 51.