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

Eto, Joseph H, John Undrill, Peter Mackin, Ron Daschmans, Ben Williams, Brian Haney, Randy Hunt, Jeff Ellis, Howard F. Illian, Carlos A. Martinez, Mark O'Malley, Katie Coughlin, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Use of Frequency Response Metrics to Assess the Planning and Operating Requirements for Reliable Integration of Variable Renewable Generation." (2010) 141.

2009

Price, Phillip N., Michael D. Sohn, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Jennifer A. McWilliams."Framework for Evaluating Anthrax Risk in Buildings."Environmental Science & Technology 43.6 (2009) 1783 - 1787. DOI

Price, Phillip N., Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Jennifer A. McWilliams, and Michael D. Sohn."Anthrax Sampling and Decontamination: Technology Trade-Offs." (2009).

2008

Eto, Joseph H, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Tracking the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System: An Assessment of Publicly Available Information Reported to State Public Utility Commissions." (2008) 52.

2007

Firestone, Ryan M., Frank Ling, Chris Marnay, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Preliminary Estimates of Combined Heat and Power Greenhouse Gas Abatement Potential for California in 2020." (2007) 37.

2006

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto."Cost of Power Interruptions to Electricity Consumers in the United States (U.S.)." (2006) 33.

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Ryan M. Firestone, Karl M. Maribu, Nan Zhou, and Chris Marnay."A Model of U.S. Commercial Distributed Generation Adoption." (2006) 113.

2005

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Jennifer L. Edwards, Etan Gumerman, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation Potential of the U.S. Commercial Sector."ECEEE 2005 Summer Study Proceedings (2005).

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Chris Marnay, Owen C. Bailey, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Optimal selection of on-site power generation with combined heat and power applications."International Journal of Distributed Energy Resources 1.1 (2005) 33-62.

2004

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto."Understanding the Cost of Power Interruptions to U.S. Electricity Consumers." (2004) 70.

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Etan Gumerman, Chris Marnay, Peter T. Chan, and Katie Coughlin."A New Approach for Modeling the Peak Utility Impacts from a Proposed Commerical Unitary Air-Conditioning Standard." (2004) 102.

2003

Gumerman, Etan, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Chris Marnay."Evaluation Framework and Tools for Distributed Energy Resources." (2003) 73.

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Jennifer L. Edwards, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation Capabilities of the National Energy Modeling System." (2003) 47.

2002

Gumerman, Etan, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Chris Marnay."New Method and Reporting of Uncertainty in LBNL National Energy Modeling System Runs." (2002) 29.

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Chris Marnay, Etan Gumerman, Peter T. Chan, Gregory J. Rosenquist, and Julie G. Osborn."Investigation of Residential Central Air Conditioning Load Shapes in NEMS." (2002) 41.

Edwards, Jennifer L., Chris Marnay, Emily S. Bartholomew, Boubékeur Ouaglal, Afzal S. Siddiqui, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Assessment of μGrid Distributed Energy Resource Potential Using DER-CAM and GIS." (2002) 62.

2001

Chan, Peter T., Julie G. Osborn, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Chris Marnay, and Etan Gumerman."Potential for Renewable Energy Development: Alternatives to AEO2001." (2001) 60.

Marnay, Chris, Joseph S. Chard, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Timothy E. Lipman, Mithra M. Moezzi, Boubékeur Ouaglal, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Modeling of customer adoption of distributed energy resources." (2001) 121.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Chris Marnay, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and F. Javier Rubio."Customer Adoption of Small-Scale On-Site Power Generation."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Summer Study 2001 (2001).

Marnay, Chris, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Mark Khavkin, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Direct Participation of Electrical Loads in the California Independent System Operator Markets During the Summer of 2000."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Summer Study (2001) 23.

Rubio, F. Javier, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."CERTS Customer Adoption Model." (2001) 131.

2000

Marnay, Chris, Raquel Blanco, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Cornelia Kawann, Julie G. Osborn, and F. Javier Rubio."Integrated Assessment of Dispersed Energy Resources Deployment." (2000) 138.