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)

2008

Marnay, Chris, and Michael Stadler."Microgrids, CHP, Storage, Heterogenous Power Quality and Reliability, and Uncertainty." (2008).

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).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Sam Borgeson, Brian E. Coffey, Ryoichi Komiyama, and Judy Lai."Beta version SEDS Lite Building Module." (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Hirohisa Aki, Brian E. Coffey, Ryan M. Firestone, Judy Lai, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Microgrid Selection and Operation for Commercial Buildings in California and New York States."4th European PV-Hybrid and Mini-Grid Conference, May 29-30, 2008 (2008) 12.

Stadler, Michael, and Chris Marnay."Dezentrale Energieversorgung mit Speichertechnologien."Energy Journal of the Austrian Energy Agency Numbers 2 & 3 (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

Stadler, Michael, Friederich Kupzog, and Peter Palensky."Distributed Energy Resource Allocation and Dispatch: an Economic and Technological Perception."International Journal of Electronic Business Management 5.3 (2007) 182-196.

Kranzl, Lukas, Anselm Brakhage, Pedro Gürtler, Jacky Pett, Mario Ragwitz, and Michael Stadler."Integrating RES & RUE policies: Comparing results from Germany, Luxemburg and Northern Ireland."ECEEE 2007 Summer Study, June 4-9, 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).

Stadler, Michael, Timothy E. Lipman, and Chris Marnay."Aktuelle Trends in der dezentralen KWK Technologie Integration – Das kalifornische Fördermodell und dessen Implikation für die Endenergieeffizienzrichtlinie."Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien, February 14-16, 2007 (2007).

Brackhage, Anselm, Lukas Kranzl, Mario Ragwitz, and Michael Stadler."Invert Simulationen von budgetunabhängigen Instrumenten zur Marktdurchdringung von erneuerbaren Energien im deutschen Wärmemarkt."Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien (2007).

Stadler, Michael, Timothy E. Lipman, and Chris Marnay."Current trends of decentralized CHP integration – The Californian investment subsidy system and its implication for the energy efficiency directive." (2007) 16.

Stadler, Michael, Lukas Kranzl, Claus Huber, Reinhard Haas, and Elena Tsioliaridou."Policy Strategies and Paths to Promote Sustainable Energy Systems - The Dynamic Invert Simulation Tool."Energy Policy 35.1 (2007) 597-628. DOI

2006

Kranzl, Lukas, Michael Stadler, Claus Huber, Reinhard Haas, Mario Ragwitz, Anselm Brakhage, Adam Gula, and Arkadiusz Figorski."Deriving efficient policy portfolios promoting sustainable energy systems - case studies applying Invert simulation tool."Renewable Energy 31.15 (2006) 2393-2410. DOI

Ragwitz, Mario, Anselm Brackhage, Michael Stadler, and Lukas Kranzl."Simulation der Wärmeerzeugung für Bonusmodell und Einsatzpflicht“, im Rahmen des Projekts „Eckpunkte für die Entwicklung und Einführung budgetunabhängiger Instrumente zur Marktdurchdringung erneuerbarer Energien im Wärmemarkt." (2006).

Stadler, Michael, Timothy E. Lipman, Chris Marnay, and Vince McDonell."Pacific Region CHP Application Center for California, Nevada, and Hawaii - Task 1.3 Case Studies." (2006).

Stadler, Michael, Ryan M. Firestone, Dimitri Curtil, and Chris Marnay."On-Site Generation Simulation with EnergyPlus for Commercial Buildings." (2006) 14.

Palensky, Peter, Friederich Kupzog, Stefan Grobbelaar, Michael Stadler, and Linz Strom."Integral Resource Optimization Network Concept." (2006).

Kranzl, Lukas, Jacky Pett, Michael Stadler, and Pedro Guertler."How can DSM programmes be optimised for successful delivery?."4th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting, June 21-23, 2006 (2006).

Firestone, Ryan M., Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Integrated Energy System Dispatch Optimization."4th International IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics, Singapore, August 16-18, 2006 (2006).

Kranzl, Lukas, Michael Stadler, Reinhard Haas, and Claus Huber."Modellierung und Entwicklung von Strategien zur effizienten Förderung nachhaltiger Energiesysteme am Beispiel des Wiener Raumwärmesektors."9. Energieinnovationssymposium TU GRAZ, February 15-17, 2006 (2006).

Stadler, Michael."Dezentrale Energieerzeugung – die gegenwärtige Situation und Implikationen für Österreich." (2006).

Tsioliaridou, Elena, Georgios C. Bakos, and Michael Stadler."A new energy planning methodology for the penetration of renewable energy technologies in electricity sector - application for the island of Crete."Energy Policy 34 (2006) 3757-3764.

2005

Curtil, Dimitri, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Nan Zhou, Ryan M. Firestone, and Judy Lai."Distributed Energy Enabling Technologies: Site Energy Simulation." (2005).

Stadler, Michael, Peter Palensky, Brigitte Lorenz, Manfred Weihs, and Charlotte Roesener."Integral Resource Optimization Networks and their Techno-Economic Constraints."International journal of distributed energy resources 1 (2005) 299-320.