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)

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).

von Appen, Jan, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Ilan Momber, David Klapp, and Alexander von Scheven."Assessment of the Economic Potential of Microgrids for Reactive Power Supply."ICPE2011-ECCE Asia 8th International Conference on Power Electronics (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).

Edlinger, Thomas, Michael Stadler, and Markus Groissböck."Work Package 1: Requirements Analysis, EnRiMa Validation Test Site Report for the office building ENERGYbase."Working Paper of Work Package 1 of the EnRiMa project. EnRiMa a research project within the 7th framework programme of the European Commission (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).

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Mendes, Chris Marnay, Olivier Mégel, and Judy Lai."Analysis of electric interconnection with commercial building."Electric Vehicle Integration Into the Smart Grid of the Future - G2V & V2G Forum, April 6, 2011 (2011).

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Mendes, Chris Marnay, Olivier Mégel, and Judy Lai."Analysis of electric vehicle interconnection with commercial building microgrids."UCLA Smart Grid Thought Leadership Forum April 6, 2011 (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.

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, and Nicholas DeForest."The Joy of Stochastic Forecasting: An Overview of the Stochastic Buildings Energy and Adoption Model." (2011).

2010

Stadler, Michael, Afzal S Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, Hirohisa Aki, and Judy Lai."Control of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Optimal DER Technology Investment and Energy Management in Zero-Net-Energy Buildings."European Transactions on Electrical Power 21.2 (2010) 1291-1309. DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Florence Bonnet, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Introduction to the Buildings Sector Module of SEDS." (2010).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Florence Bonnet, and Judy Lai."Behavioral Aspects in Simulating the Future US Building Energy Demand."2010 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference (2010).

Stadler, Michael, Nicholas DeForest, Florence Bonnet, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, and Trucy Phan."Simulation of the GHG Abatement Potentials in the U.S. Building Sector by 2050."29th USAEE/IAEE Annual North American Conference, October 14-16, 2010 (2010).

Stadler, Michael, Nicholas DeForest, Chris Marnay, Florence Bonnet, Judy Lai, and Trucy Phan."Simulation of the GHG Abatement Potentials in the U.S. Building Sectory By 2050."29th USAEE/IAEE Annual North American Conference, October 14-16, 2010 (2010) 15.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, Afzal S Siddiqui, Tanachai Limpaitoon, Trucy Phan, Olivier Mégel, Jessica Chang, and Nicholas DeForest."Storage Viability and Optimization Web Service." (2010) 61.

Stadler, Michael, Ilan Momber, Olivier Mégel, Tomás Gómez, Chris Marnay, Sebastian Beer, Judy Lai, and Vincent S Battaglia."The added economic and environmental value of plug-in electric vehicles connected to commercial building microgrids."2nd European Conference on SmartGrids and E-Mobility, October 20 -21, 2010 (2010).

Norwood, Zack, Timothy E Lipman, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Assessment of Combined Heat and Power System "Premium Power" Applications in California."International Journal of Distributed Energy Resources 6.2 (2010) 131-147.

Norwood, Zack, Timothy E Lipman, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Assessment of the Combined Heat and Power System "Premium Power" Applications in California." (2010) 23.

Siddiqui, Afzal S, Michael Stadler, Chris Marnay, and Judy Lai."Optimal Control of Distributed Energy Resources and Demand Response under Uncertainty."IAEE’s Rio 2010 International Conference, June 6-9, 2010 (2010).

Momber, Ilan, Tomás Gómez, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Sebastian Beer, Judy Lai, Chris Marnay, and Vincent S Battaglia."Plug-in Electric Vehicle Interactions with a Small Office Building: An Economic Analysis using DER-CAM." (2010) 12.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, and Afzal S Siddiqui."The Influence of a CO₂ Pricing Scheme on Distributed Energy Resources in California's Commercial Buildings." (2010) 26.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, and Afzal S Siddiqui."The Influence of a CO₂ Pricing Scheme on Distributed Energy Resources in California's Commercial Buildings."23rd Annual Western Conference, Advanced Workship in Regulation and Competition (2010).