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)

2023

Wei, Max, Catherine Foster, Tia Tyler, Julie Kim, Ryan Bodanyi, Kaiyu Sun, Henry Willem, Patricia Kusumah, Lino Sanchez, Sang Hoon Lee, Miguel Heleno, Tianzhen Hong, Daniel Dominguez, and Darren Kumar."An Action Plan for Greater Climate Equity for Disadvantaged Communities in Fresno." (2023).

Wei, Max, Kaiyu Sun, Henry Willem, Patricia Kusumah, Lino Sanchez, Sang Hoon Lee, Miguel Heleno, and Tianzhen Hong."Final Project Report: Building Healthier and More Energy-Efficient Communities in Fresno and the Central Valley." (2023).

Heleno, Miguel, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Alan Valenzuela, Greg Leventis, Cesca Miller, and Jeff Deason."Distribution Grid Impacts of Community Solar." (2023).

Singhal, Nikita G., Rajni Kant Bansal, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Erik Ela, and Miguel Heleno."Integration of Hybrids into Wholesale Power Markets." (2023).

Schwartz, Lisa C., Joe Paladino, Peter H. Larsen, Cecilia Klauber, Tom Short, Scott Sternfeld, and Miguel Heleno."Resilience Training for the Southeast." (2023).

Moreira, Alexandre, Miguel Heleno, Alan Valenzuela, Joseph H. Eto, Jaime Ortega, and Cristina Botero."A Scalable Approach to Large Scale Risk-Averse Distribution Grid Expansion Planning."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2023) 1 - 14. DOI

Wirtz, Marco, Miguel Heleno, Hannah Romberg, Thomas Schreiber, and Dirk Muller."Multi-period design optimization for a 5th generation district heating and cooling network."Energy and Buildings 284 (2023) 112858. DOI

Wirtz, Marco, Miguel Heleno, Alexandre Moreira, Thomas Schreiber, and Dirk Muller."5th generation district heating and cooling network planning: A Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition approach."Energy Conversion and Management 276 (2023) 116593. DOI

2022

Moreira, Alexandre, Alan Valenzuela, and Miguel Heleno."Solving Market-Based Large-Scale Security-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flows."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (2022) 1 - 13. DOI

Heleno, Miguel, Benjamin Sigrin, Natalie Popovich, Jenny Heeter, Anjuli Jain Figueroa, Michael Reiner, and Tony Reames."Optimizing equity in energy policy interventions: A quantitative decision-support framework for energy justice."Applied Energy 325 (2022) 119771. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, Andrew Satchwell, and Miguel Heleno."Quantifying Locational Net Benefits of DER for Distribution Systems." (2022).

To, Thanh, Miguel Heleno, and Alan Valenzuela."Risk-constrained multi-period investment model for Distributed Energy Resources considering technology costs and regulatory uncertainties."Applied Energy 319 (2022) 119210. DOI

McDermott, Thomas E., Killian McKenna, Miguel Heleno, Bilal Ahmad Bhatti, Michael Emmanuel, and Sydney Forrester."Distribution System Research Roadmap." (2022). DOI

Marques, Luciana, Miguel Heleno, and Wadaed Uturbey."Decentralized Frameworks for Future Power SystemsTransactive control for residential demand-side management." (2022) 277 - 317. DOI

2021

Moreira, Alexandre, Miguel Heleno, and Alan Valenzuela."A Risk-Averse Approach for Distribution Grid Expansion Planning."Energies 14.24 (2021) 8482. DOI

Morozovska, Kateryna, Miguel Heleno, Alan Valenzuela Meza, and Patrik Hilber."Including Dynamic Line Rating Into the Optimal Planning of Distributed Energy Resources."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 12.6 (2021) 5052 - 5059. DOI

Gust, Gunther, Tobias Brandt, Salman Mashayekh, Miguel Heleno, Nicholas DeForest, michael stadler, and Dirk Neumann."Strategies for microgrid operation under real-world conditions."European Journal of Operational Research 292.1 (2021) 339 - 352. DOI

Saumweber, Andrea, Lars Wederhake, Gonçalo Cardoso, Gilbert Fridgen, and Miguel Heleno."Designing Pareto optimal electricity retail rates when utility customers are prosumers."Energy Policy (2021) 112339. DOI

Ribó-Pérez, David, Miguel Heleno, and Carlos Álvarez-Bel."The flexibility gap: Socioeconomic and geographical factors driving residential flexibility."Energy Policy 153 (2021) 112282. DOI

Gallego-Castillo, Cristobal, Miguel Heleno, and Marta Victoria."Self-consumption for energy communities in Spain: A regional analysis under the new legal framework."Energy Policy 150.C (2021) 112144. DOI

Marques, Luciana, Wadaed Uturbey, and Miguel Heleno."An Integer Non-Cooperative Game Approach for the Transactive Control of Thermal Appliances in Energy Communities."Energies 14.21 (2021) 6971. DOI

Rossi, Federico, Miguel Heleno, Riccardo Basosi, and Adalgisa Sinicropi."LCA driven solar compensation mechanism for Renewable Energy Communities: the Italian case."Energy 235 (2021) 121374. DOI

2020

Heleno, Miguel, and Zhengwei Ren."Multi-energy Microgrid Planning Considering Heat Flow Dynamics."IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion (2020) 1 - 1. DOI

Heleno, Miguel, David Sehloff, Antonio Coelho, and Alan Valenzuela."Probabilistic impact of electricity tariffs on distribution grids considering adoption of solar and storage technologies."Applied Energy 279 (2020) 115826. DOI

Rossi, Federico, Miguel Heleno, Riccardo Basosi, and Adalgisa Sinicropi."Environmental and economic optima of solar home systems design: A combined LCA and LCC approach."Science of The Total Environment 744 (2020) 140569. DOI