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)

2024

Bracho, Riccardo, Julie Doherty Kowalski, Nina Khanna, Virginie E Letschert, Nicholas DeForest, Rongxin Lin, Keith Kline, Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Loreta Lancellotti, Natalie Kempkey, and Mijal Brady Berkowitz."Leadership and Community Engagement in Chile: Deploying Net-Zero Technologies and Solutions." (2024).

2021

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

2018

Cardoso, Gonçalo, thomas brouhard, Nicholas DeForest, Dai Wang, Miguel Heleno, and Leander Kotzur."Battery aging in multi-energy microgrid design using mixed integer linear programming."Applied Energy 231 (2018) 1059 - 1069. DOI

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Miguel Heleno, and Nicholas DeForest."ROMDST - An Optimal Design Support Tool for Remote, Resilient, and Reliable Microgrids, Phase II - Final Report." (2018).

DeForest, Nicholas, Jason S MacDonald, and Douglas R Black."Day ahead optimization of an electric vehicle fleet providing ancillary services in the Los Angeles Air Force Base vehicle-to-grid demonstration."Applied Energy 210 (2018) 987 - 1001. DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Jason S MacDonald, and Douglas R Black."Day ahead optimization of an electric vehicle fleet providing ancillary services in the Los Angeles Air Force Base vehicle-to-grid demonstration."Applied Energy 210 (2018) 987 - 1001. DOI

Wang, Ke, Rongxin Yin, Liangzhong Yao, Jianguo Yao, Taiyou Yong, and Nicholas DeForest."A Two-Layer Framework for Quantifying Demand Response Flexibility at Bulk Supply Points."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 9.4 (2018) 3616 - 3627. DOI

2017

DeForest, Nicholas, Arman Shehabi, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Delia J Milliron."A comparative energy analysis of three electrochromic glazing technologies in commercial and residential buildings."Applied Energy 192 (2017) 95 - 109. DOI

2016

Tulabing, Ryan, Rongxin Yin, Nicholas DeForest, Yaping Li, Ke Wang, Taiyou Yong, and Michael Stadler."Modeling Study on Flexible Load’s Demand Response Potentials for Providing Ancillary Services at the Substation Level." (2016).

Yin, Rongxin, Emre C Kara, Yaping Li, Nicholas DeForest, Ke Wang, Taiyou Yong, and Michael Stadler."Quantifying Flexibility of Commercial and Residential Loads for Demand Response using Setpoint Changes." (2016).

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Cardoso, Salman Mashayekh, Thibault Forget, Nicholas DeForest, Ankit Agarwal, and Anna Schönbein."Value Streams in Microgrids: A Literature Review."Applied Energy 162 (2016) 980-989. DOI

2015

DeForest, Nicholas, Arman Shehabi, James O'Donnell, Guillermo Garcia, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Eleanor S Lee, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Delia J Milliron."United States energy and CO2 savings potential from deployment of near-infrared electrochromic window glazings."Building and Environment 89 (2015) 107 - 117. DOI

Stadler, Michael, Salman Mashayekh, Sankar Narayanan, Nicholas DeForest, and Tobias Brandt."Supervisory Controller for PV and Storage Microgrids." (2015).

2014

Steen, David, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Markus Groissböck, Nicholas DeForest, and Chris Marnay."Modeling of Thermal Storage Systems in MILP Distributed Energy Resource Models."Applied Energy 137 (2014) 782-792. DOI

Brandt, Tobias, Nicholas DeForest, Michael Stadler, and Dirk Neumann."Power Systems 2.0: Designing an Energy Information System for Microgrid Operation."International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2014) (2014).

DeForest, Nicholas, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Tobias Brandt, and Sankar Narayanan."Enabling Broad Adoption of Distributed PV-Storage Systems Via Supervisory Planning and Control."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2014 (2014).

DeForest, Nicholas, Gonçalo Mendes, Michael Stadler, Wei Feng, Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay."Optimal Deployment of Thermal Energy Storage Under Diverse Economic and Climate Conditions."Applied Energy 119 (2014) 488-496. DOI

2013

Shehabi, Arman, Nicholas DeForest, Andrew McNeil, Eric R Masanet, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Eleanor S Lee, Georgeta Masson, Brett A Helms, and Delia J Milliron."U.S. energy savings potential from dynamic daylighting control glazings."Energy and Buildings 66 (2013) 415-423. DOI

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Ana Barbosa-Póvoa, and Paulo Ferrão."Microgrid Reliability Modeling and Battery Scheduling Using Stochastic Linear Programming."Journal of Electric Power Systems Research 103 (2013) 61-69.

DeForest, Nicholas, Gonçalo Mendes, Michael Stadler, Wei Feng, Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay."Thermal Energy Storage for Electricity Peak-demand Mitigation: A Solution in Developing and Developed World Alike."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study 3–8 June 2013, Belambra Les Criques, France (2013).

Mammoli, Andrea A, Michael Stadler, Nicholas DeForest, Hans Barsun, Richard Burnett, and Chris Marnay."Software-as-a-Service Optimised Scheduling of a Solar-Assisted HVAC System with Thermal Storage."3rd International Conference on Microgeneration and Related Technologies (2013).

DeForest, Nicholas, Arman Shehabi, Guillermo Garcia, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Eric R Masanet, Eleanor S Lee, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Delia J Milliron."Regional performance targets for transparent near-infrared switching electrochromic window glazings."Building and Environment 61 (2013) 160 - 168. DOI

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).

Thiemann, Johannes J, Nicholas DeForest, Michael Stadler, Judy Lai, Wei Feng, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Yu Joe Huang, and Chris Marnay."Identification of Demand Response Potential for Microgrids Using the Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adaption Model, A Case Study of the Alameda County Santa Rita Jail for 2011." (2013).

Marnay, Chris, Terry W Chan, Nicholas DeForest, Judy Lai, Jason S MacDonald, Michael Stadler, Tobias Erdmann, Andreas Hoheisel, Markus Mueller, Scotte Sabre, Edward Koch, Paul Lipkin, Robert W Anderson, Spence Gerber, and Elizabeth Reid."Los Angeles Air Force Base Vehicle to Grid Pilot Project."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2013).