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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2015

Bravo, Richard J."Distribution FIDVR Events Analysis."2015 Seventh Annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech)2015 Seventh Annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference (2015) 1 - 8. DOI

Bravo, Richard J, Chase Sun, and Thomas Bialek."Voltage Ride-Through (VRT) Recommendations for Distributed Electronic-Coupled Generation."2015 Seventh Annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech)2015 Seventh Annual IEEE Green Technologies Conference (2015) 9 - 12. DOI

2014

Bravo, Richard J, Robert J Yinger, and Patricia Arons."Fault Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery (FIDVR) indicators."2014 IEEE/PES Transmission & Distribution Conference & Exposition (T&D)2014 IEEE PES T&D Conference and Exposition (2014) 1 - 5. DOI

2013

Bravo, Richard J, and Steven Robles."2013 FIDVR Events Analysis on Valley Distribution Circuits." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J."Commercial 3-Phase Rooftop Air Conditioner Test Procedures." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J, and Steven Robles."Paralleled Residential Solar PV Inverter Test Report." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J."Residential Air Conditioner with VFD Test Procedures." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J, and Steven Robles."Residential German Solar PV Inverter Test Report." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J, and Steven Robles."Residential Solar PV Inverter Test Report." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J, and Steven Robles."Residential U.S. Solar PV Inverter with Advanced Features Test Report." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J, and Steven Robles."Solar PV Inverter Test Procedures." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J."Three-Phase German Solar PV Inverter Test Report." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J."Transformerless Solar PV Inverters Test Report." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J, and Steven Robles."2012 FIDVR Events Analysis: Valley Distribution Circuits." (2013).

Bravo, Richard J, Robert J Yinger, Steven Robles, and Joseph H Eto."FIDVR Events Analysis, Part I."Proceedings of the IEEE PES General Meeting (2013). DOI

Bravo, Richard J, Robert J Yinger, Steven Robles, and Joseph H Eto."FIDVR in Distribution Circuits."Proceedings of the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2013). DOI