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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.
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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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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

Huang, Weiping, Armando Casillas, Marco Pritoni, Shreya Agarwal, Rongxin Yin, and Anand Prakash."Analyzing The Impact Of Energy Efficient ASHRAE Guideline 36 Control Sequences On Demand Flexibility Potential Of Commercial Buildings: A Multi-Region Analysis."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Black, Douglas R, Nadia Panossian, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, John Farrell, Cabell Hodge, Andrew Meintz, Muhammad Abdullah, Mithat John Kisacikoglu, Jesse Bennett, Rongxin Yin, Shreya Agarwal, and Thomas W Kirchstetter."Survey and gap prioritization of U.S. electric vehicle charge management deployments." (2024).

2023

Liu, Jingjing, Lili Yu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, and Peter Schwartz."Factors Influencing Building Demand Flexibility." (2023). DOI

2022

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Lili Yu, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Jiarong Xie, Tianzhen Hong, Monica Neukomm, and Peter Schwartz."Defining and applying an electricity demand flexibility benchmarking metrics framework for grid-interactive efficient commercial buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100107. DOI

Liu, Jingjing, Lili Yu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."Benchmarking Demand Flexibility in Commercial Buildings and Flattening the Duck – Addressing Baseline and Commissioning Challenges."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Yu, Lili, Jingjing Liu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."When Do Efficiency and Demand Flexibility Go Hand-in-hand?."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Meyers, Stephen, Rongxin Yin, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Cynthia Regnier, and Purabi Thakre."Innovative Technologies for a Low Carbon Electricity System." (2022).

2021

Ahn, Hyeunguk, Jingjing Liu, Donghun Kim, Rongxin Yin, Tianzhen Hong, and Mary Ann Piette."How Can Floor Covering Influence Buildings’ Demand Flexibility?."Energies 14.12 (2021) 3658. DOI

2020

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Marco Pritoni, Mary Ann Piette, and Monica Neukomm."Developing and Evaluating Metrics for Demand Flexibility in Buildings: Comparing Simulations and Field Data."ACEEE Summer Study (2020). DOI

Gerke, Brian F, Giulia Gallo, Sarah Josephine Smith, Jingjing Liu, Shuba V Raghavan, Peter Schwartz, Mary Ann Piette, Rongxin Yin, and Sofia Stensson."The California Demand Response Potential Study, Phase 3: Final Report on the Shift Resource through 2030." (2020). DOI

2019

Yin, Rongxin, Girish Ghatikar, and Mary Ann Piette."Big-Data Analytics for Electric Grid and Demand-Side Management." (2019).

Bao, Yi, Jian Xu, Wei Feng, Yuanzhang Sun, Siyang Liao, Rongxin Yin, Yazhou Jiang, Ming Jin, and Chris Marnay."Provision of secondary frequency regulation by coordinated dispatch of industrial loads and thermal power plants."Applied Energy 241 (2019) 302 - 312. DOI

2018

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

Page, Janie, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, and Richard E Brown."Exploration of PG&E AutoDR Incentive Options." (2017).

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).

Piette, Mary Ann, Douglas R Black, and Rongxin Yin."Comparison of Actual Costs to Integrate Commercial Buildings with the Grid."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (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).

2015

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, Girish Ghatikar, Aimee T McKane, Nance Matson, Janie Page, Jason S MacDonald, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Douglas R Black, and Rongxin Yin."Demand Response Research Center - Final Report." (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Douglas R Black, Mary Ann Piette, and Klaus Schiess."Control of Thermal Energy Storage in Commercial Buildings for California Utility Tariffs and Demand Response." (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Salman Mashayekh, Michael Stadler, Rongxin Yin, and Zhenhua Liu."Distributed Energy Systems Integration and Demand Optimization for Autonomous Operations and Electric Grid Transactions."Applied Energy (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Rongpeng Zhang, Aimee T McKane, Peter L Therkelsen, and Tianzhen Hong."Development and Validation of Demand Response Quick Assessment Tool For Refrigerated Warehouses in California." (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, and Douglas R Black."Improvement Of Demand Response Quick Assessment Tool (DRQAT) and Tool Validation Case Studies." (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Rongxin Yin, Ranjit Deshmukh, and G. G Ganesh Das."Characterization and Effectiveness of Technologies for India’s Electric Grid Reliability and Energy Security."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Girish Ghatikar, Rongxin Yin, G. G Ganesh Das, and Sujay Kumar Saha."Estimation of Potential and Value of Demand Response for Industrial and Commercial Consumers in Delhi."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Girish Ghatikar, Ranjit Deshmukh, and Aamir Hussain Khan."Findings from an Advanced Demand Response Smart Grid Project to Improve Electricity Reliability in India."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).