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)

2008

Stadler, Michael, Hirohisa Aki, Ryan M. Firestone, Judy Lai, Chris Marnay, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Distributed Energy Resources On-Site Optimization for Commercial Buildings with Electric and Thermal Storage Technologies."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Scaling Up: Building Tomorrow's Solutions, August 17-22, 2008 (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryan M. Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Commercial-Building Microgrids."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 23.3 (2008) 975-982. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryan M. Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Microgrids in Commercial Buildings."31st IAEE International Conference "Bridging Energy Supply and Demand: Logistics, Competition and Environment", June 18-20, 2008 (2008).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Hirohisa Aki, Brian E. Coffey, Ryan M. Firestone, Judy Lai, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Microgrid Selection and Operation for Commercial Buildings in California and New York States."4th European PV-Hybrid and Mini-Grid Conference, May 29-30, 2008 (2008) 12.

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryan M. Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Commercial- Building Microgrids." (2008) 10. DOI

2007

Marnay, Chris, Ryan M. Firestone, Judy Lai, and Giri Venkataramanan."Microgrids for Commercial Building Combined Heat and Power and Power and Heterogeneous Power Quality and Reliability."IEEC 2007 Conference on Active Networks and Sustainable Energy Consumption, Nov. 14-15, 2007 (2007).

Firestone, Ryan M.."Optimal Real-time Dispatch for Integrated Energy Systems." (2007) 252.

Firestone, Ryan M., Frank Ling, Chris Marnay, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Preliminary Estimates of Combined Heat and Power Greenhouse Gas Abatement Potential for California in 2020." (2007) 37.

Firestone, Ryan M., and Chris Marnay."Distributed Energy Resources for Carbon Emissions Mitigation."ECEEE Summer Study, June 4-9, 2007 (2007).

Firestone, Ryan M., and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation Dispatch Optimization under Various Electricity Tariffs."International Journal of Electronic Business Management Vol. 5.Issue 3 (2007) 52.

Marnay, Chris, and Ryan M. Firestone."Microgrids: An emerging paradigm for meeting building electricity and heat requirements efficiently and with appropriate energy quality."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy 2007 Summer Study, 4-9 June 2007 (2007).

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ryan M. Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Microgrids in Commerical Buildings."IEEE 2007 Power Engineering Society General Meeting, June 24-28, 2007 (2007).

Maribu, Karl M., Ryan M. Firestone, Chris Marnay, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Distributed Energy Resources Market Diffusion Model."Energy Policy Vol. 35 (2007) 16.

2006

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."An Analysis of the DER Adoption Climate in Japan Using Optimization Results for Prototype Buildings with U.S. Comparisons."Energy and Buildings Journal Vol. 38.Issue 12 (2006) 10.

Stadler, Michael, Ryan M. Firestone, Dimitri Curtil, and Chris Marnay."On-Site Generation Simulation with EnergyPlus for Commercial Buildings." (2006) 14.

Firestone, Ryan M., Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Integrated Energy System Dispatch Optimization."4th International IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics, Singapore, August 16-18, 2006 (2006).

Firestone, Ryan M., Chris Marnay, and Karl M. Maribu."The Value of Distributed Generation under Different Tariff Structures."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Ryan M. Firestone, Karl M. Maribu, Nan Zhou, and Chris Marnay."A Model of U.S. Commercial Distributed Generation Adoption." (2006) 113.

2005

Firestone, Ryan M., and Chris Marnay."Microturbine Economic Competitiveness: A Study of Two Potential Adopters." (2005) 49.

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."An Optimization and Assessment on DG Adoption in Japanese Prototype Buildings."International Symposium on Sustainable Development of the Asian City Environment (SDACE) 2005 (2005).

Curtil, Dimitri, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, Nan Zhou, Ryan M. Firestone, and Judy Lai."Distributed Energy Enabling Technologies: Site Energy Simulation." (2005).

Firestone, Ryan M., and Chris Marnay."The Effects of Electricity Tariff Structure on Distributed Generation Adoption in New York State." (2005) 104.

Firestone, Ryan M., Chris Marnay, and Juan Wang."Integrated Modeling of Building Energy Requirements Incorporating Solar Assisted Cooling."2005 International Conference on Solar Air Conditioning (2005) 7.

Siddiqui, Afzal S., Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, and Nan Zhou."Distributed Generation with Heat Recovery and Storage."7th Annual International Association for Energy Economics European Energy Conference (2005) 39.