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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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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)

2015

Piette, Mary Ann, Oren Schetrit, Sila Kiliccote, H.Y. Iris Cheung, and Becky Zilu LI."Costs to Automate Demand Response – Taxonomy and Results from Field Studies and Programs." (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).

Lanzisera, Steven, Andrew R. Weber, Anna Liao, Oren Schetrit, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Field Testing of Telemetry for Demand Response Control of Small Loads." (2015).

Stewart, Emma M., Sila Kiliccote, Daniel Arnold, Alexandra von Meier, and Reza Arghandeh."Accuracy and Validation of Measured and Modeled Data for Distributed PV Interconnection and Control."2015 IEEE PES GM (2015).

Kiliccote, Sila, Daniel Olsen, Michael D. Sohn, and Mary Ann Piette."Characterization of demand response in the commercial, industrial, and residential sectors in the United States."Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment 5.3 (2015) 288 - 304. DOI

Addy, Nathan J., Sila Kiliccote, Duncan S. Callaway, and Johanna L. Mathieu."How Baseline Model Implementation Choices Affect Demand Response Assessments."Journal of Solar Energy 137.2 (2015) 021008-021008-6. DOI

Kiliccote, Sila, Gregory K. Homan, Robert W. Anderson, and John Herdandez."Intermittent Renewable Management Pilot – Phase 2." (2015).

Price, Phillip N., Nathan J. Addy, and Sila Kiliccote."Predictability and Persistance of Demand Response Load Shed in Buildings." (2015).

2014

Yin, Rongxin, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Linking measurements and models in commercial buildings: A case study for model calibration and demand response strategy evaluation." (2014).

Kara, Emre C., Michaelangelo D. Tabone, Jason S. MacDonald, Duncan S. Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Quantifying Flexibility of Residential Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Demand Response: A Data-driven Approach." (2014).

MacDonald, Jason S., Sila Kiliccote, Jim Boch, Jonathan Chen, and Robert Nawy."Commercial Building Loads Providing Ancillary Services in PJM."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2014 (2014).

Kiliccote, Sila, Steven Lanzisera, Anna Liao, Oren Schetrit, and Mary Ann Piette."Fast DR: Controlling Small Loads over the Internet."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, and Girish Ghatikar."Field Experience with and Potential for Multi-time Scale Grid Transactions from Responsive Commercial Buildings."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Olsen, Daniel, Sila Kiliccote, Michael D. Sohn, Laurel N. Dunn, and Mary Ann Piette."Taxonomy for Modeling Demand Response Resources." (2014).

Stewart, Emma M., Sila Kiliccote, Corinne M. Shand, Alan W. McMorran, Reza Arghandeh, and Alexandra von Meier."Addressing the Challenges for Integrating Micro-Synchrophasor Data with Operational System Applications." (2014).

Stewart, Emma M., and Sila Kiliccote."Software Based Barriers To Integration of Renewables To The Future Distribution Grid." (2014).

Stewart, Emma M., Sila Kiliccote, and Charles McParland."Software—Based Challenges of Developing the Future Distribution Grid." (2014).

Kim, Joyce Jihyun, Oren Schetrit, Rongxin Yin, and Sila Kiliccote."Demonstration of automated price response in large customers in New York City using Auto-DR and OpenADR." (2014) 63.

Stewart, Emma M., Sila Kiliccote, Charles McParland, and Ciaran Roberts."Using Micro-Synchrophasor Data for Advanced Distribution Grid Planning and Operations Analysis." (2014).

2013

Ma, Ookie, Nasr Alkadi, Peter Cappers, Paul Denholm, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Marissa Hummon, Sila Kiliccote, Jason S. MacDonald, Nance Matson, Daniel Olsen, Cody Rose, Michael D. Sohn, Michael Starke, Brendan J. Kirby, and Mark O'Malley."Demand Response for Ancillary Services."IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid 4 (2013).

Kim, Joyce Jihyun, Rongxin Yin, and Sila Kiliccote."Automated Price and Demand Response Demonstration for Large Customers in New York City using OpenADR."International Conference for Enhanced Building Operations (ICEBO) 2013 (2013).

Kim, Joyce Jihyun, Sila Kiliccote, and Rongxin Yin."Automated Demand Response Technologies and Demonstration in New York City using OpenADR." (2013).

Olsen, Daniel, Nance Matson, Michael D. Sohn, Cody Rose, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Sila Kiliccote, Marissa Hummon, David Palchak, Paul Denholm, Jennie Jorgenson, and Ookie Ma."Grid Integration of Aggregated Demand Response, Part 1: Load Availability Profiles and Constraints for the Western Interconnection." (2013).

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, Mary Ann Piette, Janie Page, Sila Kiliccote, Charles McParland, and David S. Watson."Demonstration and Results of Grid Integrated Technologies at the Demand to Grid Laboratory (D2G Lab): Phase I Operations Report." (2013).

Levy, Roger, and Sila Kiliccote."Hawaiian Electric Company Demand Response Roadmap Project Final Report." (2013).