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)

2006

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, David S Watson, and Glenn D Hughes."Dynamic Controls for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response: Framework Concepts and a New Construction Case Study in New York."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, David S Watson, and Glenn D Hughes."Dynamic Controls for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response: Framework Concepts and a New Construction Case Study in New York."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Piette, Mary Ann, David S Watson, Naoya Motegi, Sila Kiliccote, and Eric Linkugel."Participation through Automation: Fully Automated Critical Peak Pricing in Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

Piette, Mary Ann, David S Watson, Naoya Motegi, Sila Kiliccote, and Eric Linkugel."Automated Demand Response Strategies and Commissioning Commercial Building Controls."14th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2006).

Piette, Mary Ann, David S Watson, Naoya Motegi, Sila Kiliccote, and Peng Xu."Automated Critical Peak Pricing Field Tests: Program Description and Results." (2006).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, and David Hansen."Advanced Controls and Communications for Demand Response and Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings."Second Carnegie Mellon Conference in Electric Power Systems: Monitoring, Sensing, Software and Its Valuation for the Changing Electric Power Industry (2006).

Piette, Mary Ann, and Sila Kiliccote."Characterization and Demonstration of Demand Responsive Control Technologies and Strategies in Commercial Buildings." (2006).

Watson, David S, Sila Kiliccote, Naoya Motegi, and Mary Ann Piette."Strategies for Demand Response in Commercial Buildings."2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2006).

2005

Kiliccote, Sila, and Mary Ann Piette."Advanced Control Technologies and Strategies Linking Demand Response and Energy Efficiency."5th International Conference on Enhanced Building Operations (2005).

2004

Koch, Edward, Francis M Rubinstein, and Sila Kiliccote."Hardware/Software Solution Unifying DALI, IBECS, and BACnet Final Report." (2004).

Rubinstein, Francis M, Pete Pettler, Joel Snook, Erik Engelking, and Sila Kiliccote."Performance of Powerline-Controlled Luminaire Final Report." (2004).