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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: Bulk Power System Planning, Procurement and Market Processes

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)

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2018

Roberts, Ciaran."Review of International Grid Codes."Interconnection Frequency Response (2018).

2017

Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, and Joachim Seel."Power Plant Retirements: Trends and Possible Drivers." (2017).

Eto, Joseph H, and Giulia Gallo."Regional Transmission Planning: A Review of Practices Following FERC Order Nos. 890 and 1000." (2017).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Alan H Sanstad, and Peter H Larsen."Exploring the relationship between planning and procurement in Western U.S. electric utilities." (2017).

Bolinger, Mark."Using Probability of Exceedance to Compare the Resource Risk of Renewable and Gas-Fired Generation." (2017).

2016

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Peter H Larsen, Alan H Sanstad, and Charles A Goldman."Load Forecasting in Electric Utility Integrated Resource Planning." (2016).

Eto, Joseph H."Building Electric Transmission Lines: A Review of Recent Regional Transmission Plans." (2016).

Eto, Joseph H."Building Electric Transmission Lines: A Review of Recent Transmission Projects." (2016).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Andrew D Mills, Luke Lavin, Nancy Ryan, Arne Olsen, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of Electricity Resource Planning."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 6 (2016).

Mills, Andrew D, Galen L Barbose, Joachim Seel, Changgui Dong, Trieu Mai, Ben Sigrin, and Jarett Zuboy."Planning for a Distributed Disruption: Innovative Practices for Incorporating Distributed Solar into Utility Planning." (2016).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S MacDonald, Janie Page, Jennifer Potter, and Emma M Stewart."Future Opportunities and Challenges with Using Demand Response as a Resource in Distribution System Operation and Planning Activities." (2016).

2015

Mills, Andrew D, and Joachim Seel."Flexibility Inventory for Western Resource Planners." (2015).

Energy, U.S Department of."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2015)." (2015).

."Assessment of Historical Transmission Schedules and Flows in the Eastern Interconnection, v1.0." (2015).

2014

Sanstad, Alan H, Stuart McMenamin, Andy Sukenik, Galen L Barbose, and Charles A Goldman."Modeling an aggressive energy-efficiency scenario in long-range load forecasting for electric power transmission planning."Applied Energy 128 (2014) 265-275. DOI

Barbose, Galen L, Alan H Sanstad, and Charles A Goldman."Incorporating energy efficiency into electric power transmission planning: A western United States case study."Energy Policy 67 (2014) 319-329. DOI

Wilkerson, Jordan, Peter H Larsen, and Galen L Barbose."Survey of Western U.S. Electric Utility Resource Plans."Energy Policy 66 (2014) 90-103. DOI

Barbose, Galen L, Alan H Sanstad, Charles A Goldman, Stuart McMenamin, and Andy Sukenik."Incorporating Energy Efficiency into Western Interconnection Transmission Planning." (2014).

Fisher, Emily, and Joseph H Eto."Congestion Measures for Organized Markets in the U.S.."IEEE 47th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) (2014). DOI

2013

Cappers, Peter, Jason S MacDonald, Charles A Goldman, and Ookie Ma."An assessment of market and policy barriers for demand response providing ancillary services in U.S. electricity markets."Energy Policy 62 (2013) 1031-1039. DOI

Satchwell, Andrew, and Ryan Hledik."Analytical Frameworks to Incorporate Demand Response in Long-term Resource Planning." (2013).

Satchwell, Andrew, Galen L Barbose, Charles A Goldman, Ryan Hledik, and Ahmed Faruqui."Incorporating Demand Response into Western Interconnection Transmission Planning." (2013).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S MacDonald, and Charles A Goldman."Market and Policy Barriers for Demand Response Providing Ancillary Services in U.S. Markets." (2013).

Leibowicz, Benjamin, Maria Roumpani, and Peter H Larsen."Carbon Emissions Caps and the Impact of a Radical Change in Nuclear Electricity Costs."International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 3.1 (2013).

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser."Solar Valuation in Utility Planning Studies." (2013).