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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.

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2019

."Assessment of Historical Transmission Congestion in the Eastern Interconnection for 2015 (v2.0)." (2019).

2015

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

2014

."Assessment of Historical Transmission Schedules and Flows in the Eastern Interconnection." (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

2012

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Peter H Larsen, Annika Todd-Blick, and Emily Fisher."An Examination of Temporal Trends in Electricity Reliability Based on Reports from U.S. Electric Utilities." (2012).

2011

Eto, Joseph H, and Robert J Thomas."Computational Needs for the Next Generation Electric Grid Proceedings." (2011) 376.

2009

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2009)." (2009).

Budhraja, Vikram S, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Transmission Benefit Quantification, Cost Allocation and Cost Recovery."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009) 216.

2008

Budhraja, Vikram S, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Renewable Resource Integration Project – Scoping Study of Strategic Transmission Operations and Reliability Issues."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 49.

Eto, Joseph H, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Tracking the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System: An Assessment of Publicly Available Information Reported to State Public Utility Commissions." (2008) 52.

2006

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2006)." (2006).

2005

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Douglas R Hale."A Review of Recent RTO Benefit-Cost Studies: Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies." (2005) 61.

2004

Lesieutre, Bernard, Emily S Bartholomew, Joseph H Eto, Douglas R Hale, and Thanh Luong."The Potential Impacts of a Competitive Wholesale Market in the Midwest: A Preliminary Examination of Centralized Dispatch." (2004) 75.

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Steven E Widergren."Transmission-Planning Research and Development Scoping Project."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2004) 82.

Mobasheri, Fred, Margaret Cheng, Jaime Medina, and Joseph H Eto."Economic Evaluation of Transmission Interconnection in a Restructured Market."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 48.

Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto."When a Rose Is Not a Rose: A Review of Recent Estimates of Congestion Costs."The Electricity Journal 17.4 (2004). DOI

2003

Budhraja, Vikram S, Fred Mobasheri, Margaret Cheng, Jim Dyer, Eduyng Castaño, and Stephen Hess."California’s Electricity Generation and Transmission Interconnection Needs Under Alternative Scenarios."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 42.

Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto."Electricity Transmission Congestion Costs: A Review of Recent Reports." (2003) 53.

Budhraja, Vikram S, Jim Dyer, and Stephen Hess."Planning for California's Future Transmission Grid Review of Transmission System, Strategic Benefits, Planning Issues And Policy Recommendations."Consultant Report to the California Energy Commission (2003) 30.

Consulting, KEMA."Analysis and Selection of Analytical Tools to Assess National-Interest Transmission Bottlenecks Final Report." (2003) 53.

Eto, Joseph H, and John P Stovall."California's Electricity System of the Future: Scenario Analysis in Support of Public-Interest Transmission System R&D Planning." (2003) 61.

Dyer, Jim."U.S. Department of Energy Transmission Bottleneck Project Report." (2003) 100.

2002

Hauer, John F, Thomas J Overbye, Jeffery E Dagle, and Steven E Widergren."Advanced Transmission Technologies: National Transmission Grid Study, Appendix F."National Transmission Grid Study (2002) 45.

Oren, Shmuel S, George Gross, and Fernando L Alvarado."Alternative Business Models for Transmission Investment and Operation: National Transmission Grid Study, Appendix C."National Transmission Grid Study (2002) 38.

Eto, Joseph H, Fernando L Alvarado, Jeffery E Dagle, John F Hauer, Steven E Widergren, George Gross, Thomas J Overbye, Eric Hirst, Brendan J Kirby, David H Meyer, Shmuel S Oren, and Richard Sedano."National Transmission Grid Study (2002)." (2002).