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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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2008

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J. Lewis."Real-Time Grid Reliability Management (2008): PIER Final Project Report."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 62.

Martinez, Carlos A.."NERC Frequency Monitoring and Analysis Application: Data Communications, Functionality, and Navigation Overview - Data Availability and Case Studies." (2008).

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.

Parashar, Manu, Abhijeet Agarwal, Yuri V. Makarov, and Ian Dobson."Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (RTVSA) Report on Algorithms & Framework." (2008) 73.

Parashar, Manu, Abhijeet Agarwal, Yuri V. Makarov, and Ian Dobson."Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (RTVSA) Summary Report." (2008) 49.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, and Nancy J. Lewis."Real Time Systems Operations 2006 - 2007."PIER Final Project Report (2008).

Parashar, Manu, and Abhijeet Agarwal."Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (RTVSA) Algorithms Simulation & Validation Results." (2008) 21.

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

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J. Lewis."Real Time Grid Reliability Management 2005: PIER Final Project Report."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2007).

Martinez, Carlos A.."NERC Frequency Monitoring and Analysis (FMA) Application." (2007).

Parashar, Manu, Abhijeet Agarwal, Yuri V. Makarov, and Ian Dobson."Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (RTVSA) Tool Functional Specifications For Commercial Grade Application." (2007) 30.

2006

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

U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, , U.S. Department of Energy, and Joseph H Eto."Recommendation 12: The Relationship between Competitive Power Markets and Grid Reliability."U.S-Canada Power System Outage Task Force (2006).

Nichols, David K., John Stevens, Robert H. Lasseter, and Joseph H Eto."Validation of the CERTS Microgrid Concept: The CEC/CERTS Microgrid Testbed."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2006) 3. DOI

Hopper, Nicole C., Charles A. Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Bernard Neenan."Customer Response to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Pricing: Choices and Performance." (2006) 30. DOI

Group, Electric Power."DOE Wide-Area Situational Awareness for Load-Generation Adequacy Using NERC Resources Adequacy Monitoring." (2006).

Hopper, Nicole C., Charles A. Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Demand Response from Day-Ahead Hourly Pricing for Large Customers." (2006) 19.

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.

Eto, Joseph H."The Value of Economic Dispatch: A Report to Congress Pursuant to Section 1234 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005." (2005).

Goldman, Charles A., Nicole C. Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, Richard Boisvert, Peter Cappers, Donna Pratt, and Kim Butkins."Customer Strategies for Responding to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Electricity Pricing." (2005) 107.

Group, Electric Power, and Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions."Assessment of Reliability and Operational Issues for Integration of Renewable Generation." (2005).

Dobson, Ian, and Benjamin A. Carreras."Risk Analysis of Critical Loading and Blackouts with Cascading Events." (2005) 147.

2004

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto."Understanding the Cost of Power Interruptions to U.S. Electricity Consumers." (2004) 70.

Zhou, Nan, Chris Marnay, Ryan M. Firestone, Weijun Gao, and Masaru Nishida."The Potential for Distributed Generation in Japanese Prototype Buildings: A DER-CAM Analysis of Policy, Tariff Design, Building Energy Use, and Technology Development." (2004) 75.

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.