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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) 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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2016

Stewart, Emma M, Anna Liao, and Ciaran Roberts."Open μPMU: A Real World Reference Distribution Micro-phasor Measurement Unit Data Set for Research and Application Development." (2016).

Rotger-Griful, Sergi, Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen, Emma M Stewart, Javier Matanza Domingo, and Michael Wetter."Hardware-in-the-Loop Co-simulation of Distribution Grid for Demand Response."19th Power Systems Computation Conference (2016).

Roberts, Ciaran, Emma M Stewart, and Federico Milano."Validation of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process for Load Modeling Based on μPMU Measurements."19th Power Systems Computation Conference (2016).

Liao, Anna, Emma M Stewart, and Emre C Kara."Micro-Synchrophasor Data for Diagnosis of Transmission and Distribution Level Events."IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (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

Eto, Joseph H, Emma M Stewart, Travis Smith, Mark Buckner, Harold Kirkham, Francis Tuffner, and David Schoenwald."Scoping Study on Research and Priorities for Distribution-System Phasor Measurement Units." (2015). DOI

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).

Chand, Corinne, Alan W McMorran, Emma M Stewart, and Gareth Taylor."Exploiting Massive PMU Data Analysis for LV Distribution Network Model Validation."Power Engineering Conference (UPEC) (2015).

Arnold, Daniel, Matias Negrete-Pincetic, Emma M Stewart, David M Auslander, and Duncan S Callaway."Extremum Seeking Control of Smart Inverters for VAR Compensation."Power & Energy Society General Meeting, IEEE (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).

Milan, Christian, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Salman Mashayekh."Modelling of Non-linear CHP Efficiency Curves in Distributed Energy Systems."Applied Energy 148 (2015) 334-347. DOI

Phadke, Amol A, Arne Jacobson, Won Young Park, Ga Rick Lee, Peter Alstone, and Amit Khare."Powering a Home with Just 25Watts of Solar PV: Super-Efficient Appliances Can Enable Expanded Off-Grid Energy Service Using Small Solar Power Systems." (2015).

Granderson, Jessica, Phillip N Price, Stephen Czarnecki, Janie Page, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of Diagnostic and M&V Agents, and Implementation in an Occupied Office Environment." (2015).

Alessandro, Pensini, Matthew Robinson, Nicholas Heine, Michael Stadler, and Andrea A Mammoli."Assessment of Grid-friendly Collective Optimization Framework for Distributed Energy Resources."IEEE Power and Energy Society ISGT Asia 2015, 4-6 November 2015 (2015).

2014

Steen, David, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Markus Groissböck, Nicholas DeForest, and Chris Marnay."Modeling of Thermal Storage Systems in MILP Distributed Energy Resource Models."Applied Energy 137 (2014) 782-792. DOI

Brandt, Tobias, Nicholas DeForest, Michael Stadler, and Dirk Neumann."Power Systems 2.0: Designing an Energy Information System for Microgrid Operation."International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2014) (2014).

Stadler, Michael, Markus Groissböck, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Chris Marnay."Optimizing Distributed Energy Resources and Building Retrofits with the Strategic DER- CAModel."Applied Energy 132 (2014) 556-567. DOI

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).

Arghandeh, Reza, Merwin Brown, Alberto Del Rosso, Girish Ghatikar, Emma M Stewart, Ali Vojdani, and Alexandra von Meier."The Local Team Leveraging Distributed Resources to Improve Resilience."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine 12.5 (2014) 76-83. DOI

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).

DeForest, Nicholas, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Tobias Brandt, and Sankar Narayanan."Enabling Broad Adoption of Distributed PV-Storage Systems Via Supervisory Planning and Control."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).

Liao, Anna, Steven Lanzisera, James D Lutz, Christian Fitting, Margarita Kloss, and Christopher Stiles."Performance Monitoring of Residential Hot Water Distribution Systems."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).

Weber, Adam Z, Steven Lanzisera, Anna Liao, and Alan K Meier."We Need to Talk… Developing Communicating Power Supplies to Monitor & Control Miscellaneous Electric Loads."2014 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2014).