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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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2014

Stewart, Emma M., Sila Kiliccote, Corinne M. Shand, Alan W. McMorran, Reza Arghandeh, and Alexandra von Meier."Addressing the Challenges for Integrating Micro-Synchrophasor Data with Operational System Applications." (2014).

Mendes, Gonçalo, Wei Feng, Michael Stadler, Jan Steinbach, Judy Lai, Nan Zhou, Chris Marnay, Yan Ding, Jing Zhao, Zhe Tian, and Neng Zhu."Regional Analysis of Building Distributed Energy Costs and CO₂ Abatement: A U.S.–China comparison."Energy and Buildings 77 (2014) 112-129. DOI

Stewart, Emma M., and Sila Kiliccote."Software Based Barriers To Integration of Renewables To The Future Distribution Grid." (2014).

Stewart, Emma M., Sila Kiliccote, and Charles McParland."Software—Based Challenges of Developing the Future Distribution Grid." (2014).

DeForest, Nicholas, Gonçalo Mendes, Michael Stadler, Wei Feng, Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay."Optimal Deployment of Thermal Energy Storage Under Diverse Economic and Climate Conditions."Applied Energy 119 (2014) 488-496. DOI

Stewart, Emma M., Sila Kiliccote, Charles McParland, and Ciaran Roberts."Using Micro-Synchrophasor Data for Advanced Distribution Grid Planning and Operations Analysis." (2014).

2013

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard E. Brown, Phillip N. Price, Janie Page, Jessica Granderson, David Riess, Stephen Czarnecki, Girish Ghatikar, and Steven Lanzisera."Automated Measurement and Signaling Systems for the Transactional Network." (2013).

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Mohammad Bozchalui, Ratnesh Sharma, Chris Marnay, Ana Barbosa-Póvoa, and Paulo Ferrão."Optimal investment and scheduling of distributed energy resources with uncertainty in electric vehicles driving schedules."Energy (2013).

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Mohammad Bozchalui, Ratnesh Sharma, Chris Marnay, Ana Barbosa-Póvoa, and Paulo Ferrão."Stochastic Programming of Vehicle to Building Interactions with Uncertainty in PEVs Driving for a Medium Office Building."39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2013).

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Ana Barbosa-Póvoa, and Paulo Ferrão."Microgrid Reliability Modeling and Battery Scheduling Using Stochastic Linear Programming."Journal of Electric Power Systems Research 103 (2013) 61-69.

DeForest, Nicholas, Gonçalo Mendes, Michael Stadler, Wei Feng, Judy Lai, and Chris Marnay."Thermal Energy Storage for Electricity Peak-demand Mitigation: A Solution in Developing and Developed World Alike."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study 3–8 June 2013, Belambra Les Criques, France (2013).

Mammoli, Andrea A., Michael Stadler, Nicholas DeForest, Hans Barsun, Richard Burnett, and Chris Marnay."Software-as-a-Service Optimised Scheduling of a Solar-Assisted HVAC System with Thermal Storage."3rd International Conference on Microgeneration and Related Technologies (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).

Marnay, Chris, Michael Stadler, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Nicholas DeForest, Jonathan Donadee, Prajesh Bhattacharya, and Judy Lai."Applications of Optimal Building Energy System Selection and Operation."Institution of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Power and Energy (2013).

Marnay, Chris, and Michael Stadler."Economic and Environmental Optimization of Microgrids." (2013).

Stadler, Michael, Maximillian Kloess, Markus Groissböck, Gonçalo Cardoso, Ratnesh Sharma, Mohammad Bozchalui, and Chris Marnay."Electric Storage in California's Commercial Buildings."Applied Energy Journal (2013).

Stadler, Michael, Markus Groissböck, Gonçalo Cardoso, Andreas Müller, and Judy Lai."Encouraging Combined Heat and Power in California Buildings." (2013).

Marnay, Chris, Terry W. Chan, Nicholas DeForest, Judy Lai, Jason S. MacDonald, Michael Stadler, Tobias Erdmann, Andreas Hoheisel, Markus Mueller, Scotte Sabre, Edward Koch, Paul Lipkin, Robert W. Anderson, Spence Gerber, and Elizabeth Reid."Los Angeles Air Force Base Vehicle to Grid Pilot Project."ECEEE 2013 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (2013).

2012

MacDonald, Jason S., Peter Cappers, Duncan S. Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Demand Response Providing Ancillary Services A Comparison of Opportunities and Challenges in the US Wholesale Markets."Grid-Interop 2012 (2012).

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Cardoso, Mohammad Bozchalui, Ratnesh Sharma, Chris Marnay, Afzal S. Siddiqui, and Markus Groissböck."Microgrid Modeling Using the Stochasting Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM)." (2012).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Maximillian Kloess, Gonçalo Cardoso, Gonçalo Mendes, Afzal S. Siddiqui, Ratnesh Sharma, Olivier Mégel, and Judy Lai."Optimal Planning and Operation of Smart Grids with Electric Vehicle Interconnection."Journal of Energy Engineering, Special Issue: Challenges and opportunities in the 21st century energy infrastructure 138.2 (2012) 95-108. DOI

Beer, Sebastian, Tomás Gómez, David Dallinger, Ilan Momber, Chris Marnay, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."An Economic Analysis of Used Electric Vehicle Batteries Integrated into Commercial Building Microgrids."IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid 3 (2012).

Watson, David S., Nance Matson, Janie Page, Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, Karin Corfee, Betty Seto, Ralph Masiello, John Masiello, Lorin Molander, Samuel Golding, Kevin Sullivan, Walt Johnson, and David Hawkins."Fast Automated Demand Response to Enable the Integration of Renewable Resources." (2012).

2011

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Ratnesh Sharma, Gonçalo Mendes, Maximillian Kloess, Gonçalo Cardoso, Olivier Mégel, and Afzal S. Siddiqui."Modeling Electric Vehicle Benefits Connected to Smart Grids."7th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (2011).

Page, Janie, Sila Kiliccote, Junqiao Han Dudley, Mary Ann Piette, Albert K. Chiu, Bashar Kellow, Edward Koch, and Paul Lipkin."Automated Demand Response Technology Demonstration Project for Small and Medium Commercial Buildings." (2011).