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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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2023

Stübs, Marius, Peter Grant, and Bruce Nordman."Demonstrating Load-Shaping Capabilities of Cost Minimizing Heat Pump Water Heater Controls with Varying Price Profiles."2023 ASHRAE Summer Conference (2023).

Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Fritz Kahrl, and Ryan H Wiser."Generator Interconnection Costs to the Transmission System - Summary Briefing." (2023).

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, and Ryan H Wiser."Interactions between hybrid power plant development and local transmission in congested regions."Advances in Applied Energy 10 (2023). DOI

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Joachim Seel, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in ISO-New England." (2023).

Paul, Lazlo, Flavia deAndrade Pereira, Sang woo Ham, Marco Pritoni, Richard E Brown, and Jingjuan Feng."Open Building Operating System: an Open-Source Grid Responsive Control Platform for Buildings."ASHRAE Annual Conference 2023 (2023).

Grant, Peter, Marius Stübs, Bruce Nordman, and Christoph Gehbauer."Stabilizing the Grid and Reducing Utility Bills Through Price-Responsive Controls for Heat Pump Water Heaters."2023 ASHRAE Summer Conference (2023).

Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, Ari Weissfeld, Nicholas DiSanti, and Kevin Porter."Generator Interconnection Cost Analysis in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Territory." (2023).

Rand, Joseph, Rose Strauss, Will Gorman, Joachim Seel, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Seongeun Jeong, Dana Robson, and Ryan H Wiser."Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2022." (2023).

Kemp, Julie Mulvaney, Joachim Seel, Joseph Rand, Dev Millstein, Fredrich Kahrl, Will Gorman, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in the NYISO Territory." (2023).

Murphy, Sean, and Natalie Mims Frick."Estimating the Drivers of the Cost of Saved Electricity in Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs."Energies 16.5 (2023). DOI

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, and Julie Mulvaney Kemp."The Latest Market Data Show that the Potential Savings of New Electric Transmission was Higher Last Year than at Any Point in the Last Decade." (2023).

Seel, Joachim, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, Katherine Fisher, Olivia Kuykendall, Ari Weissfeld, and Kevin Porter."Interconnection Cost Analysis in the PJM Territory." (2023).

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Mark Bolinger, Andrew D Mills, and Ryan H Wiser."Rethinking the Role of Financial Transmission Rights in Wind-Rich Electricity Markets in the Central U.S.."The Energy Journal 44.6 (2023). DOI

2022

Liu, Jingjing, Rongxin Yin, Lili Yu, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Jiarong Xie, Tianzhen Hong, Monica Neukomm, and Peter Schwartz."Defining and applying an electricity demand flexibility benchmarking metrics framework for grid-interactive efficient commercial buildings."Advances in Applied Energy 8 (2022) 100107. DOI

Pigman, Margaret, Natalie Mims Frick, Eric Wilson, Andrew Parker, and Elaina Present."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Practical Guidance on Accessing and Using the Data." (2022).

Liu, Jingjing, Steve Windergren, Jaime Kolln, Sonny Xue, Ted Bohn, and Richard E Brown."State of Common Grid Services Definitions." (2022).

Seel, Joachim, Joseph Rand, Will Gorman, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, Will Cotton, Nicholas DiSanti, and Kevin Porter."Generator Interconnection Cost Analysis in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) territory." (2022).

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruptions." (2022).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Andrew Satchwell, and Miguel Heleno."Quantifying Locational Net Benefits of DER for Distribution Systems." (2022).

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Dana Robson."Utility-Scale Solar, 2022 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States." (2022).

Murthy, Samanvitha, Brian F Gerke, Sarah Josephine Smith, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."A multi-level load shape clustering and disaggregation approach to characterize patterns of energy consumption behavior."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022).

Liu, Jingjing, Lili Yu, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Monica Neukomm, and Amir Roth."Benchmarking Demand Flexibility in Commercial Buildings and Flattening the Duck – Addressing Baseline and Commissioning Challenges."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Prakash, Anand, Marco Pritoni, Margarita Kloss, Mary Ann Piette, Michel Kamel, and Dotty Hage."Cloud-Control of Legacy Building Automation System: A case study."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Nordman, Bruce, Marco Pritoni, Mary Ann Piette, and Anand Prakash."Communication Requirements for Price-Based Grid Coordination."2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2022). DOI

Millstein, Dev, Ryan H Wiser, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, James Hyungkwan Kim, and Amos Ancell."Empirical Estimates of Transmission Value using Locational Marginal Prices." (2022).