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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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2015

Schiller, Steven R."Energy Efficiency EM&V in EPA’s Clean Power Plan." (2015).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Girish Ghatikar, Rongxin Yin, G. G Ganesh Das, and Sujay Kumar Saha."Estimation of Potential and Value of Demand Response for Industrial and Commercial Consumers in Delhi."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Girish Ghatikar, Ranjit Deshmukh, and Aamir Hussain Khan."Findings from an Advanced Demand Response Smart Grid Project to Improve Electricity Reliability in India."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Price, Phillip N, Nathan J Addy, and Sila Kiliccote."Predictability and Persistance of Demand Response Load Shed in Buildings." (2015).

Stadler, Michael, Salman Mashayekh, Sankar Narayanan, Nicholas DeForest, and Tobias Brandt."Supervisory Controller for PV and Storage Microgrids." (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

Yin, Rongxin, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Linking measurements and models in commercial buildings: A case study for model calibration and demand response strategy evaluation." (2014).

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

Wei, Max, Timothy E Lipman, Ahmad Mayyas, Joshua Chien, Shuk Han Chan, David Gosselin, Hanna Breunig, Michael Stadler, Thomas E McKone, Paul Beattie, Patricia Chong, Whitney G Colella, and Brian D James."A Total Cost of Ownership Model for Low Temperature PEM Fuel Cells in Combined Heat and Power and Backup Power Applications." (2014).

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).

Mondal, A, David Klapp, Mahesh Illindala, and Joseph H Eto."Modeling, Analysis and Evaluation of Smart Load Functionality in the CERTS Microgrid."2014 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) (2014). DOI

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

Bolinger, Mark, and Samantha Weaver."Utility-Scale Solar 2013: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2014).

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).

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, and Girish Ghatikar."Field Experience with and Potential for Multi-time Scale Grid Transactions from Responsive Commercial Buildings."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).

Saxena, Samveg, Amol A Phadke, Anand R Gopal, and Venkat Srinivasan."Understanding fuel savings mechanisms from hybrid vehicles to guide optimal battery sizing for India."International Journal of Powertrains 3.3 (2014) 259-278. DOI

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).

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

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, and Poorvi Rao."Empirical Analysis of the Variability of Wind Generation in India: Implications for Grid Integration." (2014).

Morrow III, William R, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Andrew Sturges, Samveg Saxena, Anand R Gopal, Dev Millstein, Nihar Shah, and Elisabeth A Gilmore."Key Factors Influencing Autonomous Vehicles’ Energy and Environmental Outcome."Road Vehicle Automation (2014) 127-135. DOI