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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, 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).

Kim, Joyce Jihyun, Oren Schetrit, Rongxin Yin, and Sila Kiliccote."Demonstration of automated price response in large customers in New York City using Auto-DR and OpenADR." (2014) 63.

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

Mills, Andrew D, Audun Botterud, Jing Wu, Zhi Zhou, Bri-Mathias Hodge, and Mike Heaney."Integrating Solar PV in Utility System Operations." (2014).

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser."Strategies for Mitigating the Reduction in Economic Value of Variable Generation with Increasing Penetration Levels." (2014).

Saxena, Samveg, Nihar Shah, Iván Dario Bedoya, and Amol A Phadke."Understanding Optimal Engine Operating Strategies for Gasoline-Fueled HCCI Engines using Crank-Angle Resolved Exergy Analysis."Applied Energy 114 (2014) 155-163. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, David Riess, and Mary Ann Piette."Analysis of Open Automated Demand Response Deployments in California and Guidelines to Transition to Industry Standards." (2014).

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, and Nihar Shah."Avoiding 100 New Power Plants by Increasing Efficiency of Room Air Conditioners in India: Opportunities and Challenges." (2014).

Hoffman, Ian M, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs." (2014).

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

2013

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser."Changes in the economic value of wind energy and flexible resources at increasing penetration levels in the Rocky Mountain Power Area."Wind Energy 17.11 (2013) 1711 - 1726. DOI

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).

Ma, Ookie, Nasr Alkadi, Peter Cappers, Paul Denholm, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Marissa Hummon, Sila Kiliccote, Jason S MacDonald, Nance Matson, Daniel Olsen, Cody Rose, Michael D Sohn, Michael Starke, Brendan J Kirby, and Mark O'Malley."Demand Response for Ancillary Services."IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid 4 (2013).

Saxena, Samveg, Anand R Gopal, and Amol A Phadke."Electrical consumption of two-, three- and four-wheel light-duty electric vehicles in India."Applied Energy 115 (2013) 582-590. DOI

Shehabi, Arman, Nicholas DeForest, Andrew McNeil, Eric R Masanet, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Eleanor S Lee, Georgeta Masson, Brett A Helms, and Delia J Milliron."U.S. energy savings potential from dynamic daylighting control glazings."Energy and Buildings 66 (2013) 415-423. DOI

Kim, Joyce Jihyun, Rongxin Yin, and Sila Kiliccote."Automated Price and Demand Response Demonstration for Large Customers in New York City using OpenADR."International Conference for Enhanced Building Operations (ICEBO) 2013 (2013).

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser."Changes in the Economic Value of Photovoltaic Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California."IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 3.4 (2013) 1394 - 1402. DOI

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).

Satchwell, Andrew, and Ryan Hledik."Analytical Frameworks to Incorporate Demand Response in Long-term Resource Planning." (2013).

Kim, Joyce Jihyun, Sila Kiliccote, and Rongxin Yin."Automated Demand Response Technologies and Demonstration in New York City using OpenADR." (2013).

Olsen, Daniel, Nance Matson, Michael D Sohn, Cody Rose, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sasank Goli, Sila Kiliccote, Marissa Hummon, David Palchak, Paul Denholm, Jennie Jorgenson, and Ookie Ma."Grid Integration of Aggregated Demand Response, Part 1: Load Availability Profiles and Constraints for the Western Interconnection." (2013).

Bolinger, Mark, and Samantha Weaver."Utility-Scale Solar 2012: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2013).

Hoffman, Ian M, Megan A Billingsley, Steven R Schiller, Charles A Goldman, and Elizabeth Stuart."Energy Efficiency Program Typology and Data Metrics: Enabling Multi-State Analyses Through the Use of Common Terminology." (2013).