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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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2013

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, Mary Ann Piette, Janie Page, Sila Kiliccote, Charles McParland, and David S Watson."Demonstration and Results of Grid Integrated Technologies at the Demand to Grid Laboratory (D2G Lab): Phase I Operations Report." (2013).

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, and Chandrayee Basu."Expanding Buildings-to-Grid (B2G) Objectives in India." (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).

Gopal, Anand R, Laura Schewel, Samveg Saxena, and Amol A Phadke."The Transportation Leapfrog: Using Smart Phones to Collect Driving Data and Model Fuel Economy in India." (2013).

Greacen, Chris, Richard Engel, and Thomas Quetchenbach."A Guidebook on Grid Interconnection and Islanded Operation of Mini-Grid Power Systems Up to 200 kW." (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).

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Ashwin Gambhir."Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy Mini-grids for Energy Access: A Framework for Policy Design." (2013).

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser."Changes in the Economic Value of Variable Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California."18th Annual POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy (2013).

Romankiewicz, John, Min Qu, Chris Marnay, and Nan Zhou."International Microgrid Assessment: Governance, INcentives, and Experience (IMAGINE)."the European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 2013 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency (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).

DeForest, Nicholas, Arman Shehabi, Guillermo Garcia, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Eric R Masanet, Eleanor S Lee, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Delia J Milliron."Regional performance targets for transparent near-infrared switching electrochromic window glazings."Building and Environment 61 (2013) 160 - 168. DOI

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).

Levy, Roger, and Sila Kiliccote."Hawaiian Electric Company Demand Response Roadmap Project Final Report." (2013).

Marks, Gary, Edmund Wilcox, Daniel Olsen, and Sasank Goli."Opportunities for Demand Response in California Agricultural Irrigation: A Scoping Study." (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).

Black, Douglas R, Steven Lanzisera, Judy Lai, Richard E Brown, and Brett C Singer."Evaluation of Miscellaneous and Electronic Device Energy Use in Hospitals."World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development 10.1/2/3 (2013) 113-128. DOI

Saxena, Samveg, and Iván Dario Bedoya."Fundamental Phenomena affecting Low Temperature Combustion and HCCI Engines, High Load Limits and Strategies for Extending these Limits, Progress in Energy & Combustion Science." (2013).

Thiemann, Johannes J, Nicholas DeForest, Michael Stadler, Judy Lai, Wei Feng, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Yu Joe Huang, and Chris Marnay."Identification of Demand Response Potential for Microgrids Using the Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adaption Model, A Case Study of the Alameda County Santa Rita Jail for 2011." (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).

Bedoya, Iván Dario, Samveg Saxena, Francisco J Cadavid, and Robert W Dibble."Numerical Analysis of Biogas Composition Effects on Combustion Parameters and Emissions in Biogas Fueled HCCI Engines for Power Generation."ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 135.7 (2013).

Harper, Meg."Review of Strategies and Technologies for Demand-‐Side Management on Isolated Mini-‐Grids." (2013).

Addy, Nathan J, Johanna L Mathieu, Sila Kiliccote, and Duncan S Callaway."Understanding the Effect of Baseline Modeling Implementation Choices on Analysis of Demand Response Performance."ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (2013).