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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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2012

Shen, Bo, Chun Chun Ni, Girish Ghatikar, and Lynn K Price."What China Can Learn from International Experiences in Developing a Demand Response Program."ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2012).

Marnay, Chris, Steven Lanzisera, Michael Stadler, and Judy Lai."Building Scale DC Microgrids."2012 IEEE Energytech (2012).

Bedoya, Iván Dario, Francisco J Cadavid, Samveg Saxena, Robert W Dibble, Salvador Aceves, and Daniel Flowers."A Sequential Chemical Kinetics-CFD-Chemical Kinetics Methodology to Predict HCCI Combustion and Main Emissions."SAE 2012 World Congress & Exhibition, April 24, 2012 (2012). DOI

Olsen, Daniel, Sasank Goli, and Aimee T McKane."Examining Synergies between Energy Management and Demand Response: A Case Study at Two California Industrial Facilities." (2012).

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).

Marnay, Chris, Nicholas DeForest, and Judy Lai."A Green Prison: The Santa Rita Jail Campus Microgrid." (2012).

Ghatikar, Girish, Aimee T McKane, Sasank Goli, Peter L Therkelsen, and Daniel Olsen."Assessing the Control Systems Capacity for Demand Response in California Industries." (2012).

Fisk, William J, Douglas R Black, and Gregory Brunner."Changing Ventilation Rates in U.S. Offices: Implications for Health, Work Performance, Energy, and Associated Economics."Building and Environment 47 (2012) 368-372. DOI

Marnay, Chris, Nan Zhou, Min Qin, and John Romankiewicz."Lessons Learned from Microgrid Demonstrations Worldwide." (2012).

Bode, Josh L, Michael J Sullivan, and Joseph H Eto."Measuring Short-term Air Conditioner Demand Reductions for Operations and Settlement." (2012) 120.

Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, and Kevin Porter."The cost of transmission for wind energy in the United States: A review of transmission planning studies."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16.1 (2012) 19. DOI

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Joseph H Eto, Gonçalo Cardoso, Andrea A Mammoli, Hans Barsun, Richard Burnett, David Klapp, and Judy Lai."Web-Based Economic and Environmental Optimization of Microgrids."2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (2012). DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, Nance Matson, and Mary Ann Piette."Demand Response Opportunities and Enabling Technologies for Data Centers: Findings From Field Studies." (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).

Kiliccote, Sila, Phillip N Price, Mary Ann Piette, Geoffrey C Bell, Steve Pierson, Edward Koch, Jeremy Carnam, Hugo Pedro, John Hernandez, and Albert K Chiu."Field Testing of Automated Demand Response for Integration of Renewable Resources in California’s Ancillary Services Market for Regulation Products." (2012).

Searle, Justin, and Charles McParland."HAN Attack Surface and the Open Smart Energy Gateway Project." (2012).

2011

Ghatikar, Girish, and Rolf Bienert."Smart Grid Standards and Systems Interoperability: A Precedent with OpenADR."Grid-Interop 2011 (2011).

Mathieu, Johanna L, Duncan S Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Variability in Automated Responses of Commercial Buildings and Industrial Facilities to Dynamic Electricity Prices."Energy and Buildings 43.12 (2011) 3322-3330. DOI

Haas, Reinhard, Hans Auer, and Michael Stadler."Introducing Competition in the Western European electricity market: A Critical Review."ENER Forum 2. Monitoring the progress of the implementation of the EU Gas and Electricity Directives: Are European markets becoming competitive? November 15-16, 2011 (2011).

Groissböck, Markus, Michael Stadler, Thomas Edlinger, Afzal S Siddiqui, Somayeh Heydari, and Eugenio Perea."The First Step for Implementing a Stochastic based Energy Management System at Campus Pinkafeld."E-nova International Congress, November 24-25, 2011 (2011).

Cappers, Peter, Andrew D Mills, Charles A Goldman, Ryan H Wiser, and Joseph H Eto."Mass Market Demand Response and Variable Generation Integration Issues: A Scoping Study." (2011) 76.

Morris, Greg Young, Chad Abbey, Geza Joos, and Chris Marnay."A Framework for the Evaluation of the Cost and Benefits of Microgrids."CIGRÉ International Symposium, The electric power system of the future - Integrating supergrids and microgrids (2011).

Marnay, Chris, Bruce Nordman, and Judy Lai."Future Roles of Milli-, Micro-, and Nano- Grids."CIGRÉ International Symposium The electric power system of the future - Integrating supergrids and microgrids (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).

Mathieu, Johanna L, Phillip N Price, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Quantifying Changes in Building Electricity Use, with Application to Demand Response."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2.3 (2011) 507-518. DOI