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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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2011

Lasseter, Robert H, Joseph H Eto, Ben Schenkman, John Stevens, Harry T Volkommer, David Klapp, Ed Linton, Hector Hurtado, and Joyashree Roy."CERTS Microgrid Laboratory Test Bed."IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 26.1 (2011). DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Ed Saribey, and Sila Kiliccote."A Demand Response (DR) Event: Benefits, Strategies, Automation and Future of DR." (2011).

Fisk, William J, Douglas R Black, and Gregory Brunner."Benefits and costs of improved IEQ in offices."Indoor Air 21.3 (2011) 357–367. DOI

Saxena, Samveg, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W Dibble."Characterization of HCCI ringing behavior using ion sensors." (2011).

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, David S Watson, and Girish Ghatikar."DR Technologies, Strategies and Case Studies." (2011).

Kiliccote, Sila."DR Tools." (2011).

Mathieu, Johanna L, Duncan S Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Examining Uncertainty in Demand Response Baseline Models and Variability in Automated Response to Dynamic Pricing."2011 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (2011). DOI

Bedoya, Iván Dario, Samveg Saxena, Francisco J Cadavid, Robert W Dibble, and Martin Wissink."Experimental evaluation of strategies to increase the operation range of a biogas HCCI engine for power generation."Applied Energy 97 (2011) 618-629. DOI

Bedoya, Iván Dario, Samveg Saxena, Francisco J Cadavid, Robert W Dibble, and Martin Wissink."Experimental study of biogas combustion characteristics and emissions in a HCCI engine for power generation." 1.53 (2011) 154-162.

Bedoya, Iván Dario, Samveg Saxena, Francisco J Cadavid, and Robert W Dibble."Exploring Strategies for Reducing High Inlet Temperature Requirements and Allowing Optimal Operating Conditions in a Biogas Fueled HCCI Engine for Power Generation."ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 7.134 (2011).

DeFilippo, A, Samveg Saxena, Vi H Rapp, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W Dibble."Extending the lean flammability limit of gasoline using a microwave assisted sparkplug." (2011).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, David S Watson, and Girish Ghatikar."Future of DR." (2011).

Saxena, Samveg, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W Dibble."Increasing the signal-to-noise ratio of sparkplug ion sensors through addition of a potassium acetate fuel additive."Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 33.2 (2011) 3081-3088. DOI

Saxena, Samveg, Jyh-Yuan Chen, and Robert W Dibble."Maximizing power output in an automotive scale multi-cylinder HCCI engine."SAE World Congress (2011). DOI

Koch, Edward, and Sila Kiliccote."Role of Standard Demand Response Signals for Advanced Automated Aggregation."Grid-Interop 2011 (2011).

2010

Stadler, Michael, Afzal S Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, Hirohisa Aki, and Judy Lai."Control of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Optimal DER Technology Investment and Energy Management in Zero-Net-Energy Buildings."European Transactions on Electrical Power 21.2 (2010) 1291-1309. DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Florence Bonnet, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Introduction to the Buildings Sector Module of SEDS." (2010).

Olsen, Daniel, Sasank Goli, David Faulkner, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response in the California Cement Industry." (2010).

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Nicholas DeForest, Florence Bonnet, and Judy Lai."Behavioral Aspects in Simulating the Future US Building Energy Demand."2010 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference (2010).

Stadler, Michael, Nicholas DeForest, Florence Bonnet, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, and Trucy Phan."Simulation of the GHG Abatement Potentials in the U.S. Building Sector by 2050."29th USAEE/IAEE Annual North American Conference, October 14-16, 2010 (2010).

Stadler, Michael, Nicholas DeForest, Chris Marnay, Florence Bonnet, Judy Lai, and Trucy Phan."Simulation of the GHG Abatement Potentials in the U.S. Building Sectory By 2050."29th USAEE/IAEE Annual North American Conference, October 14-16, 2010 (2010) 15.

Stadler, Michael, Chris Marnay, Judy Lai, Afzal S Siddiqui, Tanachai Limpaitoon, Trucy Phan, Olivier Mégel, Jessica Chang, and Nicholas DeForest."Storage Viability and Optimization Web Service." (2010) 61.

Stadler, Michael, Ilan Momber, Olivier Mégel, Tomás Gómez, Chris Marnay, Sebastian Beer, Judy Lai, and Vincent S Battaglia."The added economic and environmental value of plug-in electric vehicles connected to commercial building microgrids."2nd European Conference on SmartGrids and E-Mobility, October 20 -21, 2010 (2010).

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser."Implications of Wide-Area Geographic Diversity for Short- Term Variability of Solar Power." (2010) 48.

Thompson, Lisa, Alexander B Lekov, Aimee T McKane, and Mary Ann Piette."Opportunities for Open Automated Demand Response in Wastewater Treatment Facilities in California - Phase II Report. San Luis Rey Wastewater Treatment Plant Case Study." (2010).