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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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2004

Partners, Inc Flexo Hiner &."Summary Report of Pre-Cooling and SCE Energy$mart ThermostSM Focus Groups." (2004).

Braun, James E."Tool Development for Thermal Mass." (2004).

2003

Stadler, Michael, and Hans Auer."Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der verbraucherseitigen Energieeffizienz in liberalisierten Strommärkten und deren Beitrag für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in Österreich." (2003).

Auer, Hans, Michael Stadler, Thomas Schuster, Hans Taus, Lars Henrik Nielsen, John Twidell, and Derek Jan Swider."Pushing a least cost integration of green electricity into the European grid, GreenNet. Cost and Technical Constraints of RES-E Grid Integration, Work Package 2." (2003).

Herter, Karen, Patrick McAuliffe, and Arthur H Rosenfeld."Cost-effectiveness of price response in the residential sector: Preliminary findings from the California experience."3rd International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL) (2003).

Stadler, Michael."Die Notwendigkeit von verbraucherseitigen Maßnahmen und elastischen Nachfragekurven für die Marktperformance in liberalisierten Strommärkten: Der Fall Österreich."OVE Workshop Intelligenter Strom (2003).

Lasseter, Robert H, Abbas A Akhil, Chris Marnay, John Stephens, Jeffery E Dagle, Ross T Guttromson, A. A Sakis Meliopoulous, Robert J Yinger, and Joseph H Eto."Integration of Distributed Energy Resources: The CERTS MicroGrid Concept."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 32.

Akhil, Abbas A, Chris Marnay, and Timothy E Lipman."Review of Test Facilities for Distributed Energy Resources." (2003) 45.

Firestone, Ryan M, Charles Creighton, Owen C Bailey, Chris Marnay, and Michael Stadler."A Business Case for On-Site Generation: The BD Biosciences Pharmingen Project." (2003) 86.

Braun, James E."Load Control using Building Thermal Mass."ASME Journal of Solar Engineering 125 (2003) 292-301.

Siddiqui, Afzal S, Ryan M Firestone, Srijay Ghosh, Michael Stadler, Jennifer L Edwards, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Energy Resources with Combined Heat and Power Applications." (2003) 124.

Haas, Reinhard, and Michael Stadler."Investment Costs for Transmission and Distribution Lines World-Wide Until 2030." (2003).

Bailey, Owen C, Charles Creighton, Ryan M Firestone, Chris Marnay, and Michael Stadler."Distributed Energy Resources in Practice: A Case Study Analysis and Validation of LBNL’s Customer Adoption Model." (2003) 209.

Kueck, John D, Robert H Staunton, Solomon D Labinov, and Brendan J Kirby."Microgrid Energy Management System."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003).

Black, Douglas R, Tracy L Thatcher, William W Delp, Elisabeth A Derby, Sheng-Chieh Chang, and Richard G Sextro."Data summary report of commercial building experiments in Salt Lake City, UT from May 17 to June 10, 2002." (2003).

Stadler, Michael, Hans Auer, and Claus Huber."Ein Modell zur Analyse und Bewertung von Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der verbraucherseitigen Energieeffizienz in liberalisierten Strommärkten."Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien (2003).

Resch, Gustav, Hans Auer, Michael Stadler, Lars Henrik Nielsen, and John Twidell."Pushing a least cost integration of green electricity into the European grid, GreenNet. Dynamics and basic interactions of RES-E with the grid, switchable loads and storages, work package 1." (2003).

2002

Haas, Reinhard, Michael Stadler, and Hans Auer."Prognose der Entwicklung der leistungsmäßigen Nachfrage nach Strom in Österreich." (2002).

Haas, Reinhard, Hans Auer, and Michael Stadler."Entwicklung der Marktpreise für Strom in ausgewählten europäischen Ländern." (2002).

Stadler, Michael, Jennifer L Edwards, Ryan M Firestone, Chris Marnay, Srijay Ghosh, and Afzal S Siddiqui."Auswirkungen einer CO₂-Steuer auf Dezentrale Energieversorgungsunternehmen mit Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung und deren Interaktion mit dem Verteilnetz, analysiert am Beispiel eines städtischen Mikronetzes."Energiegespräche, September 24, 2002 (2002).

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Chris Marnay, Etan Gumerman, Peter T Chan, Gregory J Rosenquist, and Julie G Osborn."Investigation of Residential Central Air Conditioning Load Shapes in NEMS." (2002) 41.

Bailey, Owen C, Boubékeur Ouaglal, Emily S Bartholomew, Chris Marnay, and Norman Bourassa."An Engineering-Economic Analysis of Combined Heat and Power Technologies in a μGrid Application." (2002) 72.

Goldman, Charles A, Grayson C Heffner, and Galen L Barbose."Customer Load Participation in Wholesale Markets: Summer 2001 Results, Lessons Learned and “Best Practices”." (2002) 19.

Edwards, Jennifer L, Chris Marnay, Emily S Bartholomew, Boubékeur Ouaglal, Afzal S Siddiqui, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Assessment of μGrid Distributed Energy Resource Potential Using DER-CAM and GIS." (2002) 62.

Stadler, Michael, Hans Auer, and Reinhard Haas."Die zunehmende Bedeutung von dynamischen Tarifmodellen in liberalisierten europäischen Strommärkten."Energieinnovationssymposium TU Graz (2002).