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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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2018

Alstone, Peter, Mary Ann Piette, and Peter Schwartz."Integrating Demand Response and Distributed Resources in Planning for Large-scale Renewable Energy Integration."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Gallo, Giulia, Brian F Gerke, Jingjing Liu, Mary Ann Piette, Peter Schwartz, and Peter Alstone."Mobilizing the Anti-Duck Brigade: Technology and Market Pathways for Load-Shifting Demand Response in California."2018 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2018). DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Robert H Lasseter, David Klapp, Amrit S Khalsa, Ben Schenkman, Mahesh Illindala, and Surya Baktiono."The CERTS Microgrid Concept, as Demonstrated at the CERTS/AEP Microgrid Test Bed." (2018).

Millstein, Dev, Joshua Solomon-Culp, Meina Wang, Paul Ullrich, and Craig Collier."Wind energy variability and links to regional and synoptic scale weather."Climate Dynamics (2018). DOI

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Miguel Heleno, and Nicholas DeForest."ROMDST - An Optimal Design Support Tool for Remote, Resilient, and Reliable Microgrids, Phase II - Final Report." (2018).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Marshall English, and Collin English."Opportunities for Electricity Demand Management in Irrigated Agriculture." (2018). DOI

Hoffman, Ian M, Charles A Goldman, Sean Murphy, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Cost of Saving Electricity Through Energy Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: 2009–2015." (2018).

Seel, Joachim, Andrew D Mills, and Ryan H Wiser."Impacts of High Variable Renewable Energy Futures on Wholesale Electricity Prices, and on Electric-Sector Decision Making." (2018).

Mills, Andrew D, Dev Millstein, Seongeun Jeong, Luke Lavin, Ryan H Wiser, and Mark Bolinger."Estimating the Value of Offshore Wind Along the United States’ Eastern Coast." (2018). DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Jason S MacDonald, and Douglas R Black."Day ahead optimization of an electric vehicle fleet providing ancillary services in the Los Angeles Air Force Base vehicle-to-grid demonstration."Applied Energy 210 (2018) 987 - 1001. DOI

Jin, Ming, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, and Costas Spanos."Microgrid to enable optimal distributed energy retail and end-user demand response."Applied Energy 210 (2018) 1321 - 1335. DOI

Hartvigsson, Elias, Michael Stadler, and Gonçalo Cardoso."Rural electrification and capacity expansion with an integrated modeling approach."Renewable Energy 115 (2018) 509-520. DOI

Artl, Marie-Louise, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Dean Weng."Hydrogen Storage Applications in Industrial Microgrids."2017 IEEE Green Energy and Smart Systems Conference (2018).

Coignard, Jonathan, Thierry Stephane Nouidui, Christoph Gehbauer, Michael Wetter, Jhi-Young Joo, Philip Top, Rafael Rivera Soto, Brian Kelley, and Emma M Stewart."CyDER - A Co-Simulation Platform for Grid Analysis and Planning for High Penetration of Distributed Energy Resources."2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) (2018). DOI

2017

Page, Janie, Rongxin Yin, Mary Ann Piette, and Richard E Brown."Exploration of PG&E AutoDR Incentive Options." (2017).

Wiser, Ryan H, Andrew D Mills, Joachim Seel, Todd Levin, and Audun Botterud."Impacts of Variable Renewable Energy on Bulk Power System Assets, Pricing, and Costs." (2017).

Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, and Joachim Seel."Power Plant Retirements: Trends and Possible Drivers." (2017).

Heleno, Miguel, Salman Mashayekh, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Rodrigo De Luis."Optimal Sizing and Placement of Distributed Generation: MILP vs PSO Comparison in a Real Microgrid Application."Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems (ISAP) Conference (2017).

Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Utility-Scale Solar 2016: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States." (2017).

Nordman, Bruce, Aditya Khandekar, Michael Spears, and Mattia Pezzola."A Simulation of Local Power Distribution Control Strategies."2017 IEEE Second International Conference on DC Microgrids (ICDCM) (2017). DOI

Armendariz, M, Miguel Heleno, Gonçalo Cardoso, Salman Mashayekh, Michael Stadler, and L Nordström."Coordinated Microgrid Investment and Planning Process Considering the System Operator."Applied Energy 200 (2017) 132-140. DOI

Mashayekh, Salman, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Miguel Heleno, Sreenath Chalil Madathil, Harsha Nagarajan, Russell Bent, Marc Mueller-Stoffels, Xiaonan Lu, and Jianhui Wang."Security-Constrained Design of Isolated Multi-Energy Microgrids."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 33.3 (2017) 2452 - 2462. DOI

Grevatt, Jim, Ian M Hoffman, and Dale Hoffmeyer."Keys to the House: Unlocking Residential Savings With Program Models for Home Energy Upgrades." (2017).

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Salman Mashayekh, and Elias Hartvigsson."The impact of Ancillary Services in optimal DER investment decisions."Energy 130 (2017) 99-112. DOI

Palchak, David, Jaquelin Cochran, Ranjit Deshmukh, Ali Ehlen, Sushil Kumar Soonee, S.R Narasimhan, Mohit Joshi, Brendan McBennett, Michael Milligan, Priya Sreedharan, Ilya Chernyakhovskiy, and Nikit Abhyankar."GREENING THE GRID: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India’s Electric Grid, Vol. I—National Study."Greening the Grid 1 (2017).