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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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2015

Schiller, Steven R."WECC/WREGIS EPA’s Clean Power Plan With a Focus on Energy Efficiency and EM&V." (2015).

Schiller, Steven R."WREGIS Energy Efficiency in EPA’s Clean Power Plan: a brief introduction." (2015).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Aimee T McKane, Craig P Wray, and Peter L Therkelsen."2006-2015 Research Summary of Demand Response Potential in California Industry, Agriculture and Water Sectors." (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Rongpeng Zhang, Aimee T McKane, Peter L Therkelsen, and Tianzhen Hong."Development and Validation of Demand Response Quick Assessment Tool For Refrigerated Warehouses in California." (2015).

Munoz, Francisco D, and Andrew D Mills."Endogenous Assessment of the Capacity Value of Solar PV in Generation Investment Planning Studies."IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 6.4 (2015). DOI

Schiller, Steven R."IEPEC EPA’s Clean Power Plan With a Focus on Energy Efficiency and EM&V." (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, and Douglas R Black."Improvement Of Demand Response Quick Assessment Tool (DRQAT) and Tool Validation Case Studies." (2015).

Olsen, Daniel, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California Agricultural Irrigation." (2015).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, Craig P Wray, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California Wastewater Treatment Facilities." (2015).

Homan, Gregory K, Arian Aghajanzadeh, and Aimee T McKane."Opportunities for Automated Demand Response in California's Dairy Processing Industry." (2015).

Stewart, Emma M, Sila Kiliccote, Daniel Arnold, Alexandra von Meier, and Reza Arghandeh."Accuracy and Validation of Measured and Modeled Data for Distributed PV Interconnection and Control."2015 IEEE PES GM (2015).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B, and Samveg Saxena."Autonomous taxis could greatly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions of US light-duty vehicles."Nature Climate Change 5.9 (2015) 860 - 863. DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Arman Shehabi, James O'Donnell, Guillermo Garcia, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Eleanor S Lee, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Delia J Milliron."United States energy and CO2 savings potential from deployment of near-infrared electrochromic window glazings."Building and Environment 89 (2015) 107 - 117. DOI

Gopal, Anand R, Maggie Witt, Nikit Abhyankar, Colin Sheppard, and Andrew Harris."Battery electric vehicles can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make renewable energy cheaper in India." (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Mary Ann Piette, and Ella Hae Yeon Sung."Diffusion of Automated Grid Transactions Through Energy Efficiency Codes."ECEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, 2015 (2015).

Milan, Christian, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Salman Mashayekh."Modelling of Non-linear CHP Efficiency Curves in Distributed Energy Systems."Applied Energy 148 (2015) 334-347. DOI

Mills, Andrew D, and Ryan H Wiser."Strategies to mitigate declines in the economic value of wind and solar at high penetration in California."Applied Energy 147 (2015) 269 - 278. DOI

Hoffman, Ian M, Steven R Schiller, Annika Todd-Blick, Megan A Billingsley, Charles A Goldman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Energy Savings Lifetimes and Persistence: Practices, Issues and Data." (2015).

Kiliccote, Sila, Gregory K Homan, Robert W Anderson, and John Herdandez."Intermittent Renewable Management Pilot – Phase 2." (2015).

Phadke, Amol A, Arne Jacobson, Won Young Park, Ga Rick Lee, Peter Alstone, and Amit Khare."Powering a Home with Just 25Watts of Solar PV: Super-Efficient Appliances Can Enable Expanded Off-Grid Energy Service Using Small Solar Power Systems." (2015).

Hoffman, Ian M, Gregory M Rybka, Greg Leventis, Charles A Goldman, Lisa C Schwartz, Megan A Billingsley, and Steven R Schiller."The Total Cost of Saving Electricity Through Utility Customer-Funded Energy Efficiency Programs: Estimates at the National, State, Sector and Program Level." (2015).

Page, Janie, Charles McParland, Mary Ann Piette, and Stephen Czarnecki."Design of an Open Smart Energy Gateway for Smart Meter Data Management." (2015).

Granderson, Jessica, Phillip N Price, Stephen Czarnecki, Janie Page, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Development of Diagnostic and M&V Agents, and Implementation in an Occupied Office Environment." (2015).

Alessandro, Pensini, Matthew Robinson, Nicholas Heine, Michael Stadler, and Andrea A Mammoli."Assessment of Grid-friendly Collective Optimization Framework for Distributed Energy Resources."IEEE Power and Energy Society ISGT Asia 2015, 4-6 November 2015 (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Rongxin Yin, Ranjit Deshmukh, and G. G Ganesh Das."Characterization and Effectiveness of Technologies for India’s Electric Grid Reliability and Energy Security."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).