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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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2020

MacDonald, Jason S, Evangelos Vrettos, and Duncan S Callaway."A Critical Exploration of the Efficiency Impacts of Demand Response From HVAC in Commercial Buildings."Proceedings of the IEEE 108.9 (2020) 1623 - 1639. DOI

2014

Kara, Emre C, Michaelangelo D Tabone, Jason S MacDonald, Duncan S Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Quantifying Flexibility of Residential Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Demand Response: A Data-driven Approach." (2014).

MacDonald, Jason S, Sila Kiliccote, Jim Boch, Jonathan Chen, and Robert Nawy."Commercial Building Loads Providing Ancillary Services in PJM."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2014 (2014).

2013

Sullivan, Michael J, Josh L Bode, Bashar Kellow, Sarah Woehleke, and Joseph H Eto."Using Residential AC Load Control in Grid Operations: PG&E's Ancillary Service Pilot."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 4.2 (2013) 1162-1170. DOI

2012

Eto, Joseph H, Nancy J Lewis, David S Watson, Sila Kiliccote, David M Auslander, Igor Paprotny, and Yuri V Makarov."Demand Response as a System Reliability Resource."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2012).

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

Eto, Joseph H, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Eric Parker, Clark Bernier, Paul Young, Dave Sheehan, John D Kueck, and Brendan J Kirby."The Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration--Measuring the Speed and Magnitude of Aggregated Demand Response."2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2012) 2012 - 2019. DOI

2010

Gifford, William, Shawn Bodmann, Paul Young, Joseph H Eto, and Jeremy Laundergan."Customer Impact Evaluation for the 2009 Southern California Edison Participating Load Pilot." (2010) 34.

2009

Eto, Joseph H, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Eric Parker, Clark Bernier, Paul Young, Dave Sheehan, John D Kueck, and Brendan J Kirby."Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration - Phase 2 Findings from the Summer of 2008." (2009) 151.

2007

Eto, Joseph H, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Carlos Torres, Scott Hirth, Robert J Yinger, John D Kueck, Brendan J Kirby, Clark Bernier, Roger Wright, Arup Barat, and David S Watson."Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration." (2007) 71.

Heffner, Grayson C, Charles A Goldman, Brendan J Kirby, and Michael Kintner-Meyer."Loads Providing Ancillary Services: Review of International Experience." (2007).

2006

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Bernard Neenan."Customer Response to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Pricing: Choices and Performance." (2006) 30. DOI

Hopper, Nicole C, Charles A Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."Demand Response from Day-Ahead Hourly Pricing for Large Customers." (2006) 19.

2005

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, Richard Boisvert, Peter Cappers, Donna Pratt, and Kim Butkins."Customer Strategies for Responding to Day-Ahead Market Hourly Electricity Pricing." (2005) 107.

2004

Barbose, Galen L, Charles A Goldman, and Bernard Neenan."A Survey of Utility Experience with Real Time Pricing." (2004) 127.

Goldman, Charles A, Nicole C Hopper, Osman Sezgen, Mithra M Moezzi, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Bernard Neenan, Richard Boisvert, Peter Cappers, and Donna Pratt."Customer Response to Day-ahead Wholesale Market Electricity Prices: Case Study of RTP Program Experience in New York."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 208.

Kirby, Brendan J, and John D Kueck."Demand Response Research Plan to Reflect the Needs of the California Independent System Operator."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 78.

2003

Kirby, Brendan J, and John D Kueck."Spinning Reserve from Pump Load: A Technical Findings Report to the California Department of Water Resources."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 58.

Neenan, Bernard, Donna Pratt, Peter Cappers, James Doane, Jeremey Anderson, Richard Boisvert, Charles A Goldman, Osman Sezgen, Galen L Barbose, Ranjit Bharvirkar, Michael Kintner-Meyer, Steve Shankle, and Derrick Bates."How and Why Customers Respond to Electricity Price Variability: A Study of NYISO and NYSERDA 2002 PRL Program Performance." (2003) 376.

2002

Kirby, Brendan J, and Moonis R Ally."Spinning Reserves from Controllable Packaged Through the Wall Air Conditioner (PTAC) Units." (2002) 62.

Goldman, Charles A, Michael Kintner-Meyer, and Grayson C Heffner."Do "Enabling Technologies" Affect Customer Performance in Price-Responsive Load Programs?."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2002) 16.

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.

Goldman, Charles A, Grayson C Heffner, and Michael Kintner-Meyer."Impact of Enabling Technologies on Customer Load Curtailment Performance: Summer 2001 Results from NYSERDA’s PON 585 and 577 Programs and NYISO’s Emergency Demand Response Program." (2002) 28.

Eto, Joseph H, Charles A Goldman, Grayson C Heffner, Brendan J Kirby, John D Kueck, Michael Kintner-Meyer, Jeffery E Dagle, Timothy D Mount, William Schulze, Robert J Thomas, and Ray Zimmerman."Innovative Developments in Load as a Reliability Resource."IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting (2002) 3. DOI

Weller, G.H."Review of Current Southern California Edison Load Management Programs and Proposal for a New Market-Driven, Mass-Market, Demand-Response Program."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2002) 67.