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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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2007

Sezgen, Osman, Charles A. Goldman, and P. Krishnarao."Option Value of Electricity Demand Response."Energy 32.2 (2007) 108-119. DOI

Zhou, Nan, Michael A. McNeil, David Fridley, Jiang Lin, Lynn K. Price, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Jayant A. Sathaye, and Mark D. Levine."Energy Use in China: Sectoral Trends and Future Outlook." (2007).

Bressand, Florian, Nan Zhou, and Jiang Lin."al Energy use in commercial building in China: Current situation and future scenarios."2007 ECEEE Summer Study Proceedings (2007).

2006

Lin, Jiang, Nan Zhou, Mark D. Levine, and David Fridley."Achieving China’s Target for Energy Intensity Reduction in 2010: An exploration of recent trends and possible future scenarios." (2006).

Siddiqui, Afzal S., and Chris Marnay."Addressing an Uncertain Future Using Scenario Analysis." (2006) 24.

Eto, Joseph H, Douglas R. Hale, and Bernard Lesieutre."Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies: A Review of Recent Benefit-Cost Studies of RTOs."The Electricity Journal 19.10 (2006) 50-62. DOI

Barmack, Matthew, Edward P Kahn, Susan Tierney, and Charles A. Goldman."A Regional Approach to Market Monitoring in the West." (2006) 85.

Hopper, Nicole C., Charles A. Goldman, and Jeff Schlegel."Energy Efficiency in Western Utility Resource Plans: Impacts on Regional Resource Assessment and Support for WGA Policies." (2006) 68.

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2006)." (2006).

U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, , U.S. Department of Energy, and Joseph H Eto."Recommendation 12: The Relationship between Competitive Power Markets and Grid Reliability."U.S-Canada Power System Outage Task Force (2006).

Sathaye, Jayant A., Stephane de la Rue du Can, Satish Kumar, Maithili Iyer, Christina Galitsky, Amol A. Phadke, Michael A. McNeil, Lynn K. Price, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Srinivasan Padmanabhan."Implementing End-use Efficiency Improvements in India: Drawing from Experience in the US and Other Countries." (2006).

Gumerman, Etan, Peter T. Chan, Bernard Lesieutre, Chris Marnay, and Juan Wang."Modeling Interregional Transmission Congestion in the National Energy Modeling System." (2006) 74.

Eto, Joseph H."Maintain, Enhance, and Improve Reliability of California’s Electric System under Restructuring." (2006).

2005

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Douglas R. Hale."A Review of Recent RTO Benefit-Cost Studies: Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies." (2005) 61.

Lesieutre, Bernard."Improving Dynamic Load and Generator Response Performance Tools." (2005) 74.

Eto, Joseph H."The Value of Economic Dispatch: A Report to Congress Pursuant to Section 1234 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005." (2005).

Bolinger, Mark, and Ryan H. Wiser."Balancing Cost and Risk: The Treatment of Renewable Energy in Western Utility Resource Plans." (2005) 100.

Gumerman, Etan, and Chris Marnay."Scenarios for Benefits Analysis of Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment." (2005) 49.

Cohen, Jesse, Jennifer L. Edwards, and Chris Marnay."U.S. Regional Energy Demand Forecasts Using NEMS and GIS." (2005) 96.

Sinton, Jonathan E., Rachel E. Stem, Nathaniel T. Aden, Mark D. Levine, Tyler J. Dillavou, David Fridley, Yu Joe Huang, Joanna I. Lewis, Jiang Lin, Aimee T. McKane, Lynn K. Price, Ryan H. Wiser, Nan Zhou, and Jean Y. Ku."Evaluation of China's Energy Strategy Options." (2005).

Sathaye, Jayant A., and Amol A. Phadke."Cost and carbon emissions of coal and combined cycle power plants in India: international implications." (2005).

2004

Wiser, Ryan H., and Mark Bolinger."An Overview of Alternative Fossil Fuel Price and Carbon Regulation Scenarios." (2004) 37.

Lesieutre, Bernard, Emily S. Bartholomew, Joseph H Eto, Douglas R. Hale, and Thanh Luong."The Potential Impacts of a Competitive Wholesale Market in the Midwest: A Preliminary Examination of Centralized Dispatch." (2004) 75.

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Steven E. Widergren."Transmission-Planning Research and Development Scoping Project."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2004) 82.

Mobasheri, Fred, Margaret Cheng, Jaime Medina, and Joseph H Eto."Economic Evaluation of Transmission Interconnection in a Restructured Market."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 48.