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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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2002

Eto, Joseph H, Fernando L. Alvarado, Jeffery E. Dagle, John F. Hauer, Steven E. Widergren, George Gross, Thomas J. Overbye, Eric Hirst, Brendan J. Kirby, David H. Meyer, Shmuel S. Oren, and Richard Sedano."National Transmission Grid Study (2002)." (2002).

Hirst, Eric, and Brendan J. Kirby."Transmission Planning and the Need for New Capacity." (2002) 133.

Meyer, David H., and Richard Sedano."Transmission Siting and Permitting." (2002) 51.

Alvarado, Fernando L., and Shmuel S. Oren."Transmission System Operation and Interconnection." (2002) 36.

Price, Lynn K., Chris Marnay, Jayant A. Sathaye, Scott Murtishaw, Diane C. Fisher, and Amol A. Phadke."Development of methodologies for calculating greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation for the California climate action registry."International Emissions Inventory Conference 12 (2002).

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.

2001

Bolinger, Mark, Ryan H. Wiser, and William H. Golove."Revisiting the “Buy versus Build” Decision for Publicly Owned Utilities in California Considering Wind and Geothermal Resources." (2001) 25.

2000

Siddiqui, Afzal S.."Managing Electricity Reliability Risk Through the Futures Markets." (2000) 38.

Golove, William H., Rodrigo Prudencio, Ryan H. Wiser, and Charles A. Goldman."Electricity Restructuring and Value- Added Services: Beyond the Hype." (2000) 15.

1999

Ivey, Mark, Abbas A. Akhil, David Robinson, Kevin Stamber, Jason Stamp, and Kelvin Chu."Accommodating Uncertainty in Planning and Operations."CERTS Grid of the Future Project Team (1999) 46.

Golove, William H., Timothy Beatty, Ryan H. Wiser, and Charles A. Goldman."Electricity Restructuring and Value-Added Services: Does Direct Access Make a Difference." (1999) 12.

Eto, Joseph H."Grid of the Future White Papers Project Executive Summary." (1999).

Adamson, , Dan, Joseph H Eto, John F. Hauer, Brendan J. Kirby, John D. Kueck, Carlos A. Martinez, George Gross, and Mark Ivey."Workshop on Electric Transmission Reliability: DOE/CERTS Workshop Report and White Papers." (1999).

1998

Golove, William H., Charles A. Goldman, and Steven J. Pickle."Purchasing Energy and Related Services in a Restructured Electricity Industry." (1998) 11.

Stoft, Steven, Timothy N Belden, Charles A. Goldman, and Steven J. Pickle."Primer on Electricity Futures and Other Derivatives." (1998) 84.

Golove, William H., Charles A. Goldman, and Steven J. Pickle."Purchasing Power and Related Services: A Window into Customer Preferences." (1998) 7.

1997

Golove, William H., and Leon J. Schipper."Restraining carbon emissions: measuring energy use and efficiency in the USA." (1997) 10.

Stoft, Steven."How Financial Transmission Rights Curb Market Power." (1997) 41.

Stoft, Steven."The Effect of the Transmission Grid on Market Power." (1997) 32.

Eto, Joseph H, and Mithra M. Moezzi."Metered Residential Cooling Loads: Comparison of Three Models."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 12.2 (1997). DOI

Pagliano, Lorenzo, Joseph H Eto, and Roberto Caponio."The Restructuring of the Italian Electricity Sector: Proposals for the Inclusion of Objectives for Increased Energy Efficiency and Renewables Exploitation."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) 1997 Summer Study (1997).

1996

Stoft, Steven."Analysis of the California WEPEX Applications to FERC." (1996) 68.

Busch, John F., and Joseph H Eto."Estimation of Avoided Costs for Electric Utility Demand-side Planning."Energy Sources 18 (1996) 28. DOI

1995

Kahn, Edward P, and Steven Stoft."Organization of Bulk Power Markets: A Concept Paper." (1995).

Busch, John F., and G. Alan Comnes."Resource Planning for Gas Utilities: Using a Model to Analyze Pivotal Issues." (1995) 107.