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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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2024

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Bill Savings vs. Backup Power: Evaluating operational tradeoffs for home solar+storage systems." (2024).

Lowry, Mark Newton."Alternative Ratemaking Treatments for Grid Resilience Programs." (2024).

Schellenberg, Josh A, and Lisa C Schwartz."Grid Resilience Plans: State Requirements, Utility Practices, and Utility Plan Template." (2024).

Larsen, Peter H, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Alan H Sanstad, Sunhee Baik, Ian Sue Wing, Dan Wei, Adam Rose, Jeremy Smith, Christopher Ramee, and Ridge Peterson."Power Outage Economics Tool: A Prototype for the Commonwealth Edison Service Territory." (2024).

2023

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, and Philip White."Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions." (2023).

Baik, Sunhee, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Will Gorman, and Michael Spears."Backup Power Performance of Solar-plus-Storage Systems during Routine Power Interruptions: A Case Study Application of Berkeley Lab’s PRESTO Model." (2023).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Benjamin D Leibowicz, Thomas Carr, Sunhee Baik, and Peter H Larsen."A Guide for Improved Resource Adequacy Assessments in Evolving Power Systems: Institutional and Technical Dimensions." (2023).

2022

Villa, Daniel, Tyler Schostek, Carlo Bianchi, Madeline McMillan, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."The Multi-scenario Extreme Weather Simulator: Energy Resilience for Mission Assurance." (2022). DOI

2020

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Benjamin Leibowicz, Thomas Carr, Maury Galbraith, and Peter H Larsen."Implications of a regional resource adequacy program on utility integrated resource planning: Study for the Western United States." (2020).

Larsen, Peter H, Megan Lawson, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Severe weather, utility spending, and the long-term reliability of the U.S. power system."Energy 198 (2020). DOI

2019

Sheppard, Colin, Julia Szinai, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R Gopal."Grid Impacts of Electric Vehicles and Managed Charging in California." (2019).

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Heidemarie C Caswell, and David Till."Distribution system versus bulk power system: identifying the source of electric service interruptions in the US."IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution 13.5 (2019) 717-723. DOI

Dunn, Laurel N, Michael D Sohn, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Exploratory analysis of high-resolution power interruption data reveals spatial and temporal heterogeneity in electric grid reliability."Energy Policy 129 (2019) 206 - 214. DOI

Larsen, Peter H, Alan H Sanstad, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Frontiers in the Economics of Widespread, Long-Duration Power Interruptions: Proceedings from an Expert Workshop."Frontiers in the Economics of Widespread, Long-Duration Power Interruptions (2019).

2018

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Joseph H Eto, and Heidemarie C Caswell."Distinguishing Among the Sources of Electric Service Interruptions."2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS) (2018). DOI

Sullivan, Michael J, Myles T Collins, Josh A Schellenberg, and Peter H Larsen."Estimating Power System Interruption Costs: A Guidebook for Electric Utilities." (2018).

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Joseph H Eto, Laurel N Dunn, and Michael D Sohn."Improving the Estimated Cost of Sustained Power Interruptions to Electricity Customers."Energy 153.15 June 2018 (2018) 1038-1047. DOI

Schellenberg, Josh A, and Peter H Larsen."Changes to the Underlying Econometric Models for the Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator." (2018).

2017

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Peter H Larsen, and Joseph H Eto."Evaluating Proposed Investments in Power System Reliability and Resilience: Preliminary Results from Interviews with Public Utility Commission Staff." (2017).

2016

Larsen, Peter H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Joseph H Eto, and James L Sweeney."Recent trends in power system reliability and implications for evaluating future investments in resiliency."Energy 117 (2016) 29 - 46. DOI

Mills, Evan, and Richard B Jones."An Insurance Perspective on U.S. Electric Grid Disruption Costs."The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 41.4 (2016) 555 - 586. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Michael D Sohn, and Heidemarie C Caswell."Evaluating the Performance of the IEEE Standard 1366 Method for Identifying Major Event Days View Document."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 32.2 (2016). DOI

Schellenberg, Josh A, Barney Speckman, and Joseph H Eto."Integrating customer interruption costs into outage management systems."IEEE Transmission and Distribution Conference (2016). DOI

Phillips, Julia A, Kelly E Wallace, Terence Y Kudo, and Joseph H Eto."Onsite and Electric Power Backup Capabilities at Critical Infrastructure Facilities in the United States." (2016).

Allen, Riley, Donna Brutkoski, David Farnsworth, and Peter H Larsen."Sustainable Energy Solutions for Rural Alaska." (2016).