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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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2005

Group, Electric Power, and Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions."Assessment of Reliability and Operational Issues for Integration of Renewable Generation." (2005).

2004

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto."Understanding the Cost of Power Interruptions to U.S. Electricity Consumers." (2004) 70.

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.

Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto."When a Rose Is Not a Rose: A Review of Recent Estimates of Congestion Costs."The Electricity Journal 17.4 (2004). DOI

Eto, Joseph H."Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations." (2004).

Eto, Joseph H, Deepak Divan, and William Brumsickle."Pilot Evaluation of Electricity-Reliability and Power-Quality Monitoring in California’s Silicon Valley with the I-Grid® System." (2004) 49.

2003

Lawton, Leora, Michael J Sullivan, Kent Van Liere, Aaron Katz, and Joseph H Eto."A Framework and Review of Customer Outage Costs: Integration and Analysis of Electric Utility Outage Cost Surveys." (2003) 86.

Budhraja, Vikram S, Fred Mobasheri, Margaret Cheng, Jim Dyer, Eduyng Castaño, and Stephen Hess."California’s Electricity Generation and Transmission Interconnection Needs Under Alternative Scenarios."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 42.

Eto, Joseph H."Interim Report: Causes of the August 14th Blackout in the United States and Canada." (2003).

Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto."Electricity Transmission Congestion Costs: A Review of Recent Reports." (2003) 53.

Budhraja, Vikram S, Jim Dyer, and Stephen Hess."Planning for California's Future Transmission Grid Review of Transmission System, Strategic Benefits, Planning Issues And Policy Recommendations."Consultant Report to the California Energy Commission (2003) 30.

Consulting, KEMA."Analysis and Selection of Analytical Tools to Assess National-Interest Transmission Bottlenecks Final Report." (2003) 53.

Lawton, Leora, Joseph H Eto, Aaron Katz, and Michael J Sullivan."Characteristics and Trends in a National Study of Consumer Outage Costs."Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI) Annual Western Conference (2003) 16.

Divan, Deepak, William Brumsickle, and Joseph H Eto."Assessing I-Grid Web-Based Monitoring for Power Quality and Reliability Benchmarking."IEEE PES DSASC Test Feeder Working Group (2003).

Eto, Joseph H, and John P Stovall."California's Electricity System of the Future: Scenario Analysis in Support of Public-Interest Transmission System R&D Planning." (2003) 61.

Dyer, Jim."U.S. Department of Energy Transmission Bottleneck Project Report." (2003) 100.

2002

Koomey, Jonathan G, Chris Calwell, John A Laitner, Jane Thornton, Richard E Brown, Joseph H Eto, Carrie A Webber, Cathy Cullicott, Robert H Socolow, Dennis Anderson, and John Harte."Sorry, wrong number: The use and misuse of numerical facts in analysis and media reporting of energy issues."Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 2002 27 (2002) 119-158. DOI

Hauer, John F, Thomas J Overbye, Jeffery E Dagle, and Steven E Widergren."Advanced Transmission Technologies: National Transmission Grid Study, Appendix F."National Transmission Grid Study (2002) 45.

Oren, Shmuel S, George Gross, and Fernando L Alvarado."Alternative Business Models for Transmission Investment and Operation: National Transmission Grid Study, Appendix C."National Transmission Grid Study (2002) 38.

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.