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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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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).

Sparti, Chelsi, Peter H. Larsen, and Tyler Huntington."The Value of Sharing and Consolidating Critical Community, Electricity, and Natural Hazard Information." (2023).

Gorman, Will, Galen L. Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."County-level assessment of behind-the-meter solar and storage to mitigate long duration power interruptions for residential customers."Applied Energy 342 (2023). DOI

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

Gorman, Will, Galen L. Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruptions." (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).

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Myles T. Collins, Stephanie Bieler, Joscha Mueller, Christoph Gehbauer, and Peter H. Larsen."Indiana 21st Century Energy Policy: Emerging Technologies on the Electricity Distribution System." (2020).

2016

Larsen, Peter H.."A Method to Estimate the Costs and Benefits of Undergrounding Electricity Transmission and Distribution lines."Energy Economics 60.November 2016 (2016) 47-61. 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).

2015

Frost & Sullivan, ."Analysis of the US Power Quality Equipment Market." (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Rongxin Yin, Ranjit Deshmukh, and G. Ganesh Das."Characterization and Effectiveness of Technologies for India’s Electric Grid Reliability and Energy Security."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

2013

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Ashwin Gambhir."Sustainable Development of Renewable Energy Mini-grids for Energy Access: A Framework for Policy Design." (2013).

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.