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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.

Publications: Tools and Data - Energy Planning and Procurement

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2022

Gerke, Brian F, Sarah Josephine Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Jingjing Liu, Richard E Brown, Mary Ann Piette, and Peter Alstone."Overview of Phase 4 of the California Demand Response Potential Study." (2022).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Margaret Pigman."Time-Sensitive Value Calculator." (2022).

2021

Seel, Joachim, and Andrew D Mills."Integrating Cambium Marginal Costs into Electric Sector Decisions: Opportunities to Integrate Cambium Marginal Cost Data into Berkeley Lab Analysis and Technical Assistance." (2021).

Homer, Juliet, Tom McDermott, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Jeremy Twitchell, Natalie Mims Frick, John Fazio, Robert Lempert, and Rui Yang."Integrated Distribution System Planning Training: Innovations in Electricity Modeling." (2021).

2019

Gorman, Will, Andrew D Mills, and Ryan H Wiser."Improving estimates of transmission capital costs for utility-scale wind and solar projects to inform renewable energy policy."Energy Policy (2019). DOI

2016

Jin, Ling, C Anna Spurlock, Sam Borgeson, Daniel Fredman, Liesel Hans, Siddharth Patel, and Annika Todd-Blick."Load Shape Clustering Using Residential Smart Meter Data: a Technical Memorandum." (2016).

2015

Munoz, Francisco D, and Andrew D Mills."Endogenous Assessment of the Capacity Value of Solar PV in Generation Investment Planning Studies."IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 6.4 (2015). DOI

2012

Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, and Kevin Porter."The cost of transmission for wind energy in the United States: A review of transmission planning studies."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16.1 (2012) 19. DOI

2009

Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, and Kevin Porter."The Cost of Transmission for Wind Energy: A Review of Transmission Planning Studies." (2009) 66.

2008

Coughlin, Katie, and Charles A Goldman."Physical Impacts of Climate Change on the Western US Electricity System: A Scoping Study." (2008) 29.

Komiyama, Ryoichi, and Chris Marnay."Japan’s Residential Energy Demand Outlook to 2030 Considering Energy Efficiency Standards “Top-Runner Approach”."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Scaling Up: Building Tomorrow's Solutions (2008).

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

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.

2005

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.

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

2004

Brockett, Debbie, David Fridley, Jieming Lin, and Jiang Lin."A Tale of Five Cities: The China Residential Energy Consumption Survey."ACEEE Summary Study (2004).

2002

Gumerman, Etan, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Chris Marnay."New Method and Reporting of Uncertainty in LBNL National Energy Modeling System Runs." (2002) 29.

Marnay, Chris, Diane C Fisher, Scott Murtishaw, Amol A Phadke, Lynn K Price, and Jayant A Sathaye."Estimating carbon dioxide emissions factors for the California electric power sector."In the Proceedings of the 2002 ACEEE's Summer Study on Energy Efficiency 33 (2002).

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).

1997

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

1994

Akbari, Hashem, Joseph H Eto, Steven J Konopacki, Asim Afzal, Kristin E Heinemeier, and Leo I Rainer."A New Approach to Estimate Commercial Sector End-Use Load Shapes and Energy Use Intensities."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 1994 (1994).

1993

Eto, Joseph H, and Mithra M Moezzi."Analysis of PG&E's Residential End-Use Metered Data to Improve Electricity Demand Forecasts - Final Report." (1993) 150.

Akbari, Hashem, Joseph H Eto, Steven J Konopacki, Asim Afzal, Kristin E Heinemeier, and Leo I Rainer."Integrated Estimation of Commerical Sector End-Use Load Shapes and Energy Use Intensities in the PG&E Service Area." (1993).