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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) 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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2019

Karali, Nihan, Nikit Abhyankar, Ben Sharpe, and Anup Bandivadekar."Improving fuel efficiency for heavy-duty vehicles of 3.5–12 tonnes in India: Benefits, costs, and environmental impacts." (2019).

2017

Abhyankar, Nikit, Anand R Gopal, Colin Sheppard, Won Young Park, and Amol A Phadke."Techno-Economic Assessment of Deep Electrification of Passenger Vehicles in India." (2017).

2016

Tulabing, Ryan, Rongxin Yin, Nicholas DeForest, Yaping Li, Ke Wang, Taiyou Yong, and Michael Stadler."Modeling Study on Flexible Load’s Demand Response Potentials for Providing Ancillary Services at the Substation Level." (2016).

Yin, Rongxin, Emre C Kara, Yaping Li, Nicholas DeForest, Ke Wang, Taiyou Yong, and Michael Stadler."Quantifying Flexibility of Commercial and Residential Loads for Demand Response using Setpoint Changes." (2016).

Cappers, Peter, Jason S MacDonald, Janie Page, Jennifer Potter, and Emma M Stewart."Future Opportunities and Challenges with Using Demand Response as a Resource in Distribution System Operation and Planning Activities." (2016).

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Cardoso, Salman Mashayekh, Thibault Forget, Nicholas DeForest, Ankit Agarwal, and Anna Schönbein."Value Streams in Microgrids: A Literature Review."Applied Energy 162 (2016) 980-989. DOI

2015

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, Girish Ghatikar, Aimee T McKane, Nance Matson, Janie Page, Jason S MacDonald, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Douglas R Black, and Rongxin Yin."Demand Response Research Center - Final Report." (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Douglas R Black, Mary Ann Piette, and Klaus Schiess."Control of Thermal Energy Storage in Commercial Buildings for California Utility Tariffs and Demand Response." (2015).

Ghatikar, Girish, Salman Mashayekh, Michael Stadler, Rongxin Yin, and Zhenhua Liu."Distributed Energy Systems Integration and Demand Optimization for Autonomous Operations and Electric Grid Transactions."Applied Energy (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Arian Aghajanzadeh, Rongpeng Zhang, Aimee T McKane, Peter L Therkelsen, and Tianzhen Hong."Development and Validation of Demand Response Quick Assessment Tool For Refrigerated Warehouses in California." (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, and Douglas R Black."Improvement Of Demand Response Quick Assessment Tool (DRQAT) and Tool Validation Case Studies." (2015).

Greenblatt, Jeffery B, and Samveg Saxena."Autonomous taxis could greatly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions of US light-duty vehicles."Nature Climate Change 5.9 (2015) 860 - 863. DOI

DeForest, Nicholas, Arman Shehabi, James O'Donnell, Guillermo Garcia, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Eleanor S Lee, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Delia J Milliron."United States energy and CO2 savings potential from deployment of near-infrared electrochromic window glazings."Building and Environment 89 (2015) 107 - 117. DOI

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

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Girish Ghatikar, Rongxin Yin, G. G Ganesh Das, and Sujay Kumar Saha."Estimation of Potential and Value of Demand Response for Industrial and Commercial Consumers in Delhi."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Yin, Rongxin, Girish Ghatikar, Ranjit Deshmukh, and Aamir Hussain Khan."Findings from an Advanced Demand Response Smart Grid Project to Improve Electricity Reliability in India."India Smart Grid Week 2015 (2015).

Stadler, Michael, Salman Mashayekh, Sankar Narayanan, Nicholas DeForest, and Tobias Brandt."Supervisory Controller for PV and Storage Microgrids." (2015).

2014

Steen, David, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Markus Groissböck, Nicholas DeForest, and Chris Marnay."Modeling of Thermal Storage Systems in MILP Distributed Energy Resource Models."Applied Energy 137 (2014) 782-792. DOI

Yin, Rongxin, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Linking measurements and models in commercial buildings: A case study for model calibration and demand response strategy evaluation." (2014).

Brandt, Tobias, Nicholas DeForest, Michael Stadler, and Dirk Neumann."Power Systems 2.0: Designing an Energy Information System for Microgrid Operation."International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2014) (2014).

Kara, Emre C, Michaelangelo D Tabone, Jason S MacDonald, Duncan S Callaway, and Sila Kiliccote."Quantifying Flexibility of Residential Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Demand Response: A Data-driven Approach." (2014).

MacDonald, Jason S, Sila Kiliccote, Jim Boch, Jonathan Chen, and Robert Nawy."Commercial Building Loads Providing Ancillary Services in PJM."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2014 (2014).

DeForest, Nicholas, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Tobias Brandt, and Sankar Narayanan."Enabling Broad Adoption of Distributed PV-Storage Systems Via Supervisory Planning and Control."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2014 (2014).

Saxena, Samveg, Amol A Phadke, Anand R Gopal, and Venkat Srinivasan."Understanding fuel savings mechanisms from hybrid vehicles to guide optimal battery sizing for India."International Journal of Powertrains 3.3 (2014) 259-278. DOI

Morrow III, William R, Jeffery B Greenblatt, Andrew Sturges, Samveg Saxena, Anand R Gopal, Dev Millstein, Nihar Shah, and Elisabeth A Gilmore."Key Factors Influencing Autonomous Vehicles’ Energy and Environmental Outcome."Road Vehicle Automation (2014) 127-135. DOI