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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 scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

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2012

Eto, Joseph H, Nancy J Lewis, David S Watson, Sila Kiliccote, David M Auslander, Igor Paprotny, and Yuri V Makarov."Demand Response as a System Reliability Resource."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2012).

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Peter H Larsen, Annika Todd-Blick, and Emily Fisher."Distribution-level electricity reliability: Temporal trends using statistical analysis."Energy Policy 49 (2012) 243 - 252. DOI

Martinez, Carlos A, and Rafael Campo."NERC Interconnections 2009-2012 Frequency Response Statistics, Typical Frequency Events Profiles, and Observations on NERC-FRI Report Statistics."NERC Interconnections Frequency Response Performance (2012).

Ravikumar, Krishnanjan Gubba."RTDS Testing Final Report." (2012).

Eto, Joseph H, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."A Quantitative Assessment of Utility Reporting Practices for Reporting Electric Power Distribution Events."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2012). DOI

Solutions, Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology, and Advanced Systems Researchers."Reliability Performance Monitoring (RPM) Using Phasor and SCADA Measurements: Prototype Functional Specification for MISO." (2012).

Martinez, Carlos A, Peter W Sauer, and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia."Reliability Performance Monitoring (RPM) Prototype Preliminary Validation Results, User Interface, Deployment Plan, and Field Test." (2012).

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Peter H Larsen, Annika Todd-Blick, and Emily Fisher."An Examination of Temporal Trends in Electricity Reliability Based on Reports from U.S. Electric Utilities." (2012).

Bode, Josh L, Michael J Sullivan, and Joseph H Eto."Measuring Short-term Air Conditioner Demand Reductions for Operations and Settlement." (2012) 120.

Eto, Joseph H, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Eric Parker, Clark Bernier, Paul Young, Dave Sheehan, John D Kueck, and Brendan J Kirby."The Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration--Measuring the Speed and Magnitude of Aggregated Demand Response."2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2012) 2012 - 2019. DOI

Fisher, Emily, Joseph H Eto, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Understanding Bulk Power Reliability: The Importance of Good Data and A Critical Review of Existing Sources."IEEE 45th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) (2012). DOI

2011

Martinez, Carlos A."NERC Control and Reserves Planning Standards Integrated Overview."NERC Balancing Control and Reserves Planning Standards (2011).

Martinez, Carlos A."Interconnections Abnormal Frequency Events Selection Methodology for Supporting Definition of NERC Control Standards."CERTS Research Supporting Reliability Performance Standards (2011).

Klapp, David, R Zimmerly, and J Howard."CERTS Microgrid Mechanical Switch Test Report." (2011).

Eto, Joseph H."CERTS Microgrid Test Bed Phase III Activities." (2011).

Eto, Joseph H, and Robert J Thomas."Computational Needs for the Next Generation Electric Grid Proceedings." (2011) 376.

Lasseter, Robert H, Joseph H Eto, Ben Schenkman, John Stevens, Harry T Volkommer, David Klapp, Ed Linton, Hector Hurtado, and Joyashree Roy."CERTS Microgrid Laboratory Test Bed."IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery 26.1 (2011). DOI

2010

Coughlin, Katie, and Joseph H Eto."Analysis of Wind Power and Load Data at Multiple Time Scales." (2010).

Mackin, Peter, Ron Daschmans, Ben Williams, Brian Haney, Randy Hunt, and Jeff Ellis."Dynamic Simulation Studies of the Frequency Response of the Three U.S. Interconnections with Increased Wind Generation." (2010) 142.

Illian, Howard F."Frequency Control Performance Measurement and Requirements." (2010) 46.

Undrill, John."Power and Frequency Control as it Relates to Wind-Powered Generation." (2010) 94.

Martinez, Carlos A, Song Xue, and Martha Martinez."Review of the Recent Frequency Performance of the Eastern, Western and ERCOT Interconnections." (2010) 63.

Eto, Joseph H, John Undrill, Peter Mackin, Ron Daschmans, Ben Williams, Brian Haney, Randy Hunt, Jeff Ellis, Howard F Illian, Carlos A Martinez, Mark O'Malley, Katie Coughlin, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Use of Frequency Response Metrics to Assess the Planning and Operating Requirements for Reliable Integration of Variable Renewable Generation." (2010) 141.

Solutions, Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology, Carlos A Martinez, L Patterson, and Howard F Illian."CERTS Research Supporting Definition and Validation of a Frequency Response Standard." (2010).

Sullivan, Michael J, Matthew G Mercurio, Josh A Schellenberg, and Joseph H Eto."How to Estimate the Value of Service Reliability Improvements."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2010) 5. DOI