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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

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2008

Dudley, Junqiao Han, Mary Ann Piette, and Junqiao Han."Solutions for Summer Electric Power Shortages: Demand Response and Its Application in Air Conditioning and Refrigerating Systems."Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, & Electric Power Machinery 29 (2008) 1-4.

2007

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J Lewis."Real Time Grid Reliability Management 2005: PIER Final Project Report."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2007).

Martinez, Carlos A."NERC Frequency Monitoring and Analysis (FMA) Application." (2007).

Group, Glen Lewis."Strategies to Increase California Food Processing Industry Demand Response Participation: A Scoping Study." (2007).

Marnay, Chris, Ryan M Firestone, Judy Lai, and Giri Venkataramanan."Microgrids for Commercial Building Combined Heat and Power and Power and Heterogeneous Power Quality and Reliability."IEEC 2007 Conference on Active Networks and Sustainable Energy Consumption, Nov. 14-15, 2007 (2007).

Stadler, Michael, Friederich Kupzog, and Peter Palensky."Distributed Energy Resource Allocation and Dispatch: an Economic and Technological Perception."International Journal of Electronic Business Management 5.3 (2007) 182-196.

Firestone, Ryan M."Optimal Real-time Dispatch for Integrated Energy Systems." (2007) 252.

Hatziargyriou, Nikos, Hiroshi Asano, Reza Iravani, and Chris Marnay."Microgrids: An Overview of Ongoing Research, Development, and Demonstration Projects."IEEE Power & Energy Magazine July/August (2007) 19.

Braun, James E."Demand-Limiting Assessment Tool for Small Commercial Buildings." (2007).

Firestone, Ryan M, Frank Ling, Chris Marnay, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Preliminary Estimates of Combined Heat and Power Greenhouse Gas Abatement Potential for California in 2020." (2007) 37.

Piette, Mary Ann, David S Watson, Naoya Motegi, and Sila Kiliccote."Automated Critical Peak Pricing Field Tests: 2006 Pilot Program Description and Results." (2007).

Firestone, Ryan M, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Energy Resources for Carbon Emissions Mitigation."ECEEE Summer Study, June 4-9, 2007 (2007).

Firestone, Ryan M, and Chris Marnay."Distributed Generation Dispatch Optimization under Various Electricity Tariffs."International Journal of Electronic Business Management Vol. 5.Issue 3 (2007) 52.

Kranzl, Lukas, Anselm Brakhage, Pedro Gürtler, Jacky Pett, Mario Ragwitz, and Michael Stadler."Integrating RES & RUE policies: Comparing results from Germany, Luxemburg and Northern Ireland."ECEEE 2007 Summer Study, June 4-9, 2007 (2007).

Marnay, Chris, and Ryan M Firestone."Microgrids: An emerging paradigm for meeting building electricity and heat requirements efficiently and with appropriate energy quality."European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy 2007 Summer Study, 4-9 June 2007 (2007).

Marnay, Chris, Giri Venkataramanan, Michael Stadler, Afzal S Siddiqui, Ryan M Firestone, and Bala Chandran."Optimal Technology Selection and Operation of Microgrids in Commerical Buildings."IEEE 2007 Power Engineering Society General Meeting, June 24-28, 2007 (2007).

Eto, Joseph H, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Carlos Torres, Scott Hirth, Robert J Yinger, John D Kueck, Brendan J Kirby, Clark Bernier, Roger Wright, Arup Barat, and David S Watson."Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration." (2007) 71.

Motegi, Naoya, Mary Ann Piette, David S Watson, Sila Kiliccote, and Peng Xu."Introduction to Commercial Building Control Strategies and Techniques for Demand Response." (2007).

Heffner, Grayson C, Charles A Goldman, Brendan J Kirby, and Michael Kintner-Meyer."Loads Providing Ancillary Services: Review of International Experience." (2007).

Maribu, Karl M, Ryan M Firestone, Chris Marnay, and Afzal S Siddiqui."Distributed Energy Resources Market Diffusion Model."Energy Policy Vol. 35 (2007) 16.

Parashar, Manu, Abhijeet Agarwal, Yuri V Makarov, and Ian Dobson."Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (RTVSA) Tool Functional Specifications For Commercial Grade Application." (2007) 30.

Braun, James E."Demand-Limiting Assessment Tool for Small Commercial Buildings." (2007).

Stadler, Michael, Timothy E Lipman, and Chris Marnay."Aktuelle Trends in der dezentralen KWK Technologie Integration – Das kalifornische Fördermodell und dessen Implikation für die Endenergieeffizienzrichtlinie."Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien, February 14-16, 2007 (2007).

Brackhage, Anselm, Lukas Kranzl, Mario Ragwitz, and Michael Stadler."Invert Simulationen von budgetunabhängigen Instrumenten zur Marktdurchdringung von erneuerbaren Energien im deutschen Wärmemarkt."Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien (2007).

Stadler, Michael, Timothy E Lipman, and Chris Marnay."Current trends of decentralized CHP integration – The Californian investment subsidy system and its implication for the energy efficiency directive." (2007) 16.