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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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2004

Lee, Kyoung-ho, and James E Braun."Development and Application of an Inverse Building Model for Demand Response in Small Commercial Buildings."SimBuild 2004, IBPSA-USA National Conference (2004).

Black, Douglas R, Tracy L Thatcher, Richard G Sextro, William W Delp, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Emily E Wood, Jean C Deputy, Toshifumi Hotchi, Mark R Sippola, and Douglas P Sullivan."Joint Urban 2003: Indoor Measurements Final Data Report." (2004).

Piette, Mary Ann."Pre-Cooling and Demand Response: Introductions and Overview." (2004).

Moezzi, Mithra M, Charles A Goldman, Osman Sezgen, Ranjit Bharvirkar, and Nicole C Hopper."Real Time Pricing and the Real Live Firm."2004 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2004).

Xu, Peng."Results of from Santa Rosa Federal Building." (2004).

Partners, Inc Flexo Hiner &."Summary Report of Pre-Cooling and SCE Energy$mart ThermostSM Focus Groups." (2004).

Braun, James E."Tool Development for Thermal Mass." (2004).

2003

Stadler, Michael, and Hans Auer."Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der verbraucherseitigen Energieeffizienz in liberalisierten Strommärkten und deren Beitrag für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung in Österreich." (2003).

Auer, Hans, Michael Stadler, Thomas Schuster, Hans Taus, Lars Henrik Nielsen, John Twidell, and Derek Jan Swider."Pushing a least cost integration of green electricity into the European grid, GreenNet. Cost and Technical Constraints of RES-E Grid Integration, Work Package 2." (2003).

Lawton, Leora, Michael J Sullivan, Kent Van Liere, Aaron Katz, and Joseph H Eto."A Framework and Review of Customer Outage Costs: Integration and Analysis of Electric Utility Outage Cost Surveys." (2003) 86.

Budhraja, Vikram S, Fred Mobasheri, Margaret Cheng, Jim Dyer, Eduyng Castaño, and Stephen Hess."California’s Electricity Generation and Transmission Interconnection Needs Under Alternative Scenarios."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 42.

Herter, Karen, Patrick McAuliffe, and Arthur H Rosenfeld."Cost-effectiveness of price response in the residential sector: Preliminary findings from the California experience."3rd International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting (EEDAL) (2003).

Eto, Joseph H."Interim Report: Causes of the August 14th Blackout in the United States and Canada." (2003).

Kirby, Brendan J, and John D Kueck."Spinning Reserve from Pump Load: A Technical Findings Report to the California Department of Water Resources."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 58.

Bartholomew, Emily S, Afzal S Siddiqui, Chris Marnay, and Shmuel S Oren."The New York Transmission Congestion Contract Market: Is It Truly Working Efficiently?."The Electricity Journal 16.9 (2003) 14-24. DOI

Stadler, Michael."Die Notwendigkeit von verbraucherseitigen Maßnahmen und elastischen Nachfragekurven für die Marktperformance in liberalisierten Strommärkten: Der Fall Österreich."OVE Workshop Intelligenter Strom (2003).

Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto."Electricity Transmission Congestion Costs: A Review of Recent Reports." (2003) 53.

Lasseter, Robert H, Abbas A Akhil, Chris Marnay, John Stephens, Jeffery E Dagle, Ross T Guttromson, A. A Sakis Meliopoulous, Robert J Yinger, and Joseph H Eto."Integration of Distributed Energy Resources: The CERTS MicroGrid Concept."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 32.

Martinez, Carlos A, Jim Dyer, and Mark Skowronski."Real-Time Voltage Monitoring and VAR Management System."Consultant Report to the California Energy Commission (2003) 20.

Akhil, Abbas A, Chris Marnay, and Timothy E Lipman."Review of Test Facilities for Distributed Energy Resources." (2003) 45.

Martinez, Carlos A, Jim Dyer, and Mark Skowronski."Supplier and Control Area Performance Monitoring System: Utilization of Grid-3P for Automatic Generation Control (AGC), Frequency Response Reserves (FRR) and Ancillary Services (AS) Regulation."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2003) 20.

Firestone, Ryan M, Charles Creighton, Owen C Bailey, Chris Marnay, and Michael Stadler."A Business Case for On-Site Generation: The BD Biosciences Pharmingen Project." (2003) 86.

Braun, James E."Load Control using Building Thermal Mass."ASME Journal of Solar Engineering 125 (2003) 292-301.

Budhraja, Vikram S, Jim Dyer, and Stephen Hess."Planning for California's Future Transmission Grid Review of Transmission System, Strategic Benefits, Planning Issues And Policy Recommendations."Consultant Report to the California Energy Commission (2003) 30.

Martinez, Carlos A."Real-Time Performance Monitoring Tools for Wide-Area Operations and Competitive Markets in the Electricity Industry." IEEE General Meeting, Toronto, Canada (2003).