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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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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

Publications by Division

Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2018

Eto, Joseph H, Robert H Lasseter, David Klapp, Amrit S Khalsa, Ben Schenkman, Mahesh Illindala, and Surya Baktiono."The CERTS Microgrid Concept, as Demonstrated at the CERTS/AEP Microgrid Test Bed." (2018).

2011

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

2009

Eto, Joseph H, Robert H Lasseter, Ben Schenkman, John Stevens, David Klapp, Harry T Volkommer, Ed Linton, Hector Hurtado, and Jean Roy."Overview of the CERTS microgid laboratory test bed."Integration of Wide-Scale Renewable Resources into the Power Delivery System, CIGRE/IEEE PES Joint Symposium (2009).

Eto, Joseph H, Robert H Lasseter, Ben Schenkman, John Stevens, Harry T Volkommer, David Klapp, Ed Linton, Hector Hurtado, Jean Roy, and Nancy J Lewis."CERTS Microgrid Laboratory Test Bed (California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program Final Report."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009).