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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)

2026

Smith, Sarah Josephine, Samanvitha Murthy, Marius Stuebs, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Bruce Nordman, Margaret Taylor, Richard E Brown, Doug Black, and Mary Ann Piette."California Price Response Potential Study." (2026).

2025

Leong, Michael, Medha Mahanta, Clara Yin, Timothy Jairus Garcia, Zach Tan, Anand Prakash, Doug Black, and Rongxin Yin."DFAT: A web-based toolkit for estimating demand flexibility in building-to-grid integration."SoftwareX 30 (2025) 102131. DOI

2024

Hovsapian, Rob, Sanjeev Pannala, Cliff Loughmiller, Doug Black, Nicolas Gurule, David Tucker, and Andrew Wiedlea."SuperLab 2.0 Showcase: Connecting Five Labs To Tackle Grid Complexity and Unlock Unique Grid Asset Potential." (2024).

2020

Schneider, Kevin, Emma Stuart, Patrick Dalton, Rois Langner, Jeffrey Taft, Paul De Martini, Debra Lew, Fritz Kahrl, Lisa C Schwartz, Juliet Homer, Cesca Miller, Matt Leach, Natalie Mims Frick, Jeremy Twitchell, Andrew D Mills, Doug Black, Jason S MacDonald, and Michael Kintner-Meyer."Integrated Distribution System Planning training for the Midwest/MISO region." (2020).