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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

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Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2010

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.

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

Lasseter, Robert H, and Joseph H Eto."Value and Technology Assessment to Enhance the Business Case for the CERTS Microgrid." (2010) 97.

Koomey, Jonathan G, Hashem Akbari, Carl Blumstein, Marilyn A Brown, Richard E Brown, Chris Calwell, Sheryl Carter, Ralph Cavanagh, Audrey Chang, David Claridge, Paul P Craig, Richard C Diamond, Joseph H Eto, William Fulkerson, Ashok J Gadgil, Howard S Geller, José Goldemberg, Charles A Goldman, David B Goldstein, Steve E Greenberg, David Hafemeister, Jeffrey P Harris, Hal Harvey, Eric Heitz, Eric Hirst, Holmes Hummel, Daniel M Kammen, Henry Kelly, John A Laitner, Mark D Levine, Amory Lovins, Gil Masters, James E McMahon, Alan K Meier, Michael Messenger, John Millhone, Evan Mills, Steven M Nadel, Bruce Nordman, Lynn K Price, Joseph J Romm, Marc Ross, Michael Rufo, Jayant A Sathaye, Leon J Schipper, Stephen H Schneider, James L Sweeney, Malcolm Verdict, Diana Vorsatz, Devra Wang, Carl Weinberg, Richard Wilk, John Wilson, and Ernst Worrell."Defining a standard metric for electricity savings."Environmental Research Letters 5.1 (2010). DOI

Gifford, William, Shawn Bodmann, Paul Young, Joseph H Eto, and Jeremy Laundergan."Customer Impact Evaluation for the 2009 Southern California Edison Participating Load Pilot." (2010) 34.

2009

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2009)." (2009).

Budhraja, Vikram S, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Transmission Benefit Quantification, Cost Allocation and Cost Recovery."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009) 216.

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, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Eric Parker, Clark Bernier, Paul Young, Dave Sheehan, John D Kueck, and Brendan J Kirby."Demand Response Spinning Reserve Demonstration - Phase 2 Findings from the Summer of 2008." (2009) 151.

Budhraja, Vikram S, Fred Mobasheri, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Alison Silverstein, and Joseph H Eto."Improving Electricity Resource-Planning Processes by Considering the Strategic Benefits of Transmission."The Electricity Journal 22.2 (2009). DOI

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).

2008

Budhraja, Vikram S, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Renewable Resource Integration Project – Scoping Study of Strategic Transmission Operations and Reliability Issues."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 49.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J Lewis."Real-Time Grid Reliability Management (2008): PIER Final Project Report."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 62.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J Lewis."California ISO Phasor Application Summary Report (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix D)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 30.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J Lewis."California ISO Real Time Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) Project: Summary of Survey Results on Methodologies for use in Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix A)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 13.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J Lewis."California ISO Real Time Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) Prototype Functional Specifications/Prototype Development (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix C)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 15.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J Lewis."California ISO Real Time Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) Summary Report (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix B)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 50.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J Lewis."Prototype Phasor-Based Real-Time Monitoring Software Tool - Training Presentation (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix E)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 61.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J Lewis."Prototype Phasor-Based Real-Time Monitoring Software Tool - User Guide (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix F)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 78.

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J Lewis."Scoping Study Report on Improving Load and Generator Response Models (Real-Time Grid Reliability Management PIER Final Project Report Appendix G)."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2008) 82.

Eto, Joseph H, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Tracking the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System: An Assessment of Publicly Available Information Reported to State Public Utility Commissions." (2008) 52.

Force, NERC Real-Time Tools Best Practices Task, and Joseph H Eto."Real-Time Tools Survey Analysis and Recommendations, Final Report." (2008).

Thomas, Robert J, Timothy D Mount, Richard Schuler, William Schulze, Ray Zimmerman, Fernando L Alvarado, Bernard Lesieutre, Philip Overholt, and Joseph H Eto."Efficient and Reliable Reactive Power Supply and Consumption - Insights from an Integrated Program of Engineering and Economics Research."The Electricity Journal 21.1 (2008) 70–81. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, and Nancy J Lewis."Real Time Systems Operations 2006 - 2007."PIER Final Project Report (2008).

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).