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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)

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.

Martinez, Carlos A, Robert W Cummings, Philip Overholt, and Joseph H Eto."Reliability Monitoring: The High-Tech Eye in the Sky."Public Utilities Fortnightly (2007).

2006

Eto, Joseph H, Douglas R Hale, and Bernard Lesieutre."Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies: A Review of Recent Benefit-Cost Studies of RTOs."The Electricity Journal 19.10 (2006) 50-62. DOI

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2006)." (2006).

Force, U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task, U.S Department of Energy, and Joseph H Eto."Recommendation 12: The Relationship between Competitive Power Markets and Grid Reliability."U.S-Canada Power System Outage Task Force (2006).

Nichols, David K, John Stevens, Robert H Lasseter, and Joseph H Eto."Validation of the CERTS Microgrid Concept: The CEC/CERTS Microgrid Testbed."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2006) 3. DOI

Eto, Joseph H."Maintain, Enhance, and Improve Reliability of California’s Electric System under Restructuring." (2006).

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto."Cost of Power Interruptions to Electricity Consumers in the United States (U.S.)." (2006) 33.

2005

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Douglas R Hale."A Review of Recent RTO Benefit-Cost Studies: Toward More Comprehensive Assessments of FERC Electricity Restructuring Policies." (2005) 61.

Eto, Joseph H."The Value of Economic Dispatch: A Report to Congress Pursuant to Section 1234 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005." (2005).

Eto, Joseph H, Manu Parashar, Bernard Lesieutre, and Nancy J Lewis."CA ISO Real Time Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) Project: Summary of Survey Result on Methodologies for use in Real Time Voltage Security Assessment."CAISO Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) (2005) 13.

2004

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, and Joseph H Eto."Understanding the Cost of Power Interruptions to U.S. Electricity Consumers." (2004) 70.

Lesieutre, Bernard, Emily S Bartholomew, Joseph H Eto, Douglas R Hale, and Thanh Luong."The Potential Impacts of a Competitive Wholesale Market in the Midwest: A Preliminary Examination of Centralized Dispatch." (2004) 75.

Eto, Joseph H, Bernard Lesieutre, and Steven E Widergren."Transmission-Planning Research and Development Scoping Project."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2004) 82.

Mobasheri, Fred, Margaret Cheng, Jaime Medina, and Joseph H Eto."Economic Evaluation of Transmission Interconnection in a Restructured Market."Consultant Report prepared for the California Energy Commission (2004) 48.

Lesieutre, Bernard, and Joseph H Eto."When a Rose Is Not a Rose: A Review of Recent Estimates of Congestion Costs."The Electricity Journal 17.4 (2004). DOI

Eto, Joseph H."Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations." (2004).

Eto, Joseph H, Deepak Divan, and William Brumsickle."Pilot Evaluation of Electricity-Reliability and Power-Quality Monitoring in California’s Silicon Valley with the I-Grid® System." (2004) 49.

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.

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

Lawton, Leora, Joseph H Eto, Aaron Katz, and Michael J Sullivan."Characteristics and Trends in a National Study of Consumer Outage Costs."Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI) Annual Western Conference (2003) 16.

Divan, Deepak, William Brumsickle, and Joseph H Eto."A New Approach to Power Quality and Electricity Reliability Monitoring - Case Study Illustrations of the Capabilities of the I-Grid™ System." (2003) 32.

Divan, Deepak, William Brumsickle, and Joseph H Eto."Assessing I-Grid Web-Based Monitoring for Power Quality and Reliability Benchmarking."IEEE PES DSASC Test Feeder Working Group (2003).