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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)

2012

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, James D Fine, Oren Schetrit, Junqiao Han Dudley, and Heather Langford."LEED Demand Response Credit: A Plan for Research towards Implementation."2012 Greenbuild Conference & Expo (2012).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Responsive and Intelligent Building Information and Control for Low-Energy and Optimized Grid Integration."ACEEE 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 12-17, 2012 (2012).

Piette, Mary Ann, Jessica Granderson, Michael Wetter, and Sila Kiliccote."Intelligent Building Energy Information and Control Systems for Low-Energy Operations and Optimal Demand Response."IEEE Design and Test of Computers 29.4 (2012) 8-16. DOI

Ghatikar, Girish, Venkata Ganti, Nance Matson, and Mary Ann Piette."Demand Response Opportunities and Enabling Technologies for Data Centers: Findings From Field Studies." (2012).

Watson, David S, Nance Matson, Janie Page, Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, Karin Corfee, Betty Seto, Ralph Masiello, John Masiello, Lorin Molander, Samuel Golding, Kevin Sullivan, Walt Johnson, and David Hawkins."Fast Automated Demand Response to Enable the Integration of Renewable Resources." (2012).

Kiliccote, Sila, Phillip N Price, Mary Ann Piette, Geoffrey C Bell, Steve Pierson, Edward Koch, Jeremy Carnam, Hugo Pedro, John Hernandez, and Albert K Chiu."Field Testing of Automated Demand Response for Integration of Renewable Resources in California’s Ancillary Services Market for Regulation Products." (2012).

2011

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Ben Rosenblum, R. R Lily Hu, Daniel Harris, Paul A Mathew, Phillip N Price, Geoffrey C Bell, Srinivas Katipamula, and Michael Brambley."Energy Information Handbook: Applications for Energy-Efficient Building Operations." (2011).

Mathieu, Johanna L, Phillip N Price, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Quantifying Changes in Building Electricity Use, with Application to Demand Response."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2.3 (2011) 507-518. DOI

Goli, Sasank, Daniel Olsen, Aimee T McKane, and Mary Ann Piette."2008-2010 Research Summary: Analysis of Demand Response Opportunities in California Industry." (2011).

Price, Phillip N, Johanna L Mathieu, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Using Whole-Building Electric Load Data in Continuous or Retro-Commissioning."19th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2011).

Page, Janie, Sila Kiliccote, Junqiao Han Dudley, Mary Ann Piette, Albert K Chiu, Bashar Kellow, Edward Koch, and Paul Lipkin."Automated Demand Response Technology Demonstration Project for Small and Medium Commercial Buildings." (2011).

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, and Girish Ghatikar."Building Energy Information Systems: User Case Studies."Energy Efficiency 4.1 (2011) 17-30. DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Ed Saribey, and Sila Kiliccote."A Demand Response (DR) Event: Benefits, Strategies, Automation and Future of DR." (2011).

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, David S Watson, and Girish Ghatikar."DR Technologies, Strategies and Case Studies." (2011).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, David S Watson, and Girish Ghatikar."Future of DR." (2011).

2010

Thompson, Lisa, Alexander B Lekov, Aimee T McKane, and Mary Ann Piette."Opportunities for Open Automated Demand Response in Wastewater Treatment Facilities in California - Phase II Report. San Luis Rey Wastewater Treatment Plant Case Study." (2010).

Yin, Rongxin, Peng Xu, Mary Ann Piette, and Sila Kiliccote."Study on Auto-DR and Pre-cooling of Commercial Buildings with Thermal Mass in California."Energy and Buildings 42.7 (2010) 967-975.

Ghatikar, Girish, Johanna L Mathieu, Mary Ann Piette, Edward Koch, and Dan Hennage."Open Automated Demand Response Dynamic Pricing Technologies and Demonstration." (2010).

Ghatikar, Girish, Mary Ann Piette, K Sydny Fujita, Aimee T McKane, Junqiao Han Dudley, Anthony Radspieler Jr, KC Mares, and Dave Shroyer."Demand Response and Open Automated Demand Response Opportunities for Data Centers." (2010) 56.

Dudley, Junqiao Han, Douglas R Black, Michael G Apte, Mary Ann Piette, and Pam M Berkeley."Comparison of Demand Response Performance with an EnergyPlus Model in a Low Energy Campus Building."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, Johanna L Mathieu, and Kristen Parrish."Findings from Seven Years of Field Performance Data for Automated Demand Response in Commercial Buildings."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

Kiliccote, Sila, Pamela Sporborg, Imran Sheikh, Erich Huffaker, and Mary Ann Piette."Integrating Renewable Resources in California and the Role of Automated Demand Response." (2010).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, and Junqiao Han Dudley."Northwest Open Automated Demand Response Technology Demonstration Project." (2010).

Ghatikar, Girish, Johanna L Mathieu, Mary Ann Piette, and Sila Kiliccote."Open Automated Demand Response Technologies for Dynamic Pricing and Smart Grid."Grid-Interop Conference 2010 (2010).

Yin, Rongxin, Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, and Kristen Parrish."Scenario Analysis of Peak Demand Savings for Commercial Buildings with Thermal Mass in California."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).