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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)

2010

Narayanan, Satish, Michael G Apte, Philip Haves, Mary Ann Piette, and John Elliott."Systems Approach to Energy Efficient Building Operation: Case Studies and Lessons Learned in a University Campus."2010 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2010).

2009

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Girish Ghatikar, and Phillip N Price."Building Energy Information Systems: State of the Technology and User Case Studies." (2009).

Granderson, Jessica, Junqiao Han Dudley, Sila Kiliccote, and Mary Ann Piette."Chilled Water Storage System and Demand Response at the University of California at Merced."9th International Conference for Enhanced Building Operations, November 17-18, 2009 (2009).

Granderson, Jessica, Mary Ann Piette, Girish Ghatikar, and Phillip N Price."Preliminary Findings from an Analysis of Building Energy Information System Technologies."2009 National Conference on Building Commissioning, June 3-5, 2009 (2009).

Lekov, Alexander B, Lisa Thompson, Aimee T McKane, Alexandra Rockoff, and Mary Ann Piette."Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Automated Demand Response in Industrial Refrigerated Warehouses in California." (2009) 79.

Coughlin, Katie, Mary Ann Piette, Charles A Goldman, and Sila Kiliccote."Statistical analysis of baseline load models for non-residential buildings."Energy and Buildings 41.4 (2009) 374-381. DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Girish Ghatikar, Sila Kiliccote, David S Watson, Edward Koch, and Dan Hennage."Design and Operation of an Open, Interoperable Automated Demand Response Infrastructure for Commercial Buildings."Journal of Computing Science and Information Engineering 9.2 (2009).

Koch, Edward, and Mary Ann Piette."Direct versus Facility Centric Load Control for Automated Demand Response."Grid-Interop Forum 2009 (2009).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, and Junqiao Han Dudley."Northwest Open Automated Demand Response Technology Demonstration." (2009).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, Girish Ghatikar, Edward Koch, Dan Hennage, John Hernandez, Albert K Chiu, Osman Sezgen, and John Goodin."Open Automated Demand Response Communications in Demand Response for Wholesale Ancillary Services."Grid-Interop Forum 2009 (2009).

Piette, Mary Ann, Girish Ghatikar, Sila Kiliccote, Edward Koch, Dan Hennage, Peter Palensky, and Charles McParland."Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0)." (2009).

Kiliccote, Sila, Junqiao Han Dudley, Mary Ann Piette, Edward Koch, and Dan Hennage."Open Automated Demand Response for Small Commercial Buildings." (2009).

Lekov, Alexander B, Lisa Thompson, Aimee T McKane, Alexandra Rockoff, and Mary Ann Piette."Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Automated Demand Response in Industrial Refrigerated Warehouses in California." (2009).

Lekov, Alexander B, Lisa Thompson, Aimee T McKane, Katherine Song, and Mary Ann Piette."Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Open Automated Demand Response in Wastewater Treatment Facilities in California - Phase I Report." (2009).

Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki, Junqiao Han Dudley, Girish Ghatikar, Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, Hiroshi Asano, and Junqiao Han."Regression Models for Demand Reduction based on Cluster Analysis of Load Profiles."IEEE-PES/IAS Conference on Sustainable Alternative Energy (2009).

2008

Kiliccote, Sila, and Mary Ann Piette."Automation of Capacity Bidding with an Aggregator Using Open Automated Demand Response." (2008).

Wikler, Greg, Ingrid Bran, Joe Prijyanonda, Sharon Yoshida, Kelly Smith, Mary Ann Piette, Sila Kiliccote, Girish Ghatikar, Dan Hennage, and Chuck Thomas."Pacific Gas & Electric Company 2007 Auto-DR Program: Task 13 Deliverable: Auto-DR Assessment Study." (2008).

Coughlin, Katie, Mary Ann Piette, Charles A Goldman, and Sila Kiliccote."Estimating Demand Response Load Impacts: Evaluation of Baseline Load Models for Non- Residential Buildings in California." (2008) 33.

Mills, Evan, Paul A Mathew, Mary Ann Piette, Norman Bourassa, and Martha Brook."Action-Oriented Benchmarking: Concepts and Tools."Energy Engineering (2008).

McKane, Aimee T, Ivin Rhyne, Alexander B Lekov, Lisa Thompson, and Mary Ann Piette."Automated Demand Response: The Missing Link in the Electricity Value Chain."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2008).

Wikler, Greg, Albert K Chiu, Mary Ann Piette, Sila Kiliccote, Dan Hennage, and Chuck Thomas."Enhancing Price Response Programs through Auto-DR: California’s 2007 Implementation Experience."Proceedings of the 18th National Energy Services Conference & Exposition (2008).

Coughlin, Katie, Mary Ann Piette, Charles A Goldman, and Sila Kiliccote."Estimating Demand Response Load Impacts: Evaluation of Baseline Load Models for Non-Residential Buildings in California." (2008).

Dudley, Junqiao Han, Mary Ann Piette, Sila Kiliccote, and Junqiao Han."Field Test Results of Automated Demand Response in a Large Office Building."Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on EcoBalance (2008).

Kiliccote, Sila, Mary Ann Piette, Greg Wikler, Joe Prijyanonda, and Albert K Chiu."Installation and Commissioning Automated Demand Response Systems."Proceedings of 16th National Conference on Building Commissioning (2008).

Piette, Mary Ann, Sila Kiliccote, and Girish Ghatikar."Linking Continuous Energy Management and Open Automated Demand Response."Grid Interop Forum (2008).