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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 developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; 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 resilience are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2025

Baik, Sunhee, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Galen L Barbose, Will Gorman, Cesca Miller, and Michael Spears."The power reliability event simulator tool (PRESTO): A novel approach to distribution system reliability analysis and applications."International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems 164 (2025) 110442. DOI

Baik, Sunhee, Kathryn Chelminski, Shankar Earni, and Elizabeth Stuart."Evaluating GHG Mitigation Potential from ESPC Projects." (2025).

2024

Frick, Natalie Mims, Sunhee Baik, Mark Bolinger, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Dev Millstein, Sean Murphy, Margaret Pigman, and Lisa C Schwartz."Consumer Benefits of Clean Energy: Policy Brief." (2024).

Baik, Sunhee, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Consumer Benefits of Clean Energy: The resilience value of residential solar + storage systems in the continental U.S.." (2024).

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, and Juan Pablo Carvallo."Bill Savings vs. Backup Power: Evaluating operational tradeoffs for home solar+storage systems." (2024).

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Phillip White, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Sunhee Baik."Evaluating the potential for solar-plus-storage backup power in the United States as homes integrate efficient, flexible, and electrified energy technologies."Energy 304 (2024). DOI

Larsen, Peter H, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Alan H Sanstad, Sunhee Baik, Ian Sue Wing, Dan Wei, Adam Rose, Jeremy Smith, Christopher Ramee, and Ridge Peterson."Power Outage Economics Tool: A Prototype for the Commonwealth Edison Service Territory." (2024).

Gerke, Brian F, Sarah Josephine Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Peter Alstone, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Richard E Brown, Jingjing Liu, and Mary Ann Piette."The California Demand Response Potential Study, Phase 4: Report on Shed and Shift Resources Through 2050." (2024).

2023

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Cesca Miller, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, and Philip White."Solar+Storage for Household Back-up Power: Implications of building efficiency, load flexibility, and electrification for backup during long-duration power interruptions." (2023).

Baik, Sunhee, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Cesca Miller, Will Gorman, and Michael Spears."Backup Power Performance of Solar-plus-Storage Systems during Routine Power Interruptions: A Case Study Application of Berkeley Lab’s PRESTO Model." (2023).

Park, Won Young, Nihan Karali, Peng Peng, Sunhee Baik, Nihar Shah, Brian Holuj, and Marco Duran."Model Quality and Performance Guidelines for Off-Grid Refrigerating Appliances." (2023).

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."County-level assessment of behind-the-meter solar and storage to mitigate long duration power interruptions for residential customers."Applied Energy 342 (2023). DOI

Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Benjamin D Leibowicz, Thomas Carr, Sunhee Baik, and Peter H Larsen."A Guide for Improved Resource Adequacy Assessments in Evolving Power Systems: Institutional and Technical Dimensions." (2023).

Macmillan, Madeline, Kyle Wilson, Sunhee Baik, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Anamika Dubey, and Christine A Holland."Shedding light on the economic costs of long-duration power outages: A review of resilience assessment methods and strategies."Energy Research & Social Science 99 (2023). DOI

2022

Gorman, Will, Galen L Barbose, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller, Philip White, and Marlena Prapost."Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar-plus-Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruptions." (2022).

Gerke, Brian F, Sarah Josephine Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Jingjing Liu, Richard E Brown, Mary Ann Piette, and Peter Alstone."Overview of Phase 4 of the California Demand Response Potential Study." (2022).

2021

Baik, Sunhee, Nichole L Hanus, Alan H Sanstad, Joseph H Eto, and Peter H Larsen."A Hybrid Approach to Estimating the Economic Value of Enhanced Power System Resilience." (2021).

2006

Nagarajan, V, J Junquera, J.Q He, C.L Jia, R Waser, K Lee, Y.K Kim, Sunhee Baik, T Zhao, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Ph Ghosez, and K.M Rabe."Scaling of structure and electrical properties in ultrathin epitaxial ferroelectric heterostructures."Journal of Applied Physics 100 (2006). DOI