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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)

2024

Kim, James Hyungkwan, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, and Julie Mulvaney Kemp."Renewable-Battery Hybrid Power Plants in Congested Electricity Markets: Implications for Plant Configuration."Renewable Energy 232 (2024). DOI

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jennie Jorgenson, James Hyungkwan Kim, Lawryn Kiboma, Dev Millstein, Natalie Mims Frick, and Brian Sergi."Solar and Wind Forecast Error Reserve Sharing in a Multi-Utility Region." (2024).

Walker, Iain S, Brennan Less, Nuria Casquero-Modrego, Cara Lozinsky, and Michael D Sohn."The Impact of Simplified Window and Exhaust Fan Assumptions on Model- Based Predictions of Inter-Zonal Air Flow and Contaminant Transport in Multifamily Buildings."Proceedings of the 44th AIVC Conference, Dublin, Ireland. (2024).

Seel, Joachim, Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Anna Cheyette, Dev Millstein, Will Gorman, Seongeun Jeong, Dana Robson, Rachman Setiawan, and Mark Bolinger."Utility-Scale Solar, 2024 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States." (2024).

Schwartz, Lisa C."A Framework for Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Lowry, Mark Newton."Alternative Ratemaking Treatments for Grid Resilience Programs." (2024).

Nordahl, Sarah L, Rebecca J Hanes, Kimberley K Mayfield, Corey Myers, Sarah E Baker, and Corinne D Scown."Carbon accounting for carbon dioxide removal."One Earth 7.9 (2024) 1494-1500. DOI

Relf, Grace, Peter Cappers, Ronny Sandoval, and Myles T Collins."Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Electricity Regulation Basics." (2024).

Krishnamoorthy, Gayathri, Tom Wall, Myles T Collins, and Josh A Schellenberg."Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Grid Resilience Planning." (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

Gorman, Will, Joseph Rand, Nick Manderlink, Anna Cheyette, Mark Bolinger, Joachim Seel, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser."Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Operating and Proposed Plants, 2024 Edition." (2024).

Pereira, Guillermo, and Lisa C Schwartz."Integrated Distribution System Planning." (2024).

Schmick, Rory."ISO 50111: Standardizing Decarbonization with Energy Management Systems." (2024).

Bracho, Riccardo, Julie Doherty Kowalski, Nina Khanna, Virginie E Letschert, Nicholas DeForest, Rongxin Lin, Keith Kline, Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Loreta Lancellotti, Natalie Kempkey, and Mijal Brady Berkowitz."Leadership and Community Engagement in Chile: Deploying Net-Zero Technologies and Solutions." (2024).

Breunig, Hanna, Patricia Fox, Jeremy Domen, R Kumar, Ricardo Jorge Eloy Alves, Kateryna Zhalnina, Anne Voigtländer, Hang Deng, Bhavna Arora, and Peter Nico."Life cycle impact and cost analysis of quarry materials for land-based enhanced weathering in Northern California."Journal of Cleaner Production (2024) 143757. DOI

Fuchs, Heidi."Making Energy Management Systems Case Studies Easily Searchable and Shareable." (2024).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Jennie Jorgenson, Lawryn Kiboma, James Hyungkwan Kim, Dev Millstein, Brian Sergi, and Natalie Mims Frick."Solar and Storage Integration in the Southeastern United States: Economics, Reliability, and Operations." (2024).

Srinivasan, Pavitra, Nora Esram, Helen Chen, and Reshma Singh."A Proposed Evaluation Framework for New and Emerging LowEmbodied-Carbon Concrete Technologies." 2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2024). DOI

Huang, Weiping, Armando Casillas, Marco Pritoni, Shreya Agarwal, Rongxin Yin, and Anand Prakash."Analyzing The Impact Of Energy Efficient ASHRAE Guideline 36 Control Sequences On Demand Flexibility Potential Of Commercial Buildings: A Multi-Region Analysis."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Paul, Lazlo, Marco Pritoni, Cynthia Regnier, Jason S MacDonald, Richard E Brown, and Cecilia Johnson."Architecting the Future: Exploring Coordinated Control Frameworks for Connected Communities."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Pereira, Guillermo, Cynthia Regnier, Lazlo Paul, Marco Pritoni, and Cecilia Johnson."Bringing demand flexibility to market: Insight on emerging business models from U.S. projects." (2024).

Casillas, Armando, Thomas Defauw, Sang woo Ham, Dre Helmns, Lazlo Paul, Anand Prakash, Weiping Huang, Peter Grant, and Marco Pritoni."Demystifying Thermal Energy Storage Integrated Heat Pump Systems: Development of Generalized Sizing and Control Algorithms for Demand Flexibility."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Pritoni, Marco, Michael Wetter, Lazlo Paul, Weiping Huang, Steven Bushby, Parastoo Delgoshaei, Michael Poplawski, Avijit Saha, Gabe Fierro, Matt Steen, Joel Bender, and Paul Ehrlich."Digital and Interoperable: The future of building automation is on the horizon. What's in it for me?."ACEEE Summer Study (2024).

Less, Brennan, Iain S Walker, Sean Murphy, and Eric Fournier."Electrical Service Panel Capacity in California Households with Insights for Equitable Building Electrification."Proceedings of the ACEEE Summer Study 2024. ACEEE, Washington, DC (2024).

Singh, Reshma, Yashima Jain, Laura Wong, Mary Weigel, and Nicholas Ryan."From IMPEL to Impact: Lessons Learned in Accelerating Innovative Building Technologies."2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2024). DOI