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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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2016

Lin, Jiang, and Andrew Satchwell."Toward future's clean power system: lessons from the past." (2016).

Eto, Joseph H."Building Electric Transmission Lines: A Review of Recent Regional Transmission Plans." (2016).

Eto, Joseph H."Building Electric Transmission Lines: A Review of Recent Transmission Projects." (2016).

Jin, Ling, C Anna Spurlock, Sam Borgeson, Daniel Fredman, Liesel Hans, Siddharth Patel, and Annika Todd-Blick."Load Shape Clustering Using Residential Smart Meter Data: a Technical Memorandum." (2016).

Kahrl, Fredrich, Andrew D Mills, Luke Lavin, Nancy Ryan, Arne Olsen, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of Electricity Resource Planning."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 6 (2016).

Lin, Jiang, Gang He, and Alexandria Yuan."Economic Rebalancing and Electricity Demand in China."The Electricity Journal 29.3 (2016) 48 - 54. DOI

Allen, Riley, Donna Brutkoski, David Farnsworth, and Peter H Larsen."Sustainable Energy Solutions for Rural Alaska." (2016).

2015

Schiller, Steven R."Energy Efficiency EM&V Basics and Issues." (2015).

De Martini, Paul, Lorenzo Kristov, and Lisa C Schwartz."Distribution Systems in a High Distributed Energy Resources Future."Future Electric Utility Regulation Report Series FEUR Report No. 2 (2015).

Energy, U.S Department of."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2015)." (2015).

."Assessment of Historical Transmission Schedules and Flows in the Eastern Interconnection, v1.0." (2015).

2014

Wilkerson, Jordan, Peter H Larsen, and Galen L Barbose."Survey of Western U.S. Electric Utility Resource Plans."Energy Policy 66 (2014) 90-103. DOI

Fisher, Emily, and Joseph H Eto."Congestion Measures for Organized Markets in the U.S.."IEEE 47th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) (2014). DOI

2009

Eto, Joseph H."National Electric Transmission Congestion Study (2009)." (2009).

Budhraja, Vikram S, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Fred Mobasheri, and Joseph H Eto."Transmission Benefit Quantification, Cost Allocation and Cost Recovery."Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program (2009) 216.

Budhraja, Vikram S, Fred Mobasheri, John Ballance, Jim Dyer, Alison Silverstein, and Joseph H Eto."Improving Electricity Resource-Planning Processes by Considering the Strategic Benefits of Transmission."The Electricity Journal 22.2 (2009). DOI

2008

Barmack, Matthew, Edward P Kahn, Susan Tierney, and Charles A Goldman."Econometric models of power prices: An approach to market monitoring in the Western US."Utilities Policy 16.4 (2008) 307-320. DOI

2007

Lin, Jiang, Nan Zhou, Mark D Levine, and David Fridley."Taking out One Billion Tons of CO₂: The Magic of China’s 11th Five Year Plan?." (2007).

Zhou, Nan, Michael A McNeil, David Fridley, Jiang Lin, Lynn K Price, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Jayant A Sathaye, and Mark D Levine."Energy Use in China: Sectoral Trends and Future Outlook." (2007).

2006

Lin, Jiang, Nan Zhou, Mark D Levine, and David Fridley."Achieving China’s Target for Energy Intensity Reduction in 2010: An exploration of recent trends and possible future scenarios." (2006).

Siddiqui, Afzal S, and Chris Marnay."Addressing an Uncertain Future Using Scenario Analysis." (2006) 24.

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

Barmack, Matthew, Edward P Kahn, Susan Tierney, and Charles A Goldman."A Regional Approach to Market Monitoring in the West." (2006) 85.

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

Gumerman, Etan, Peter T Chan, Bernard Lesieutre, Chris Marnay, and Juan Wang."Modeling Interregional Transmission Congestion in the National Energy Modeling System." (2006) 74.