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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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2019

Schwartz, Lisa C, Ian M Hoffman, Steven R Schiller, Sean Murphy, and Greg Leventis."Cost of Saving Electricity Through Efficiency Programs Funded by Customers of Publicly Owned Utilities: 2012–2017." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Eric Wilson, Janet Reyna, Andrew Parker, Elaina Present, Janghyun Kim, Tianzhen Hong, Han Li, and Tom Eckman."End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock: Market Needs, Use Cases, and Data Gaps." (2019).

Piette, Mary Ann, Reshma Singh, and Anand Prakash."Evaluation of the Need for and Design of a City Energy Operations System."Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Urban Building Energy Sensing, Controls, Big Data Analysis, and Visualization - UrbSys'19 (2019). DOI

Mills, Andrew D, Dev Millstein, Ryan H Wiser, Joachim Seel, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Seongeun Jeong, and Will Gorman."Impact of Wind, Solar, and Other Factors on Wholesale Power Prices: An Historical Analysis—2008 through 2017." (2019).

Frick, Natalie Mims, Ian M Hoffman, Charles A Goldman, Greg Leventis, Sean Murphy, and Lisa C Schwartz."Peak Demand Impacts From Electricity Efficiency Programs." (2019).

Szinai, Julia, Colin Sheppard, Nikit Abhyankar, and Anand R Gopal."Reduced grid operating costs and renewable energy curtailment with electric vehicle charge management."Energy Policy (2019) 111051. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Lisa C Schwartz."Time-Sensitive Value of Efficiency: Use Cases in Electricity Sector Planning and Programs." (2019).

Mills, Andrew D, and Pía Rodriguez."Drivers of the Resource Adequacy Contribution of Solar and Storage for Florida Municipal Utilities." (2019).

Taylor, Margaret, K Sydny Fujita, Jingjing Zhang, Mustapha Harb, James Tamerius, Michelle Jones, and Sarah K Price."Explaining jurisdictional compliance with California’s top-down streamlined solar permitting law (AB 2188)." (2019). DOI

Gorman, Will, Andrew D Mills, and Ryan H Wiser."Improving estimates of transmission capital costs for utility-scale wind and solar projects to inform renewable energy policy."Energy Policy (2019). DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims."End Use Load Profile Inventory." (2019).

Park, Won Young, Nihar Shah, and Amol A Phadke."Enabling access to household refrigeration services through cost reductions from energy efficiency improvements."Energy Efficiency (2019). DOI

Taylor, Margaret."Understanding streamlined solar permitting practices: A primer." (2019). DOI

Schwartz, Lisa C, and Natalie Mims Frick."Evolving Approaches to Electricity System Planning." (2019).

Aghajanzadeh, Arian, and Peter L Therkelsen."Agricultural demand response for decarbonizing the electricity grid."Journal of Cleaner Production 220 (2019) 827 - 835. DOI

Frick, Natalie Mims, and Lisa C Schwartz."Buildings-to-Grid: Critical Issues for Decision Makers." (2019).

Karali, Nihan, Nikit Abhyankar, Ben Sharpe, and Anup Bandivadekar."Improving fuel efficiency for heavy-duty vehicles of 3.5–12 tonnes in India: Benefits, costs, and environmental impacts." (2019).

Van Cutsem, Olivier, Maher Kayal, David Blum, and Marco Pritoni."Comparison of MPC Formulations for Building Control under Commercial Time-of-Use Tariffs."IEEE PowerTech Milan 2019 (2019).

Gehbauer, Christoph."CyDER: A Cyber Physical Co-simulation Platform for Distributed Energy Resources in Smartgrids." (2019).

Salzman, Madeline, Michael Specian, Jared Langevin, Harry Bergmann, and Aven Satre-Meloy."Grid-interactive, efficient buildings: expanding value streams through optimized control of flexible building technologies." (2019).

."Smart Control of Distributed Energy Resources (SCooDER) v1. 0." (2019).

2018

Liu, Shiyu, Zhaohong Bie, Jiang Lin, and Xifan Wang."Curtailment of renewable energy in Northwest China and market-based solutions."Energy Policy 123 (2018) 494 - 502. DOI

Grover-Silva, Etta, Miguel Heleno, Salman Mashayekh, Gonçalo Cardoso, Robin Girard, and George Kariniotakis."A Stochastic Optimal Power Flow for Scheduling Flexible Resources in Microgrids Operation." (2018).

Goldman, Charles A, Sean Murphy, Ian M Hoffman, Natalie Mims Frick, Greg Leventis, and Lisa C Schwartz."The Future of U.S. Electricity Efficiency Programs Funded by Utility Customers: Program Spending and Savings Projections to 2030." (2018).

Tarroja, Brian, Felicia Chiang, Amir AghaKouchak, Scott Samuelsen, Shuba V Raghavan, Max Wei, Kaiyu Sun, and Tianzhen Hong."Translating climate change and heating system electrification impacts on building energy use to future greenhouse gas emissions and electric grid capacity requirements in California."Applied Energy 225 (2018) 522 - 534. DOI