Research Themes +
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 climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations 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 for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
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 battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications

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)

2021

Gust, Gunther, Tobias Brandt, Salman Mashayekh, Miguel Heleno, Nicholas DeForest, michael stadler, and Dirk Neumann."Strategies for microgrid operation under real-world conditions."European Journal of Operational Research 292.1 (2021) 339 - 352. DOI

2020

Heleno, Miguel, Carmen Bas Domenech, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Salman Mashayekh."The microgrid investment and planning in rural locations."Microgrids for Rural Areas: Research and case studies (2020) 33 - 54.

2018

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).

2017

Heleno, Miguel, Salman Mashayekh, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Rodrigo De Luis."Optimal Sizing and Placement of Distributed Generation: MILP vs PSO Comparison in a Real Microgrid Application."Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems (ISAP) Conference (2017).

Armendariz, M., Miguel Heleno, Gonçalo Cardoso, Salman Mashayekh, Michael Stadler, and L. Nordström."Coordinated Microgrid Investment and Planning Process Considering the System Operator."Applied Energy 200 (2017) 132-140. DOI

Mashayekh, Salman, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Miguel Heleno, Sreenath Chalil Madathil, Harsha Nagarajan, Russell Bent, Marc Mueller-Stoffels, Xiaonan Lu, and Jianhui Wang."Security-Constrained Design of Isolated Multi-Energy Microgrids."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 33.3 (2017) 2452 - 2462. DOI

Cardoso, Gonçalo, Michael Stadler, Salman Mashayekh, and Elias Hartvigsson."The impact of Ancillary Services in optimal DER investment decisions."Energy 130 (2017) 99-112. DOI

Mashayekh, Salman, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Miguel Heleno."A Mixed Integer Linear Programming Approach for Optimal DER Portfolio, Sizing, and Placement in Multi-Energy Microgrids."Applied Energy 187 (2017) 154-168. DOI

2016

Mammoli, Andrea A., Bhuwanbabu Bastola, Steve Willard, Dean Weng, Arindam Maitra, Salman Mashayekh, Michael Stadler, and Pablo Fontela Martinez."Optimization of Investments to Upgrade an Island Distribution System."CIGRE US National Committee, 2016 Grid of the Future Symposium (2016).

Schittekatte, Tim, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, Salman Mashayekh, and Sankar Narayanan."The Impact of Short-term Stochastic Variability in Solar Irradiance on Optimal Microgrid Design."IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid PP.99 (2016). DOI

Stadler, Michael, Gonçalo Cardoso, Salman Mashayekh, Thibault Forget, Nicholas DeForest, Ankit Agarwal, and Anna Schönbein."Value Streams in Microgrids: A Literature Review."Applied Energy 162 (2016) 980-989. DOI

2015

Ghatikar, Girish, Salman Mashayekh, Michael Stadler, Rongxin Yin, and Zhenhua Liu."Distributed Energy Systems Integration and Demand Optimization for Autonomous Operations and Electric Grid Transactions."Applied Energy (2015).

Mashayekh, Salman, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, C. Birk Jones, Matthew Robinson, Hans Barsun, Leila Ghanbari, and Andrea A. Mammoli."Software-as-a-Service Optimal Scheduling of New Mexico Buildings."European Council on an Energy Efficient Economy 2015 Summer Study (2015).

Milan, Christian, Michael Stadler, Gonçalo Cardoso, and Salman Mashayekh."Modelling of Non-linear CHP Efficiency Curves in Distributed Energy Systems."Applied Energy 148 (2015) 334-347. DOI

Stadler, Michael, Salman Mashayekh, Sankar Narayanan, Nicholas DeForest, and Tobias Brandt."Supervisory Controller for PV and Storage Microgrids." (2015).