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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 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.
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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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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.

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2021

Frick, Natalie Mims, Juan Pablo Carvallo, and Lisa C. Schwartz."Quantifying grid reliability and resilience impacts of energy efficiency: Examples and opportunities." (2021).

2020

Larsen, Peter H., Megan Lawson, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Severe weather, utility spending, and the long-term reliability of the U.S. power system."Energy 198 (2020). DOI

2019

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Heidemarie C. Caswell, and David Till."Distribution system versus bulk power system: identifying the source of electric service interruptions in the US."IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution 13.5 (2019) 717-723. DOI

Dunn, Laurel N., Michael D. Sohn, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, and Joseph H Eto."Exploratory analysis of high-resolution power interruption data reveals spatial and temporal heterogeneity in electric grid reliability."Energy Policy 129 (2019) 206 - 214. DOI

2018

LaCommare, Kristina Hamachi, Joseph H Eto, and Heidemarie C. Caswell."Distinguishing Among the Sources of Electric Service Interruptions."2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS) (2018). DOI

2017

Larsen, Peter H., Brent Boehlert, Joseph H Eto, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Jeremy Martinich, and Lisa Rennels."Projecting Future Costs to U.S. Electric Utility Customers from Power Interruptions." (2017).

2016

Larsen, Peter H., Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Joseph H Eto, and James L. Sweeney."Recent trends in power system reliability and implications for evaluating future investments in resiliency."Energy 117 (2016) 29 - 46. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Michael D. Sohn, and Heidemarie C. Caswell."Evaluating the Performance of the IEEE Standard 1366 Method for Identifying Major Event Days View Document."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 32.2 (2016). DOI

2015

Larsen, Peter H., Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Joseph H Eto, and James L. Sweeney."Assessing Changes in the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System." (2015).

2014

Larsen, Peter H., James L. Sweeney, Joseph H Eto, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Exploring the Reliability of U.S. Electric Utilities."37th IAEE International Conference (2014).

2012

Eto, Joseph H, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."A Quantitative Assessment of Utility Reporting Practices for Reporting Electric Power Distribution Events."IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (2012). DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Kristina Hamachi LaCommare, Peter H. Larsen, Annika Todd, and Emily Fisher."An Examination of Temporal Trends in Electricity Reliability Based on Reports from U.S. Electric Utilities." (2012).

Fisher, Emily, Joseph H Eto, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Understanding Bulk Power Reliability: The Importance of Good Data and A Critical Review of Existing Sources."IEEE 45th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) (2012). DOI

2008

Eto, Joseph H, and Kristina Hamachi LaCommare."Tracking the Reliability of the U.S. Electric Power System: An Assessment of Publicly Available Information Reported to State Public Utility Commissions." (2008) 52.

2003

Divan, Deepak, William Brumsickle, and Joseph H Eto."Assessing I-Grid Web-Based Monitoring for Power Quality and Reliability Benchmarking."IEEE PES DSASC Test Feeder Working Group (2003).

Divan, Deepak, William Brumsickle, and Joseph H Eto."A New Approach to Power Quality and Electricity Reliability Monitoring - Case Study Illustrations of the Capabilities of the I-Grid™ System." (2003) 32.

2001

Osborn, Julie G., and Cornelia Kawann."Reliability of the U.S. Electricity System: Recent Trends and Current Issues." (2001) 58.