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The Enabling Technologies Development Program (ETD, formerly the Demand Response Enabling Technology Development) is a research and development program funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC) through the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program. The purpose of the ETD Program is to develop enabling technologies in the areas of:

• Demand Response
• Distributed Energy Resources Systems Integration (interconnection standards/technologies and market integration)
• Distribution (more flexible and responsive distribution solutions)
• Security (issues related to California's electric grid)
• Strategic and Enabling Technologies (storage, seismic, tools for market analysis)
• Transmission (enhancements of transmission capabilities)
• Energy efficiency in buildings and the operation of HVAC equipment

The goal is to develop new and innovative technologies that will lead to 10× the capabilities of current products at 1/10× the cost. An additional even more challenging goal is to also achieve 10× reliability. The project also promotes research collaboration between the universities, national laboratories, and private industry.

In 2009, the i4Energy Center was formed as an collaboration between CIEE, the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to facilitate and promote research on system-integrated, information technology based, enabling technologies to achieve better energy efficiency, demand response, and electric distribution. The research activities of the ETD program are included as part of the portfolio of projects within the research scope of the i4Energy Center.