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)

2020

Brown, Richard E, Peter Schwartz, Bruce Nordman, Jordan Shackelford, Aditya Khandekar, Neal Jackson, Anand Prakash, Srijit Ghosh, and Erik Page."Developing Flexible, Networked Lighting Control Systems That Reliably Save Energy in California Buildings." (2020). DOI

Piette, Mary Ann, Richard C Diamond, Stephen E Selkowitz, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Tianzhen Hong, Kaiyu Sun, Paul A Mathew, Iain S Walker, Alan K Meier, Erik Page, Jessica Granderson, Nan Zhou, and Peter Alstone."Chapter 2: Global Opportunities and Challenges in Energy and Environmental Issues in the Buildings Sector."World Scientific Series in Current Energy Issues (2020). DOI

2012

Williams, Alison A, Barbara A Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, Erik Page, and Francis M Rubinstein."Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings."Leukos: The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America 8.3 (2012) 19. DOI

2011

Williams, Alison A, Barbara A Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, Francis M Rubinstein, and Erik Page."A Meta-Analysis of Energy Savings from Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings." (2011) 25.

2001

Siminovitch, Michael J, Richard C Diamond, Jeffrey C Mitchell, Erik Page, Kevin W Gauna, Laura McLaughlin, and Doug A Avery."Lighting Retrofit Workbook." (2001).

2000

Mitchell, Jeffrey C, Michael J Siminovitch, Erik Page, Kevin W Gauna, and Doug A Avery."Integrated Lighting Approach Saves Energy in Post Office Facilities."2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2000).

1999

Page, Erik, and Michael J Siminovitch."Lighting Energy Savings Opportunities in Hotel Guestrooms: Results from a Scoping Study at the Redondo Beach Crown Plaza."2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1999).

1998

Siminovitch, Michael J, Erik Page, and Debbie A Driscoll."Energy Efficient Torchieres: From the Laboratory to the Marketplace."ACEEE 1998 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).

1997

Siminovitch, Michael J, Carl T Gould, and Erik Page."A High-Efficiency Indirect Lighting System Utilizing the Solar 1000 Sulfur Lamp."4th European Conference on Energy-Efficient Lighting (1997).

Page, Erik, Evan Mills, and Michael J Siminovitch."New Energy Efficient Torchieres Ready for Hot Torchiere Market."Energy Efficiency in Household Appliances (1997).

Page, Erik, and Michael J Siminovitch."Photometric Assessment of Energy Efficient Torchieres."4th European Conference on Energy-Efficient Lighting (1997).

Page, Erik."Integral CFLs Performance in Table Lamps."IESNA 1997 Annual Conference (1997).

Page, Erik, Michael J Siminovitch, Linsey Marr, and Jeffrey C Mitchell."Energy Efficient Alternatives to Halogen Torchieres."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 27.2 (1997) 28-34. DOI

1995

Page, Erik, Chad Praul, and Michael J Siminovitch."A Comparative Candlepower Distribution Analysis for Compact Fluorescent Table Lamp Systems."1995 Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Annual Conference 26 (1995).