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)

2015

Wei, Joy, Francis M Rubinstein, Jordan Shackelford, and Alastair Robinson."Wireless Advanced Lighting Controls Retrofit Demonstration." (2015).

2013

Birru, Dagnachew, Yao-Jung Wen, Francis M Rubinstein, and Robert D Clear."Energy-Efficient and Comfortable Buildings through Multivariate Integrated Control (ECoMIC)." (2013). DOI

Schumann, Jennifer, Eleanor S Lee, Francis M Rubinstein, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Alastair Robinson."Tips for Daylighting with Windows: The Integrated Approach, 2nd Edition." (2013).

2012

Williams, Alison A, Barbara A Atkinson, Karina Garbesi, and Francis M Rubinstein."Quantifying National Energy Savings Potential of Lighting Controls in Commercial Buildings." (2012) 14.

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

Wen, Yao-Jung, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Francis M Rubinstein, and Antonio Ruzzelli."Co-simulation based building controls implementation with networked sensors and actuators."Third ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings Proceedings of BuildSys 2011 (2011) 55. DOI

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.

2010

Rubinstein, Francis M, and Abby I Enscoe."Achieving Energy Savings with Highly-Controlled Lighting in an Open-Plan Office." (2010).

Rubinstein, Francis M, Li Xiaolei, and David S Watson."Using Dimmable Lighting for Regulation Capacity and Non-Spinning Reserves in the Ancillary Services Market. A Feasibility Study." (2010).

2009

Rubinstein, Francis M, Girish Ghatikar, Jessica Granderson, David S Watson, Paul Haugen, and Carlos Romero."Barrier Immune Radio Communications for Demand Response." (2009).

2008

Rubinstein, Francis M, Dmitriy Bolotov, Mark S Levi, Kevin Powell, and Peter Schwartz."The Advantage of Highly Controlled Lighting for Offices and Commercial Buildings."2008 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, August 17-22, 2008 (2008) 063901(1-5).

2007

Lee, Eleanor S, Glenn D Hughes, Robert D Clear, Luis L Fernandes, Sila Kiliccote, Mary Ann Piette, Francis M Rubinstein, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Daylighting the New York Times Headquarters Building: Final Report: Commissioning Daylighting Systems and Estimation of Demand Response." (2007).

Rubinstein, Francis M."Advanced Demand Responsive Lighting." (2007).

Rubinstein, Francis M."Controls for Solid-State Lighting." (2007).

Rubinstein, Francis M, and Sila Kiliccote."Demand Responsive Lighting: A Scoping Study." (2007).

2005

Koch, Edward, and Francis M Rubinstein."Evaluation of Alternative Field Buses for Lighting Control Applications." (2005).

2004

Koch, Edward, Francis M Rubinstein, and Sila Kiliccote."Hardware/Software Solution Unifying DALI, IBECS, and BACnet Final Report." (2004).

Lee, Eleanor S, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Francis M Rubinstein, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Low-Cost Networking for Dynamic Window Systems."Energy and Buildings 36 (2004) 503-513.

Rubinstein, Francis M, Pete Pettler, Joel Snook, Erik Engelking, and Sila Kiliccote."Performance of Powerline-Controlled Luminaire Final Report." (2004).

2003

Rubinstein, Francis M, Nesrin Colak, Judy D Jennings, and Danielle Neils."Analyzing Occupancy Profiles from a Lighting Controls Field Study."CIE Session 2003 (2003).

Rubinstein, Francis M, Mehry Yazdanian, and Jim Galvin."Draft Photosensor Characterization Report." (2003).

Rubinstein, Francis M, Stephen Treado, and Pete Pettler."Standardizing Communication Between Lighting Control Devices."2003 IEEE-IAS Conference (2003).

2002

Rubinstein, Francis M, Pete Pettler, and Judy D Jennings."Dimming Every Light Cheaply."2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 11 (2002).

2001

Rubinstein, Francis M, Danielle Neils, and Nesrin Colak."Daylighting, Dimming, and the Electricity Crisis in California."2001 IESNA National Conference (2001).