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)

1999

Mitchell, Robin, Yu Joe Huang, Dariush K. Arasteh, Robert Sullivan, and Santosh Phillip."RESFEN 3.1: A PC Program for Calculating the Heating and Cooling Energy Use of Windows in Residential Buildings." (1999).

1998

Sullivan, Robert, Liliana O. Beltran, Eleanor S. Lee, Michael D. Rubin, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Energy and Daylight Performance of Angular Selective Glazings."ASHRAE/DOE/BTECC Conference, Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VII (1998).

Sullivan, Robert, and Frederick C. Winkelmann."Validation studies of the DOE-2 Building Energy Simulation Program. Final Report." (1998).

1997

Huang, Yu Joe, Robert Sullivan, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Robin Mitchell."RESFEN 3.0: A PC Program for Calculating the Heating and Cooling Energy Use of Windows in Residential Buildings." (1997) 38.

1996

Sullivan, Robert, Michael D. Rubin, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Energy Performance Analysis of Prototype Electrochromic Windows."ASHRAE Transactions 103, Part 2 (1996) 149-156.

Sullivan, Robert, Eleanor S. Lee, Michael D. Rubin, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."The Energy Performance of Electrochromic Windows in Heating-Dominated Geographic Locations."SPIE International Symposium on Optical Materials Technology for Energy Efficiency & Solar Energy Conversion XV (1996).

Moeck, Martin, Eleanor S. Lee, Michael D. Rubin, Robert Sullivan, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Visual Quality Assessment of Electrochromic and Conventional Glazings."SPIE Optical Materials Technology for Energy Efficiency and Solar Energy Conversion XV (1996).

Sullivan, Robert, Fredric A. Beck, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Energy Performance of Evacuated Glazings in Residential Buildings."ASHRAE 1996 Summer Meeting, June 22-26, 1996 102, Part 2 (1996).

1995

Finlayson, Elizabeth U., Dariush K. Arasteh, Michael D. Rubin, John Sadlier, Robert Sullivan, Charlie Huizenga, Dragan C. Curcija, and Mark Beall."Advances in Thermal and Optical Simulations of Fenestration Systems: The Development of WINDOW 5."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VI Conference (1995).

Sullivan, Robert, Michael D. Rubin, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Reducing Residential Cooling Requirements Through the Use of Electrochromic Windows."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VI Conference Proceedings (1995).

Sullivan, Robert, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Ismo Heimonen, Hans Simmler, P. Eggimann, Thomas Frank, Peter R. Lyons, P.C. Thomas, Inger Andresen, and Øyvind Aschehoug."Energy Simulation Studies in IEA/SHC Task 18 Advanced Glazing and Associated Materials for Solar and Building Applications."Windows Innovations Conference 95 (1995).

Crooks, Brian, James Larsen, Robert Sullivan, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."NFRC Efforts to Develop a Residential Fenestration Annual Energy Rating Methodology."Window Innovations Conference 1995 (1995).

1994

Sullivan, Robert, Eleanor S. Lee, Konstantinos M. Papamichael, Michael D. Rubin, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Effect of Switching Control Strategies on the Energy Performance of Electrochromic Windows."SPIE International Symposium on Optical Materials Technology for Energy Efficiency and Solar Energy Conversion XIII, April 18-22, 1994 (1994).

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Michael D. Rubin, Eleanor S. Lee, and Robert Sullivan."A Review of Electrochromic Window Performance Factors."SPIE 13. International Symposium on Optical Materials Technology for Energy Efficiency and Solar Energy Conversion (1994).

Lee, Eleanor S., Stephen E. Selkowitz, Francis M. Rubinstein, Joseph H. Klems, Liliana O. Beltran, Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, and Robert Sullivan."Developing Integrated Envelope and Lighting Systems for Commercial Buildings."Solar '94: Golden Opportunities for Solar Prosperity (1994).

1993

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Eleanor S. Lee, Francis M. Rubinstein, Joseph H. Klems, Konstantinos M. Papamichael, Liliana O. Beltran, Dennis L. DiBartolomeo, and Robert Sullivan."Realizing the DSM Potential of Integrated Envelope and Lighting Systems."2nd National New Construction Programs for Demand-Side Management Conference (1993).

Sullivan, Robert, Karl J. Frost, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Window U-Value Effects on Residential Cooling Load." (1993).

1992

Sullivan, Robert, Eleanor S. Lee, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."A Method of Optimizing Solar Control and Daylighting Performance in Commercial Office Buildings."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings V Conference (1992).

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Liliana O. Beltran, Werner K.E. Osterhaus, Konstantinos M. Papamichael, Jennifer E. Schuman, Robert Sullivan, and Michael Wilde."Building Performance Analysis Using Interactive Multimedia Concepts."1992 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1992).

Sullivan, Robert, Eleanor S. Lee, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Impact Assessment and Performance Targets for Lighting and Envelope Systems." (1992).

1991

Sullivan, Robert, B. Chin, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."RESFEN: A Residential Fenestration Performance Design."ASHRAE Transactions 97, Part 2 (1991).

1990

Sullivan, Robert, Michael Wilde, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."An Interactive Microcomputer-Based Kiosk Providing Energy Efficient Building Design Information."4th National Conference on Microcomputer Applications in Energy (1990).

1989

Sullivan, Robert, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Development of a Methodology to Evaluate the Energy and Comfort Performance to Fenestration."International Building Performance Simulation Association Building Simulation 89 Conference (1989).

Schuman, Jennifer E., Robert Sullivan, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Michael Wilde, and Michael D. Kroelinger."A Daylight Design Tool Using a Hypercard on the Macintosh."3rd National Conference on Microcomputer Applications in Energy (1989).

Sullivan, Robert, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Fenestration Performance Analysis Using an Interactive Graphics-Based Methodology on a Microcomputer."ASHRAE Transactions 95 (1989).