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)

1986

Verderber, Rudolph R.."Energy and Lighting Decisions."ASEAN Workshop (1986).

Clark, T. Alan, Francis M. Rubinstein, Michael J. Siminovitch, and Rudolph R. Verderber."Maintaining Optimum Fluorescent Lamp Performance Under Elevated Temperature Conditions."Lighting Design + Application 17 (1986) 35-41.

1985

Verderber, Rudolph R., Oliver C. Morse, and Francis M. Rubinstein."Effect of Filament Power Removal on a Fluorescent Lamp System."Annual IEEE-IAS Conference (1985).

Siminovitch, Michael J., Francis M. Rubinstein, and Rudolph R. Verderber."Fixture Conditions Affect Lamp Performance."IEEE-IAS Annual Conference (1985).

Warren, M., Charles C. Benton, Rudolph R. Verderber, Oliver C. Morse, Stephen E. Selkowitz, and James E. Jewell."Instrumentation for Evaluating Integrated Lighting System Performance in a Large Daylighted Office Building."National Workshop on Field Data Acquisition for Building and Equipment Energy-Use Monitoring (1985).

Verderber, Rudolph R., Oliver C. Morse, and Francis M. Rubinstein."Life of Fluorescent Lamps Operated at High Frequencies with Solid-State Ballasts."Annual IEEE-IAS Conference (1985).

Siminovitch, Michael J., Francis M. Rubinstein, T. Alan Clark, and Rudolph R. Verderber."A Luminaire/Plenum/HVAC Simulator."Annual IEEE-IAS Conference (1985).

Verderber, Rudolph R., and Oliver C. Morse."Performance of Electronic Ballasts and Other New Lighting Equipment." (1985).

Rubinstein, Francis M., Rudolph R. Verderber, and Mahmut Karayel."Determination of Optimum Sector Size for Automatic Lighting Controls."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 15 (1985) 19-Mar.

1984

Verderber, Rudolph R., Oliver C. Morse, and C. Dumm."Quality Assurance Assessment of New Efficient Lighting Systems for Naval Ships: Final Report." (1984).

Harms, Michael G., Leon P. Leung, and Rudolph R. Verderber."Electromagnetic Interference from Fluorescent Lighting Operated with Solid-State Ballasts in Various Sites."IEEE-IAS Annual Meeting (1984).

Verderber, Rudolph R., and Francis M. Rubinstein."New Lighting Technologies, Their Status and Impacts on Power Densities."1984 ACEES Summer Study (1984).

Verderber, Rudolph R., and Francis M. Rubinstein."Lighting Controls: The Role of Advanced Technology--Past, Present, and Future."National Research Council of Canadas Lighting Control Symposium (1984).

Verderber, Rudolph R.."Fluorescent Lamp Fixtures and Ballasts."EPRI Lighting and Utility Seminar (1984).

Siminovitch, Michael J., Francis M. Rubinstein, and Rudolph R. Verderber."Determining Lamp/Ballast System Performance with a Temperature Controlled Integrating Chamber."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 14 (1984) 364-378.

Siminovitch, Michael J., Francis M. Rubinstein, and Rudolph R. Verderber."An Experimental Methodology for Determining the System Performance of Fluorescent Lamp, Ballast, Fixture Combinations Operating Under Realistic Application Conditions." (1984).

Verderber, Rudolph R.."Review of Lighting Control Equipment and Applications."Lighting Design + Application 16 (1984).

1983

Verderber, Rudolph R.."Assessing Fluorescent Ballast/Lamp Systems."Electrical Consultant 64 (1983) 47.

Verderber, Rudolph R., and Francis M. Rubinstein."Comparison of Technologies for New Energy-Efficient Lamps."IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 1A-20 (1983).

Rubinstein, Francis M., Mahmut Karayel, and Rudolph R. Verderber."Field Study on Occupancy Scheduling as a Lighting Management Strategy."Lighting Design + Application 14 (1983).

Rubinstein, Francis M., and Rudolph R. Verderber."Mutual Impacts of Lighting Controls on Daylighting Applications."Energy and Buildings 6 (1983) 133-140.

1982

Verderber, Rudolph R., and Sam M. Berman."Proceedings of the Lighting/Electromagnetic Compatibility Conference."Lighting/Electromagnetic Compatibility Conference, March 18-19, 1982 (1982).

1980

Verderber, Rudolph R., and Oliver C. Morse."Cost Effectiveness of Long Life Incandescent Lamps and Energy Buttons."Electrical Construction and Maintenance 80 (1980).

Rubinstein, Francis M., and Rudolph R. Verderber."Lighting Controls: Survey of the Potential Market."Energy 8.6 (1980) 433-449.