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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

1988

Jewett, Don L., Sam M. Berman, M.R. Greenberg, George Fein, and Richard M. Nahass."The Lack of Effects on Human Muscle Strength of Light Spectrum and Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation in Electric Lighting."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society (1988).

1987

Clear, Robert D., and Sam M. Berman."Lighting Recommendations as Input to Cost-Benefit Calculations."1987 IES National Conference (1987).

Berman, Sam M., Don L. Jewett, and Larry R. Bingham."Comparison of Pupillary Responses to Low and High Frequency Lighting."21st Session of the Commission Internationale de lEclairage (CIE) 2 (1987).

Berman, Sam M., Don L. Jewett, Larry R. Bingham, Richard M. Nahass, Franklin Perry, and George Fein."Pupillary Size Differences Under Incandescent and High Pressure Sodium Lamps."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society Winter (1987) 3-20.

Clear, Robert D., and Sam M. Berman."To Average, or Not To Average."Lighting Design + Application 17 (1987) 28-31.

1986

Zhou, T., L. Wang, Donald D. Hollister, Sam M. Berman, and Robert W. Richardson."Magnetic Enhancement of Ultraviolet Radiation Efficiency of Low Pressure Hg-Ar Discharge."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 16.1 (1986) 176-181. DOI

Berman, Sam M., and Robert W. Richardson."Determination of the Excited State Density of an Optically Thick Line."Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiation Transfer 37 (1986) 471-475.

1985

Berman, Sam M.."Lighting Research Program."12th Energy Tech. Conference and Exposition (1985).

Clear, Robert D., and Sam M. Berman."Target Size, Visibility, and Roadway Performance."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 15 (1985) 167-180.

1984

Wang, Zhien, Donald D. Hollister, and Sam M. Berman."Development of Novel Lamps for Study of Enhanced Production of Resonance Radiation by Low-Density Mercury Discharges."1984 IEEE-IAS Annual Meeting (1984).

Clear, Robert D., and Sam M. Berman."Analysis of a Visual Performance Experiment."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 14 (1984) 448-465.

1983

Berman, Sam M., Daniel S. Greenhouse, Ian L. Bailey, and Arthur Bradley."Experimental Studies Relating Environmental Lighting Flicker to Visual Fatigue in VDT Operators."20th Session of CIE (CIE Session 83) (1983).

Richardson, Robert W., and Sam M. Berman."Experimental Studies of Enhanced Emittance by Zeeman Splitting of a Low-Pressure Mercury/Argon Discharge."3rd International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Light Sources (1983).

Clear, Robert D., and Sam M. Berman."Fundamental Problems with Visual Performance Research Described in the CIE 19/2 Report."1983 IES Annual Conference (1983).

1982

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

Clear, Robert D., and Sam M. Berman."Relating Productivity to Visibility and Lighting."The Integration of Visual Performance Criteria into the Illumination Design Process (1982) 184-212.

1981

Clear, Robert D., and Sam M. Berman."A New Look at Models of Visual Performance."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 12 (1981) 242-247.

1980

Clear, Robert D., and Sam M. Berman."Cost Effectiveness of Visibility-Based Design Procedures for General Office Lighting."Illuminating Engineering Society Annual Technical Conference (1980).