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.

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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)

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."Environmental and Health Aspects of Lighting: Mercury."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 23 (1994) 138-156.

1993

Berman, Sam M, George Fein, Don L Jewett, and F Ashford."Landolt C Recognition in Elderly Subjects is Affected by Scotopic Intensity of Surround Illuminants."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 23 (1993).

Berman, Sam M, George Fein, Don L Jewett, and F Ashford."Luminance Controlled Pupil Size Affects Landolt C Task Performance."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 22 (1993).

1992

Richardson, Robert W, and Sam M Berman."Variational Theory of the Radiant Emittance of the Mercury Argon Discharge and the Effects of Isotopic Enrichment."Journal of Applied Physics 72.12 (1992) 5571-5578. DOI

Greenhouse, Daniel S, Ian L Bailey, Peter A Howarth, and Sam M Berman."Spatial adaptation to text on a video display terminal."Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics 12.3 (1992) 302-306.

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."Economics and Lighting Level Recommendations."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 22 (1992).

Bailey, Ian L, Robert D Clear, and Sam M Berman."Size as a Determinant of Reading Speed."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 22 (1992).

Berman, Sam M."Tuning Light Spectrum to Improve Energy Efficiency."International Association of Energy-Efficient Lighting 2 (1992).

1991

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."Polarization and glare on VDUs and Other Tilted Specular Surfaces."Illuminating Engineering Society Annual Conference 21(1) (1991) 29-40.

Berman, Sam M."Energy Efficiency Consequences of Scotopic Sensitivity."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 21 (1991).

Raasch, Thomas W, Ian L Bailey, Peter A Howarth, Daniel S Greenhouse, and Sam M Berman."Visual Performance at Video Display Terminals--Effects of Screen Color and Illuminant Type."Journal of Optometry and Vision Science 68 (1991) 924-929.

1990

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."The Effect of Instructions on Visual and Task Performance."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 20 (1990) 108-116.

1989

Greenhouse, Daniel S, Ian L Bailey, Peter A Howarth, Sam M Berman, and Bernice E Rogowitz."Spatial Adaptation on Video Display Terminals."International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) 1077 (1989) 27-34. DOI

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."Speed, Accuracy, and VL."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 19 (1989) 124-131.

1988

Berman, Sam M, Don L Jewett, George Fein, Glenn Y Saika, and F Ashford."Photopic Luminance Does Not Always Predict Perceived Room Brightness."Lighting Research and Technology 22.1 (1988) 37-41. DOI

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."Estimation of Linear Interpolation Error."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 18 (1988) 32-39.

Berman, Sam M, Daniel S Greenhouse, Ian L Bailey, Robert D Clear, and Thomas W Raasch."Human Electroretinogram Responses to Video Displays."Journal of Optometry and Vision Science 68 (1988) 645-662.

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