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)

1989

Walker, Iain S.."Single Zone Air Infiltration Modeling."Department of Mechanical Engineering (1989).

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

Greene, L.H., J.B. Barner, W.L. Feldmann, L.A. Farrow, P.F. Miceli, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, B.J. Wilkens, B.G. Bagley, J.M. Tarascon, J.H. Wernick, M. Giroud, and J.M. Rowell."Studies of proximity-effect and tunneling in YBCO/metal layered films."Physica C: Superconductivity and its applications 162-164 (1989) 1069-1070. DOI

Arasteh, Dariush K., M. Susan Reilly, and Michael D. Rubin."A Versatile Procedure for Calculating Heat Transfer Through Windows."ASHRAE Transactions 95 (1989).

Balooch, Mehdi, Donald R. Olander, and Richard E. Russo."Y-Ba-Cu-O superconducting films produced by long-pulse laser vaporization."Applied Physics Letters 55.2 (1989) 197. DOI

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

Klems, Joseph H.."U-Values, Solar Heat Gain, and Thermal Performance: Recent Studies Using the MoWiTT."ASHRAE TransactionsASHRAE Winter Meeting: Fenestration U-Value Symposium 95, part 1 (1988).

Program, Windows and Lighting, and Florida Solar Energy Center."Commercial Building Fenestration Performance Indices Project, Phase I: Development of Methodology." (1988).

Krause, Florentin, and Joseph H Eto."Least Cost Utility Planning, A Handbook for Public Utility Commissioners, Volume 2: The Demand Side: Conceptual and Methodological Issues." (1988).

Fisk, William J., Richard J. Prill, and Olli Seppänen."A Multi-Tracer Technique for Studying Rates of Ventilation, Air Distribution Patterns, and Air Exchange Efficiencies."Building Systems: Room Air and Air Contaminant Distribution (1988).

Haves, Philip, and Paul J. Littlefair."Daylight in Dynamic Thermal Modelling Programs: a Case Study."Building Services Engineering Research & Technology 9.4 (1988) 183-188. DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Jonathan G. Koomey, James E. McMahon, and Edward P Kahn."Integrated Analysis of Demand-Side Programs."IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 3.4 (1988) 7. DOI

Verderber, Rudolph R., Francis M. Rubinstein, and Michael J. Siminovitch."Control of Lamp Wall Temperature."IEEE-IAS Annual Conference (1988).

Eto, Joseph H."Least-Cost Utility Planning, A Handbook for Public Utility Commissioners Volume 1." (1988).

Verderber, Rudolph R., Oliver C. Morse, and Francis M. Rubinstein."Performance of Electronic Ballast and Controls with 34 and 40 Watt F40 Fluorescent Lamps."IEEE-IAS Annual Conference (1988).

Eto, Joseph H, and Cecile Meyer."The HVAC Costs of Fresh Air Ventilation."ASHRAE Journal (1988).

Haves, Philip, and D. Trewella."Towards an Environment for HVAC Control System Evaluation."USER-1 Building Simulation Conference (1988).

Eto, Joseph H."On Using Degree-days to Account for the Effects of Weather on Annual Energy Use in Office Buildings."Energy and Buildings 12.2 (1988). DOI

Eto, Joseph H, Carl Blumstein, and Michael Jaske."Changing Needs in Energy Demand Forecasting: A California Perspective."1988 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1988).

Rubinstein, Francis M., Gregory J. Ward, and Rudolph R. Verderber."Improving the Performance of Photo-Electrically Controlled Lighting Systems."Annual IES Conference (1988).

Verderber, Rudolph R., and Michael J. Siminovitch."Lighting Retrofit Considerations." (1988).

Klems, Joseph H.."Measurement of Fenestration Net Energy Performance: Considerations Leading to Development of the Mobile Window Thermal Test (MoWiTT) Facility."Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 110 (1988) 208-216.

Goldman, Charles A., Kathleen M. Greely, and Jeffrey P. Harris."An Updated Compliation of Measured Energy Savings in Retrofitted Multifamily Buildings."ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1988).

Eto, Joseph H, Jonathan G. Koomey, Peter T. Chan, and Winifred Yen-Wood."Statistical Indicators of Potential for Electric Utility Least‑Cost Planning Programs." (1988).

Verderber, Rudolph R.."Status and Applications of New Lighting Technologies."Renewable Energy Technologies Symposium and International Exposition/The International Power Exhibition and Energy Conference (1988).