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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.
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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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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).

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).

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

Rubinstein, Francis M.."Photo-Electric Control of Equi-Illumination Lighting Systems."Energy and Buildings 6 (1983) 141-150.

Maya, Jakob."Test, Evaluation, and Report on Mercury Enrichment for Fluorescent Lamps: GTE Lighting: Final Report." (1983).

1982

Rubinstein, Francis M., and Mahmut Karayel."The Measured Energy Savings from Two Lighting Control Strategies."IEEE-IAS Transactions 1A-20(5) (1982) 1189-1197.

Kohler, Thomas P.."Integrated Circuit Control for Two-Lamp Electronic Ballast." (1982).

Peterson, David, and Francis M. Rubinstein."Energy Savings Through Effective Lighting Control."Lighting Design + Application 13 (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

Rubinstein, Francis M.."Energy-Saving Benefits of Automatic Lighting Controls."International Energy Management and Facilities Improvement Show (1981).

Morse, Oliver C.."High-Frequency Starting of Fluorescent Lamps."ANSI Meeting, Subcommittee C82-1 on Fluorescent Lamp Ballasts (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

Kohler, Thomas P.."Electronic Screw-In Ballast and Improved Circline Lamp Phase I: Final Report." (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).

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.