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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) 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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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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2021

Thomson, Gregory D, Robert G Davis, Luis L Fernandes, and Taoning Wang."Achieving Integrated Daylighting and Electric Lighting Systems: Current State of the Art and Needed Research."Energies 14.13 (2021) 3833. DOI

2018

Lee, Eleanor S, Christoph Gehbauer, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Luis L Fernandes, and Taoning Wang."Dual-Zone Solar Control Indoor Shade: Demonstration at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, California and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advanced Windows Testbed, Berkeley, California." (2018).

2013

Lee, Eleanor S, Luis L Fernandes, Brian E Coffey, Andrew McNeil, Robert D Clear, Thomas L Webster, Fred S Bauman, Darryl J Dickerhoff, David Heinzerling, and Tyler Hoyt."A Post-Occupancy Monitored Evaluation of the Dimmable Lighting, Automated Shading, and Underfloor Air Distribution System in The New York Times Building." (2013).

2012

Dutton, Spencer M, Hui Zhang, Yongchao Zhai, Edward A Arens, Youness Bennani Smires, Samuel L Brunswick, Kyle S Konis, and Philip Haves."Application of a stochastic window use model in EnergyPlus."SimBuild 2012, 5th National Conference of IBPSA-USA, August 1-3, 2012 (2012).

Lee, Eleanor S, Erin S Claybaugh, and Marc LaFrance."End User Impacts of Automated Electrochromic Windows in a Pilot Retrofit Application."Energy and Buildings 47.April 2012 (2012) 267-284. DOI

2010

Clear, Robert D."Post-Occupancy Evaluation of The New York Times Headquarters Building: an Examination of Causes for Occupant Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction with the Energy-Efficiency Measures." (2010).

2006

Clear, Robert D, Vorapat Inkarojrit, and Eleanor S Lee."Subject Response to Electrochromic Windows."Energy and Buildings 38.7 (2006) 758-779. DOI

1998

Vine, Edward L, Eleanor S Lee, Robert D Clear, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Office Worker Response to an Automated Venetian Blind and Electric Lighting System: A Pilot Study."Energy and Buildings 28.2 (1998) 205-218. DOI