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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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2006

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

2005

Inkarojrit, Vorapat."Balancing comfort: occupants' control of window blinds in private offices."Architecture (2005) 281.

Andersen, Marilyn, Michael D. Rubin, Rebecca Powles, and Jean-Louis Scartezzini."Bi-Directional Transmission Properties of Venetian Blinds: Experimental Assessment Compared to Ray-Tracing Calculations."Solar Energy 78 (2005) 187-198.

2003

Andersen, Marilyn, Michael D. Rubin, and Jean-Louis Scartezzini."Comparison Between Ray-Tracing Simulations and Bi-Directional Transmission Measurements on Prismatic Glazing."Solar Energy 74.2 (2003) 157-173. DOI

2002

Lee, Eleanor S., Stephen E. Selkowitz, Christian Kohler, Vladimir Bazjanac, and Vorapat Inkarojrit."High-Performance Commercial Building Façades." (2002).

2000

Klems, Joseph H.."Solar Heat Gain Through Fenestrations Containing Shading: Procedures for Estimating Performace from Minimal Data." (2000).

1998

Sullivan, Robert, Liliana O. Beltran, Eleanor S. Lee, Michael D. Rubin, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Energy and Daylight Performance of Angular Selective Glazings."ASHRAE/DOE/BTECC Conference, Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VII (1998).

Griffith, Brent T., Christian Kohler, Howdy Goudey, Daniel Turler, and Dariush K. Arasteh."Rapid field testing of low-emittance coated glazings for product verification."ASHRAE/DOE/BTECC Conference, Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VII (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

Lee, Eleanor S.."Spectrally Selective Glazings."Federal Technology Alert (1998) 47.

1997

Arasteh, Dariush K., Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Dragan C. Curcija, Jeff Baker, and Charlie Huizenga."Guidelines for Modeling Projecting Fenestration Products."ASHRAE Transactions 104, Part 1 (1997).

1996

Klems, Joseph H., and Jeffrey L. Warner."Solar Heat Gain Coefficient of Complex Fenestrations with a Venetian Blind for Differing Slat Tilt Angles."ASHRAE Symposium 103, Part 1 (1996).

1995

Klems, Joseph H., Jeffrey L. Warner, and Guy O. Kelley."A Comparison Between Calculated and Measured SHGC For Complex Fenestration Systems."ASHRAE Transactions 102, Part 1 (1995).

Klems, Joseph H., Mehry Yazdanian, and Guy O. Kelley."Measured Performance of Selective Glazings."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VI Conference (1995).

Klems, Joseph H., and Guy O. Kelley."Calorimetric Measurements of Inward-Flowing Fraction for Complex Glazing and Shading Systems."ASHRAE Transactions 102, Part 1 (1995).

Klems, Joseph H., and Jeffrey L. Warner."Measurement of Bidirectional Optical Properties of Complex Shading Devices."ASHRAE Transactions 101, Part 1 (1995).

1994

Lee, Eleanor S., Deborah Hopkins, Michael D. Rubin, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Spectrally Selective Glazings for Residential Retrofits in Cooling-Dominated Climates."ASHRAE Transactions 100.1 (1994).

1993

Klems, Joseph H.."A New Method for Predicting the Solar Heat Gain of Complex Fenestration Systems I. Overview and Derivation of the Matrix Layer Calculation."ASHRAE Transactions 100, Part 1 (1993).

Klems, Joseph H.."A New Method for Predicting the Solar Heat Gain of Complex Fenestration Systems II. Detailed Description of the Matrix Layer Calculation."ASHRAE Transactions 100.1 (1993).