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

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2020

Fernandes, Luis L., Eleanor S. Lee, Anothai Thanachareonkit, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Potential annual daylighting performance of a high-efficiency daylight redirecting slat system."Building Simulation (2020). DOI

Lee, Eleanor S., Anothai Thanachareonkit, D. Charlie Curcija, Gregory J. Ward, Taoning Wang, David Geisler-Moroder, Christoph Gehbauer, John Breshears, Luis L. Fernandes, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Robert Hart, Christian Kohler, David Blum, Jinqing Peng, and Howdy Goudey."High-Performance Integrated Window and Façade Solutions for California." (2020).

2018

Fernandes, Luis L., Eleanor S. Lee, Darryl J. Dickerhoff, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Taoning Wang, and Christoph Gehbauer."Electrochromic Window Demonstration at the John E. Moss Federal Building, 650 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, California." (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).

2016

Lee, Eleanor S., Anothai Thanachareonkit, Samir Touzani, Spencer M. Dutton, Jordan Shackelford, Darryl J. Dickerhoff, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Technology Assessments of High Performance Envelope with Optimized Lighting, Solar Control, and Daylighting." (2016).

Hoffmann, Sabine, Eleanor S. Lee, Andrew McNeil, Luis L. Fernandes, Dragan Vidanovic, and Anothai Thanachareonkit."Balancing daylight, glare, and energy-efficiency goals: An evaluation of exterior coplanar shading systems using complex fenestration modeling tools."Energy and Buildings 112 (2016) 279-298. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S., Luis L. Fernandes, Samir Touzani, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Xiufeng Pang, and Darryl J. Dickerhoff."Electrochromic Window Demonstration at the 911 Federal Building, 911 Northeast 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon." (2016).

2015

Lee, Eleanor S., Xiufeng Pang, Andrew McNeil, Sabine Hoffmann, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Zhengrong Li, and Yong Ding."Assessment of the Potential to Achieve Very Low Energy Use in Public Buildings in China with Advanced Window and Shading Systems."Buildings 5.2 (2015) 668-699. DOI

Fernandes, Luis L., Eleanor S. Lee, and Anothai Thanachareonkit."Electrochromic Window Demonstration at the Donna Land Port of Entry." (2015).

2014

Lee, Eleanor S., Brian E. Coffey, Luis L. Fernandes, Sabine Hoffmann, Andrew McNeil, Anothai Thanachareonkit, and Gregory J. Ward."High Performance Building Façade Solutions-Phase II." (2014).

2013

Thanachareonkit, Anothai, Eleanor S. Lee, and Andrew McNeil."Empirical Assessment of a Prismatic Daylight-Redirecting Window Film in a Full-Scale Office Testbed."LEUKOS: The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America 10.1 (2013) 19-45. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S., Xiufeng Pang, Sabine Hoffmann, Howdy Goudey, and Anothai Thanachareonkit."An empirical study of a full-scale polymer thermochromic window and its implications on material science development objectives."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 116 (2013) 14-26. DOI