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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 scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Bailey, Ian L, Robert D Clear, and Sam M Berman."Size as a Determinant of Reading Speed."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 22 (1992).

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."Polarization and glare on VDUs and Other Tilted Specular Surfaces."Illuminating Engineering Society Annual Conference 21(1) (1991) 29-40.

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."The Effect of Instructions on Visual and Task Performance."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 20 (1990) 108-116.

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

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."Estimation of Linear Interpolation Error."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 18 (1988) 32-39.

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."To Average, or Not To Average."Lighting Design + Application 17 (1987) 28-31.

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."Target Size, Visibility, and Roadway Performance."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 15 (1985) 167-180.

Clear, Robert D, and Sam M Berman."Analysis of a Visual Performance Experiment."Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society 14 (1984) 448-465.

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.

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.