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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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2018

Wang, Taoning, Gregory J Ward, and Eleanor S Lee."Efficient modeling of optically-complex, non-coplanar exterior shading: Validation of matrix algebraic methods."Energy and Buildings 174 (2018) 464 - 483. DOI

2015

Hoffmann, Sabine, and Eleanor S Lee."Potential energy savings with exterior shades in large office buildings and the impact of discomfort glare."Fourth BEST Conference Building Enclosure Science & Technology (BEST4) (2015).

2009

Lee, Eleanor S, Stephen E Selkowitz, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Joseph H Klems, Robert D Clear, Kyle S Konis, Robert J Hitchcock, Mehry Yazdanian, Robin Mitchell, and Maria Konstantoglou."High Performance Building Facade Solutions: PIER Final Project Report." (2009).

Lee, Eleanor S, Stephen E Selkowitz, Dennis L DiBartolomeo, Joseph H Klems, Robert D Clear, Kyle S Konis, Maria Konstantoglou, and Mark Perepelitza."Innovative Façade Systems for Low-energy Commercial Buildings." (2009).

2007

Lee, Eleanor S, and Aslihan Tavil."Energy and visual comfort performance of electrochromic windows with overhangs."Building and Environment 42.6 (2007) 2439-2449. DOI