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)

2008

Mitchell, Robin, Christian Kohler, Joseph H Klems, Michael D Rubin, Dariush K Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, Tiefeng Yu, and Dragan C Curcija."WINDOW 6.2/THERM 6.2 Research Version User Manual." (2008) 1-126.

2006

Arasteh, Dariush K, Dragan C Curcija, Yu Joe Huang, Charlie Huizenga, and Christian Kohler."Evaluating Fenestration Products for Zero-Energy Buildings: Issues for Discussion."SimBuild 2006: Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation (2006).

2005

Mitchell, Robin, Yu Joe Huang, Dariush K Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, and Steve Glendenning."RESFEN5: Program Description." (2005).

2003

Mitchell, Robin, Christian Kohler, Dariush K Arasteh, John Carmody, Charlie Huizenga, and Dragan C Curcija."THERM 5/WINDOW 5 NFRC Simulation Manual." (2003).

2001

Arasteh, Dariush K, Robin Mitchell, Christian Kohler, Charlie Huizenga, and Dragan C Curcija."Improving Information Technology to Maximize Fenestration Energy Efficiency."Performance of Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings VIII (2001).

Mitchell, Robin, Christian Kohler, Dariush K Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, and Dragan C Curcija."WINDOW 5.0 User Manual for Analyzing Window Thermal Performance." (2001).

2000

Mitchell, Robin, Christian Kohler, Dariush K Arasteh, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Charlie Huizenga, Dragan C Curcija, and John Carmody."THERM 2.1 NFRC Simulation Manual." (2000) 260.

1999

Lyons, Peter R, Dariush K Arasteh, and Charlie Huizenga."Window Performance for Human Thermal Comfort."2000 ASHRAE Winter Meeting (1999).

Huizenga, Charlie, Dariush K Arasteh, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Robin Mitchell, Brent T Griffith, and Dragan C Curcija."THERM 2.0: A Building Component Model for Steady-State Two-Dimensional Heat Transfer."Building Simulation 99, International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) (1999).

Modera, Mark P, Tengfang T Xu, Helmut E Feustel, Nance Matson, Charlie Huizenga, Fred S Bauman, Edward A Arens, and Tom R Borgers."Efficient Thermal Energy Distribution in Commercial Buildings." (1999).

1998

Huizenga, Charlie, Dariush K Arasteh, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Robin Mitchell, and Brent T Griffith."Teaching Students about Two-Dimensional Heat Transfer Effects in Buildings, Building Components, Equipment, and Appliances Using THERM 2.0."ASHRAE Transactions 105, Part 1 (1998).

Arasteh, Dariush K, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Yu Joe Huang, Charlie Huizenga, Robin Mitchell, and Michael D Rubin."State-of-the-Art Software for Window Energy-Efficiency Rating and Labeling."ACEEE 1998 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1998).

Finlayson, Elizabeth U, Robin Mitchell, Dariush K Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, and Dragan C Curcija."THERM 2.0: a PC Program for Analyzing Two-Dimensional Heat Transfer through Building products." (1998).

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).

1995

Finlayson, Elizabeth U, Dariush K Arasteh, Michael D Rubin, John Sadlier, Robert Sullivan, Charlie Huizenga, Dragan C Curcija, and Mark Beall."Advances in Thermal and Optical Simulations of Fenestration Systems: The Development of WINDOW 5."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VI Conference (1995).

1994

Arasteh, Dariush K, Elizabeth U Finlayson, and Charlie Huizenga."WINDOW 4.1: Program Description." (1994).

1993

Finlayson, Elizabeth U, Dariush K Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, Michael D Rubin, and M. M Susan Reilly."Window 4.0: Documentation of Calculation Procedures." (1993).