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)

2000

Griffith, Brent T, Daniel Turler, and Howdy Goudey."Infrared Thermography Systems."The Encyclopedia of Imaging Science and Technology (2000).

1998

Griffith, Brent T, Daniel Turler, Howdy Goudey, and Dariush K Arasteh."Experimental Techniques for Measuring Temperature and Velocity Fields to Improve the Use and Validation of Building Heat Transfer Models."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).

1997

Griffith, Brent T, Dragan C Curcija, Daniel Turler, and Dariush K Arasteh."Improving Computer Simulations of Heat Transfer for Projecting Fenestration products: Using Radiation View-Factor Models."ASHRAE Transactions 104, Part 1 (1997).

1996

Turler, Daniel, Brent T Griffith, and Dariush K Arasteh."Laboratory Procedures for Using Infrared Thermography to Validate Heat Transfer Models."ASTM Third Symposium on Insulation Materials: Testing and Applications 3 (1996).

1995

Griffith, Brent T, Fredric A Beck, Dariush K Arasteh, and Daniel Turler."Issues Associated with the Use of Infrared Thermography for Experimental Testing of Insulated Systems."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VI Conference (1995).

Griffith, Brent T, Daniel Turler, and Dariush K Arasteh."Surface Temperatures of Insulated Glazing Units: Infrared Thermography Laboratory Measurements."ASHRAE Transactions 102.2 (1995).

Griffith, Brent T, Dariush K Arasteh, and Daniel Turler."Gas Filled Panels: An Update on Applications in the Building Thermal Envelope."BETEC Fall Symposium, Superinsulations and the Building Envelope (1995).

Beck, Fredric A, Brent T Griffith, Daniel Turler, and Dariush K Arasteh."Using Infrared Thermography for the Creation of a Window Surface Temperature Database to Validate Computer Heat Transfer Models."Windows Innovations Conference 95 (1995).

Griffith, Brent T, Dariush K Arasteh, and Daniel Turler."Energy Efficiency Improvements for Refrigerator/Freezers Using Prototype Doors Containing Gas-Filled Panel Insulating Systems."Proceedings of the 46th International Appliance Technical (1995).

Beck, Fredric A, Brent T Griffith, Daniel Turler, and Dariush K Arasteh."An Infrared Thermography-Based Window Surface Temperature Database for the Validation of Computer Heat Transfer Models." (1995).

1993

Griffith, Brent T, Daniel Turler, and Dariush K Arasteh."Optimizing the Effective Conductivity and Cost of Gas-Filled Panel Thermal Insulations."22nd International Thermal Conductivity Conference (1993).