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)

1997

Griffith, Brent T., Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Mehry Yazdanian, and Dariush K. Arasteh."The Significance of Bolts in the Thermal Performance of Curtain-Wall Frames for Glazed Façades."ASHRAE Transactions 104, Part 1 (1997).

Huang, Yu Joe, Robert Sullivan, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Robin Mitchell."RESFEN 3.0: A PC Program for Calculating the Heating and Cooling Energy Use of Windows in Residential Buildings." (1997) 38.

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).

Frost, Karl J., Joseph H Eto, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Mehry Yazdanian."The National Energy Requirements of Residential Windows in the U.S.: Today and Tomorrow."ACEEE 1996 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Profiting from Energy Efficiency (1996).

Eto, Joseph H, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Transforming the Market for Residential Windows: Design Considerations for DOE's Efficient Window Collaborative."1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1996).

Sullivan, Robert, Fredric A. Beck, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Energy Performance of Evacuated Glazings in Residential Buildings."ASHRAE 1996 Summer Meeting, June 22-26, 1996 102, Part 2 (1996).

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).

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).

Crooks, Brian, James Larsen, Robert Sullivan, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."NFRC Efforts to Develop a Residential Fenestration Annual Energy Rating Methodology."Window Innovations Conference 1995 (1995).

Arasteh, Dariush K., Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Michael D. Rubin, and John Sadlier."Recent Technical Improvements to the WINDOW Computer Program."Window Innovations 95 (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).

Simko, Tom M., Richard E. Collins, Fredric A. Beck, and Dariush K. Arasteh."Edge Conduction in Vacuum Glazing."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VI Conference (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).

Arasteh, Dariush K.."Advances in Window Technology: 1973-1993."Advances in Solar Energy, An Annual Review of Research and Development (1995) 339-382.

1994

Arasteh, Dariush K., Brent T. Griffith, and Paul LaBerge."Integrated Window Systems: An Advanced Energy-Efficient Residential Fenestration Product."19th National Passive Solar Conference (1994).

Koomey, Jonathan G., Francis X Johnson, Jennifer E. Schuman, Ellen M. Franconi, Steve E. Greenberg, James D. Lutz, Brent T. Griffith, Dariush K. Arasteh, Celina S. Atkinson, Kristin E. Heinemeier, Yu Joe Huang, Lynn K. Price, Gregory J. Rosenquist, Francis M. Rubinstein, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Haider Taha, and Isaac Turiel."Buildings Sector Demand-Side Efficiency Technology Summaries." (1994).

Reilly, M. Susan, Frederick C. Winkelmann, Dariush K. Arasteh, and William L. Carroll."Modeling Windows in DOE 2.1E."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings V Conference (1994).

Lee, Eleanor S., Deborah Hopkins, Michael D. Rubin, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Spectrally Selective Glazings for Residential Retrofits in Cooling-Dominated Climates."ASHRAE Transactions 100.1 (1994).

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

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).

Arasteh, Dariush K., Fredric A. Beck, Nehemiah Stone, William DuPont, R. Christophe Mathis, and Michael Koenig."Phase I Results of the NFRC U-Value Procedure Validation Project."ASHRAE Transactions 100, Pt. 1 (1993).