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

Buildings

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Energy Storage

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Transportation

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

1993

Frost, Karl J., Dariush K. Arasteh, and Joseph H Eto."Savings from Energy Efficient Windows: Current and Future Savings from New Fenestration Technologies in the Residential Market." (1993).

Beck, Fredric A., and Dariush K. Arasteh."A Validation of the WINDOW4/FRAME3 Linear Interpolation Methodology."ASHRAE Transactions 100, Part 1 (1993).

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

Sullivan, Robert, Karl J. Frost, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Window U-Value Effects on Residential Cooling Load." (1993).

1992

Griffith, Brent T., and Dariush K. Arasteh."Gas-Filled Panels: A Thermally Improved Building Insulation."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings V Conference Proceedings (1992).

Beck, Fredric A., and Dariush K. Arasteh."Improving the Thermal Performance of Vinyl-Framed Windows."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Building V Conference (1992).

Arasteh, Dariush K., R. Christophe Mathis, and William DuPont."The NFRC Window U-Value Rating Procedures."ASHRAE/DOE/BTECC Conference on the Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings V (1992).

Brown, Richard E., Dariush K. Arasteh, and Joseph H Eto."Improving the Thermal Performance of the U.S. Residential Window Stock."1992 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1992).

Warner, Jeffrey L., M. Susan Reilly, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Gregg D. Ander."Utility and Economic Benefits of Electrochromic Smart Windows."Proceedings of the 1992 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (1992).

Arasteh, Dariush K.."Advancing Superwindows in the United States: Overcoming Technical and Institutional Barriers."International Symposium on Optical Materials Technology for Energy Efficiency and Solar Energy Conversion XI (1992).

Griffith, Brent T., and Dariush K. Arasteh."Advanced Insulations for Refrigerator/Freezers: The Potential for New Shell Designs Incorporating Polyer Barrier Construction." (1992).

Griffith, Brent T., Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Development of a Low Heat Loss, Non-CFC-Based Thermal Insulation: Gas-Filled Panels." (1992).

Rubin, Michael D., Dariush K. Arasteh, Eleanor S. Lee, and Deborah Hopkins."Spectrally Selective Glazings for Residential Retrofits." (1992).

Arasteh, Dariush K.."Window 4.0: PC Program for Analyzing Window Thermal Performance." (1992).

1991

Griffith, Brent T., Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Gas-Filled Panel High-Performance Thermal Insulation."Insulation Materials: Testing and Applications 2 (1991).

Gadgil, Ashok J., Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Ellen Ward."Advanced Lighting and Window Technologies for Reducing Electricity Consumption and Peak Demand: Overseas Manufacturing and Marketing Opportunities." (1991).

Arasteh, Dariush K., and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Energy Conservation Through Vacuum Coatings."Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) 34th Annual Technical Conference (1991).

Sullivan, Robert, B. Chin, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."RESFEN: A Residential Fenestration Performance Design."ASHRAE Transactions 97, Part 2 (1991).

Arasteh, Dariush K., Fredric A. Beck, Brent T. Griffith, Manuel Acevedo-Ruiz, and Nan Byars."Using Infrared Thermography for the Study of Heat Transfer Through Building Envelope Components."ASHRAE Transactions 98, part 1 (1991).

1990

Arasteh, Dariush K., Brent T. Griffith, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Super-Insulated Gas-Filled Panels." (1990).

Byars, Nan, and Dariush K. Arasteh."Design Options for Low-Conductivity Window Frames."Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 25 (1990) 143-148.

Reilly, M. Susan, Dariush K. Arasteh, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Thermal and Optical Analysis of Switchable Window Glazings."Solar Energy Materials 22 (1990).

1989

Arasteh, Dariush K.."An Analysis of Frame and Edge Heat Transfer in Residential Windows."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings IV Conference (1989).

Arasteh, Dariush K., and Stephen E. Selkowitz."A Superwindow Field Demonstration Program in Northwest Montana."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings IV Conference (1989).

Arasteh, Dariush K., Stephen E. Selkowitz, and John R. Wolfe."The Design and Testing of a Highly Insulating Glazing System for Use with Conventional Window Systems."Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 111.1 (1989) 44-53. DOI