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)

2002

Barbour, Ed, and Dariush K Arasteh."An Evaluation of Alternative Qualifying Criteria for Energy Star Windows." (2002).

Shehabi, Arman, Charles N Eley, Dariush K Arasteh, and Phil Degens."A Characterization of the Nonresidential Fenestration Market." (2002).

Prindle, Bill, and Dariush K Arasteh."Energy Savings and Pollution Prevention Benefits of Solar Heat Gain Standards in the International Energy Conservation Code." (2002).

Mattinson, Bill, Ross DePaola, and Dariush K Arasteh."What Should I Do About My Windows?."Home Energy Magazine (2002) 24-31.

2001

Griffith, Brent T, Howdy Goudey, and Dariush K Arasteh."Infrared Thermography Measurements of Window Thermal Test Specimen: Surface Temperatures."ASHRAE Seminar (2001).

Kohler, Christian, Dariush K Arasteh, and Robin Mitchell."THERM Simulations of Window Indoor Surface Temperatures for Predicting Condensation."ASHRAE Transactions 109, Part 1 (2001) 593-599.

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).

Eto, Joseph H, and Dariush K Arasteh."A Sourcebook for Residential Window Market Transformation." (2001).

Arney, Michael, James Fairman, John Carmody, and Dariush K Arasteh."The Integrated Energy-Efficiency Window-Wall System." (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

Gustavsen, Arlid, Brent T Griffith, and Dariush K Arasteh."Natural Convection Effects in Three-Dimensional Window Frames with Internal Cavities."ASHRAE Transactions 107, Part 2 (2000).

Gustavsen, Arlid, Brent T Griffith, and Dariush K Arasteh."Three-Dimensional Conjugate Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations of Internal Window Frame Cavities Validated Using IR Thermography."ASHRAE Transactions 107.2 (2000) 538-549.

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

Arasteh, Dariush K, Yu Joe Huang, Robin Mitchell, Robert D Clear, and Christian Kohler."A Database of Window Annual Energy Use in Typical North American Residences."2000 ASHRAE Winter Meeting (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).

Mitchell, Robin, Yu Joe Huang, Dariush K Arasteh, Robert Sullivan, and Santosh Phillip."RESFEN 3.1: A PC Program for Calculating the Heating and Cooling Energy Use of Windows in Residential Buildings." (1999).

Griffith, Brent T, and Dariush K Arasteh."Buildings Research using Infrared Imaging Radiometers with Laboratory Thermal Chambers."Proceedings of the SPIE 3700 (1999).

Huang, Yu Joe, Robin Mitchell, Dariush K Arasteh, and Stephen E Selkowitz."Residential Fenestration Performance Analysis Using RESFEN 3.1."Thermal Performance of the Exterior Envelopes of Buildings VII (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).

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).

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).