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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.
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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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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.

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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).

Sullivan, Robert, and Frederick C. Winkelmann."Validation studies of the DOE-2 Building Energy Simulation Program. Final Report." (1998).

1997

Klems, Joseph H.."Greenhouse Window U-Factors Under Field Conditions."ASHRAE Transactions 104, Part 1 (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.

Haves, Philip."Fault Modelling in Component-based HVAC Simulation."Building Simulation '97 (1997).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M., John LaPorta, and Hannah L. Chauvet."Building Design Advisor: Automated Integration of Multiple Simulation Tools."Automation in Construction 6.4 (1997) 341-352. DOI

Buswell, Richard A., Philip Haves, and Tim I. Salsbury."A Model-Based Approach to the Commissioning of HVAC Systems."CLIMA 2000 (1997).

Hong, Tianzhen, and Yi Jiang."IISABRE: An integrated building simulation environment."Building and Environment 32.3 (1997) 219-224. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, and Yi Jiang."A new multizone model for simulation of building thermal performance."Building and Environment 32.2 (1997) 123-128. DOI

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).

O'Conner, Jennifer, Eleanor S. Lee, Francis M. Rubinstein, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."Tips for Daylighting with Windows: The Integrated Approach." (1997).

Rubin, Michael D., Klaus von Rottkay, and Rebecca Powles."Window Optics."Solar Energy 62 (1997) 149-161.

1996

Klems, Joseph H., and Jeffrey L. Warner."Solar Heat Gain Coefficient of Complex Fenestrations with a Venetian Blind for Differing Slat Tilt Angles."ASHRAE Symposium 103, Part 1 (1996).

Papamichael, Konstantinos M., John LaPorta, Hannah L. Chauvet, Deirdre Collins, Thomas Trzcinski, Jack A. Thorpe, and Stephen E. Selkowitz."The Building Design Advisor."ACADIA 1996 Conference (1996).

Haves, Philip, Tim I. Salsbury, and Jonathan A. Wright."Condition Monitoring in HVAC Subsystems using First Principles Models."ASHRAE Transactions 102.Pt. 1 (1996).

Haves, Philip, D.R. Jorgensen, Tim I. Salsbury, and Arthur L. Dexter."Development and Testing of a Prototype Tool for HVAC Control System Commissioning."ASHRAE Transactions 102.Pt. 1 (1996).

1995

Klems, Joseph H., Jeffrey L. Warner, and Guy O. Kelley."A Comparison Between Calculated and Measured SHGC For Complex Fenestration Systems."ASHRAE Transactions 102, Part 1 (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).

Salsbury, Tim I., Philip Haves, and Jonathan A. Wright."A Fault Detection and Diagnosis Method Based on First Principles Models and Expert Rules."Tsinghua HVAC-95 (1995).

Haves, Philip, Simon J. Rees, and L. Harrington."Modelling and Simulation of Low Energy Cooling Systems."Tsinghua HVAC-95 (1995).

Hitchcock, Robert J.."Advancing Lighting and Daylighting Simulation: The Transition from Analysis to Design Aid Tools."International Building Performance Simulation Association Fourth International Conference (1995).

Haves, Philip."Detailed Modelling and Simulation of a VAV Air-Conditioning System."Building Simulation '95 (1995).

Rees, Simon J., and Philip Haves."A Model of a Displacement Ventilation/Chilled Ceiling Cooling System Suitable for Annual Energy Simulation."Building Simulation '95 (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).