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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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2022

Ward, Gregory J., David Geisler-Moroder, Eleanor S. Lee, Jacob C. Jonsson, and Taoning Wang."Daylight Simulation Workflows Incorporating Measured Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Functions."Energy and Building 259 (2022).

2021

Geisler-Moroder, David, Gregory J. Ward, Taoning Wang, and Eleanor S. Lee."Peak extraction in daylight simulations using BSDF data."IBPSA Building Simulation 2021 (2021).

Wang, Taoning, Gregory J. Ward, and Eleanor S. Lee."A Python Library for Radiance Matrix-based Simulation Control and EnergyPlus Integration."IBPSA Building Simulation 2021 (2021).

2020

Gehbauer, Christoph, David Blum, Taoning Wang, and Eleanor S. Lee."Integrated Dynamic Facade Control with an Agent-based Architecture for Commercial Buildings." (2020).

2019

Wu, Yujie, Taoning Wang, Eleanor S. Lee, Jérôme H. Kämpf, and Jean-Louis Scartezzini."Split-pane electrochromic window control based on an embedded photometric device with real-time daylighting computing."Building and Environment 161 (2019) 106229. DOI

2013

Schumann, Jennifer, Eleanor S. Lee, Francis M. Rubinstein, Stephen E. Selkowitz, and Alastair Robinson."Tips for Daylighting with Windows: The Integrated Approach, 2nd Edition." (2013).

2011

Selkowitz, Stephen E., Robin Mitchell, Maurya McClintock, Daniel McQuillen, Andrew McNeil, and Mehry Yazdanian."COMFEN 3.0: Evolution of an Early Design Tool for Commercial Façades and Fenestration Systems."Building Enclosure Sustainability Symposium (BESS), April 29-30, 2011 (2011).

2009

Arasteh, Dariush K., Christian Kohler, and Brent T. Griffith."Modeling Windows in Energy Plus with Simple Performance Indices." (2009).

2008

Mitchell, Robin, Christian Kohler, Joseph H. Klems, Michael D. Rubin, Dariush K. Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, Tiefeng Yu, and Dragan C. Curcija."WINDOW 6.2/THERM 6.2 Research Version User Manual." (2008) 1-126.

2005

Mitchell, Robin, Yu Joe Huang, Dariush K. Arasteh, Charlie Huizenga, and Steve Glendenning."RESFEN5: Program Description." (2005).

2004

Carmody, John, Stephen E. Selkowitz, Eleanor S. Lee, and Dariush K. Arasteh."Window Systems for High-Performance Buildings." (2004) 400.

2003

Mitchell, Robin, Christian Kohler, Dariush K. Arasteh, John Carmody, Charlie Huizenga, and Dragan C. Curcija."THERM 5/WINDOW 5 NFRC Simulation Manual." (2003).

2002

Versluis, Richard, Rebecca Powles, and Michael D. Rubin."Optics Version 5.1.01." (2002).

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.

Group, Windows and Daylighting."THERM 5.0 User's Manual." (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

Rubin, Michael D., and Rebecca Powles."Optical Properties of Glazing Materials at Normal Incidence."Revista della Statzione Sperimentale del Vetro (2000) 13-16.

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

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).

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).

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).