The laboratory starting from 2000 has the following duties and activities:
- Investigating the energy consumption in electrical equipments.
- Introducing energy consumption standards and energy labels.
- Testing domestic and imported energy consumer equipments to check fulfillment with energy standards.
- Analyzing and comparing energy consumption of various domestic home appliances.
- Supporting the practical industrial project introduced as BSS MSC, and PHD thesis.
The national energy laboratory has taken ISO 17025-2000 certificate on 2003 and 2005 and consists the following laboratories:
- Refrigerator and freezer
- Air conditioner (gas cooler) laboratory
- Evaporative cooler (water cooler) laboratory
- Washing machine laboratory
- Electric water heater laboratory
- Electric iron laboratory
- Electric motor laboratory
- Lamp laboratory
- Calibration department.