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)

2016

van Genuchten, Case M., Siva R.S. Bandaru, Elena Surorova, Susan Amrose, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Jasquelin Peña."Formation of macroscopic surface layers on Fe(0) electrocoagulation electrodes during an extended field trial of arsenic treatment."Chemosphere 153 (2016) 270 - 279. DOI

Rapp, Vi H., Julien J. Caubel, Daniel L. Wilson, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Reducing Ultrafine Particle Emissions Using Air Injection in Wood-Burning Cookstoves."Environmental Science & Technology 50 (2016) 8368-8374. DOI

2015

Delaire, Caroline, Case M. van Genuchten, Kara L. Nelson, Susan Amrose, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Escherichia coli Attenuation by Fe Electrocoagulation in Synthetic Bengal Groundwater: Effect of pH and Natural Organic Matter."Environmental Science & Technology 49.16 (2015) 9945 - 9953. DOI

Lask, Kathleen M., Paul R. Medwell, Cristian H. Birzer, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Soot Reduction in Cookstoves due to Turbulent Mixing."Australian Combustion Symposium, December 7-9, 2015 (2015).

Lask, Kathleen M., Kayje Booker, Taewon Han, Jessica Granderson, Nina Yang, Cristina Ceballos, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Performance comparison of charcoal cookstoves for Haiti: Laboratory testing with Water Boiling and Controlled Cooking Tests."Energy for Sustainable Development 26 (2015) 79 - 86. DOI

Hostettler, Silvia, Eileen Hazboun, Jean-Claude Bolay, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Temina Madon."Tools to Measure the Development Impact of Innovations." Technologies for Development: What is Essential? (2015) 167-171. DOI

Lucon, Oswaldo, Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Hashem Akbari, Paolo Bertoldi, Luisa F. Cabeza, Nicholas Eyre, Ashok J. Gadgil, L.D. Danny Harvey, Yi Jiang, Enoch Liphoto, Sevastian Mirasgedis, Shuzo Murakami, Jyoti Parikh, Christopher Pyke, Maria Virginia Vilariño, Azni Zain Ahmed, Marilyn A. Brown, Tamás Pálvölgyi, Ottmar Edenhofer, Ramon Pichs-Madruga, Youba Sokona, Jan C. Minx, Ellie Farahani, Susanne Kadner, Kristin Seyboth, Anna Adler, Ina Baum, Steffen Brunner, Patrick Eickemeier, Benjamin Kriemann, Jussi Savolainen, Steffen Schlömer, Christoph von Stechow, and Timm Zwicke."Buildings."Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change: Working Group III Contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2015) 671-738. DOI

Dubrawski, Kristian L., Case M. van Genuchten, Caroline Delaire, Susan Amrose, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Madjid Mohseni."Production and Transformation of Mixed-Valent Nanoparticles Generated by Fe(0) Electrocoagulation."Environmental Science & Technology 49.4 (2015) 2171 - 2179. DOI

Hostettler, Silvia, Eileen Hazboun, Jean-Claude Bolay, Daniel L. Wilson, Mohammed Idris Adam, Omnia Abbas, Jeremy Coyle, Angeli Kirk, Javier Rosa, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Comparing Cookstove Usage Measured with Sensors Versus Cell Phone-Based Surveys in Darfur, Sudan."Technologies for Development (2015) 211 - 221. DOI

Lask, Kathleen M., and Ashok J. Gadgil."Simplified Model for Lighting Cone Design." (2015).

2014

Amrose, Susan, Siva R.S. Bandaru, Caroline Delaire, Case M. van Genuchten, Amit Dutta, Anupam DebSarkar, Christopher Orr, Joyashree Roy, Abhijit Das, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Electro-chemical arsenic remediation: Field trials in West Bengal."Science of The Total Environment 488-489 (2014) 539 - 546. DOI

Preble, Chelsea V., Odelle L. Hadley, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Emissions and Climate-Relevant Optical Properties of Pollutants Emitted from a Three-Stone Fire and the Berkeley-Darfur Stove Tested under Laboratory Conditions."Environmental Science & Technology 48.11 (2014) 6484 - 6491. DOI

Wang, Yungang, Michael D. Sohn, Yilun Wang, Kathleen M. Lask, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, and Ashok J. Gadgil."How many replicate tests are needed to test cookstove performance and emissions? – Three is not adequate."Energy for Sustainable Development 20 (2014) 21-29. DOI

van Genuchten, Case M., Jasquelin Peña, Susan Amrose, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Structure of Fe(III) precipitates generated by the electrolytic dissolution of Fe(0) in the presence of groundwater ions."Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 127 (2014) 285 - 304. DOI

Gadgil, Ashok J., Susan Amrose, Siva R.S. Bandaru, Caroline Delaire, Andrew Torkelson, Case M. van Genuchten, and Satinder Ahuja."Addressing Arsenic Mass Poisoning in South Asia with Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation."Water Reclamation and Sustainability (2014) 115 - 154. DOI

2013

Amrose, Susan, Ashok J. Gadgil, Venkat Srinivasan, Kristin Kowolik, Marc F. Müller, Jessica Huang, and Robert Kostecki."Arsenic Removal from Groundwater Using Iron Electrocoagulation: Effect of Charge Dosage Rate."Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A: Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering 48.9 (2013) 1019-1030. DOI

Gadgil, Ashok J., Andree Sosler, and Debra Stein."Stove Solutions: Improving Health, Safety, and the Environment in Darfur with Fuel-Efficient Cookstoves."The Solutions Journal 4.1 (2013) 54-64.

Wang, Yungang, Michael D. Sohn, Ashok J. Gadgil, Yilun Wang, Kathleen M. Lask, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."How many replicate tests do I need? – Variability of cookstove performance and emissions has implications for obtaining useful results ." (2013).

Lask, Kathleen M., Paul R. Medwell, Cristian H. Birzer, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Particulate emissions from a wood-fired improved biomass stove."Australian Combustion Symposium, 6-8 November 2013 (2013).

2012

Li, Lei, Case M. van Genuchten, Susan E. Addy, Juanjuan Yao, Naiyun Gao, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Modeling As(III) Oxidation and Removal with Iron Electrocoagulation in Groundwater."Environmental Science & Technology 46.21 (2012) 12038 - 12045. DOI

Wang, Yungang, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Critical Review of Particulate Matter Emitted from Biomass Cookstoves."AAAR 31st Annual Conference (2012).

Wang, Yungang, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."How Many Replicates Are Sufficient for Characterizing Cookstove Emissions – A Case Study Using the Berkeley-Darfur Stove and Three Stone Fire."AAAR 31st Annual Conference (2012).

Gadgil, Ashok J., Joyashree Roy, Susan E. Addy, Adhijit Das, Amit Dutta, and Anupam DebSarkar."Addressing Arsenic Poisoning in South Asia."The Solutions Journal 3.5 (2012) 40-45.

van Genuchten, Case M., Susan E. Addy, Jasquelin Peña, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Removing Arsenic from Synthetic Groundwater with Iron Electrocoagulation: An Fe and As K-Edge EXAFS Study."Environmental Science & Technology 46.2 (2012) 986 - 994. DOI

Wang, Yungang, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Thomas W. Kirchstetter."Effect of Change in Cookstove Types on Visibility - Case Study of the Berkeley-Darfur Stove and Three-Stone Fire." (2012).