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)

2005

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Astrid H. Kristoffersen, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Investigation of Room Ventilation for Improved Operation of a Downdraft Table."Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate - Indoor Air 2005 3(1) (2005) 2575-2579.

2004

Chan, Wanyu R., Phillip N. Price, Ashok J. Gadgil, William W. Nazaroff, Gwen Loosmore, and Gayle Sugiyama."Modeling shelter-in-place including sorption on indoor surfaces."84th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 11-14, 2004 PNFUZ Session 6.5 (2004).

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, David M. Lorenzetti, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Coupled model for simulation of indoor airflow and pollutant transport." (2004).

Finlayson, Elizabeth U., Ashok J. Gadgil, Tracy L. Thatcher, and Richard G. Sextro."Pollutant Dispersion in a Large Indoor Space Part 2 -- Computational Fluid Dyamics (CF) Predictions and Comparisons with a Model Experiment for Isothermal Flow."Indoor Air 14 (2004) 272-283.

Chan, Wanyu R., Phillip N. Price, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Sheltering in buildings from large-scale outdoor releases." (2004).

2003

Gadgil, Ashok J., Christian Lobscheid, Marc O. Abadie, and Elizabeth U. Finlayson."Indoor Pollutant Mixing Time in an Isothermal Closed Room: An investigation using CFD."Atmospheric Environment 37.39-40 (2003) 5577-5586. DOI

Finlayson, Elizabeth U., Buvaneswari Jayaraman, Astrid H. Kristoffersen, and Ashok J. Gadgil."CFD Analysis of LLNL Downdraft Table." (2003).

Gadgil, Ashok J., and Elisabeth A. Derby."Providing safe drinking water to 1.1 billion unserved people."Proceedings of the 96th Annual AWMA Conference, June 22-26, 2003 (2003).

Mora, Laurent, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Etienne Wurtz."Comparing zonal and CFD models of air flows in large indoor spaces to experimental data."Indoor Air 13 (2003) 77-85.

Koomey, Jonathan G., Paul P. Craig, Ashok J. Gadgil, and David M. Lorenzetti."Improving Long-Range Energy Modeling: A Plea for Historical Retrospectives."The Energy Journal 24.4 (2003) 75-92.

Price, Phillip N., Michael D. Sohn, Ashok J. Gadgil, William W. Delp, David M. Lorenzetti, Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Tracy L. Thatcher, Richard G. Sextro, Elisabeth A. Derby, and Sondra A. Jarvis."Protecting Buildings From a Biological or Chemical Attack: actions to take before or during a release." (2003).

Sohn, Michael D., Richard G. Sextro, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Joan M. Daisey."Responding to Sudden Pollutant Releases in Office Buildings: 1. Framework and Analysis Tools."Indoor Air 13 (2003) 267-276.

2002

Craig, Paul P., Ashok J. Gadgil, and Jonathan G. Koomey."What can history teach us?: A retrospective analysis of long-term energy forecasts for the U.S."Annual Reviews of Energy and the Environment 27 (2002) 83-118. DOI

Price, Phillip N., William W. Delp, Michael D. Sohn, Tracy L. Thatcher, David M. Lorenzetti, Richard G. Sextro, Ashok J. Gadgil, Elisabeth A. Derby, and Sondra A. Jarvis."Advice for first responders to a building during a chemical or biological attack." (2002).

Abadie, Marc O., Elizabeth U. Finlayson, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Infiltration heat recovery in building walls: Computational fluid dynamics investigations results." (2002).

Price, Phillip N., David M. Lorenzetti, Ashok J. Gadgil, Michael D. Sohn, William W. Delp, and Sondra A. Jarvis."Information for first responders to a chemical or biological attack." (2002).

Lobscheid, Christian, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Mixing of a point-source indoor pollution: Numerical predictions and comparison with experiments."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 4 (2002) 223-228.

Federspiel, Clifford C., Huilin Li, David M. Auslander, David M. Lorenzetti, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Modeling Transient Contaminant Transport in HVAC Systems and Buildings."Indoor Air 2002, June 30 - July 5, 2002 (2002) 217-222.

Sohn, Michael D., Pamela Reynolds, Navtej Singh, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Rapidly locating and characterizing pollutant releases in buildings: An application of Bayesian data analysis."Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 52.12 (2002) 1422-1432. DOI

Sohn, Michael D., Pamela Reynolds, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Richard G. Sextro."Rapidly Locating Sources And Predicting Contaminant Dispersion In Buildings."Proceedings of the Indoor Air 2002 Conference, Monterey, CA 4 (2002) 211-216.

Mora, Laurent, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Theoretical study of pollutant mixing in rooms induced by occupancy."Proceedings of the Room Vent 2002 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark (2002) 257-260.

2001

Drescher, Anushka C., D.M. Greene, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Cryptosporidium Inactivation by Low-Pressure UV in a Water Disinfection Device."Journal of Environmental Health 64.3 (2001) 31-35.

Price, Phillip N., Marc L. Fischer, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Richard G. Sextro."An algorithm for real-time tomography of gas concentrations, using prior information about spatial derivatives."Atmospheric Environment 35.16 (2001) 2827 - 2835. DOI

Fischer, Marc L., Phillip N. Price, Tracy L. Thatcher, Carrie A. Schwalbe, Mathias J. Craig, Emily E. Wood, Richard G. Sextro, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Rapid Measurement and Mapping of Tracer Gas Concentrations in a Large Indoor Space."Atmospheric Environment 35 (2001) 2837-2844. DOI

2000

Gadgil, Ashok J., Elizabeth U. Finlayson, Marc L. Fischer, Phillip N. Price, Tracy L. Thatcher, Mathias J. Craig, Ki-Hyuck Hong, J. Housman, Carrie A. Schwalbe, David J. Wilson, Emily E. Wood, and Richard G. Sextro."Pollutant transport and dispersion in large indoor spaces: A status report for the large space effort of the Interiors Project." (2000).