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)

2008

Sreedharan, Priya, William W Nazaroff, and Ashok J Gadgil."Bayesian based design of real-time sensor systems for high-risk indoor contaminants."Mechanical Engineering (2008) 350.

Chan, Wanyu R, William W Nazaroff, Phillip N Price, and Ashok J Gadgil."Effectiveness of Urban Shelter-in-Place III: Urban Districts."Building Simulation 1 (2008) 144-157.

Addy, Susan E, Ashok J Gadgil, and Susan Amrose."Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation for Rural Bangladesh."Physics (2008) 292.

Shehabi, Arman, Srirupa Ganguly, Kim Traber, Hillary Price, Arpad Horvath, William W Nazaroff, and Ashok J Gadgil."Energy Implications of Economizer Use in California Data Centers." (2008).

Gadgil, Ashok J, Yasmina Zaidman, and Thomas Goreau."Improving Drinking Water through Innovative Technologies and Business Models."Innovative New Technologies for Sustainable Development and Reversing Climate Change (2008).

Gadgil, Ashok J, Michael D Sohn, Priya Sreedharan, Carlos Borrego, and Anna Isabel Miranda."Rapid Data Assimilation in the Indoor Environment: theory and examples from real-time interpretation of indoor plumes of airborne chemicals."Air Pollution Modeling and its Applicatiion XIX (2008) 263-277.

Gadgil, Ashok J, David Hafemeister, Barbara G Levi, Mark D Levine, and Peter Schwartz."Safe and Affordable Drinking Water for Developing Countries."Physics of Sustainable Energy: Using Energy Efficiently and Producing It Renewably AIP Conference Proceedings 1044 (2008) 176-191.

2007

Shehabi, Arman, William F Tschudi, and Ashok J Gadgil."Data Center Economizer Contamination and Humidity Study." (2007).

Gadgil, Ashok J, Lara A Gundel, Christina Galitsky, and Satinder Ahiya."Arsenic Remediation of Bangladesh Drinking Water using Iron-oxide Coated Coal Ash."Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater: Mechanism, Analysis, and Remediation (2007) 269-272.

Lorenzetti, David M, Astrid H Kristoffersen, and Ashok J Gadgil."Effect of room air recirculation delay on the decay rate of tracer gas concentration."Indoor Air (2007) 7.

Chan, Wanyu R, William W Nazaroff, Phillip N Price, and Ashok J Gadgil."Effectiveness of Urban Shelter-in-Place I: Idealized Conditions."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 4962-4976.

Chan, Wanyu R, William W Nazaroff, Phillip N Price, and Ashok J Gadgil."Effectiveness of urban shelter-in-place. II: Residential Districts."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 7082-7095.

Sreedharan, Priya, Michael D Sohn, William W Nazaroff, and Ashok J Gadgil."Influence of indoor transport and mixing times scales on the performance of sensor systems for characterizing contaminant releases."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 9530-9542.

Price, Phillip N, Ashok J Gadgil, and Michael D Sohn."Trade-offs between moving and stationary particle collectors for detecting a bio-agent plume."Atmospheric Environment 41 (2007) 8818-8824.

2006

Sreedharan, Priya, Michael D Sohn, Ashok J Gadgil, and William W Nazaroff."Systems Approach to Evaluating Sensor Characteristics for Real-Time Monitoring of High-Risk Indoor Contaminant Releases."Atmospheric Environment 40.19 (2006) 3490-3502. DOI

Galitsky, Christina, Ashok J Gadgil, Mark Jacobs, and Yoo-Mi Lee."Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur camps of Internally Displaced Persons Report of Field trip to North and South Darfur, Nov. 16 - Dec.17, 2005." (2006).

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Astrid H Kristoffersen, Elizabeth U Finlayson, and Ashok J Gadgil."CFD Investigation of Room Ventilation for Improved Operation of a Downdraft Table: Novel Concepts."Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 3 (2006) 583-591.

Gadgil, Ashok J, Satish Lele, Stephen H Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, and Michael D Mastrandrea."India: Special Role and Responses."Climate Change Science and Policy (2006).

Price, Phillip N, Arman Shehabi, Wanyu R Chan, and Ashok J Gadgil."Indoor-Outdoor Air Leakage of Apartments and Commercial Buildings." (2006).

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Michael D Sohn, Tracy L Thatcher, Phillip N Price, Emily E Wood, Richard G Sextro, and Ashok J Gadgil."Tracer Gas Transport under Mixed Convection Conditions in an Experimental Atrium: Comparison Between Experiments and CFD Predictions."Atmospheric Environment 40 (2006) 5236-5250.

2005

Chan, Wanyu R, William W Nazaroff, Phillip N Price, Michael D Sohn, and Ashok J Gadgil."Analyzing a database of residential air leakage in the United States."Atmospheric Environment 39.19 (2005) 3445 - 3455. DOI

Chan, Wanyu R, William W Nazaroff, Phillip N Price, Michael D Sohn, and Ashok J Gadgil."Analyzing a Database of Residential Air Leakage in the United States."Atmospheric Environment 39.19 (2005) 3445-3455. DOI

Fulkerson, William, Mark D Levine, Jonathan E Sinton, and Ashok J Gadgil."Sustainable, efficient electricity service for one billion people."Energy for Sustainable Development 9.2 (2005) 26-34. DOI

Jayaraman, Buvaneswari, Elizabeth U Finlayson, Emily E Wood, Tracy L Thatcher, Phillip N Price, Richard G Sextro, and Ashok J Gadgil."Comparison between experiments and CFD predictions of mixed convection flows in an atrium."Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 3(3) (2005) 2849-2853.

Chan, Wanyu R, Phillip N Price, William W Nazaroff, and Ashok J Gadgil."Distribution Of Residential Air Leakage: Implications For Health Consequences Of An Outdoor Toxic Release."Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate - Indoor Air 2005 2(6) (2005) 1729-1733.