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)

1991

Gadgil, Ashok J, and K A Joshi."A Thermal Analysis of Concrete Collectors."Journal of the Solar Energy Society of India 1.1 (1991) 45-65.

1990

Koomey, Jonathan G, Arthur H Rosenfeld, and Ashok J Gadgil."Conservation Screening Curves to Compare Efficiency Investments to Power Plants: Applications to Commercial Sector Conservation Programs."1990 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 5 (1990) 5.115-5.124.

1989

Koomey, Jonathan G, Arthur H Rosenfeld, and Ashok J Gadgil."Conservation Screening Curves to Compare Efficiency Investments to Power Plants." (1989) 20.

Gadgil, Ashok J, and Satwinderpal Singh Makkad."An Energy-Efficient and Safer Space-Heating Stove for Himalayan Regions: Preliminary Results."Energy and Buildings 13.2 (1989) 95 - 107. DOI

Gadgil, Ashok J, and Bhaskar Natarajan."Impact of Socio-Economic and Architectural Factors on Peak Electricity Demand: A Case Study of South Bombay."Energy 14.4 (1989) 229 - 236. DOI

Gadgil, Ashok J, and Bhaskar Natarajan."Retrofit Measures for Solar Heating of a Mini-Hydropower Station at Altitude of 3500 m."Journal of the Solar Energy Society of India 3.1 (1989) 39-45.

1987

Painuly, J.P, Ashok J Gadgil, and T.V Natarajan."Socio-Economic Constraints on the Design of Solar Domestic Hot-Water Systems for India."Energy 12.1 (1987) 85 - 96. DOI

Gadgil, Ashok J."Economic, Materials and Performance Constraints on DHW Systems for Use in India."Journal of the Solar Energy Society of India 1.1 (1987) 31-36.

1986

Akbari, Hashem, Atila Mertol, Ashok J Gadgil, Ron C Kammerud, and Fred S Bauman."Development of a Turbulent Near-Wall Temperature Model and Its Application to Channel Flow."Wärme- und Stoffübertragung 20.3 (1986) 189 - 201. DOI

Gadgil, Ashok J, and S S Makkad."Improved Space Heating Stoves for Ladakh."Energy Environment Monitor 2.2 (1986).

1984

Gadgil, Ashok J, Fred S Bauman, Emmanuel F Altmayer, and Ron C Kammerud."Verification of a Numerical Simulation Technique for Natural Convection."Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 106.3 (1984) 366-369. DOI

Gadgil, Ashok J, and D Gobin."Analysis of Two-Dimensional Melting in Rectangular Enclosures in Presence of Convection."Journal of Heat Transfer 106.1 (1984) 20-26. DOI

1983

Gobin, D, and Ashok J Gadgil."Contribution de la Convection Naturelle au Transfert de la Chaleur Dans un Materiau en fusion."Revue Générale de Thermique 22.254 (1983) 137-142.

Bauman, Fred S, Ashok J Gadgil, Ron C Kammerud, Emmanuel F Altmayer, and Mark Nansteel."Convective Heat Transfer in Buildings: Recent Research Results."ASHRAE 1983 Winter Conference 89 (1983).

Altmayer, Emmanuel F, Ashok J Gadgil, Fred S Bauman, and Ron C Kammerud."Correlation for Convective Heat Transfer from Room Surfaces."ASHRAE 1983 Annual Conference 89 (1983).

1982

Tichy, J, and Ashok J Gadgil."High Rayleigh Number Laminar Convection in Low Aspect Ratio Enclosures With Adiabatic Horizontal Walls and Differentially Heated Vertical Walls."Journal of Heat Transfer 104.1 (1982) 103-110. DOI

1981

Shiralkar, G, Ashok J Gadgil, and Chang-Lin Tien."High Rayleigh Number Convection in Shallow Enclosures with Different End Temperatures."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 24.10 (1981) 1621 - 1629. DOI

Gadgil, Ashok J, Fred S Bauman, and Ron C Kammerud."Natural Convection in Passive Solar Buildings: Experiments, Analysis and Results."Passive/Hybrid Journal 1.1 (1981).