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)

2021

Phadke, Amol A, Nikit Abhyankar, Jessica Kersey, Taylor McNair, Umed Paliwal, David Wooley, Olivia Ashmoore, Robbie Orvis, Michael O’Boyle, Ric O’Connell, Utkarsha Agwan, Priyanka Mohanty, Priya Sreedharan, and Deepak Rajagopal."2035 The Report: Plummeting Costs and Dramatic Improvements In Batteries Can Accelerate Our Clean Transportation Future." (2021).

2017

Palchak, David, Jaquelin Cochran, Ranjit Deshmukh, Ali Ehlen, Sushil Kumar Soonee, S.R Narasimhan, Mohit Joshi, Brendan McBennett, Michael Milligan, Priya Sreedharan, Ilya Chernyakhovskiy, and Nikit Abhyankar."GREENING THE GRID: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India’s Electric Grid, Vol. I—National Study."Greening the Grid 1 (2017).

Palchak, David, Jaquelin Cochran, Ranjit Deshmukh, Ali Ehlen, Sushil Kumar Soonee, S.R Narasimhan, Mohit Joshi, Brendan McBennett, Michael Milligan, Priya Sreedharan, Ilya Chernyakhovskiy, and Nikit Abhyankar."GREENING THE GRID: Pathways to Integrate 175 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy into India’s Electric Grid, Vol. I—National Study EXECUTIVE SUMMARY."Greening the Grid 1 (2017).

2011

Sreedharan, Priya, Michael D Sohn, William W Nazaroff, and Ashok J Gadgil."Towards improved characterization of high-risk releases using heterogeneous indoor sensor systems."Building and Environment 16.2 (2011) 438-447. DOI

2009

Sohn, Michael D, Ashok J Gadgil, Priya Sreedharan, and William W Nazaroff."Sensor Networks for Detecting Toxic Releases in Buildings."11th International Conference on Air Distribution in Rooms, May 24-27, 2009 (2009).

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.

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.

2007

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.

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

2001

Sreedharan, Priya, and Philip Haves."Comparison of Chiller Models for use in Model-Based Fault Detection."International Conference for Enhancing Building Operations (2001).

Sreedharan, Priya."Evaluation of Chiller Modeling Approaches and Their Usability for Fault Detection."Mechanical Engineering (2001).