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)

2000

Litvak, Andrés, Ashok J. Gadgil, and William J. Fisk."Hygroscopic Fine Mode Particle Deposition on Electronic Circuits and Resulting Degradation of Circuit Performance: An Experimental Study."Indoor Air 10.1 (2000) 47-56. DOI

Price, Phillip N., Marc L. Fischer, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Richard G. Sextro."Algorithm for rapid tomography of gas concentrations."Atmospheric Environment 35 (2000) 2827-2835.

1999

Kazakevicius, Eduardas, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Diana Vorsatz."Residential Lighting in Lithuania."Energy Policy 27.10 (1999) 603 - 611. DOI

Gadgil, Ashok J., Gilberto De Martino Jannuzzi, Ennio Silva, and Maria-Lucia Leonardi."A Cost-Neutral Strategy for Maximal Use of Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency in Manaus, Brazil."Energy Policy 27.6 (1999) 357-367. DOI

Riley, William J., Allen L. Robinson, Ashok J. Gadgil, and William W. Nazaroff."Effects of variable wind speed and direction on radon transport from soil into buildings: model development and exploratory results."Atmospheric Environment 33.14 (1999) 2157-2168. DOI

Thatcher, Tracy L., Marc L. Fischer, Phillip N. Price, William J. Fisk, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Richard G. Sextro."Measuring dispersion of gases in a large scale indoor environment using an open path tunable diode laser."Proceedings of the Indoor Air '99, Edinburgh, Scotland 4 (1999) 449-450.

1998

Gadgil, Ashok J.."Drinking Water in Developing Countries."Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 23.1 (1998) 253 - 286. DOI

Faulkner, David, William J. Fisk, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Douglas P. Sullivan."Demonstration and Field Test of air jacket technology." (1998).

1997

Gadgil, Ashok J., David L. Greene, Anushka C. Drescher, and Steve Weil."Status Report on UV Waterworks: Water Disinfection for the Developing World." (1997).

Drescher, Anushka C., Dooyong Park, Michael G. Yost, Ashok J. Gadgil, Steven P. Levine, and William W. Nazaroff."Stationary and Time-Dependent Indoor Tracer-Gas Concentration Profiles Measured by OP-FTIR Remote Sensing and SBFM Computed Tomography."Atmospheric Environment 31.5 (1997) 727-740. DOI

da Silva, Ennio Peres, Gilberto De Martino Jannuzzi, Ashok J. Gadgil, and Maria Lúcia Leonardi."Possibilidades do Uso de Fontes Renováveis de Energia em Manaus."Brasileira de Energia 6 (1997) 9-33.

1996

Riley, William J., Ashok J. Gadgil, and William W. Nazaroff."Wind-Induced Ground-Surface Pressures Around a Single-Family House."Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 61.2-3 (1996) 153 - 167. DOI

Sastry, M. Anjali, and Ashok J. Gadgil."The Bombay Efficient Lighting Large-scale Experiment (BELLE): a blueprint for improving energy efficiency and reducing peak electric demand in a developing country."Atmospheric Environment 30.5 (1996) 803-808. DOI

Drescher, Anushka C., Ashok J. Gadgil, Phillip N. Price, and William W. Nazaroff."Novel Approach for Tomographic Reconstruction of Gas Concentration Distributions in Air: Use of Smooth Basis Functions and Simulated Annealing."Atmospheric Environment 30.6 (1996) 929-940. DOI

Gadgil, Ashok J.."Bombay Efficient Lighting Large-Scale Experiment (Belle): Blueprint for Improving Energy Efficiency and Reducing Peak Electric Demand in a Developing Country."Atmospheric Environment 30 (1996) 803-808.

Riley, William J., Ashok J. Gadgil, Yves C. Bonnefous, and William W. Nazaroff."The Effect of Steady Winds on Radon Entry into Houses."Atmospheric Environment 30 (1996) 1167-1176.

Gadgil, Ashok J.."Projects Toward Energy Sustainability in Cities and Rural Communities in the Developing Countries."Proceedings of the United Nations Habitat II, Istanbul (1996).

Riley, William J., William J. Fisk, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Regional and National Estimates of the Potential Energy Use, Energy Cost, and CO₂ Emissions Associated with Radon Mitigation by Sub-Slab Depressurization."Energy and Buildings 24 (1996) 203-212.

1995

Drescher, Anushka C., Cesare Lobascio, Ashok J. Gadgil, and William W. Nazaroff."Mixing of a Point Source Indoor Pollutant by Forced Convection."Indoor Air 5.3 (1995) 204-215. DOI

Wampler, David A., Shelly Miller-Leiden, William W. Nazaroff, Andrés Litvak, Kariyawasam R. R. Mahanama, Albert (Matty) Nematollahi, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Effectiveness of Smokeless Ashtrays."Journal of Air and Waste Management Association 45.6 (1995) 494-500. DOI

Fisk, William J., Richard J. Prill, John D. Wooley, William J. Fisk, Yves C. Bonnefous, Ashok J. Gadgil, and William J. Riley."New Methods of Energy Efficient Radon Mitigation."Health Physics 68.5 (1995) 689-698.

Friedmann, Rafael A., Odon D. Buen, Jayant A. Sathaye, Ashok J. Gadgil, Rita Saucedo, and G. Rodriguez."Assessing the Residential Lighting Efficiency Opportunities in Guadalajara and Monterey, Mexico."Energy 20.2 (1995) 151-159. DOI

Riley, William J., Ashok J. Gadgil, and William W. Nazaroff."Wind-induced Ground Pressures Around a Single-family House."Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 61 (1995) 153-167.

1994

Gadgil, Ashok J., Yves C. Bonnefous, and William J. Fisk."Relative Effectiveness of Sub-slab Pressurization and Depressurization Systems for Indoor Radon Mitigation: Studies with an Experimentally Verified Numerical Model."Indoor Air 4.4 (1994) 265 - 275. DOI

Nero, Anthony V., S.M. Leiden, Deborah A. Nolan, Phillip N. Price, S. Rein, Kenneth L. Revzan, H.R. Woolenberg, and Ashok J. Gadgil."Statistically Based Methodologies for Mapping of Radon 'Actual' Concentrations: The Case of Minnesota."Radiation Protection Dosimetry 56.1-4 (1994) 215 - 219. DOI