Berkeley Lab's Ashok Gadgil will be director of the new U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been selected to lead a new joint U.S.-India research center focusing on energy efficiency technologies for buildings. It is one of three consortia that will make up the U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC). Together, these three groups will receive a total of $5 million this year from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop clean energy technologies. Berkeley Lab's U.S.-India Joint Center for Building Energy Research and Development (CBERD) will conduct research with Indian counterparts focused on the integration of information technology with building systems in commercial and high-rise residential buildings. This area offers enormous potential for reducing energy use in both countries and is of particular importance in India, which experiences critical shortages in its energy supply coupled with booming demand. "The rate of urbanization in India is mind-boggling-they will essentially add a new Chicago every year," said Ashok Gadgil, who is head of Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division and will be director of CBERD. "Here India has an opportunity to leapfrog other countries and build cities with a new generation of high-performance buildings.
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