PNNL

Abinesh Selvacanabady joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 2013. He is currently the deputy program manager for the Residential Building Integration program under the Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office, as well as the project manager for the following projects: 

• Residential Field Validation of High-Performance HVAC and Water Heating Systems 
• Utility, Workforce, and Manufacturing Technical Support 
• Regional Technical Assistance and Analysis 

His energy industry experience includes leading energy assessments for agricultural, medium- and large-scale industrial, commercial, and residential facilities; targeted energy software development; building code compliance testing; energy simulation and modeling; demand-side management; and economic and feasibility analysis for renewable energy systems.

Prior to joining PNNL, Selvacanabady was employed as a project manager for an energy consulting company, serving as a client-side advocate for solar photovoltaics, battery energy storage systems, and fleet electrification for commercial buildings. He also was an energy efficiency engineer at a utility program implementor where he led the engineering efforts for the energy efficiency implementation in dairy farms and supported energy efficiency and retro commissioning programs for schools and wineries. He developed the analytics engine for an automated interval data analysis tool that used inverse modeling, time-series comparison, and statistical regression techniques to disaggregate demand and diagnose end-use system control issues.

• Residential field validation
• Heat pump and heat pump water heaters
• Building and electric vehicles coupling for resilience
• Intelligent load management 
• Energy data analysis, inverse modeling, and energy use data disaggregation
• Energy assessments and software development
• Renewable energy systems (solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, geothermal, and wind systems)

• MS in energy and environmental studies, University of Dayton
• BS in electronic engineering, Pondicherry University 

2019

• Shea, R. P., K. Kissock, and A. Selvacanabady. 2019. “Reducing University Air Handling Unit Energy Usage through Controls-based Energy Efficiency Measures.” Energy and Buildings.
• Chiasson, A., J. K. Kissock, and A. Selvacanabady. 2019. “Lean energy buildings: applications of machine learning, optimal central chilled-water systems, and hybrid solar-ground source heat pump systems.” Advances in Sustainable Energy 59–92.
• Aljabr, A., A. Chiasson, A. Selvacanabady, and A. S. Alsagri. 2019. “A preliminary study of the effects of micro-encapsulated phase change materials intermixed with grout in vertical borehole heat exchangers.” ASME International Mechanical Congress and Exposition 59438.
• Chiasson, A., J. K. Kissock, A. Selvacanabady. 2019. “Lean Energy Buildings: Applications of Machine Learning, Optimal Central Chilled-Water Systems, and Hybrid Solar-Ground Source Heat Pump Systems.” In Advances in Sustainable Energy 70: 59.

2017

• Selvacanabady A., and K.S. Judd. 2017. The Influence of Occupancy on Building Energy Use Intensity and the Utility of an Occupancy-Adjusted Performance Metric. PNNL-26019. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. 

2014

• Mendon, V. V., and A. Selvacanabady. 2014. Cost-Effectiveness of the Residential Provisions of the 2015 IECC for the State of New York. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.

2013

• Kissock, K., A. Selvacanabady, N. Raghavan. 2013. “Simplified model for ground heat transfer from slab-on-grade buildings.” ASHRAE Transactions 119: 456.