Rish Ghatikar is a Research Associate in the Energy Efficiency Standards (EES) Group of the Energy Analysis Department (EAD). He works with Jim McMahon, et al. to design, develop and maintain systems to store archival records, lower operational costs, and facilitate transparent and robust scientific research.

Jim Lutz is a Research Associate Supervisor in LBNL's Energy Analysis Department. He has been with LBNL since 1990. Jim works on LBNL's water/energy team (WETT) and on hot water distribution systemwater heaters for the California Energy Commission. He has worked on the China water heater project and for CLASP in India on refrigerators. Jim has also worked on U.S.