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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 scientific challenges across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-integrated building systems; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide.
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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 increasing reliability are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by techno-economic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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2024

McNeil, Wilson H, Fan Tong, Robert A Harley, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Corinne D Scown."Evaluating the Effect of U.S. Energy Policy and Heavy-Duty Truck Electrification on PM2.5 Concentrations and Associated Health Impacts in Disadvantaged Communities."104th AMS Annual Meeting (2024).

Moon, Hee Seung, Won Young Park, Thomas P Hendrickson, Amol A Phadke, and Natalie Popovich."Exploring the cost and emissions impacts, feasibility and scalability of battery electric ships."Nature Energy (2024). DOI

Dalton, Jutta, Tyler Huntington, Venkataramana R Pidatala, Mengziang Lei, Cayci Hill, Jorge Angeles, Daniel Putnam, Jeff Dahlberg, John M Gladden, Blake A Simmons, Robert Hutmacher, Corinne D Scown, and Henrik V Scheller."Impact of Drought Stress on Sorghum bicolor Yield, Deconstruction, and Microbial Conversion Determined in a Feedstocks-to-Fuels Pipeline."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 12.42 (2024) 15613-15622. DOI

Busse, Margaret, Michael McKibben, William Stringfellow, Patrick Dobson, and Jennifer Stokes-Draut."Impact of geothermal expansion and lithium extraction in the Salton Sea known geothermal resource area (SS-KGRA) on local water resources."Environmental Research Letters 19.10 (2024) 104011. DOI

Baral, Nawa Raj, Deepanwita Banerjee, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Blake A Simmons, Steven W Singer, and Corinne D Scown."Integration of genome-scale metabolic model with biorefinery process model reveals market-competitive carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel utilizing microbial cell mass lipids and biogenic CO2."BioResources 19.3 (2024) 4056-4086. DOI

Therkelsen, Peter L, and Alison Ward."Performance Pro - Continual Improvement with 50001 Ready: Implementation of 50001 Ready at Boise School District." (2024).

Nordahl, Sarah L, and Corinne D Scown."Recommendations for life-cycle assessment of recyclable plastics in a circular economy."Chemical Science 15.25 (2024) 9397-9407. DOI

Harrison, Brendan P, Wilson H McNeil, Tao Dai, J Elliott Campbell, and Corinne D Scown."Site Suitability and Air Pollution Impacts of Composting Infrastructure for California’s Organic Waste Diversion Law."Environmental Science & Technology 58.45 (2024) 19913-19924. DOI

Hennessy, Eleanor M, Corinne D Scown, and Inês M.L Azevedo."The health, climate, and equity benefits of freight truck electrification in the United States."Environmental Research Letters 19.10 (2024) 104069. DOI

Scown, Corinne D."The short- and long-run environmental value of waste conversion."Nature Chemical Engineering 1.5 (2024) 326-326. DOI

Kane, Seth, Ahmad Bin Thaneya, Aysegul Petek Gursel, Jin Fan, Baishakhi Bose, Thomas P Hendrickson, Sarah L Nordahl, Corinne D Scown, Sabbie A Miller, and Arpad Horvath."Uncertainty in determining carbon dioxide removal potential of biochar."Environmental Research Letters (2024). DOI

2023

Seth, Kushal, Margaret Busse, Dongyoun Jang, Sanket Joag, Kyungho Kim, Thomas Pankratz, Divyanshu Sahu, Ramesh Sharma, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Costas Tsouris, and Shankararaman Chellam."Electrocoagulation of high-salinity produced water: lessons learned from its early applications in unconventional reservoir plays."Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering 42 (2023) 100952. DOI

Yin, Rongxin, Jingjing Liu, Mary Ann Piette, Jiarong Xie, Marco Pritoni, Armando Casillas, Lili Yu, and Peter Schwartz."Comparing simulated demand flexibility against actual performance in commercial office buildings."Building and Environment 243 (2023) 110663. DOI

Levinson, Ronnen M, Edward A Arens, Emmanuel Bozonnet, Vincenzo Corrado, Haley E Gilbert, Peter Holzer, Pierre Jaboyedoff, Amanda Krelling, Anaïs Machard, Wendy Miller, Mamak P.Tootkaboni, Stephen E Selkowitz, and Hui Zhang."Policy Recommendations from IEA EBC Annex 80: Resilient Cooling of Buildings." (2023). DOI

Sartori, Igor, Harald Taxt Walnum, Kristian S Skeie, Laurent Georges, Michael D Knudsen, Peder Bacher, José Candanedo, Anna-Maria Sigounis, Anand Prakash, Marco Pritoni, Jessica Granderson, Shiyu Yang, and Man Pun Wan."Sub-hourly measurement datasets from 6 real buildings: Energy use and indoor climate."Data in Brief 48 (2023) 109149. DOI

Simeone, Christina E, Pieter Gagnon, Peter Cappers, and Andrew Satchwell."The Bill Alignment Test: Identifying Trade-Offs With Residential Rate Design Options."Utilities Policy 82 (2023). DOI

Sun, Qingyi, Jing Ke, Camilla Dunham, Joong Hoon Sim, and Yuting Chen."Using Field-Metered Data to Characterize Consumer Usage Patterns of Residential Dishwashers." (2023).

Miller, William, and Heidi Fuchs."50001 Ready: A Proven Platform for Decarbonization." (2023).

Pereira, Flavia De Andrade, Marco Pritoni, Susana Martin-Toral, Donal Finn, and James O’Donnell."A semantics-driven framework for scalable demand flexibility control applications."Computing in Construction (2023). DOI

Therkelsen, Peter L."Driving Decarbonization with 50001 Ready." (2023).

Therkelsen, Peter L."ISO 50001: A Cross-sectoral Proven Platform for Decarbonization." (2023).

Schmick, Rory, and Heidi Fuchs."Pathway to Decarbonization: 50001 Ready and GHG Emissions Reduction Planning Framework." (2023).

Schmick, Rory, Vi H Rapp, Paul Sheaffer, Peter L Therkelsen, Kara McCluskey, and Kevin Martin."Preparing the Next Generation of Strategic Energy Managers." (2023).

Peffer, Therese, Gabe Fierro, Paul Raftery, Carlos Duarte Roa, Marco Pritoni, Michael Wetter, Anand Prakash, Lazlo Paul, and Erik Paulson."Skewering the silos: using Brick to enable portable analytics, modeling and controls in buildings."Center for the Built Environment (2023).

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