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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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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Energy Markets & Planning

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Systems and Energy Technologies Analysis

Publications by Division

Building & Industrial Energy Systems (BIES)

Energy Analysis (EA)

Energy Technologies & Systems (ETS)

2015

Balakrishnan, Madhesan, Eric R Sacia, Sanil Sreekumar, Gorkam Gunbas, Amit A Gokhale, Corinne D Scown, F. F Dean Toste, and Alexis T Bell."Novel pathways for fuels and lubricants from biomass optimized using life-cycle greenhouse gas assessment."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) 201508274. DOI

Hendrickson, Thomas P, Olga Kavvada, Nihar Shah, Roger Sathre, and Corinne D Scown."Life-cycle implications and supply chain logistics of electric vehicle battery recycling in California."Environmental Research Letters 10.1 (2015). DOI

2014

Scown, Corinne D, Amit A Gokhale, Paul A Willems, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E McKone."Role of Lignin in Reducing Life-Cycle Carbon Emissions, Water Use, and Cost for United States Cellulosic Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 48.15 (2014) 8446 - 8455. DOI

Sathre, Roger, Corinne D Scown, William R Morrow III, John C Stevens, Ian D Sharp, Joel W Ager, Karl Walczak, Frances A Houle, and Jeffery B Greenblatt."Life-cycle net energy assessment of large-scale hydrogen production via photoelectrochemical water splitting."Energy Environ. Sci. 7.10 (2014) 3264 - 3278. DOI

2013

Scown, Corinne D, Michael Taptich, Arpad Horvath, Thomas E McKone, and William W Nazaroff."Achieving Deep Cuts in the Carbon Intensity of U.S. Automobile Transportation by 2050: Complementary Roles for Electricity and Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 47.16 (2013) 9044 - 9052. DOI

2012

Scown, Corinne D, William W Nazaroff, Umakant Mishra, Bret Strogen, Agnes B Lobscheid, Eric R Masanet, Nicholas J Santero, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E McKone."Lifecycle greenhouse gas implications of US national scenarios for cellulosic ethanol production."Environmental Research Letters 7.1 (2012) 014011. DOI

Sathre, Roger, Hanna Breunig, Peter H Larsen, Eric R Masanet, Thomas E McKone, Nigel Quinn, and Corinne D Scown."Spatially-explicit impacts of carbon capture and sequestration on water supply and demand."Eleventh Annual Carbon Capture, Utilization & Sequestration Conference (2012).

2011

Scown, Corinne D, Arpad Horvath, and Thomas E McKone."Water Footprint of U.S. Transportation Fuels."Environmental Science & Technology 45.7 (2011) 2541 - 2553. DOI

McKone, Thomas E, William W Nazaroff, Peter Berck, Maximilian Auffhammer, Timothy E Lipman, Margaret S Torn, Eric R Masanet, Agnes B Lobscheid, Nicholas J Santero, Umakant Mishra, Audrey Barrett, Matt Bomberg, Kevin Fingerman, Corinne D Scown, Bret Strogen, and Arpad Horvath."Grand Challenges for Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels."Environmental Science & Technology 45.5 (2011) 1751 - 1756. DOI

2009

Shih, Chung Yan, Corinne D Scown, Lucio Soibelman, H. H Scott Matthews, James H Garrett, Keith Dodrill, and Sandra McSurdy."Data Management for Geospatial Vulnerability Assessment of Interdependencies in U.S. Power Generation."Journal of Infrastructure Systems 15.3 (2009) 179-189. DOI

Chen, Ping, Corinne D Scown, H. H Scott Matthews, James H Garrett, and Chris Hendrickson."Managing Critical Infrastructure Interdependence through Economic Input-Output Methods."Journal of Infrastructure Systems 15.3 (2009) 200-210. DOI

Al-Beaini, Sara, Sam Borgeson, Brian E Coffey, David Gregory, Kyle S Konis, Corinne D Scown, Jelena Simjanovic, John Stanley, Bret Strogen, and Iain S Walker."Feasibility of Achieving a Zero-Net-Energy, Zero-Net-Cost Homes." (2009).