Research Themes +
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.
Publications
News +
For media inquiries, please email:

[email protected]
About Us +
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.

Publications

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)

2020

Baral, Nawa Raj, Jeff Dahlberg, Daniel Putnam, Jenny C Mortimer, and Corinne D Scown."Supply Cost and Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Dry and Ensiled Biomass Sorghum for Biofuel Production."ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (2020).

Yang, Minliang, Nawa Raj Baral, Blake A Simmons, Jenny C Mortimer, Patrick M Shih, and Corinne D Scown."Accumulation of high-value bioproducts in planta can improve the economics of advanced biofuels."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.15 (2020) 8639 - 8648. DOI

2019

Baral, Nawa Raj, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A Simmons, and Corinne D Scown."Greenhouse Gas Footprint, Water-Intensity, and Production Cost of Bio-Based Isopentenol as a Renewable Transportation Fuel."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 7.18 (2019) 15434 - 15444. DOI

Baral, Nawa Raj, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A Simmons, and Corinne D Scown."Greenhouse Gas Footprint, Water-Intensity, and Production Cost of Bio-Based Isopentenol as a Renewable Transportation Fuel."ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (2019) 15434–15444.

Baral, Nawa Raj, Eric R Sundstrom, Lalitendu Das, John M Gladden, Aymerick Eudes, Jenny C Mortimer, Steven W Singer, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, and Corinne D Scown."Approaches for More Efficient Biological Conversion of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels and Bioproducts."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 7.10 (2019) 9062 - 9079. DOI

Baral, Nawa Raj, Olga Kavvada, Daniel Mendez-Perez, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Taek Soon Lee, Blake A Simmons, and Corinne D Scown."Techno-economic analysis and life-cycle greenhouse gas mitigation cost of five routes to bio-jet fuel blendstocks."Energy & Environmental Science 12.3 (2019) 807 - 824. DOI