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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 developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; 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 resilience are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

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Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2024

Huntington, Tyler, Corinne D Scown, Hanna Breunig, Olga Kavvada, Xinguang Cui, Thomas P Hendrickson, Sarah L Nordahl, Nawa Raj Baral, Minliang Yang, and Melissa Moore." BioSiting Tool (BioSiting) v2." (2024).

Huntington, Tyler, Corinne D Scown, Olga Kavvada, Sarah L Nordahl, and Nawa Raj Baral."BioC2G Tool v1." (2024).

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, 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

2018

Cui, Xinguang, Olga Kavvada, Tyler Huntington, and Corinne D Scown."Strategies for near-term scale-up of cellulosic biofuel production using sorghum and crop residues in the U.S.."Environmental Research Letters (2018). DOI

2015

Sathre, Roger, Corinne D Scown, Olga Kavvada, and Thomas P Hendrickson."Energy and climate effects of second-life use of electric vehicle batteries in California through 2050."Journal of Power Sources 288 (2015) 82 - 91. 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