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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

Nordahl, Sarah L, Rebecca J Hanes, Kimberley K Mayfield, Corey Myers, Sarah E Baker, and Corinne D Scown."Carbon accounting for carbon dioxide removal."One Earth 7.9 (2024) 1494-1500. DOI

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).

Hendrickson, Thomas P, Baishakhi Bose, Nemi Vora, Tyler Huntington, Sarah L Nordahl, Brett A Helms, and Corinne D Scown."Paths to circularity for plastics in the United States."One Earth 7.3 (2024) 520-531. DOI

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

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

Hubble, Dion, Sarah L Nordahl, Tianyu Zhu, Nawa Raj Baral, Corinne D Scown, and Gao Liu."Solvent-Assisted Poly(lactic acid) Upcycling under Mild Conditions."ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 11.22 (2023) 8208 - 8216. DOI

Nordahl, Sarah L, Chelsea V Preble, Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Corinne D Scown."Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions from Composting."Environmental Science & Technology 57.6 (2023) 2235 - 2247. DOI

2022

Orner, Kevin D, Sarah Josephine Smith, Sarah L Nordahl, Alicia Chakrabarti, Hanna Breunig, Corinne D Scown, Harold Leverenz, Kara L Nelson, and Arpad Horvath."Environmental and Economic Impacts of Managing Nutrients in Digestate Derived from Sewage Sludge and High-Strength Organic Waste."Environmental Science & Technology 56.23 (2022) 17256 - 17265. DOI

2020

Nordahl, Sarah L, Jay P Devkota, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Sarah Josephine Smith, Hanna Breunig, Chelsea V Preble, Andrew Satchwell, Ling Jin, Nancy J Brown, Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Corinne D Scown."Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management StrategiesLife-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Human Health Trade-Offs of Organic Waste Management Strategies."Environmental Science & Technology 54.15 (2020) 9200 - 9209. DOI