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X Author: Sarah Josephine Smith
2026
Zuberi, Jibran, Haitam Laarabi, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Arman Shehabi."Can AI be energy positive in cement manufacturing? Evaluating AI-driven efficiency through a first-order framework and case study."Energy and AI
25 (2026) 100789. DOI
Smith, Sarah Josephine, Samanvitha Murthy, Marius Stuebs, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Bruce Nordman, Margaret Taylor, Richard E Brown, Doug Black, and Mary Ann Piette."California Price Response Potential Study."
(2026).
Masanet, Eric R, Thomas P Hendrickson, Aven Satre-Maloy, Sarah Josephine Smith, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Kaiyu Sun, Jibran Zuberi, and Arman Shehabi."Maximizing the benefits of “Buy Clean” policies for building materials: Six key priorities."Resources, Conservation and Recycling
229 (2026) 108830. DOI
Hendrickson, Thomas P, Jibran Zuberi, Kaiyu Sun, Aven Satre-Meloy, Arman Shehabi, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Sarah Josephine Smith, Peng Peng, and Eric R Masanet."A rapid embodied carbon assessment tool for priority materials."Environmental Research Communications
8.4 (2026) 041003. DOI
Grahovac, Milica, Sarah Josephine Smith, Alexander Newkirk, Evan Neill, Zheng He, and Vlada Dementyeva."Shape Maker: Data Center and Industrial Electrical Load Shape Generator."
(2026). DOI
2025
Smith, Sarah Josephine, and Natalie Mims Frick."DOE Energy Innovator Fellows Informational Webinar: Data Centers."
(2025).
Wesselkaemper, Jannis, Alex C Newkirk, Thomas P Hendrickson, Nadiyah Helal, Prakash Rao, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Andrew Z Haddad."Enhancing supply resilience for critical materials: case study of gallium supply in the United States."Resources, Conservation and Recycling
222 (2025) 108436. DOI
Smith, Sarah Josephine, Marius Stuebs, Samanvitha Murthy, Sunhee Baik, Peter Cappers, Brian F Gerke, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."Potential Impacts of Dynamic Electricity Pricing in California: Load Shape and Customer Bill Impacts Under Elastic Customer Response."
(2025). DOI
Kirchstetter, Thomas W, Sarah Josephine Smith, Arman Shehabi, and Dale A Sartor."DOE Data Center Load Flexibility Workshop Summary."
(2025).
2024
Gerke, Brian F, Sarah Josephine Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Peter Alstone, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Richard E Brown, Jingjing Liu, and Mary Ann Piette."The California Demand Response Potential Study, Phase 4: Report on Shed and Shift Resources Through 2050."
(2024).
Shehabi, Arman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Alex Hubbard, Alexander Newkirk, Nuoa Lei, Md AbuBakar Siddik, Billie Holecek, Jonathan G Koomey, Eric R Masanet, and Dale A Sartor."2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report."
(2024). DOI
Liu, Jingjing, Mary Ann Piette, Marco Pritoni, Bruce Nordman, Peter Grant, Sarah Josephine Smith, Richard E Brown, Joe Bourg, Felipe Godinez, Matt Fung, and Mark S Martinez."Assessing Customer Experience and Business Models around Price-to-Device Communication and Smart Control Pathways in CalFlexHub."
(2024). DOI
2023
Grahovac, Milica, Shreya Agarwal, Brian F Gerke, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Marius Stuebs."Quantitative Universal Option Prioritizer (QUOP) v1.0.0."
(2023). 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
Piette, Mary Ann, Jingjing Liu, Bruce Nordman, Sarah Josephine Smith, Richard E Brown, Marco Pritoni, and Brian F Gerke."Accelerating Decarbonization with the California Load Flexibility Research and Deployment Hub."
(2022).
Murthy, Samanvitha, Brian F Gerke, Sarah Josephine Smith, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Richard E Brown, and Mary Ann Piette."A multi-level load shape clustering and disaggregation approach to characterize patterns of energy consumption behavior."2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2022).
Gerke, Brian F, Sarah Josephine Smith, Samanvitha Murthy, Aditya Khandekar, Cong Zhang, Sunhee Baik, Shreya Agarwal, Jingjing Liu, Richard E Brown, Mary Ann Piette, and Peter Alstone."Overview of Phase 4 of the California Demand Response Potential Study."
(2022).
Breunig, Hanna, Sarah Josephine Smith, Laxmi Rao, Alastair Robinson, Jacky Kinson, Robert Thornton, Corinne D Scown, and Vi H Rapp."Economic and greenhouse gas analysis of regional bioenergy-powered district energy systems in California."Resources, Conservation and Recycling
180 (2022) 106187. DOI
2021
Orner, Kevin D, Sarah Josephine Smith, Hanna Breunig, Corinne D Scown, and Kara L Nelson."Fertilizer demand and potential supply through nutrient recovery from organic waste digestate in California."Water Research
206 (2021) 117717. DOI
Smith, Sarah Josephine, Andrew Satchwell, Thomas W Kirchstetter, and Corinne D Scown."The implications of facility design and enabling policies on the economics of dry anaerobic digestion."Waste Management
128 (2021) 122 - 131. 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
Gerke, Brian F, Giulia Gallo, Sarah Josephine Smith, Jingjing Liu, Shuba V Raghavan, Peter Schwartz, Mary Ann Piette, Rongxin Yin, and Sofia Stensson."The California Demand Response Potential Study, Phase 3: Final Report on the Shift Resource through 2030."
(2020). DOI
Masanet, Eric R, Arman Shehabi, Nuoa Lei, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Jonathan G Koomey."Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates."Science
367.6481 (2020) 984 - 986. DOI
2019
Breunig, Hanna, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Sarah Josephine Smith, and Corinne D Scown."Role of Digestate and Biochar in Carbon-Negative Bioenergy."Environmental Science & Technology
(2019). DOI
2018
Satchwell, Andrew, Corinne D Scown, Sarah Josephine Smith, Jahon Amirebrahimi, Ling Jin, Thomas W Kirchstetter, Nancy J Brown, and Chelsea V Preble."Accelerating the Deployment of Anaerobic Digestion to Meet Zero Waste Goals."Environmental Science & Technology
52.23 (2018) 13663–13669. DOI